Which Devil May Cry Has The Best Dante Must Die? 

My favorite part of Dante must die mode, is when Dante said "it's dying time," then died all over the place.

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"

DMD really highlights the biggest problem with Dmc3: Half of the enemies suck and the other half are variations of the same enemy

Vergil 3 on DMD feels like one of those optional super bosses except he’s mandatory

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.

just imagine DMC3 DMD Corrupted Super Vergil

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

5:00 That "fight back" edit got me dying... Like Dante

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.

Honestly it is probably the one where Dante actually dies

Masterful creation, I will be playing every Devil May Cry game in the hardest difficulty now.

Personally son of sparda in DMC5 is my favorite difficulty. In DMD enemies just become destiny raid bosses

I like 4's version with Virgil, enemies don't vaporize on contact as much

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*

For the record, DMD in DMC2 make’s the second to final boss has all his heads attacking you at the same time

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.

- Does a video about DMC - Uses NMH music - Has Ryougi Shiki as profile picture and banner Subbed. 100%. My man.

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,

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.

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.

Appreciate the use of "We are finally Cowboys" and "Season of the Samurai"

...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

to be fair in dmc 4 dante part, the name is dante must die

DMC 4: Our priority is to capture Dante.

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.

Honestly super disappointing DMC2 wasn’t included, but this is an incredibly fun video!

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

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.

DANTE MUST DINE

No More Heroes OST Detected. Goated video man

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.

the best part of dante must die was when vergil said "sorry dante but dante must die" and then dante died

love the treatment you gave dmc 2. Fair and straight.

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.

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.

Vergil bossfight is nice, but Dante kicking my ass as Vergil is immaculate

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.

Dmc 3 dmd Vergil 3,is just ugh So fucking good.

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 RU-vid 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.

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

DMC1 hands down, not too crazy and still challenging and fun.

DMC1's is my go to example for a greatly designed hard mode. It's so detailed it makes the rest of the series feel like they made them as afterthoughts, Son of Sparda but tankier, meanwhile in 1 it really feels like DMD was made as the intended experience and Normal and Hard were just there to train you for it. DMC3's god awful and i don't like DTE as a mechanic, it's just not interesting to be holding a button 24/7 just to make it bearable. No player expression whatsoever because they intended it to be beaten that way and doing anything else is foolish. Even Vergil turns into a chore. I find 4's genuinely underrated and probably my second favorite. It's so balanced and fun, the values are just big enough to be fun and it is genuinely challenging in a really good way. It's really awesome with Nero and Vergil, and then you get to play as Dante. It's definitely the worst but i still find 3 more aggravating, it's really just Chimeras and Cutlasses, and the Savior but i mean lol. It's really fun to shotgun jc Faust for days. (also kills Blitzes shields), they're also really weak to Lucifer. A wall of Angelos is fucking terrifying in this game and it's great. I find 5 really boring to play in any difficulty lower than DMD (Hell and He'll is really fun), i played so much of it it kind of ruined the game for me. Enemies are either jokes (base Empusas are just nothing enemies) or damage sponges (Queen Empusas, Protos, Nobodies, Judeccas, couple them with V's overall low damage and you got a snoozefest) and very few non boss missions i find actually fun to replay because of this (i fucking love M13's Riot floor). It doesn't have the really low lows of past games but it doesn't have those highs either. Even LDK i find unremarkable and i still love playing it in 4. Bosses are at their best though, every single one of them is awesome on DMD. Antenora is the best enemy in the game.

10:30 that was like the perfect spot in the script to say "jackpot"

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.

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.

DMC4 DMD playing as Vergil is probably my favorite, and i totally agree that DMC5 DMD is the definitive way to play

Dmc3 one of the best games ever made

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.

RU-vid 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!

Without watching the video, DMC1 hands down the best. Best "hardest" difficulty action games ever seen.

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.

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

nmh music in the backround earns a sub

Imagine if you had the first release of DMC3 before SE. Playing a kid when it first came out. The difficulty of that game

Had no clue u can stand on the skewer in dmc 1.

