@@artistanthony1007 I think you unlock corrupt Vergil by beating the game on Hard or finishing the Bloody Palace. If you beat VMD, you get super corrupt Vergil that never runs out of DT.
@@AmazingOwnage or your like me and download a save because ive replayed this game alot but didnt want to regrind for everything cause its the old pc port i play on
About this games story, I think DMC3 is the perfect video game story narrative. The cutscenes were always able to get to the point without too much fluff. They followed the "Show, don't tell" aspect of story design. I love it.
@@theweedeater1842 True, lol, if they kept to the simple enemies instead of a STATUE, or That thing that you need to hit from behind i would've loved it even more
Fun Fact: in DMC3 there's a secret hidden gameplay when using Doppelganger u can do 2 player coop mode , the way it works is u have to get 2 controllers , but if u got the Infinite Sparda costume which gives u Infinite Devil Tigger making the use of QuickSilver and Doppelganger a lot easy so doesn't waste Devil ords , using Dante's other costume that has Infinite Devil Trigger will not work . U can do 2 player coop story mode on PS2, Xbox360 , Ps4, XB1 , pc , and nentendo switch too . that's if u got Doppelganger and Infinite Sparda costume also 2 controllers .
Y yes it should work if u have 4 controllers on or 2 Pro Controllers , there was capcom podcast dev team they were talking and playing DMC3 on switch and the devs wanted to keep the secret 2 player coop doppelganger in it to have old fans happy cuz y not , it's still a fun feature in the game :) . The Bloody Palace 1 is different too on Switch which they do let u pick do solo or 2 player coop offline of course , player 1 is Dante and player 2 is Vergil , how it works is 2 players sharing a single screen if u have a big wide tv that works too . i'm sure that's all of that on nentendo switch version .
I know alot of people say Vergil 2 or 3 is the best in this game, but despite not having played this game till a few years ago, I always felt the first Vergil fight was always the best. You go through the tower to get to him, and you just get amazed at how calm he is as he deflects your bullets and asks where your motivation is, lol
I'd say vergil 2 is my favorite due to beowulf and the banger theme. Maybe because I played the hell out of 5, but I actually found Vergil 1 fairly easy. Vergil 2 is around my level, and Vergil 3 is still too much for me to complete in 1 attempt.
I feel like fight 2 is easier than one but 2 has the best theme. And 3 has the best fight. 1 just has the convenience of being the first time you fight him. Which is nothing to complain about, especially with the scene that follows.
Quicksilver also gives you I-Frames on activation for like 1.5 seconds, Which makes it useful for avoiding getting hit by an attack when you're stuck in an animation. You can also completely avoid the bomb enemy's explosion if you time it right.
I’ll tell you that using the rocket launcher and waiting a little for those ghost dolphin things in the Arkham fight clears them out pretty easily most of the time. But the downside is that you have to use gunslinger for the in air shot if I remember correctly to take them all out at once when they do their massive all out dive attack
I wanted to check out the Devil May Cry series because my best friend really likes it, so he showed me 3 first since it's the earliest in the timeline, and that was definitely the right move. I love the look and the interactions between Dante and Vergil in this game, the story is really interesting, and Lady is one of the most badass women in any game I've ever seen. If you want to get someone into Devil May Cry, tell them to start with 3.
Absolutely. 3/SE is the only game among the PS2 titles that holds up really well gameplay wise. And frankly, I don't think the game will ever age badly. They really got the style system and combat speed just right. And it works nicely as an introduction to the DMC universe since it's a prequel. DMC1 is a bit dated and didn't quite nail the gameplay like 3 did but it's still worth playing. 2 is completely skippable and aged the worst but in my honest opinion it's not a bad game on its own. You could pick worse hack and slash games from the PS2 era. It's a bad DMC title sure, but not a bad game on its own. Same goes for the Ninja Theory reboot. Solid game on its own but a bad DMC title. I know it's sacrilege among the fanbase to throw any praise towards DmC but it did a couple of things right. These titles are worth checking out at least once IMO but you can choose to skip em' and read the summary for 2. It doesn't hold much plot relevance for the series so far but it's worth knowing where it stands in the timeline. DMC3, 4 and 5 are fantastic games and some of the best the hack and slash genre has to offer.
@@aninfinitemindofmusicandreams Yeah, I finished DMC 1-5 a few years ago. 2 was definitely the least memorable of the bunch, but I'll still take it over what I heard about the reboot (which I have no intention of checking out).
@@ultraspinalki11 Maybe, but I value story in games more than I value game-play, especially since I usually experience video games by watching them on TH-cam instead of playing them myself (mostly because I don't have the time or money for all the games and consoles that interest me).
Ah yes, my first game that I purchased alongside a used PS2 at GameStop. Unfortunately, I never bought a memory card so whenever I made it past Cerberus (after failing time after time) I'd always have to do it again every time I picked up the game. Although somewhat biased, DMC3 will always be my favorite in the series.
