Just finished Devil May Cry 2...

[temris]

I started playing this game 27th Nov last year (2021) apparently, but I've only played until Mission 3 or something. Only a few days ago I had the time to pick it up again and oh boy. Now, I had my problems with the first one's story but this one... I didn't get a single thing lmfao. I think I might have forgotten some key elements if they were at the beginning but idk man.

Now, to what I liked:

• I loved Dante's model in this. I loved his first outfit, but this one is... I think the right word would be, "sexier". Dark leather on front, showing off his chest a little... ;P (It had been years since I used this emoticon but it was fitting.)
• Missile launcher. It comes off very late into the game though... It helped me defeat two heads of the last boss' first phase.
• The city had some cool architecture (although some poor level design).

To what I struggled with:

• Bolverk. This boss appears twice and it was easily one of the hardest bosses I've faced in this game. I think the others would be the one with the turning room (those kind of fights make me dizzy, just like in Bayonetta), Trimagia or something, I forgot their name. That took me a long time to finish. I probably needed to change the amulets to attack according to their magic but I didn't want to. That's on me.
• Using the sword to attack has huge cons. I didn't know the hate towards this game when I started, until I had to look for a walkthrough at some missions when I got lost and read the comments about how much people hated it. I don't think it was sooooo bad. I mean, the first one also had problems in my opinion. But one thing I agree with them is that this game wants you to use your guns as much as possible. 

To extend on that last point, I want to talk about the game difficulty. Usually when I start a new series, I tend to select the easiest difficulty to try to get used to it. I didn't particularly seek out the easy auto on the first game, but it was given as an option after I used a vitality star during the first level. I completed it with the easy difficulty but for this second game, I was baffled to learn that there wasn't even one. Nevertheless, I finished it with the normal difficulty however??? Like I mentioned, except for a few bosses the bosses weren't that difficult, and the weirdest thing of them all is that both of the Arius fights were too easy. I get that he isn't the main antagonist but he's still shown as a pretty big deal, right? Anyway, he pretty much dies with your guns in... let's say, 10 minutes at most.

People mention the music as a positive to this game but I don't remember anything. I only feel like I've become deaf after constantly hearing the gunshot SFX...

I didn't hate it but I didn't love it either. It was alright. Dante was so fucking beautiful though. That's all I'm going to say.

Edit: Wow, okay. So I was right. You DO need to play Lucia to understand it fully (?). I don't know why I took the words of random strangers' for truth. Apparently it only takes like 2 hours? Hopefully I'll find time to play it. I need to study for the book contest so I can probably spare an hour at max at other stuff...