If you can clear heaven and hell or hell and hell your not even human anymore 🤣🤣🤣

Such an excellent video. One of the coolest DMC vids I've ever watched. Thanks so much for uploading!

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.

So for the sake of preservation and from an informative standpoint DMC2’s DMD is… rough. To put it bluntly. I like DMC2, it was my first so im probably biased, but DMD is hard for the wrong reasons. -right off the bat you only deal like half your normal damage. -enemy health is set ridiculously high, i dont know the exact percentage increase. But certain enemies like Golems become even more annoying because the health coupled with DT means they can just regenerate everything unless you focus them down. -enemy damage doesnt really change, they hit “harder” but as is standard for DMC2 nothing is really a threat. Certain boss attacks will actually hurt but theres like… 3 worth worrying about. -enemy DT is a joke. Yes they get stagger resistance and its absurdly high, but it doesnt actually affect anything outside of that like in DMC3. No health increase, no damage increase, it just becomes tedious by the end. -a slight level of boss remixing. Everybody knows about the infested chopper, that fight is even more boring on DMD. What i dont see people talking about is Lucia’s fish boss being invisible THE WHOLE FIGHT, thus not allowing you to lock on. And with how dogshit the water movement is and how fast he moves, you WONT be hitting him. He is NOT constantly invisible on hard and normal, he’ll become visible after a set amount of time below DMD. It doesnt make the fight better, but at least you can lock on with DT and just burst him down with Lucia’s ranged attack. Despair Embodied, dante’s final boss. Gets zero attack intervals. The one boss i believe would be worth bringing back is just made awful by the fact he gets to just spam his attacks and you’re with very little to do aside from shoot at him when he’s doing one of his air attacks. The boss is fun on normal, in my honest opinion. On DMD, like everything else, its an absolute slog and i hate it. All the Arius fights are dogshit shit too. The secretaries being given stagger resistance only pushes you to get to critical health, use majin form, and spam devil stars to stay in it. Provided they dont combo you to death trying to get to that point. Theres more. But i’ve already made a wall of text. TL;DR. DMC2 DMD sucks, this coming from somebody who genuinely loves the game.

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 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.

Awesome Devil May Cry content man, Good work.

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.

Tbh i forgot dte in dmc3 woulda made it so much easier on myself in fights 😥

Honestly this editing is pretty good, pretty underrated really. keep goin buddy

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.

I think it probably goes to 1, simply because it is the hardest without being the most tedious. Enemies do not have a giant pool of health but they do more damage, and the bosses also don't feel like they take a century to beat. Also the best highest difficulty has to go to Ninja Gaiden imo, the enemies are more aggressive, the bosses get extra enemies and the fights aren't noticeably longer. God Hand is right up there with quicker enemies and harder to stagger which makes you bring your A-game.

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

Dude, awesome breakdown.

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.

