A silly video about the hard mode of one of my favorite franchises
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Nightmare 3 and Mundus footage from Matthewmatosis' Devil May Cry commentary. Worth watching if you want some insight into the development of the game and some of it's mechanics: • Devil May Cry Commentary
Songs in order of appearance:
Statue Of Time - Masami Ueda
We Are Finally Cowboys - Masafumi Takada
Lock & Load - Masami Ueda
Prison Labor - Shoji Meguro, Toshiki Konishi
Raven's Nest - Raito
Django Django - Daisuke Ishiwatari
Shall Never Surrender HR/HM Arrange - Tetsuya Shibata
Tokio Morishima - Masafumi Takada
Season Of The Samurai - Masafumi Takada
Want To Be Close - Shoji Meguro
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My favorite part of Dante must die mode, is when Dante said "it's dying time," then died all over the place.
Truly the difficulty of all time
While Vergil is motivating
that's me at normal difficulty
Me and my buddy Eric cried
@@parry3439 you bad
Vergil 3 on DMD feels like one of those optional super bosses except he’s mandatory
My biggest problem with 5's DMD is that there is no warning whatsoever when an enemy is gonna pop their DT. In 4 it felt way more like a justified punishment for not paying attention to the enemies. As if the game was telling you "hey you better deal with this guy before he becomes a REAL big problem"
They get DT when you deal a certain amount of damage to the enemies, just look at their health and watch for patterns (its different between each enemy)
@@WCRyder Dude, Riots take one look at you and go “it’s morph’n time!”
@@rasendori20 facts
@@rasendori20 more... HENSHIN!!
@@rasendori20 For some enemies it's about timers too. Riot have to be defeated quickly or they become a huge threat. But tbh, DMD in 5 is a joke overall since none of the enemies can handle you being in the air compared to 3.
The big issue with DMD is that it's clearly designed around the hyper-aggressive, old school arcade principles of DMC1 but dropped into games that absolutely weren't made to be played like that. I think a better DMD for the current style of games would give enemies massive damage resistance that fades away as you style up, forcing you to puzzle out a stylish way to handle each encounter.
that’s actually a really good idea, kinda similar to the DmC must style mode but that made enemies invincible until you get a top style rank. the idea of each rank making enemies less resilient sounds like it could make the games even more fun and give more of an extrinsic reward for styling
Yeah. Must style in DmC and Ghost Rider did that. Both were great games.
Kinda like Transformers devastation. It has this overdrive mechanic that makes all of your hits do more damage the longer you can keep hitting enemies without stopping for too long.
The Ghost Rider game does exactly that. And let me tell you, it sucks. You will usually end with only one S Rank enemy remaining, and you have to do different attacks to rank up, but if he attacks you once or you take too long, you lose ranks. Sometimes you literally can't kill because you just can't reach rank S with only one enemy, so you have to restart the entire level
I never played the Ghost Rider game, but the og comment said about higher styles Raising you damage. So if you keep playing slowly it'll just be like normal DMD, the change would reward stylish playstyle.
DMD really highlights the biggest problem with Dmc3: Half of the enemies suck and the other half are variations of the same enemy
But it’s still a very good game
@@jojogacha974 not really
@@GerardoFirestorm well it’s a good dmc game at least
Still the best DMC game overall
@@SouljaStrife its a decent game, dmc 5 is superior on general aspects, but both are no even close to other hacknslash from ps2 era Maybe a remake would be good for dmc 3
just imagine DMC3 DMD Corrupted Super Vergil
It’s delicious to use literally imortality
But mission 18 chess room ☠☠☠☠
@@GerardoFirestorm that sh!t is nothing compared to DMC3 Super Corrupted Vergil. you're litearally immortal and imagine if Super Corrupted Vergil was the enemy
What is Corrupted Super Vergil? I have no clue what that is tbh.
@@basedalternativeisaac the ultimate costume for vergil,obtained by completing the Game on dmd or the level 9999 of bloody palace Apart from giving vergil an alternate version of og nelo Angelo look,it gives infinite dt while also allowing regen (there's a normal version after completing very hard that is the same but no health regen)
24:00 I will also say that Devil May Cry 1-3 get an added bonus of not nerfing the use of the super characters when they are supposed to be the big prize after going through the toughest difficulty and make the game more fun using your characters at complete full power.
Thank you everyone for the likes on my comment. It's crazy how no one has really made a lot of videos of the super characters. And Devil May Cry 5 has the best ones along with devil may cry 4-2
@@darren092188 finally someone who understands the logic behind super characters. Though I disagree completely with you in 5 having good ones I argue 5 had the worst super characters in the series with 3 holding the crown for the absolute best ones.
@@DioStandProud Would you care to elaborate on that? What makes 3's great and 5's bad in your opinion?
@@nearautomatons6987 Well for one the Super characters in DMC3 can be used without sacrificing score. In DMC5 using a Super character reduced your end score by 80%. Also for whatever reason Super Dante/Vergil in 5 dont have access to infinite SDT nor do they have the regenerating HP. In DMC3 Dante had a Super version that resembled Sparda and allowed him to have infinite Quicksilver and still regen HP while in DT while Vergil could turn into Nelo Angelo. Gained massive defense and could freely use Summoned Swords without losing DT and also still regen health.