DMC 3 will be amazing, whether another video is done 17 years later or a hundred years later. Music, gameplay, voice acting, pacing, difficulty........wrapped up in a bloody, stylish package and nails the air hike landing perfectly. Kids these days have to contend with half complete buggy games filled with microtransactions, drip fed content via live service "seasons", and empty apologies via community updates when devs screw up (which is the norm now days) Not saying the era of DMC 3 video game development was perfect (oh god no HELL NO) but we got to grow up with some of the best games ever released (which DMC 3 is part of imo). I'll wear my nostalgia glasses proudly on this one.
From Foxcade, having Summon Swords on one of the shoulder button makes Vergil extremely broken and feels more natural than having it on the default shoot button
I will say there is a mod that gives you all the stuff from the switch version and then some (being able to switch your entire character on the fly which is just insane, but if youre at that level, more power to ya) so personally i'd recommend just picking it up on pc and getting that mod (Just in regards to his recommendation to pick it up on switch)
Funny thing about the bloodgoyles, there's a limit on how many times they can split, so you can totally kill them without firing your guns even once, it'll just take a while.
You know you're fucking old when you look at the title of this video and the memory of the day of DMC 3's release still fresh in your mind. Anyway. Even though its been years since I've played this. This game still stands as one of the best of all time. If not the best hack&slash. I actually think DMC 3 tops any God of War in terms of general quality.
Quick nitpick, Dante's High Roller is just High Time. This isn't the first DMC3 analysis video I've seen but the story is just that good that I don't really tire of hearing about it. One, more like two, points I don't seem addressed to often is how DMC3 is the only DMC that incorporates elemental damage and weapon type damage like the chess pieces being weak to Beowulf/Cerberus because they're blunt.
Ive been replaying and just noticed the elemental damage! Like the spiders getting caught on fire. Very interesting! While this may of disappeared in DMC it does get expanded upon in Dragon's Dogma actually, which I find interesting.
Great video! And about the tentacle slugs on the Arkham boss fight, I’ve found that the Kalina Ann is the best weapon against them. It only takes one shot to take them out and you might take more than one out with an explosion.
17 years later,still the peak of gaming,and the most video game to ever video game. Absolutely love this game,it was even the one that got me into playing video games to begin with lol
They played Hideki Kamiya dirty with DMC2. I will never understand why they would make DMC2 without even telling him. He’s the reason why DMC1 was so incredible, and they gave DMC2 to a random lead developer who quit (which is why they brought in Itsuno). Don’t get me wrong, Itsuno made DMC into the incredible franchise it is today, but I can’t help to wonder “what if”. What if Kamiya had been allowed to make DMC2 with his vision in mind. They’ve interviewed him and he explains how he felt betrayed by Capcom for doing this, and I have no doubt we would have gotten something special with him at the helm. We would have had a completely different game franchise altogether, and I wonder what direction that would have been…
this is one of my all time favorite games, it's simply amazing. I always recommend this one to every single human being, it's such a journey and works as an standalone great.
DMC3 is a fantastic game and to this day still holds up pretty well. I got into the series only a few years ago, after 5's release. I bought the HD collection, enjoyed 1 for what it was but it definitely aged the worst out of all the other games, 2 was....an experience to say the least, and then I played 3. 3 was what truly got me hooked into the series, it's such a massive glowup from the first two games that it's unreal. And now Devil May Cry has become one of my favorite video game franchises of all time. My proudest achievement so far in the entire franchise is managing to S rank mission 20 for my first playthrough. I chose Yellow instead of Gold mode at the start not knowing the difference, which meant Gold Orbs were a lot weaker than in Gold mode for my entire playthrough. So I just ended up restarting the mission from the start every time I failed, and since mission 20 is just the fight against Vergil it's not like there was any lost progress. After about an hour of attempts I got so good at the final Vergil fight that when I finally beat him, I got an S rank, my first ever in the game. Gonna get to those higher difficulty playthroughs after I do the same for 1 and 2.
Narrative wise I understand. Like a souls game Arkham fight conveys story through gameplay. Dante and Vergil together don’t need DT to fight someone as weak as Arkham. That together they would be unstoppable. Having said that however, fuck the Arkham fight. He’s the only reason I don’t like playing DMD. He just has SO much health in that phase once Vergil comes in
Alright 2 years late but here I am. Two small tips I've found, 1, for soul eaters, use spiral, high damage in one shot and you can easily use it from range, and one of the big ones, the slugs in arkhams fight, kalina ann, absolutely crushes them, it's not a fun solution, since you basically just jump in circles and shoot, but it works and you rarely get hit if you just jump/roll and shoot Hope that helps if anyone comes back to the 2 year old video
Not sure if a lot of people have said this or know this, but you can actually control doppelganger with p2 controller on PS2. (This also works with Vergil in the boss battle against 'Sparta'.) That means it's not useless. It's co-op.
