Devil May Cry - The Art, Design, and Origins
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ส.ค. 2021
- An in-depth look at the development of the first Devil May Cry, its origins as the first draft of Resident Evil 4, the surprising amount of connections left between the two, and much, much more.
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PCSX2 Essential patches(Deinterlace, widescreen, etc.)
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Catbus's Devil May Cry HD Collection Comparison video:
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Makoto Tsuchibayashi Design Works book
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Devil May Cry 3142 Graphic Arts Book
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Electronic Gaming Monthly, December 2001 issue, pg. 56
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Devil May Cry HD - Extensive Comparison, TH-cam upload by Catbus
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Hideki Kamiya's Twitter posts:
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Devil May Cry 1 HD (PS4 Pro 1080p 60fps) Longplay Walkthrough FULL Gameplay, TH-cam upload by SheanWalsh: • Devil May Cry 1 HD (PS...
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Excellent video. It's often mentioned how DMC started development as a RE title, but I've never heard anyone talk about that process as extensively and passionately as this.
It was super interesting to delve deeply into the more obscure development documentation and find some juicy nuggets of info I hadn't seen anywhere else. Thanks for the comment!
Funny that this game being a missing link between survival horror and hack 'n' slash makes it one the most unique action games ever made even by today standards.
Awesome video as usual.
Thanks Victor! I appreciate it! And yeah, that unique genesis definitely gives it a one of a kind vibe.
pretty ironic that both re4 and dmc (which is basically re4 cut content) completely revolutionised their genres
I would like to see a DMC1 remake some day.
Me too. Put the RE2make team in charge of it, have Kamiya on board in an advisory role to keep the vision on point, and it should be golden.
Personally I wouldn't like that, just for the fact the original still in my book holds up today, yes you can argue the camera is shitty but personally never had issues with it, and ofcourse the gameplay is very slow and hasn't much to offer but the simplicity is what I like about it, compared to DMC 4 and 5 there's just too much going on, fast combat, tons of combos to memorize and a lot of different weapons you need to master and probably only use once, you pick a favorite style and run with it same with the style modes. For me personally too much, and ofcourse I am getting older too, I mean I was 19 when the first DMC came out. And if there would be a remake someday and I think it will since DMC 5 had a lot of throwbacks to the first game, I'm afraid it'll be just like DMC 5. Let it rest in history, not everything needs to get a remake, but that seems to be the most popular thing in videogames right now, probably because the lack of creativity it's much easier to remake a game as to write a new story, new gameplay elements, new engine etc. Its a masterpiece as it is.
I thought about this and after playing RE4's remake I don't think I'd want that. Not because RE4's is bad. It's pretty damn good, actually, but the game doesn't have the same feel or spirit as the original. It's a great game but it is definitely its own separate entity. DMC1 is such a unique game that none of its sequels are like it, at all. Not even Bayonetta has the same tone, atmosphere or spirit. A remake of DMC1 would be just like DMC5 and I don't want that. Dante himself is nothing like the way they portray him in all the other DMC games and something unique would be lost in the name of appealing to as large an audience as possible.
Hell yeah
@@Casketkrusher_ my only gripe is I wish it were longer and I wish the storyline was more fleshed out. Otherwise, it's a masterpiece.
I would love to see the next DMC game be a Sparda prequel, everyone is asking for it and perhaps it would be the perfect excuse to add back in DMC1's atmosphere as well.
That would be a really cool premise, let's hope so!
That "Jagged zig zag design" on Trish chest is actually a lightning bolt. A nod to her elemental power.
Awesome info about those music samples! Those artists are so often forgotten and uncredited.
Definitely, it's a shame they're kind of unknown to the greater gaming public despite so much of their work providing fundamental elements to well-loved and widely known pieces of game music.
@@HydefHyde video game music influenced me as a kid, made me love industrial metal/rock, industrial, and electronic music in general.
Fascinating! I love in depth information in this.
DMC 1 is basically my favorite in the series. It kind of has a short experience, but it's amazing how the designs created a larger, darker, and mysterious story to the whole game.
Glad you enjoyed it! Yes, I agree of course. The world of DMC1 is so interesting as a result of its unique development cycle... I wish we could get another game like it. If not in DMC6, maybe we could get a Resident Evil style game in a haunted medieval setting. I think that could be very interesting. I can't think of many games like that. Thanks for the comment!
Is it just me or does the idea of the protagonist of the game being the grand antagonist's son make me think of Symphony of the Night? There are other Castlevania influences in the game, so I wonder if this was intentional...
You may be onto something there!
Sometimes I feel like a portion of the game got cut out because once you leave the castle gardens by going through the door with the two knights, you're instantly at the coliseum for some odd reason.