@@xemnas500 I would argue that the reduced score you get by using super characters is a necessity. In DMC3, you do get no penalties whatsoever for the use of super characters, however, these can be easily acquired by introducing a code that unlocks everything in the game. Considering the fact that super characters (especially Super Sparda and Super Corrupted Vergil) are busted as hell, there's no incentive to use normal characters over them, thus allowing anyone to use those costumes to cheat their way to get a SS Rank, which is the highest achievable rank in DMC3. So, essentially you could just use Super Sparda with infinite DT Explosion or infinite Quicksilver and destroy any semblance of difficulty from the game, where if instead there would be a penalty in place you would be forced to get good and learn how to properly tackle the mode with the base characters. Thanks to how it works in both, DMC4 and DMC5, you are forced to learn and engage with the combat system of each respective game in order to get a high rank, instead of going with Super Dante and spam Pandora's Box to insta-kill everything on screen. Not to mention another problem, Super Characters are buyable as per the release of DMC4SE, so if they would be the to-go option to turn the hardest difficulty into a breeze, that would technically make DMC a pay-to-win game. That would not be ideal in a game completely based around skill.
DMC 5 has a system you didn't mention. It's the aggressiveness system, which makes all the enemies become more aggressive (They attack more often) when you increment difficulty. It also aplies for bosses, where on dmd bosses make more complex combos
So that’s why Mission 17 Urizen juggles my ass so much more often on DMD.
It's a shame that it doesn't fix the Vergil boss fight in Phase 1. He's still way too passive. Even in his later phases he doesn't come close to how he was in DMC3.
@@Dantarn that bastard just spams
@Dantarn dmc5 vergil is fightable in dmd, he ain't supposed to do much in phase 1. Having difficulty so high that you are forced to use, let's say starfall cancel, is not a good fight. Also did you play turbo mode on dmd? He gets not only faster but also fights more complex and turbo mode actually makes the fight a dmc fight. Also you forget that you play with a dante that can use all styles without restarting the Mission lol. Dante is far stronger now. Royal guard is easier than ever and still as busted. And you run more than 2 weapons, have a 2nd devil trigger mode that is basically super saiyan 2, with SSS style thats even for free. Think about it bro, dmc3 vergil is more threating cuz the gap between them were bigger. How much dmg a royal release on a flying vergil hurts, how much easier it is to dodge and defend, switching from trickster to royalguard in an instant
Yeah mission 3 turns from pretty unremarkable to pretty tough due to the fight with 3+ riots and the electro cunt. Also artemis becomes actually challenging
5:00 That "fight back" edit got me dying... Like Dante
Vergil 3 DMD on DMC3 is probably one of the hardest bosses I've ever fought. He really keeps on your toes at all times. This is the only mode where he used summoned swords which changes the battle completely. I don't use items btw like many other people in the DMC community so having to defeat him without any healing is pretty challenging.
Or you can be god with Royal Guard and he's a joke 😂 Haven't done it personally, but it has been done!
I remember beating DMC3 on DMD. Burning through every healing item and holy water I had, abandoning using devil trigger at all in favor of Quicksilver, falling so deep into flow state the world around mostly went away. Getting down to the last few hits, flinging myself at Vergil, getting countered. Swapping frantically to Cerberus while my non-gamer roommate shouted "Go! Go!". Having that last "Dante" come out in slow motion from the Quicksilver effect, still hitting buttons for the cerberus combo as the game transitioned to cutscene. The last fight with Vergil in 3 is easily one of the hardest in the franchise, if not *the* hardest full stop. And my god was it a beautiful cap to a beautiful game.
I honestly didn't think anyone used items. I just restart the entire mission if I die.
@@apexprimessjpowe3734 There are some people who use them and that's fine. It's your game and your choice how you choose to play it. Personally, Spamming items takes away all the fun out of the game and trivializes every encounter. You'll never get better at the game if you use a item every time you're in a pinch. I understand some people are just playing casually or trophy hunting so they don't really want to get better at the game and that's totally fine. Their DMD run is every bit valid as mine but it's just that at that point we're playing a very different game.
When you get older and have less time to play you'll understand. Unless you don't play anything else. In that case then yeah you can try doing S ranks in every difficulty in every game without items. I like DMC, with 1 being one of my fav games of all time, but I'm not one to care about S ranking everything like some other people. That's why I I've only played each game (except 4) twice. Well and obviously 1 like 20 times, that's also the only one I bothered to 100%
8:18 - There is one noteworthy thing about Must Die mode in DMC2 that makes it extra terrible, though. The invisible fish boss in Lucia's campaign? It never becomes visible. Ever. You have to hit it without lock-on. It is absolutely broken.