Love the video. One tip for the Arkham fight, I find spamming Kalina Ann at the small demon fishes eliminates them in large numbers. Not great for style points but very helpful for sanity rankings. Also the Switch version of DMC3 includes co-op Bloody Palace which is insanely fun, although very strange in boss battles because it switches from a camera that zooms in and out to show both players to split screen cameras. Probably something about how they couldn't get the camera to work the same way in multiple arenas.
This game is as old as me and I've never heard of it until recently and as far as I've gotten, I can safely say it's definitely harder than any other hack and slasher games I've ever played
Virgil is the reason the story is good, just like zero to megaman X, capcom is the ABSOLUTE BEST at giving a rival or aspiration to live up to in a character
still the most sasfying action game in the business. Beats out all the DMCs and Bayonetta for me personally. Slap on a style switcher mod or play the nintendo switch version and you have got hands down the best character action game you will ever play. Devil may 5 almost beat it out for me but 3 has a special sauce I cant explain.
One thing to mention with doppelganger is that it allows for multiplayer. If you have two controllers active you can press I think start button, and it allows another person to control the shadow.
Doppleganger wasn't useless at all if you had the unlimited devil meter costume, 2 controllers, and a second person to play with. You basically unlocked 2 player mode.
After playing Elden Ring I see Bloodhound Step(Trickster), Doppelganger(Mimic Tear), Royal Guard Release(Guard Counter) and basically Vergil like sorceries and Moonveil. I'm not saying they copied this all but it's cool to see that these games share so many mechanics in common now.
Back then i used to visit my cousin's house to play together, and most of the time dmc 3 was our choice. Doppleganger allowed us to play together which made me like this style.
Great look over DMC3. Certainly one I had a lot of fun with, even if I played 1 enough prior to really trying 3 to kind of prefer 1. Side note: my personal favorite weapon pairing is Cerberus with Agni & Rudra. Would still very much like a video on DMC2 at some point. There’s a ton to discuss around that train wreck. I feel the “Dante lacking his charm” thing you mentioned is worth noting, as, while maybe dumbed down, it wasn’t Dante, but the world around him that lacked that charm. Kinda like Shadow the Hedgehog: I think Shadow himself kind of pulled off the edge his game was going for, but the game around him really didn’t.
My man, you used footage from the HD Edition which has graphical bugs from the PS2 original. You should have used PCSX2 footage that solves most if not every visual bug of the game. If you wanted authenticity then there you had it.
When I played dmc 3, I learned you can replay missions as soon as you beat them the first time. To level up the styles I just kept replaying like the first 2 or 3 missions over and over again. I think it took me like 5 mission repeats to level them up to 2 and another 10 to completely level them up? I don't remember though. I also farmed red orbs this way as well. I focused on the gunslinger and swordmaster styles due to how much they can affect a playstyle.
You got me. I was about to suggest jump canceling to give yourself more freedom, but it seems you deliberately limited your jump canceling until that bit later in the video. 😅 Suggestion for Arkham's dolphins: Fire Kalina Ann and roll. Repeat over and over again. Royal Guard canceling Spiral shots over and over again with them off screen is okay, but less reliable. Repetitive aerial raves while shooting swords is pretty much all I do with Vergil for it.
bro just use kalinna ann for those mini fishes in the arkham boss fight, the aoe kills tons of them in one shot you don't even have to move just keep spamming from a corner. and arkham is really easy to deal with if you master the trickster dash combo Just teleport, air combo him, fall down, back dash, jump dash, teleport back to him and repeat
A strategy that worked for me on killing the tentacle things is running back abit and firing kalina ann at them, for the most part it worked on taking most of them out
I agree with most of your points except the Arkham boss comment. Its actually my favorite boss in the game you're supposed to use Ladys gun to shoot the worms and use it as crowd control it makes it 100x easy . And it's still fine even if you play as virgil he also has crowd control moves
Hey! About the Arkham fight when he turns into dolphins, just spam Kalina Ann or the rocket launcher. Lady herself says to use it to slay him, the aoe damage helps a lot against him on normal and son of sparda, I’m not sure about DmD though. Hope this helps!
