A huge and recognizably evil tree will sprout up from the ground and inside that tree is something from hell that you’ll need to send back there, to stop it from sucking the lifeblood out of the city.
You can watch this helpful 20-minute video to get you caught up on the story, but there’s only so much you need to know.Įach game hits familiar beats. I’ve played every title since the original, including Devil May Cry 3 in 2005 and Part 4 in 2008. The face of the franchise is Dante (as in Alighieri), and there’s his brother Vergil (Virgil) in Devil May Cry 2 (2003) there was a Lucia (St. It’s loosely based on the Divine Comedy in that it borrows some names from the Italian epic.
But I’ll try: Devil May Cry, created by Hideki Kamiya, is a hack-and-slash third-person shooter that Capcom debuted 18 years ago.