Just finished my first play through of Devil May Cry not too long ago. An amazing experience that reminded me of Resident Evil 4 through the entirety of the playthough. I remembered DMC being born from RE4 but had to see a video for an extensive look. This video delivered and exceeded my expectations, wonderful job.
Great video, I do definitely prefer the later games due to their more developed combat, but the original DMC does stand as having a completely unique atmosphere that sets it apart from the rest of the series and other action games in general.
If we could get one last DMC that combined both that great atmosphere and the gameplay of the later titles it would easily be the best in the series.
I would love to see a DMC1 remake with environments that are closer to those featured in the concept arts. They are stunning.
And I thought I already knew quite a lot about DMC1 and it's game development period. Great video, as well as the visual part
Thank you very much! I definitely wanted to showcase some stuff that I haven't already seen in other vids, so I did lots of research into Japanese-only released materials and more obscure stuff. Don't forget to check out the 3142 Arts Book download in the video description!
I have been wanting to see such a video for a long time. Beautiful video for a beautiful game.
Ps: extra points for the Berserk reference.
I still think that Devil May Cry 1 has the best setting of all the games. Well right up there with 3 and 5…
5?? I think 5 had the worst setting, or at least the way they handled it was very bad, Redgrave City was an interesting premise, but they just let you explore the city for a little while before throwing you in the sewers and then going to the Qliphoth tree, which is by far the blandest and tasteless location of the game yet is the one we spend more time in.
Temen Ni Gru is cool tho
Thank you very much for this interesting excursion into the origin of the series!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video. DMC1 and RE4’s connected history is a fascinating subject, and one I never tire of diving into. This video is probably the best one yet for an in depth and concise look at what might have happened on Tony Redgrave’s crazy adventure, and how it was adapted from that into Dante’s journey for revenge.
Much appreciated!
Just one small correction: Kamiya left Capcom in 2006, not after development of DMC1. After DMC1, he directed Viewtiful Joe under the Capcom studio Clover, a game that even featured Dante and Trish as unlockables as well as Alastor, the electric sword, being a character. And last but not least, Kamiya directed Okami, one of Capcom's masterpieces, shortly before the Clover studio shut down and he left Capcom alongside Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami.
Mikami went on to establish Tango Gameworks with The Evil Within (which references RE and the RE4 remake in turn references TEW).
Hope this video blows up, you did a great work breaking this all down, hadn't seen a lot of that concept art and quotes from Kamiya! Looking forward to more dmc stuff.
Hey, thanks a lot! I hope so too. Some of the concept art is included in the HD collection, others are from that 3142 art book and the Makoto Tsuchibayashi Design Works book.
I've been looking for a video like this. At last, someone actually gives this game its proper dues! its visual narrative and incredible track are still outstanding. I remember just taking out enemies and just spending a few extra minutes looking at the environment, trying to piece together what might've happened there. The world just feels LIVED in and dimensional. I wish the DMC fandom would stop treating DMC1 like a step-child of its own damn series. Nothing annoyed me more than witnessing the second wave of DMC fans literally take over the fandom after DMC3's release and shove DMC1 into a back corner. And it's only gotten worse with each entry after DMC3, because now it's super rare to find videos like this. DMC1 deserves more respect than that. You would never see this happen in the RE fandom with RE1. Even before it got its remake, fans acknowledged its importance. Despite its tank controls and outdated graphics and horrible dialogue, the veteran AND new fans didn't ignore it in favor of the more popular RE4. Same could be said for Silent Hill 1. SH2 might's blown people's minds, but you still had a good chunk of the SH community acknowledge SH1 and respect. Yet, for whatever damn reason, DMC1 gets ignored by current day fandom. It seems the ONLY person who remembered and wanted to give it its dues was Itsuno himself with DMC5, which draws heavily from DMC1's narrative. It just sucks because there is A LOT this game has going on that still hold up today. And the soundtrack is incredible (with the track names being absolutely hilarious lol). You could tell this was a labor of love by Team Devil.
What a beautiful and well made video! This is my favorite videogame development trivia and you did an EXCELLENT job! Great wrapping up in the end how the DNA and concepts are even seen in today’s games, which is also true for Mikamis „The Evil Within“, my favorite game.
A video on DMC3 would be perfect just like this video. Good job man!
I think this is the most complete video about dmc game design.
You have done a great job here, Sir. I've subscribed waiting for more of this.
Welcome aboard!
Excellent video. Love the info on the dark ambient soundtrack, as a producer myself I always wonder where they get the inspiration and how they made tracks as weird and wonderful as in devil may cry, that shit terrified me as a kid !
I heard that DMC started as a Resident Evil game before, but always thought that they switched gears very early in the development, it's really cool to see how deep the Resident Evil roots go.