Out of all the enemies, there is one enemy that I would say is FAR worse than the Arachnes: Enigmas. You don't like that the spiders dash around? Well, how about an enemy that shoots at you with projectiles and run away if you attempt to get close? They aren't too bad in most of the stages, but in bloody palace, hoo boy are they not fun... There's few other flaws that I think this game has, but you've discussed most of them. The sole problem I have with this game that you didn't mention, is that you need to mash buttons to access the certain moves. Most of them aren't hard to get, but I find that I have to put significant effort to input the move (looking at you A&R).
you can control the doppelganger with the second controller and there was a cheat code on PS2 that made doppelganger unlimited so I used to do that to play in coop with my brothers
there is a huge omission with the new style switch mode. it allows you to switch styles on the fly with is fantastic, but it also forces you to have the entire arsenal at once. this tremendously impacts your gameplay experience as you are frantically switching between all weapons without an accurate clue of what is going on. you are unable to just select some of your weapons in this mode and worse yet, if you want to go back to default mode you need to start a NEW save file. what dimwit decided this is a good idea? the coop in bloody palace is great however i hate that the game outright forced me to start a new save file just to play how i used to. i have no idea who thought this up
So I gotta be honest, jumping back from 4 to this was... surprisingly difficult. Not because the game itself was built bad, no actually it just came down to this game being the last dante had tank controls. Very free flowing yes, but still heavy jumps, and especially not pure omnidirectional moveset. This becomes a problem when I'm particularly trying to do some of agni/rudra and beowulf's swordmaster combos
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The coolest hidden detail in this game is you can unlock Nelo Angelo’s moveset by completing Vergil Must Die mode.
Or the cheat code to unlock everything.
@@artistanthony1007 there's a cheat?
@@artistanthony1007 I think you unlock corrupt Vergil by beating the game on Hard or finishing the Bloody Palace. If you beat VMD, you get super corrupt Vergil that never runs out of DT.
@@AmazingOwnage or your like me and download a save because ive replayed this game alot but didnt want to regrind for everything cause its the old pc port i play on
About this games story, I think DMC3 is the perfect video game story narrative. The cutscenes were always able to get to the point without too much fluff. They followed the "Show, don't tell" aspect of story design. I love it.
It was CUHHHHHHHHHHHRAZY
It's actually perfect. Perfect content, Perfect pacing and perfect resolution
The game is an absolute masterpiece with no flaws, from the good wacky story to the batshit insane gameplay It just clicks, this game is perfect.
@@haz.5464 some of the enemies are bullshit or annoying to fight tho
@@theweedeater1842 True, lol, if they kept to the simple enemies instead of a STATUE, or That thing that you need to hit from behind i would've loved it even more
Man, Capcom loved skipping numbers during this time. They skipped from MegamanX6 to X8 just like how they skipped from DMC1 to DMC3.
They skipped out on giving DMC2 good quality, to be specific
Only real gamers play dmc2
I think they skipped from x3 to x8 actually
@@unbreakableroad9294 they skipped from X2 to X4 and from X5 to X8.
@@Pussyrepelent I think they just made x and x2 I think they believed it would be a bad idea to make any more
Fun Fact: in DMC3 there's a secret hidden gameplay when using Doppelganger u can do 2 player coop mode , the way it works is u have to get 2 controllers , but if u got the Infinite Sparda costume which gives u Infinite Devil Tigger making the use of QuickSilver and Doppelganger a lot easy so doesn't waste Devil ords , using Dante's other costume that has Infinite Devil Trigger will not work .
U can do 2 player coop story mode on PS2, Xbox360 , Ps4, XB1 , pc , and nentendo switch too . that's if u got Doppelganger and Infinite Sparda costume also 2 controllers .
does it work on freestyle mode in the switch?
you can also play as Vergil when he joins Dante in the Arkham boss fight.
@@cajs100 oh yeah that too , i wish in a future DMC games they should do 2 player coop just for fun online/ offline or both y not :) .
Y yes it should work if u have 4 controllers on or 2 Pro Controllers , there was capcom podcast dev team they were talking and playing DMC3 on switch and the devs wanted to keep the secret 2 player coop doppelganger in it to have old fans happy cuz y not , it's still a fun feature in the game :) .
The Bloody Palace 1 is different too on Switch which they do let u pick do solo or 2 player coop offline of course , player 1 is Dante and player 2 is Vergil , how it works is 2 players sharing a single screen if u have a big wide tv that works too .
i'm sure that's all of that on nentendo switch version .
I KNEW IT I KNEW I WASNT CRAZY.
I know alot of people say Vergil 2 or 3 is the best in this game, but despite not having played this game till a few years ago, I always felt the first Vergil fight was always the best. You go through the tower to get to him, and you just get amazed at how calm he is as he deflects your bullets and asks where your motivation is, lol
I'd say vergil 2 is my favorite due to beowulf and the banger theme. Maybe because I played the hell out of 5, but I actually found Vergil 1 fairly easy. Vergil 2 is around my level, and Vergil 3 is still too much for me to complete in 1 attempt.
@@insertnamehere658 hi
I feel like fight 2 is easier than one but 2 has the best theme. And 3 has the best fight. 1 just has the convenience of being the first time you fight him. Which is nothing to complain about, especially with the scene that follows.