In other words, don't EVER use Trish in that mission if you're playing on Lucia's DMD
I actually think that DMC1 is one of the beat examples of Difficulty scaling of all time. New mechanics, new enemies and varied enemy placements all change. I fucking love it
I went through DMC 1 on normal 20 times in a row just to do DMD mode. You can never be too prepared.
Masterful creation, I will be playing every Devil May Cry game in the hardest difficulty now.
And now? Are you satisfied?
@@TheREALHugo4 Probably not.
@@ig100magnaguard I think he did giving how satisfing it is to play on the hardest difficulty.
Bosses are the most fun in DMD
Since you didn't cover DmC, I'd like to bring up something legitimately cool that it does with its enemy Devil Trigger. When enemies pop DT, they gain insane hyper armor and health like expected, but certain moves in Dante's kit can ignore the armor or even outright remove the enemy DT. Off the top of my head: - Rebellion's perfect Drive - Arbiter's Trinity Smash - The end of both of Osiris' ground combos and perfect Raze - Any of Eryx's fully charged moves - Buy In and perfect Round Trip - E&I's perfect Ricoshot - Revenant's regular shot - Kablooey detonation with 6 darts (I think) This sort of creates a different playstyle from the lower difficulties where you have to make enough space and time to use your more powerful moves to remove enemy DT. This helps a ton because it brings enemy health back down to regular levels. Unfortunately, it kinda makes gameplay a bit repetitive, since you'll want to constantly be perfect charging everything (something you'll probably already do because this technique is also how you break enemies out of rage states). It also makes the color-coded enemies doubly annoying, even with the Definitive Edition's fixes. Sidenote on DMC4: Chimeras can be stunned with continuous gunfire, which prevents their blades from interrupting your combos. You can tell when the chimera seed turns a solid black. Still awful, but it saved a lot of headaches when I S-ranked DMD.
does that strategy against chimeras works with Vergil's summoned swords?
@@SpiderMan-gf1lcLate reply, but yes
I like 4's version with Virgil, enemies don't vaporize on contact as much
Personally son of sparda in DMC5 is my favorite difficulty. In DMD enemies just become destiny raid bosses
I think so too,Son of Sparda is not too easy and not too hard either
Honestly it is probably the one where Dante actually dies
This was a great review of the 4 main DMC games hardest difficulty! I always found it weird that they never made a devil may cry 2 *and totally didn't own a copy as a kid*
I did not beat the whole game as kid
Cause playing the game is already dmd challenge
Maybe the real DMC2 was all the friends we made along the way
I wish I could blank DMC2 from my memory. My life would instantly improve and I wouldn't look at my Ebony and Ivroy props with such vitriolic distain
For the record, DMD in DMC2 make’s the second to final boss has all his heads attacking you at the same time
Sounds like such a fun time
I think Dmc3 got the difficulties a bit better than Dmc5 in general. In 5 SoS difficulty is a pretty awkward "a bit harder" mode and DmD feels like the good place for experienced player. While in 3 SoS feels like a perfect difficulty level for experienced player and DmD is tough as hell super challenge. Both aren't perfect and personally, in a vacuum, I much prefer to play DmD in Dmc5. Great video btw. Stuff like this really helps my hunger for Dmc6.
SoS wasn't in DMC3...
For uneducated SoS in Dmc3 means very hard*
I’d argue that proto Angelo’s become the tankiest in the whole series. Behemoth’s at least you have Vergil and Nero and even Dante who have very strong individual moves and they move just slow enough to get a ton of damage, Proto they just deflect after a certain amount of moves hit them. So the only way in DT you can reliably damage them is to knock them down with say, a helm breaker type move. DMC 5 if Judecca’s and Porto’s weren’t annoying, I’d play it a hell lot more often,
Appreciate the use of "We are finally Cowboys" and "Season of the Samurai"
- Does a video about DMC - Uses NMH music - Has Ryougi Shiki as profile picture and banner Subbed. 100%. My man.
to be fair in dmc 4 dante part, the name is dante must die
Yes it’s hilarious and true
If they wanted you to suffer as Nero, then it should have been Nero Must Die
@@mihajlojovanovic7314 lol yep I can always chill when I’m Nero.
That Adachi gag was pretty Stylish
Proto Angelos have that enraged state in DMC 5, on any difficulty. The enraged state reduces your damage and stacks with Devil Trigger...very obnoxious.
I love it. Its like it turns them into a mini boss. Like the real Nelo Angelo
Yeah, although for me its fun to royal block him over and over and then see how he deals with maxed royal revenge. Cant do much on nero though sadly
I feel like the best way to handle the mode in the future is to follow two strict rules: 1. The player should feel encouraged to play in their own way, rather than feeling railroaded into one single "optimized" or "safe" strategy. The mode should be about bringing out your own peak performance, not playing "correctly". 2. The mode should feel genuinely difficult, but fair. This should apply to every boss and every enemy. Every enemy in this mode should be balanced specifically to be a challenge without feeling like they've got some BS going on, even if that means that some enemies actually remain unchanged from a lower difficulty (such as enemies that can barely even hit experienced players and are basically just damage sponges.) In general, I feel like the mode should be designed specifically around being fun for experienced players rather than just making everything harder for the sake of being harder. If an enemy is already tanky and has a hard time dealing damage to the player, you don't need to apply the same flat boosted health and/or defense to that enemy. In fact, I'd encourage each enemy to be rebalanced individually in general rather than everything just having the same flat buffs, and for this to change dynamically depending on how many enemies are in the room at the same time. This way, hopefully the feeling of certain enemies just being a tedious pain to fight will mostly if not entirely go away, and the amount of fun the mode is can hopefully be maximized.