These are my thoughts on the dmd difficulty on every DMC game, and a little bit of insight DMC 1: Pros- The countdown timer just appearing in sealed room fights is unique, letting you know without directly saying that you should clear the room asap. Also enemy DT countered by Dante DT makes perfect sense. Cons- Shadows are a pain in the ass, and bosses just have a bit too much damage resistance that makes them more of a chore than fun, also every boss can kill you within 2-3 hits. DmC DMC: Pros- I like how it further remixes the enemy waves in areas, so you can fight more challenging enemy's. Cons- Some of the enemy waves thrown at you are straight up brutal, as the game really seems to like throwing Dream Runners and Rages at you. Also enemy DT doesn't really change them outside of flinch resistance. DMC 3: Pros- Devil Trigger Explosion (DTE) is very implemented tool that turn the battle in your favor, and the enemy DT can't counter it. Another plus is that you can do all the combos you want before then. Cons- Enemy DT just buffs their defense so high, you have to play math attrition to launch or stagger even one enemy, let alone that you only deal 50% damage on this difficulty. Also, f##k the Fallen, Soul Eaters, and Enigma enemies. DMC 4: Pros- Nero's section of the game is a lot more fun here, as you can now pull higher and more extensive combos on enemies to get those style points, plus the enemies feel much more powerful to fight (ex Frosts now dodge all attempts to snatch/buster them until you stun them, and Angelo's work as a team to kill you). Enemy DT warning is also a nice help. Cons- Dante's portion of them game sucks major balls on this mode, as his damage output and versatile moves are heavily nerfed compared to 3, and yes, absolutely f##k the chimeras, worst enemy ever. DMC 5: Pros- It definitely is more balanced out for the different characters in this game, and the enemies fight hard enough so that you wanna stay on your toes while blasting combos. Also the bosses now feel like bigger threats as they have a more advanced moveset and durability (most prime examples being Cavalier Angelo, Malphas, and the King Cerberus). Cons- V's gameplay is kinda rough on this mode because his demon familia do pathetic damage and die really quickly, that in most cases your option is to read a book in the corner like the quiet kid, and wait to summon Nightmare so he can knock down the playing field. Also, both the Empusa Queen and Proto Angelo have the red crown ability that reduces incoming damage and increases theirs, plus they stack on top of DT, so they will take much longer to kill, and most enemies deal insane damage with DT active (No joke, an Empusa Queen popped DT and immediately grabbed me with the health drain move, it was an instant kill) Overall, I think 5 is the best for experience as it didn't frustrate me to all hell and back in certain areas unlike the other games, 1 is the best if you wanna know what the true meaning of "Dante Must Die" is, and 3 is the most memorable one because of all the math games I had to play with the enemies. (Also remembering how much of cheap bastards Geryon and Arkham are)

My problem with DMD is that you have to beat hard mode first to unlock it. The blow would be less if you could play missions in any order but nope. Play the whole game over again. Even if you know you won’t struggle with hard mode and just want the hardest challenge now. In fact, my issue with having to play the missions in order carries over to the actual DMD difficulty as well. Like just... _why?_

Excellent video! Thank you for this

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

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.

Honestly Dmc3 was a masterpiece in my opinion when I finished Dante must Die in Dmc3 the satisfaction I felt was immeasurable.

Thanks. This may be motivate me back in DMC:)

damn, I was really looking forward to seeing 2 here

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

DMC2 Dante must die actually makes the game somewhat hard believe it or not Enemies and bosses have DT,more health, and are more aggressive But playing it normally is not as easy as you would expect and if you're going for s ranks good luck because depending who your playing as getting the highest style rank and even getting enough orbs can get very demanding on some missions

I learned a few things from this. Thank you.

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

DMC 1 DMD because I like the enemies the bosses and the level design they are very fun and intense.

I think DMC3 did it the best. I played it, he gets f*cking impaled!

14:04 The fact that Nero and Adachi have the same VA ranks this meme at SSS.

People who say dbz is overrated yet most of the people don’t watch the anime and just know of goku and his strength

As far as tanky DMD enemies in DMCV, I think Empusa Queen might be even worse than Behemoth. It has a ton of HP even without the chain armor mechanic. Behemoth does win out in the "worst" competition though, because it has some BS hitboxes

Not many people may agree with me on this one, but the most fun DMD difficulty I’ve played was on the DmC reboot game. I found the combat system fun and satisfying.

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.

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

If I'm not wrong, in DMC1 there is one aspect of DMD that makes it even more heart-attack inducing: the fact that Devil Trigger did not give you health back. For me, personally, who played the games in order 4 3 1 5 (because when I got into DMC, 1 still wasn't on PC...) that wasn't like a drastic change, but it definitely made it more different.

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).

An argument I made on r/devilmaycry YEARS ago was that playing a game on its highest difficulty setting is a great way to notice all of a game's flaws because they get you killed more often, and because of that logic, DMC1 is a hot mess. In order to play "optimally" (as in, getting an S rank), you basically have to cheat, play in ways the devs don't want you to, skip fights and essentially play in the most unfun ways possible. Naturally, being redditors, it was my fault for noticing flaws in their favorite game, and the *real* way to play it was to just accept C and D ranks. Go figure.

i absolutely agree with your closing statement!