Vergil's 2nd encounter (Beowulf Gauntlets) is super fun
true ^^
The best part about doppelganger was using infinite devil trigger and playing two player.
I never see anyone else talking about this! Me and a friend used to do it all the time, running around as a shadow and getting lost off screen.
And also playing with a buddy in the arkham fight, surprisingly you can control vergil with another controller lol
Quicksilver also gives you I-Frames on activation for like 1.5 seconds, Which makes it useful for avoiding getting hit by an attack when you're stuck in an animation. You can also completely avoid the bomb enemy's explosion if you time it right.
I’ll tell you that using the rocket launcher and waiting a little for those ghost dolphin things in the Arkham fight clears them out pretty easily most of the time. But the downside is that you have to use gunslinger for the in air shot if I remember correctly to take them all out at once when they do their massive all out dive attack
Yep, Kallina Ann at point blank range is the best against Arkham's tentacles. Even when Vergil joins it is that weapon that carries the fight.
Came to comment on this. Glad someone else knew to point this out. Kalina Ann, even at base fire, clears these out easily
I jsut beat the game and thats how i killed those things.
I wanted to check out the Devil May Cry series because my best friend really likes it, so he showed me 3 first since it's the earliest in the timeline, and that was definitely the right move. I love the look and the interactions between Dante and Vergil in this game, the story is really interesting, and Lady is one of the most badass women in any game I've ever seen. If you want to get someone into Devil May Cry, tell them to start with 3.
Absolutely. 3/SE is the only game among the PS2 titles that holds up really well gameplay wise. And frankly, I don't think the game will ever age badly. They really got the style system and combat speed just right. And it works nicely as an introduction to the DMC universe since it's a prequel. DMC1 is a bit dated and didn't quite nail the gameplay like 3 did but it's still worth playing.
2 is completely skippable and aged the worst but in my honest opinion it's not a bad game on its own. You could pick worse hack and slash games from the PS2 era. It's a bad DMC title sure, but not a bad game on its own. Same goes for the Ninja Theory reboot. Solid game on its own but a bad DMC title. I know it's sacrilege among the fanbase to throw any praise towards DmC but it did a couple of things right. These titles are worth checking out at least once IMO but you can choose to skip em' and read the summary for 2. It doesn't hold much plot relevance for the series so far but it's worth knowing where it stands in the timeline.
DMC3, 4 and 5 are fantastic games and some of the best the hack and slash genre has to offer.
@@aninfinitemindofmusicandreams Yeah, I finished DMC 1-5 a few years ago. 2 was definitely the least memorable of the bunch, but I'll still take it over what I heard about the reboot (which I have no intention of checking out).
@@LeahLovesNature Definitely the right move. You really don't want to see el Donte el exterminador de demonios or abortion gun Virgin.
@@LeahLovesNature I hear that gameplay-wise, the reboot is more enjoyable than DMC2. The updated version of the reboot at least.
@@ultraspinalki11 Maybe, but I value story in games more than I value game-play, especially since I usually experience video games by watching them on TH-cam instead of playing them myself (mostly because I don't have the time or money for all the games and consoles that interest me).
Ah yes, my first game that I purchased alongside a used PS2 at GameStop.
Unfortunately, I never bought a memory card so whenever I made it past Cerberus (after failing time after time) I'd always have to do it again every time I picked up the game.
Although somewhat biased, DMC3 will always be my favorite in the series.
To this day I still wonder why a lot of the new features for Devil May Cry 3 are exclusive to the Switch
Maybe they had more practice after DMC5?
10:50 I mean, Reuben was the voice director of the game and was heavily involved with the story so of course he nailed it
If DMC3 had style switch mid combat like DMC4, it would be perfect.
it has, on the switch port.
So it's perfect..?
And more movesets of Vergil like judgement cut storm and blue barrier
Lack of style switch was the biggest flaw of the game.
@@ps4games164 and also shitty enemies
DMC 3 will be amazing, whether another video is done 17 years later or a hundred years later. Music, gameplay, voice acting, pacing, difficulty........wrapped up in a bloody, stylish package and nails the air hike landing perfectly.
Kids these days have to contend with half complete buggy games filled with microtransactions, drip fed content via live service "seasons", and empty apologies via community updates when devs screw up (which is the norm now days)
Not saying the era of DMC 3 video game development was perfect (oh god no HELL NO) but we got to grow up with some of the best games ever released (which DMC 3 is part of imo). I'll wear my nostalgia glasses proudly on this one.
Fax, fax, and fax
From Foxcade, having Summon Swords on one of the shoulder button makes Vergil extremely broken and feels more natural than having it on the default shoot button
i remember playing this for the first time on ps2 and i thought the opening scene was the coolest thing ever happened in a video game
I will say there is a mod that gives you all the stuff from the switch version and then some (being able to switch your entire character on the fly which is just insane, but if youre at that level, more power to ya) so personally i'd recommend just picking it up on pc and getting that mod
(Just in regards to his recommendation to pick it up on switch)
it still holds up
Her name is Lady.
