The problem was that you played the game without a controller. DMC is very much like a fighting game mixed with a beat-them-all. Would you consider playing Street Fighter with a keyboard ?

Most of the fun in the game is in the combat. Cutscenes are only here to show off the characters and animations, you shouldn’t expect too much from them or the story. You claim player controlled combat sequences are boring, which is really surprising and is what led me to the earlier conclusion. Your crippled control scheme probably prevented you from experimenting and trying out various styles of attack, of which there are many to play with even at the beginning of the game, and they only get more numerous as it progresses. Half the fun is in trying out and learning new moves to reach SSS ranks.

These sequences do look impressive when played by someone relatively skilled. The game can be played (on easy at least) by button mashing and occasional rolling but the challenge is rather high otherwise and requires a little bit of mastery of the character. Like a fighting game, you can play by spamming a fast punch or you can do incredible 65-hits combos. The former is boring and unimpressive, easy but only works so far and feels cheap and unrewarding. The latter is harder to achieve, but looks impressive and is much more satisfying to pull off.

That’s really disappointing. I played an earlier devil may cry at a friends house on xbox for an hour or so, and it was actually quite fun. A button masher to be sure, but still fun. I was considering getting this one for the PC, I didn’t realize the controls were so awful, so thanks for the warning!

hahahaha… exactly what i thought at trying this game (but i gave up and connected a gamepad i had lying around anyways for playing snes-emulator^^)