Multiple difficulty options and the ability to go back and play previous missions to grind for currency allow you to tailor the challenge to your ability. You can alter the way that checkpointing works by playing on Gold mode (which gives you infinite continues) or Yellow (which sends you back to the beginning of a level upon death). You play the game as Dante, but once you’ve completed the campaign, you can replay it - with additional story content - as Vergil, who has an entirely different moveset. The inclusion of style-switching is only the most obvious aspect of an overarching ethos that makes Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition so good: its willingness to offer players an enormous amount of different options.

While players have the option to play the game as it originally released - with style swaps limited to checkpoints - they can also swap on the fly, if they choose, opening up potential for some gloriously lengthy combos. Now, Capcom has officially added it as an option in Devil May Cry 3, and the game is all the richer for it. Style-switching, which allows Dante to move seamlessly between Trickster, Swordmaster, Gunslinger and Royalguard, was first introduced in 2008’s Devil May Cry 4.

That’s easier than ever thanks to Capcom’s decision to incorporate a feature introduced in a fan-created mod into this official release. I stuck with Trickster for most of the game, but I’m looking forward to further exploring each of the playstyles in a subsequent playthrough. All of these can be upgraded, so to have the right playstyle for every occasion, you’ll need to keep each leveled up as you progress. Gunslinger brings in another ranged move. Trickster style grants Dante a very useful dodge. Those styles are, in large part, what afford Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition its impressive depth. Over the course of his adventure, he’ll beat up a jester, confront his twin and hack-and-slash through hordes of demons using a small arsenal of weapons and a suite of ability-granting styles. When it’s attacked by demons, our hero has to set off for a massive tower, shrouded in clouds, to whoop his twin brother Vergil’s ass. The game was approachable for newcomers, but rewarded time spent plumbing its systemic depths.īut, Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition on Switch may have even more to offer.Īs a prequel to the original Devil May Cry, DMC3 introduces us to a young Dante, settling in for a slice of pizza in his as-yet-unnamed business. The brooding V, who functioned more like a poetry-reading Pokémon trainer than a traditional stylish action character. The impulsive Nero, with a seemingly limitless supply of powered-up prosthetic arms. If last year’s Devil May Cry 5 was your introduction to the long-running demon-slaying series, you could be forgiven for expecting a 15-year-old PS2 game to pale in comparison.ĥ gave players three characters with wildly different movesets to master.

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