She made that VERY clear in the game the ONLY time the other name is mentioned.
Funny thing about the bloodgoyles, there's a limit on how many times they can split, so you can totally kill them without firing your guns even once, it'll just take a while.
A full DTE will wipe them out
@@raulramirez9657 I never even considered trying that against them, even tho I use that strategy against the chess pieces
This was a fantastic analysis, but oh my goodness the whiplash I felt when you referred to Lady as Mary the whole way through.
Oh I cannot WAIT for you to cover DMC: Devil May Cry
was just rewathing the dmc1 video and boom just in time you come out with this
Agni & Rudra were my EVERYTHING
The best part about the Arkham fight was having my sister plug in a second controller and use vergil
You know you're fucking old when you look at the title of this video and the memory of the day of DMC 3's release still fresh in your mind.
Anyway. Even though its been years since I've played this. This game still stands as one of the best of all time. If not the best hack&slash. I actually think DMC 3 tops any God of War in terms of general quality.
Quick nitpick, Dante's High Roller is just High Time.
This isn't the first DMC3 analysis video I've seen but the story is just that good that I don't really tire of hearing about it.
One, more like two, points I don't seem addressed to often is how DMC3 is the only DMC that incorporates elemental damage and weapon type damage like the chess pieces being weak to Beowulf/Cerberus because they're blunt.
I was today years old when I learned about that. Woah.
Ive been replaying and just noticed the elemental damage! Like the spiders getting caught on fire. Very interesting!
While this may of disappeared in DMC it does get expanded upon in Dragon's Dogma actually, which I find interesting.
Elemental damage was already present in DMC1
I do not lie when I say I just watched your previous dmc video a few days ago. this makes me happy
Great video!
And about the tentacle slugs on the Arkham boss fight, I’ve found that the Kalina Ann is the best weapon against them. It only takes one shot to take them out and you might take more than one out with an explosion.
to deal with the nubby slugs,
I remember spamming rocket launcher at them which does a lot of AOE damage
17 years later,still the peak of gaming,and the most video game to ever video game. Absolutely love this game,it was even the one that got me into playing video games to begin with lol
They played Hideki Kamiya dirty with DMC2.
I will never understand why they would make DMC2 without even telling him. He’s the reason why DMC1 was so incredible, and they gave DMC2 to a random lead developer who quit (which is why they brought in Itsuno).
Don’t get me wrong, Itsuno made DMC into the incredible franchise it is today, but I can’t help to wonder “what if”.
What if Kamiya had been allowed to make DMC2 with his vision in mind. They’ve interviewed him and he explains how he felt betrayed by Capcom for doing this, and I have no doubt we would have gotten something special with him at the helm.
We would have had a completely different game franchise altogether, and I wonder what direction that would have been…
17 years... Oh boy. Even after all those years, devil may cry still has some of the most powerful moments of adrenaline I can remember.
this is one of my all time favorite games, it's simply amazing. I always recommend this one to every single human being, it's such a journey and works as an standalone great.
te best way to deal with arkham minions is to use the bazooka
The spinning attack on Cerberus is really good for stun locking multiple enemies
DMC3 is a fantastic game and to this day still holds up pretty well. I got into the series only a few years ago, after 5's release. I bought the HD collection, enjoyed 1 for what it was but it definitely aged the worst out of all the other games, 2 was....an experience to say the least, and then I played 3. 3 was what truly got me hooked into the series, it's such a massive glowup from the first two games that it's unreal. And now Devil May Cry has become one of my favorite video game franchises of all time.
My proudest achievement so far in the entire franchise is managing to S rank mission 20 for my first playthrough. I chose Yellow instead of Gold mode at the start not knowing the difference, which meant Gold Orbs were a lot weaker than in Gold mode for my entire playthrough. So I just ended up restarting the mission from the start every time I failed, and since mission 20 is just the fight against Vergil it's not like there was any lost progress. After about an hour of attempts I got so good at the final Vergil fight that when I finally beat him, I got an S rank, my first ever in the game. Gonna get to those higher difficulty playthroughs after I do the same for 1 and 2.
DMC1 held up better than I thought it would
great video but consistently referring to Lady as Mary was triggering the hell out of me...
Yeah l was like wtf did he just say? it was weird hearing him say that😂
Use Kalina Ann against Arkham's summons.