Talking about the environment design and its storytelling, I also hope that they bring some of it back into the new games if there is going to be more.
But I highly doubt it will happen :( The environments in DMC5 were very forgettable, it didn't even feel like there was an attempt to make anything special. And it was disappointing to see how the 4th game had an interesting idea of a modern world mixed with a gothic style and religious focus, only to be dropped in the sequel.
Great video!
Devil may cry 1 is something won't happen again it was the best and will remain the best
Shinji mikami you are the best
I'll be honest, DMC never attracted me back then, but now I really feel like giving it a try. Especially since I loved Onimusha (RE4 , I've only played a couple of hours but it was great)
I would definitely recommend it as you might imagine, haha! Onimusha is great too, I need to replay that soon.
Awesome vid. DMC 1 was and still is one of my favorite games of all time!
wow i didn't knew they also took and scanned real pictures for the textures in DMC1 i thought capcom only did that for RE4.
Incredible video, mate.
This game is amazing and the risks they took with it would never be done in a current-day IP.
Hearing about the trip to the castles, it was clear why the castle in DMC1 and RE4 were better realized than the ones in 3D Castlevania titles. I always felt like DMC1 was like a hybrid of RE and Castlevania, gothic and classy but still modern.
Those concept arts of the environment feel like they belong on a museum.
in an alternate universe, Leon would be named Redgrave, have somewhat a superpower, traversed gothic ancient castle instead of "peaceful" Spanish village, and goes full Akimbo style
Leon already existed before RE4, he's the protagonist of RE2, Tony Redgrave was from the very beginning a separate character
@@crystalaluminathat's not what Kamiya said in a late interview. The protagonist was supposed to be Leon,they changed him to Tony Redgrave and after the project become Devil May Cry he become Dante.
I don't know if you covered this or not, but I once read a beta for RE4 contained a glitch where Leon could hover in midair while shooting, and that's supposedly when they scrapped it into it's own project being DMC. Is that true?
Very informative video, recently finished the game on hard mode recently and the atmosphere was top-notch with heavy and satisfying gameplay that makes it stick out beautifully from the other entries, great as they are. Thanks for putting this up for people who wanna learn more about this gem.
LETS FUCKING GO
This is wonderfully extensive sweet job dude
Wow this is awesome and incredibly informative. Thanks for this.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is my favorite game ever. Thanks for doing this
This video so good you got a new sub
Devil May Cry 1, 3 Dante's Awakening And Devil May Cry 4 One Of Those Game's THAT I Really Wanted To Play 😩
*Especially 5*
Great in-depth analysis
Thank you!
I have check your Channel more frequently.
Totally missed this Video.
I Loved your demons Souls Remake Art etc. Video.
DMC is one of my Loved Games, so great for me.
Amazing video man
Thank you very much!
OMG, Hydef doing another in depth analysis of classic game
You better believe it! There will be more in the future.
Thanks for this absolutely great video !
My pleasure!
Great video thank you !
Great video I love dmc 1 and this was nice to see
Came back here to rewatch this ended up trying to get the art book to work
More than ever this game NEEDS a proper remaster.
Great video!
Superb video, subscribed.
Thank you very much!
I knew it! About sparda's name, in Spanish it also means sword "Espada"
Great video and, as always, really well researched and evidenced. I was hoping you'd take the same effort you put into your Demon's Souls video into another good video game.
Thank you very much for your comment, and your patience! There will be more videos like this in the future!
Ive got the PS2 version of this game (and the 2nd/3rd) with actual hardware, not emulated, and it has to be my top videogame / game series of all time. Theres just something about the original DMC tho that is so nostalgic for me, ignoring the fact that i played it as a kid. I wish they kept that world-building and environment storytelling aspects in the later games, or at least made them a little more prominent, but thats what makes the original DMC so unique.
I definitely dont miss first person swimming tho. So glad they never did that again ;-;
Subbed!
Thank you very much!
Awesome video with alot of content i didnt know about and have to say you deserve way more subscribers then you have
(While do agree that Dmc 1 being the most well directed in the series i cant say it my favorite due to the respawn system as i find i more anoying then difficult)
Nice vídeo man sucess ✌
it's about fucking time they remake this amazing game
I see a video about Devil May Cry I click!
It’s rarely put in these terms but, I see DMC 1 as belonging to the Castlevania, NES Ninja Gaiden lineage. And in those terms, it is still the best game if that type that was ever made. Dante Must Die, specifically in DMC1, is the greatest hard mode ever made, IMO.