DMC 4: Our priority is to capture Dante.
*Fails miserably and Dante treats the organization as a joke*
The failed handling Nero, and still expected to capture Dante. The order was a circus
@@diegocifuentes6784 lol yep.
No More Heroes OST Detected. Goated video man
Honestly super disappointing DMC2 wasn’t included, but this is an incredibly fun video!
On a side note, DmC's DMD mode or Vergil Must Die mode are great. Sure, the one annoying colored cat becomes a lot more annoying, but the good enemies become awesome. While most bosses dont change at all, the Vergil and Hollow Vergil fights become really good.
If you can clear heaven and hell or hell and hell your not even human anymore 🤣🤣🤣
IMHO, DMC3 has the best DMD hands down. It changes knockback properties in a way that opens up JC combo routes that are impossible when the enemy isn't DT'd. Moves like aerial cross, air shotgun and helm breaker have their properties totally changed in ways that allow for more combo expression than you find anywhere else in the series. It's why you see so many combo videos take place in the trial of the warrior room in missions 6 and 17
you're a mad man for using handguns/alastor on Griffon 3/Vergil instead of grenadegun/ifrit lol I can only imagine how long it took bro.
If you can fully charge Ifrit's fireball move immediately when the Griffon 3 fight starts, it can pretty much let you skip the first phase of the boss fight, even on DMD
@@arthursnyder6935 Trust me i know lol I did a 100% special bonus run on dmd a while ago
KZhead explore page working it's magic and bringing my attention to more avid and interesting Devil May Cry videos. :) Great video! Looking forward to see what's next!
This makes me wish someone has videos like this for other difficult games with even higher difficulties. Like going over all the God of War games on their highest difficulty. I still need to finish my playthrough of the DMC series, need to play 4 and 5 still, but I've yet to tackle any on this difficulty but I'm excited for my playthroughs when i do.
I like the damned chessboard, personally, and I think it's kinda neat on DMD, because having to go straight for the king as soon as possible and avoid killing the other pieces would be a unique challenge and killing the pieces one by one does make the fight wind down and simplifies it, whereas the chaos of almost all of them sticking around and attacking would be more exciting. Though maybe I'm not remembering correctly - can you avoid triggering enemy DT in that fight until the king becomes vulnerable? If not, that could make the fight drag, I suppose. I otherwise pretty much agree with the whole video. I generally like the idea of bosses going into a 'desperation mode' on DMD, but in DMC5, I found they get way too much damage resistance when they do. I think there comes a point where, if you're giving enemies more longevity, some changes are needed, so the fight doesn't feel like it's dragging for no good reason. I don't think every boss drags too much in 5, but, for example, what if King Cerberus, along with DT, also lit up all three of its heads, giving it access to its entire move set on the fly, without having to switch element with the explosion move? It would require at least some dev. work, and testing, so that the moves of the three elements don't combine in unfair ways, but otherwise, I think it would be a very easy way to make the fight more interesting on DMD and justify the added longevity. Now if they could and wanted to - DMD exclusive behaviors, moves and maybe some level design tweaks would be next level higher difficulty design if you ask me. I just want them to do a lot more with difficulties. It feels like there should have been way more experimentation on that front since the first DMC. Even if each game tried something different, like DMC3, I would've preferred that. For the record, I like using DT normally, and the novelty of DT explosion wore off for me pretty quick. Also, the annoying enemies getting massive buffs really isn't a worthy tradeoff for the DT explosion meta, imo. Thus, I think the original DMC has the best DMD. I think a relatively short, linear arcade action game is one of the best kind of games to do ambitious difficulty settings for, which is why I want such settings in future DMC games. I also find a strange dissonance, when DMC5, which is probably, mechanically the deepest in the series so far, on the player's side, has mostly some very basic and forgettable enemies. What I'm saying, is that I think that, if an enemy can put up a good enough fight, it makes it much more satisfying to deal with, then combo once you stagger it (assuming it has super armor, which is fine by me if it's well balanced), as opposed to basic punching bags that have a lot of life. Even enemies breaking out of combos can be good and appropriate if they're fun and threatening enough to fight. Everyone's favorite boss Vergil does that, they don't seem to mind, and of course they don't, because he wouldn't even function as well as a boss if he could be stunlocked. Kinda like Nero Angelo, as you showed. Then there's the Angelos in 5, which should have way more at their disposal, when you consider they're based on both Nero Angelo and 4's Angelos, each of which have more moves and behaviors than 5's Angelos do in actuality. Couldn't Protos at least do Nero Angelo's blue fireball move? That doesn't seem like an ability unique to Vergil. If there's the option of reflecting the fireball, maybe to instantly break their super armor - that'd also be a neat option. Heck, punches and kicks are hardly unique either, for that matter. They're also pretty slow to move and act, so their existing attacks aren't very threatening, so the unreasonable longevity Protos have on DMD is the only reason I even remember them other than the moniker 'Angelo', and that's not a good thing. I like Frosts a lot. I think they're a good balance of enough super armor that you don't immediately start juggling them, but also break out eventually once you do, so that you have to deal with their move set again and one Frost can provide enough of a threat, whereas an enemy that can be juggled endlessly would not, even with a very wide move set. I also quite like their set of ranged, melee and area attacks. It's not safe at any distance, and the ice mines that freeze you make you pay more attention to your surroundings. They're pretty well rounded and I've always enjoyed fighting them. I guess that's the other reason I would want enemies to get more moves on DMD in future games - it would make them more on par with what enemies like Frosts provide. At first I was gonna make this comment brief, but uhhh... here we are. Hope this is interesting enough to be worth reading. Heheh. Video greatly enjoyed. Subbed. Thank you. Have a nice day.