Narrative wise I understand. Like a souls game Arkham fight conveys story through gameplay. Dante and Vergil together don’t need DT to fight someone as weak as Arkham. That together they would be unstoppable. Having said that however, fuck the Arkham fight. He’s the only reason I don’t like playing DMD. He just has SO much health in that phase once Vergil comes in
Nam’s Compendium, nice content keep it up dude
Alright 2 years late but here I am. Two small tips I've found, 1, for soul eaters, use spiral, high damage in one shot and you can easily use it from range, and one of the big ones, the slugs in arkhams fight, kalina ann, absolutely crushes them, it's not a fun solution, since you basically just jump in circles and shoot, but it works and you rarely get hit if you just jump/roll and shoot Hope that helps if anyone comes back to the 2 year old video
Not sure if a lot of people have said this or know this, but you can actually control doppelganger with p2 controller on PS2. (This also works with Vergil in the boss battle against 'Sparta'.)
That means it's not useless. It's co-op.
31:52 The best I could do is spam Kalinga Ann. It is pretty effective. Though I'm sure there are better strategies.
Nah man that's the only strategy
That's what I did. Fire a rocket, roll, fire, roll. Those dolphin/slug things will go down in seconds.
How to level up styles - pick heaven or hell difficulty, select mission 18. One shot bosses and quickly level up styles no need to grind.
Love the video. One tip for the Arkham fight, I find spamming Kalina Ann at the small demon fishes eliminates them in large numbers. Not great for style points but very helpful for sanity rankings. Also the Switch version of DMC3 includes co-op Bloody Palace which is insanely fun, although very strange in boss battles because it switches from a camera that zooms in and out to show both players to split screen cameras. Probably something about how they couldn't get the camera to work the same way in multiple arenas.
Actually you can earn many style points if you jump or roll each time to shoot at the fishes with Kalina Ann
This game is as old as me and I've never heard of it until recently and as far as I've gotten, I can safely say it's definitely harder than any other hack and slasher games I've ever played
31:51 Bazooka
Virgil is the reason the story is good, just like zero to megaman X, capcom is the ABSOLUTE BEST at giving a rival or aspiration to live up to in a character
still the most sasfying action game in the business. Beats out all the DMCs and Bayonetta for me personally. Slap on a style switcher mod or play the nintendo switch version and you have got hands down the best character action game you will ever play. Devil may 5 almost beat it out for me but 3 has a special sauce I cant explain.
One thing to mention with doppelganger is that it allows for multiplayer. If you have two controllers active you can press I think start button, and it allows another person to control the shadow.
It's not a Shadow, it's more of a 3D Mirage of Dante's Devil Trigger or Doppelganger, heck the move is called Afterimage so it's considered that.
Doppleganger wasn't useless at all if you had the unlimited devil meter costume, 2 controllers, and a second person to play with. You basically unlocked 2 player mode.
fun fact about the doppelganger style, if someone plugs in a separate controller and hits start, they can play as the shadow for as long as it's up!
Vergil on dmc3 grew on me
Arkham dolphin counter is Kalina Ann rocket launcher. With at least 1 upgrade it oneshots a pack of these dolphins.
Still One of the best action games
btw dmc 1 had on the go weapon swithcing, hold right stick down and ya switch on the fly. awesome vid!
Just use Kalina Ann to destroy Arkham's dolphin things.
Use the Kalinna Ann against the eels. Works wonders, just shoot, roll, shoot, roll, etc.
After playing Elden Ring I see Bloodhound Step(Trickster), Doppelganger(Mimic Tear), Royal Guard Release(Guard Counter) and basically Vergil like sorceries and Moonveil. I'm not saying they copied this all but it's cool to see that these games share so many mechanics in common now.
Back then i used to visit my cousin's house to play together, and most of the time dmc 3 was our choice. Doppleganger allowed us to play together which made me like this style.
2001:Holy shit I cannot buy a ps2
2022:Holy shit I don't have enough money to buy a switch
Is that SMT:Nocturne's battle music underneath? 🤔
7:44 He said the thing
I remember the doppelganger style let you play 2 player. No idea why that was a thing but it was fun
Great look over DMC3. Certainly one I had a lot of fun with, even if I played 1 enough prior to really trying 3 to kind of prefer 1. Side note: my personal favorite weapon pairing is Cerberus with Agni & Rudra.
Would still very much like a video on DMC2 at some point. There’s a ton to discuss around that train wreck. I feel the “Dante lacking his charm” thing you mentioned is worth noting, as, while maybe dumbed down, it wasn’t Dante, but the world around him that lacked that charm. Kinda like Shadow the Hedgehog: I think Shadow himself kind of pulled off the edge his game was going for, but the game around him really didn’t.
Working strategy for the fish things in Arkham’s fight is just lock on + Kalina Ann, haven’t tried on difficulties above normal though
4:30 - Friendly reminder: one of the biggest pros of PC gaming is it's great modding community ;-)
I’ve watched 20 of these videos Same topic and I always learn something new about Dmc
I remember when i play dmc 3, i have to finish the game 4 times (easy 1, normal 2, and hard 1) just to maxed out all the styles.