My favorite video game of all time
It's definitely one of my mine.
i enjoyed this video. 👍
I actually think I know what the fourth game was originally supposed to be shown as I think it was supposed to be shown as onimusha Warlords because at one point the developers behind Resident Evil 4 wanted to see what it would be like to put zombies and the feudal era of Japan and have samurais actually fight their way through zombies and you know your potential monsters like bosses that would be the much more bigger enemies what you do see in onimusha Warlords is the very same concept very similar to how Resident Evil would have played out if they didn't like that well and they made one that took place during Japan's funeral era but instead we got the Gemma that were a clan of demons that were both lower rank demons and then you know your typical higher rank and this is actually something that's been talked about and you can actually look this up
Devil May Cry is a weird mix of acton game and horror, the atmosphere its really dark and so are the enemies, even though all entries feature demons, the first game has the most terrifying ones imho even when at a technical disadvantage compared to newer entries.
The combat felt realistic, impactful and badass in dmc1. Now it feels twitchy and clownish.
Still my favourite DMC game. In Itsuno’s games, Dante could be compared to Spiderman whereas in DMC 1, he was much more like Batman… And I’ve always preferred Batman XD.
Apparently there in the same universe and dmc takes place after all the resident evil games
That doesn't make sense at all
Fantastic video covering this timeless classic!
Unfortunately, I highly doubt the series will return back to the it's atmospheric roots as the new director of the series, Hideaki Itsuno, has primary experience in designing fighting games.
This of course made DMC3 gameplay mechanics near impeccable, but DMC5 proves that the story, environment, characterization barely had cohesion between each other and were mostly secondary in priority for the game overall.
You may be right, but a man can always dream! Haha. Thanks for the comment!
I still hold some hope, considering that they used the RE engine for the game (tho they also used it for SF6, so maybe is not that deep lol)
Definitely my all time favorite game next to Doom, I was mindblown when this came out, never seen such a high action packed game at the time. Great visuals, dark gothic architecture, very well designed enemies and variety such a masterpiece, the other games in the franchise didn't do much for me, 3 was very good though brought back some of the art direction of the first game in the Temin Ni Gru. But Dante himself went from a serious cool dude to a class clown, and I know its chronically before DMC1 but still didn't like has attitude nor his voice actor, Drew Coombs will always be the true Dante for me.
Video was enjoyable and your voice isn't annoying.(I just tried to watch a cut re content video and had to bail out)
So Leon was supposed to be the main character from the beginning or they always intended to be Tony Redgrave?
If this idea of playing as Spencer son already existed in the initial stages with Leon than his real name would be Leon Spencer Kennedy (!)
I know Drew Combs lines are very wooden and cheesy. But I actually like it more than 3. But DMC always had very little story lore in it. Like if people actually think demons exist or what happened to those living in the city during 3.
have it on ps2
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While it would be super cool to see a 6th Devil May Cry game. I want to see a Remade from the Ground Up Devil May Cry 2! It’s a Shameful entry, yet without it we wouldn’t have gotten the Stylish Gun Slinging Powers Dante would have for his “Style” system in DMC3, nor would we have gotten weapon Switching!
Still, the Old DMC2 just feels like a Mistake, and no matter how it’s justified, the game is a Slog! Dante and Lucia are unfun to play, they don’t have any of the Badass weapons/Devil Arms that would compliment their play style. And honestly I would love for Lucia to have her own set of Devil Arms to use. Like Combat Demon Greaves or Whatever g-Like Devil Arms she could use and detach to turn into swords and what-not. Her Throwing Daggers were nice, but a Demonic Crossbow or some other weapon would’ve been a neat change of pace for her gameplay!
I don't think it has to do with the Devil arms, in most DMC games I go around using the regular sword throughout the whole thing, the problem with DMC2 is that it's so hard to strike a combo because the enemies die too fast and get sent too far away by every attack, it drives the fun out of the combat
23:00 you should avoid the pal ps2 version. This game and onimusha warlords both have terrible pal ports.
I liked DMC 3, 4 was so bland. DmC is my second favorite, and the 5th one was really good and enjoyable. V is my favorite character. But! Devil May Cry 1 is so so good and the original Dante to me is the true Dante. They butchered his personality so bad and who he really was as the games went on. Only Hideki Kamiya was able to design his true tough but sarcastic personality, not some clown, wearing cowboy boots and riding rockets like he was a cartoon character.
DMC4 had some definite development pains in that transition to HD, it's a miracle it turned out as well as it did. It's not one of my faves either, but a mid DMC is still quite good in my eyes :)
I disagree with you about DMC4 being bland, I really liked it's more angelical and sacred environments in contrast to the previous games with more darker and gothic environments, but I will agree that the game has the second worst version of Dante ever (nothing is worst than DmC tbh)
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This is amazing 🥲 I finished devil may cry 1 and it was a great experience