love the treatment you gave dmc 2. Fair and straight.
The most important thing about that game's incarnation of DMD is that when fighting Argosax The Chaos, ALL of its parts will attack at the same time instead of only the one that you're standing closest to
10:30 that was like the perfect spot in the script to say "jackpot"
4's enemies are more well designed than you think. Sure, they were designed with Nero in mind, but Dante has plenty of tools to deal with all of the enemies just as efficiently as Nero.
Not as bad as three but not as good as 1s
the "issue" I'd say is that the skill required to barely survive as dante in DMC4 feels highter than any other game. All of that coupled with the fact that dark slayer even EXISTS at all (accidentally double tapped a style? Get fucked), makes dmc4 dante the hardest version of him to play and it can be pretty frustrating against the harder and more annoying enemies.
dmc4 pfp located
The best enemies in 4 are almost all carried over from 1 tbh.
One thing that I think you may have overlooked in this video is that in higher difficulties, you encounter much more difficult enemies earlier than you would normally. I remember in devil may cry three playing above normal and encountering an enemy that I would have seen further along in like mission three. I think that’s more directly related to going from normal to hard and not directly DMD, but it might’ve still been worth mentioning.
Such an excellent video. One of the coolest DMC vids I've ever watched. Thanks so much for uploading!
nmh music in the backround earns a sub
the best part of dante must die was when vergil said "sorry dante but dante must die" and then dante died
So I've beaten dmc3 on all the difficulties except DMD so I find this video really interesting to see how I might approach getting through the levels better. Side note: I always see KZhead complain about the fallen which confuses me,their slower to kill than other enemies but they never really presented a problem.They had a pretty simple pattern tbh.
The Fallen is more death by a thousand cuts. It's not just that they can fly, they have a huge swing arc, noclip, a shield, and an absurd health pool compared to its predecessors (the Sins).
@@darknightspider7495 all that is true but I find the worst thing about them is how they constantly circle you
It's the noclip. Standing around waiting for your enemy to stop cheating and get back in the fight is never fun.
Awesome Devil May Cry content man, Good work.
Dude, awesome breakdown.
Vergil bossfight is nice, but Dante kicking my ass as Vergil is immaculate
The only reason I liked dmd in 5 and 5 only was cause I was able to play my own way and enjoy it. Also enemies just felt fun to play around, while in 4 the enemies you mentioned and some others I hated even on the easiest difficulty, same for 3.
Excellent video! Thank you for this
Dmc 3 dmd Vergil 3,is just ugh So fucking good.
DMC4 DMD playing as Vergil is probably my favorite, and i totally agree that DMC5 DMD is the definitive way to play
Fuck that, dmc5 was ass
@@sky-oq5mr I dont play dmc hardcore anymore, I thought dmc5 was pretty decent, could have been better but for the most part i enjoyed it
Imagine if you had the first release of DMC3 before SE. Playing a kid when it first came out. The difficulty of that game
Thanks. This may be motivate me back in DMC:)
Honestly this editing is pretty good, pretty underrated really. keep goin buddy
...honestly out of the... 8 versions of dante must die, I can wholeheartedly say 4's just overall the best amount. Enemies don't immediately devil trigger at once, rather they follow a timeline of who entered 50 percent one at a time. To me, this is infinitely more fun than *beat a big ass horde to leave* or 3's *if one enemy dies, everyone is popping a devil trigger* 5 got close, but the problem is the game showers you with gold orb so you can't really struggle
Without watching the video, DMC1 hands down the best. Best "hardest" difficulty action games ever seen.
Wow this video is very good! From the quality already i can tell u could get pretty big, you should do more informative DMC videos
damn, I was really looking forward to seeing 2 here
DANTE MUST DINE
I'm surprised you didn't talk about Dante's DMD fight in DMC5 as Vergil. Easily the most difficult fight in the series for me.