7:43 oh yeah that's the point
I don't know if you'll see this, byt fir arkham's worm things, use kalina ann when they start swirling. It takes care of most, if not all of them.
I played DMC 3 for the first time a couple of months ago and it’s become my favorite action game, so I’d say it holds up
Killing those worm in the Arkham fight is super easy with the Rocket Launcher.
My man, you used footage from the HD Edition which has graphical bugs from the PS2 original. You should have used PCSX2 footage that solves most if not every visual bug of the game. If you wanted authenticity then there you had it.
Bro said "Nah you won't do me dirty" Hold my beer.....Here is DMC3.
When I played dmc 3, I learned you can replay missions as soon as you beat them the first time. To level up the styles I just kept replaying like the first 2 or 3 missions over and over again. I think it took me like 5 mission repeats to level them up to 2 and another 10 to completely level them up? I don't remember though. I also farmed red orbs this way as well. I focused on the gunslinger and swordmaster styles due to how much they can affect a playstyle.
Nway... Vergils isn't paying child support.
You got me. I was about to suggest jump canceling to give yourself more freedom, but it seems you deliberately limited your jump canceling until that bit later in the video. 😅
Suggestion for Arkham's dolphins:
Fire Kalina Ann and roll. Repeat over and over again. Royal Guard canceling Spiral shots over and over again with them off screen is okay, but less reliable. Repetitive aerial raves while shooting swords is pretty much all I do with Vergil for it.
bro just use kalinna ann for those mini fishes in the arkham boss fight, the aoe kills tons of them in one shot you don't even have to move just keep spamming from a corner. and arkham is really easy to deal with if you master the trickster dash combo
Just teleport, air combo him, fall down, back dash, jump dash, teleport back to him and repeat
Imagine they start remaking DMC1 and 3 like RE
My mood as an ps4 haver while listening to what freestyle went straight down
Nam's videos this month:
DMC1 20 years later
DDS2 17 years later
DMC3 17 years later
Exactly as it should be
A strategy that worked for me on killing the tentacle things is running back abit and firing kalina ann at them, for the most part it worked on taking most of them out
This was a good as nostalgic video. Great job!
I agree with most of your points except the Arkham boss comment.
Its actually my favorite boss in the game you're supposed to use
Ladys gun to shoot the worms and use it as crowd control it makes it 100x easy .
And it's still fine even if you play as virgil he also has crowd control moves
Hey! About the Arkham fight when he turns into dolphins, just spam Kalina Ann or the rocket launcher. Lady herself says to use it to slay him, the aoe damage helps a lot against him on normal and son of sparda, I’m not sure about DmD though. Hope this helps!
Original dmc 3 DMD Vergil 3 might be the hardest boss fight ever if not in the top 3 at least.
If they gave a remaster with Dmc 5 graphics on every game it’d pull in lots of money
Out of all the enemies, there is one enemy that I would say is FAR worse than the Arachnes: Enigmas. You don't like that the spiders dash around? Well, how about an enemy that shoots at you with projectiles and run away if you attempt to get close? They aren't too bad in most of the stages, but in bloody palace, hoo boy are they not fun... There's few other flaws that I think this game has, but you've discussed most of them. The sole problem I have with this game that you didn't mention, is that you need to mash buttons to access the certain moves. Most of them aren't hard to get, but I find that I have to put significant effort to input the move (looking at you A&R).
Probably the best way to deal with the tentacle guys from arkhan is kalina Ann because they die on hit and big AOE so you can kill a lot at once
you can control the doppelganger with the second controller and there was a cheat code on PS2 that made doppelganger unlimited so I used to do that to play in coop with my brothers
The only thing that has aged is the camera in the platforming sections. Still a solid 9/10 game
17 Years doesnt feel that long.
there is a huge omission with the new style switch mode.
it allows you to switch styles on the fly with is fantastic, but it also forces you to have the entire arsenal at once.
this tremendously impacts your gameplay experience as you are frantically switching between all weapons without an accurate clue of what is going on. you are unable to just select some of your weapons in this mode and worse yet, if you want to go back to default mode you need to start a NEW save file. what dimwit decided this is a good idea?
the coop in bloody palace is great however i hate that the game outright forced me to start a new save file just to play how i used to. i have no idea who thought this up
So I gotta be honest, jumping back from 4 to this was... surprisingly difficult.
Not because the game itself was built bad, no actually it just came down to this game being the last dante had tank controls.
Very free flowing yes, but still heavy jumps, and especially not pure omnidirectional moveset.
This becomes a problem when I'm particularly trying to do some of agni/rudra and beowulf's swordmaster combos
DMC3 - one of the best games on the whole Earth
what is the music in 9:55?
It's older than me...