I haven't played around with Vergil all that much in DMC5 and I wanted to focus on the most "vanilla" ways of playing DMD. If I wanted to be a bit more thorough, I'd have to look at Vergil in 3/4/5 and Lady and Trish in 4, but at some point I just wanted to get the video out lmao
Oh definitely, though that's only because Dante is a ridiculous damage sponge with super armour.
It's easy as hell lol.
Seriously it is the toughest Dante has so many weapons. Entire game before it was like DMD difficulty. Dante was something wlse
@@Darkslayer1993 no it isn't I have platinum and Dante is toughest ever.
I learned a few things from this. Thank you.
I searched your channel's name out of curiosity and found out that an anime is called like that. Which i watched it and it was very good for 22 episodes didn't expected that.
4 and 5 are my favorites. Chimeras are supposed to be turned off with gunfire which I dindnt see you use with Dante. Dante has charged shots as well. But anywhore DMC4 has the most intricate Dante so if you cant get actually get good with him then yes you will have a bad time
5 is ass
Dullahan Soul eaters The Fallen I have completed dmc3 on very hard mode. But those three are why I haven't attempted dmd or completed the bloody palace yet. I played through the switch version so I got to enjoy a much less frustrating experience compared to the ps2 days. Enigma and arachnae are much easier when you got every style and weapon available. No one enjoys those 3 though. Subbed.
Dealing with those 3 enemies are easy enough on DMD. Although it does kill the pace of the game you've been enjoying so far, so as long as you stick to wait and attack tactics, you can make quick work of those 3 enemies. They definitely won't stonewall your run.
The Fallen is easy for Vergil Aerial Rave is key and Dante Agni Rudra or Beowulf Hammer is recommended, you can trick with Vergil for Dullahan and Soul eaters, Dante of course Trickster Level 3 negs them quickly
Thanks for the tips. I didn't expect to be stuck against them. Those enemies are just fun vacuums you know? The fallen could be worked into a better enemy, but soul eaters and dullahan could be removed from the game.
I have 0 clue what those names are but I bet I know which enemies you're talkin about lmao. The angels that clip through walls, the shield fucks and the disappearing ones (when you look at them)?
@@Walamonga1313 Yes my guy those 3 fuckers 🤣
Thank you man, I’m going to play again the DMC games and this time at DMT difficulty Also nice pfp bro, I like it
What a nice video my man!
I only played DMD in DmC, and I have to say I really loved it. it was both fun and challenging and felt very satisfying to beat. it helps that DmC has a very fun enemy roster to fight
This statement is so true. DmC has a solid amount of enemy variety that works very well and is fairly challenging to face on this mode. God's Must Die is also very underrated and easily one of the hardest difficulties in the series
Tbh i forgot dte in dmc3 woulda made it so much easier on myself in fights 😥
tbh I only clicked because of your name and pfp, but I actually really enjoyed the video, made me want to play dmc again, great work
5 had too much defense and super armor values imo. But I liked how each enemy had their own trigger conditions for their DT. Some enter DT in responses to hard knockdowns, some to damage, some to taunting.
This is why I'll never dabble with DMC. If I was 12 or 13 again, I probably could given I like to think I was really good at Sonic games. And so I had the patience and reaction time necessary for something like this. No anymore unfortunately. I've fully transitioned to turn-based RPGs and haven't looked back. Good video. You guys who persist through this bs are built different
There’s no shame in playing on easy, just so you can experience the game at least.
@SaberRexZealot See that's where I think you're wrong. In my eyes, I do believe there is SOME level of shame with playing a game on the easiest difficulty. Of course people can play however they want. That doesn't mean I always have to respect it
@@chrishunter9185 i don't agree. is not a shame playing on lower difficulty and it is a pride playing on higher difficulty. ppl enjoying games differently
@ZeroEffort Like I said: people can play a game however they want, just don't expect me to care about your experience when it was on the easiest difficulty possible. I see no fun or intrigue playing on a mode that, more than likely, will never force, incentivize, or encourage the player to become better
I had the same mindset until I just caved in and played DMC 5 on normal, then you just slowly progress without even realizing it.
DMC5 fun facts. The Angelos at the end of mission 7 have boosted health compared to other missions. Probably because it's their first introduction so they made them something like a mini boss encounter. Mission 20 is easier than mission 19 not only because of Nero's kit but Vergil also has less HP and he can be staggered way easier while he is in SDT.
Really? When I first beat DMC5, I knew something was up with Nero vs Vergil. It did feel much easier than beating Vergil with Dante.
@@HadesHatredEdge Yeah. I played with Nero in M19 using the COOP trainer and did some testing. IMO it's way more fun compared to M20 and the Bloody Palace Vergil fight since there is no down state for Vergil that opens him up for free damage and grabs.
@@gistr8792 mission 20 wasn’t supposed to be as hard as 19. It was meant to make the player recognize how strong Nero really was.
@@Pussyrepelent it also because Vergil just fought with Dante, so it makes sense that he was not in his top shape
i absolutely agree with your closing statement!
I had to struggle with missions tbh- but it was worth getting the super variations of the characters
I want DMD to do more than just DT. I'd like to see smaller enemies combine together to create a new enemy if say you dont clear them soon enough of it's the last 2 or something. Use that to "add in" harder targets rather than just throwing a random from a later portion of the game into the fight.
Hello comment section; for any genuinely wondering how DMC2 DMD was like, I am here to share. It's honestly no wonder SHIKI didn't get to play DMC2 DMD, as it's extremely boring to play the game anyway but it would require game completion 5 separate times including the DMD run for him to have made an analysis on it, and I doubt it would've been a very insightful one either way considering there's not all that much to go through, despite the paragraphs below. Unlocking DMD: To unlock the mode, you must complete the game a total of four times; two for each playable character. There are two campaigns to play in DMC2. The game doesn't combine the two campaigns into one story like how it does with Nero and Dante in DMC4, instead, you either choose to play through the game as Dante, or as Lucia. Now obviously, most would choose to play as Dante because well.. It's Dante and everyone loves him and not this new one-off redhead (she's more important in lore but never appears outside of DMC2 in the game series). And in the long run, you get more out of Dante's campaign either way because there's more missions and thus more content, albeit, I'm not exactly sure if that's better or worse considering the game were talking about. Anyway, in the road of unlocking DMD, you don't really have a choice, as you have to play as both characters twice to unlock the harder difficulties. To explain, the difficulty system works like this: Beat the game with Dante & Lucia on normal, you unlock hard mode for both of them. Then you go and beat hard mode with Dante & Lucia, then unlocking DMD for the final playthrough. So yes, if you really want to be a completionist, you have to sit through this egregious game FIVE times at minimum. Gameplay: For anyone who's actually played this game and completed it ATLEAST once, you know how bad the combat feels, and why this game is marked as the "shooting simulator" that it is. Essentially, pressing that shoot button is gonna get you way further than doing sword damage because they are overpowered ESPECIALLY when used in devil trigger. Just go watch a speedrun of this game and you'll see what I mean. They even have it so that holding down the shoot button will automatically fire your guns; this is the ONLY game where that feature is present. The whole OP guns thing was an oversight on the devs part after seeing how weak they seemed in DMC1, (tbh, I think they were fine but maybe it's just me) and so they gave them a teensy buff that messed up the whole game. Anyway, as for melee combat, you're mostly stuck with the same three swing combo since the game doesn't tell you how to do any other combo. Its just so bland and boring and bad and boring and so doggy doodoo. All the bosses are made trivial with guns, although they do have stupid amounts of health in some cases, looking at the amalgamation in the last mission of Dante's campaign. The only boss that actually feels like a boss is Argosax himself the final boss. So... How does this all bode for DMD? Well.. It's uh... Shit! What a surprise, don't worry SHIKI, you saved yourself a bunch of trouble. All of the bosses have a health increase that is just WAY too much, and every single enemy and boss becomes 1000x more annoying. Some honorable mentions are the goats FUCK THOSE, the Trismagia boss, the Jokatgulm boss, Bolverk, and the literal worst boss ever made, the Tateobosu an underwater fight where the boss is invis 75% of the time! It's literally not worth your time to use your sword on any boss except those that are weak to it, which means in the end, it's just a long time of mashing a button over and over until shit dies. I did try and use my sword a lot, and I did succeed because you kinda can't fully rely on guns in DMD, thankfully, but a lot of the time I was stuck with guns. The Saving Grace: However, just as with every story like this, there's a hero. One single saving grace that filled me with just enough hope to push through it. The secret third playable character... Trish. For those unaware, Trish is a playable character in multiple DMC games (at least to my knowledge she can be played in 1 and 2) after beating the games on a certain difficulty. Now, unaware of which campaign I was going to do before realizing Trish existed, I was stumped on if I was even going to have the patience to do it, as the previous runs of the game already had me annoyed and quite frankly, some of the enemies and bosses were becoming less trivial and more like walls and hinderances. And then it was right in front of me. Trish came to fill my dark soul with LiIiGhHt, and I'm very glad she did. Upon deciding I would use her to test her out, I chose the Lucia campaign, as it is shorter and has less bosses, and even excludes one of the most annoying bosses Bolverk from her campaign (although subbed in for a genuinely more annoying one but whatever), I set out on my final run of the game, the last time I would ever have to lay eyes on it, excluding bloody palace for steam achievements. And oh my god, for some reason, Trish has ALL of Dante's DMC1 combos that they never game to him in DMC2 for some wild reason. It made the game feel JUST that bit more like itself and made everything like so much better. Actually getting to use combos was such a change of pace. And I guess for all of my hard work, it really paid off because, well, Trish's devil trigger is the most broken thing I have ever laid eyes on in a DMC game. Not even VERGIL himself compares to this. DMD boss wipes in mere SECONDS. It's on par with Dante's Majin DT (dk if I'm saying that right) that was added to him in DMC2 as an OP powerup; except, you don't have to go to low health to use it, you just pop it and it wipes the floor with anything and everything in it's way. And, as the final cherry on top, Trish's sword is the Devil Sword Sparda, which means it's actually a good source of damage. So yeah, Trish is OP and trivialized DMD and thank god because I was so ready to put down my controller. Final Thoughts: Honestly, shit game, shit campaigns, pain in the ass of a hard mode, honestly a joke. Take it from someone who willingly played the game five times in full. DON'T.
The only issue with using Trish on DMD is if you doing it through Lucia's campaign due to that shitty fish boss
to be frank, the answer was obvious before i opened this video, but i like how you analyzed these games. Thanks for the vid
You nailed the rating bro.
Dmc3 one of the best games ever made
DMC1 hands down, not too crazy and still challenging and fun.
I’m only watching this because of DMC4 DMD, Thanks for putting it at the bottom
Dat NMH OST 👌 great vid ✌✌
Legendary Dark Knight is the best difficulty, because Son of Sparta is where the health and damage are at a good middle ground, but you need more enemies to be able to do sick combos, while DMD in DMC5 they become too tanky IMO.
Not too tanky for vergil though. Kalina anne, Balrog with punch mode, quadruple S, and cavalier all do pretty well too. I've done DMD LDK 0.3 damage and it didn't feel too slow. For reference I would say Dr Faust is still too OP even in this mode and can 1 shot.
@@TheLegless101 True. But that's not fun to spam Dr Faust or some OP attacks. It's all about style.
@@ivankovachev8835 You generally don't need to either, pretty much all of cavaliers attacks are great. Cerebrus has multiple great moves for stunning enemies, kick mode is good for getting enemies in the air and keeping them their, Ebony and Ivory keeps enemies in their air like normal. All Quadruple S moves are pretty good (although the ground slam is a bit OP). You can still style in this mode, it just makes the game more challenging, which I enjoy. For me at least, I always felt like I was purposely not using multiple moves because enemies would just explode, now I can use whatever I want and not worry about that (except Dr Faust machine gun and meteor).
Dmc1 is insane hard, but doable, and normal enemies have less health which helps. Dmc2 doesn't count idk Dmc3 is too much, with annoying enemies and not much to even it out. Dmc4 and 5 are proabably just right, bit spongy but you have so much tech.
DMC 3 Damned Chessman :#
hearing the typhoon theme from silver case awaked the sleeper agent in me
After 20 years I still remember the first time I played DMD in DMC1, when I got the rusty key and the red puppet attacked me by activating its DT without warning. My maximum life turned red with just 1 hit. This is like a trauma and I don't think any DMD in the following DMCs has even been able to compare.
Had no clue u can stand on the skewer in dmc 1.
I haven't gone down dmd for any other game except 4 and S-ranking dantes missions was pretty fun for me. Chimeras do have some interesting gameplay even though they take away more than half your attacks. I believe they don't activate their whip attack instantly and Dante has a lot of high damage long range options like pandora, drive, and DT guns (I'm pretty sure the shotgun does a lot more damage if you pull it out in a combo). Basilisks are pretty fun once you realize how easy it is to royal guard projectiles compared to normal attacks. Dante is very versatile in 4 and can adapt to almost anything, which is why I kept going for s-ranks on 4 (also because of the achievement).
Interesting, thanks for posting.
This is something I can understand. I like achievements/trophies so I would get S ranks for them. But people who do every S rank on every difficulty? I don't get it lol. I know 4 and 5 basically require it for 100%, but I wouldn't play them that much. Sadly don't like em enough to. I did 100% 1 though as it's my fav (thankfully it didn't require S ranking everything) and I may do 3 at some point
@@Walamonga1313 yeah im not trying for all achievements. that is a lot and i cant stomach dmc4 easy mode.
i fucking loved the humor in this vid, you have my sub
Perfect conclusion for me ❤
DMC 1 DMD because I like the enemies the bosses and the level design they are very fun and intense.
Dmc4 was so rushed that dante wasn't Even planned to be in the Game, that's why it feels so out of place in those missions
Imo I feel like what they can experiment with on the next dmc game is do what ninja gaiden black did and have unique enemies only show up on harder difficulties. Keep the stylish formula they have been doing for a long time now but have more enemy variety for engagements.
As cool as the newer enemies in NGB were the more you played it’s sadly abdesign philosophy that we probably won’t see again, NGB was made during a time when game costs weren’t as high so making enemies most player would NEVER see wasn’t that big a deal… then itsuno basically made devil trigger New Game plus exclusive so who knows he might be crazy enough to do it
props for the NMH osts
I'd say 5 with 4 as a close second. The others make the enemies too tanky for my taste. Stylish play is close to the most optimum way to play in 5, but 1, 2, and 3 is a total slog if you aren't lame playing.
Honestly Dmc3 was a masterpiece in my opinion when I finished Dante must Die in Dmc3 the satisfaction I felt was immeasurable.
The algorithm has summoned me
I grew up with dmc 4 and i think its pretty fine as a game i never got bored of it