Note: Sorry for not being able to blog for three FIR's now. Other academics won over my time management I could not even blog. Today is the final blog entry for my FIR, but that would not stop me for using this account for further blogging of the different reading materials I have already read. Although it would not be graded anymore, blogging is more than just grades...
You, dear blog reader, are always welcome to read my entries. Just don't blame me for when I'm about the spill any beans about a certain book/article/magazine, etc. that you're going to read.
FIR#17
Title of the article: "Think emo Dante sucks in new Devil May Cry game? He could have been shirtless with suspenders!"
Author: Dave Meikleham, GamesRadar UK
Status: Finished
Date read: Oct. 2, 2010
Date finished: the same
Since when I was a kid, I have been into games, really. I understand it runs in the family a little--my dad, along with my other cousins who were high school students back then, would always play with the Family Computer with retro games such as 'Street Fighter', 'Mario Bros.', etc. When my mom got home from Taiwan years ago and brought home the very first Play Station, that was when I understood the mechanics of gaming.
Along with my brother, we perceived gaming like reading a novel or even writing one! Especially since our dad bought the Play Station 2 when I hit high school, gaming evolved from not just the usual pixel-ated characters that jump around every platform to save Princess Peach from a cute green but menacing dragon, but now it was about creating a character out of your own imagination, or even creating worlds to create a new grandiose of a story! From console gaming to PC RPG's, gaming and story merged together for the new generation to enjoy...
Anyway, let's get to the article I read the last time.
The Article
The article I read talks about the 'reboot'/remake of the nine-year old console game called Devil May Cry, with the reboot more apparent in the changed look of the game's protagonist, Dante.
Yes, not a pretty sight at all!
According to GamesRadar, the idea to make a new, grittier, punky, smoking but younger Dante came from the new team of developers who had been assigned by the head company, Capcom Japan, to make this project. The ones who are in this project are Capcom U.S.A. and Ninja Theory, another gaming company.
And the funny thing was that the new team assigned for this project actually had five designs for the new Dante, one of which had him wearing only suspenders! LOL!
With that said, Inafune, one of the producers in Capcom Japan, didn't approve most of the previous designs and went to the one above...
Trying to explain to interviewers about this so-called reboot, Alex Jones, from the Western Capcom, cites Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight film as the inspiration. "Look at the Dark Knight! That went from Gothic fun house of the earlier Batman movies to a fairly dark look at Chicago crime today! We want to update and mature the tone of Devil May Cry."
So for the fans who had dearly loved the previous four installments of Devil May Cry, blame Chris Nolan's The Dark Knight! LOL! Just kidding!
As for Ninja Theory's game designer Tameem Antoniade who wants to give his opinions on the old Dante, he states, "If Dante, dressed as he was before, walked around outside a bar in a city, he'll get laughed at!"
He continues to say that Devil May Cry needed to have the same impact as it had had before by drawing on to new things, new fashion, new music, etc.
From left to right: the old Dante (his appearance from Devil May Cry 3) and the new Dante.
Fans, and even Hideki Kamiya--the original creator of the previous Dante--had out poured their deepest hatred and disgust for the new look and storyline, stating that they (Capcom) had destroyed the game by changing Dante, since Dante is the iconic foundation of how the game became popular.
Despite this, the developers are now pushing through the project and will set to release in 2011.
Oh well, at least Dante doesn't have to wear ridiculous suspenders and shirtless.
Insights
For me, personally, I think the change will be alright since this new Dante might/will be a new protagonist to a very different storyline from the previous games' plot. Also, based from the trailer that Capcom has released in YouTube, I think Ninja Theory had made a good job on emphasizing on the gritty parts of the game and, most especially, on the new Dante.
What I'm worrying now is how exactly will this game be a reboot, since I am just making guesses that the new Dante would be different from the old Dante I had liked and known so well already. I can only cross my fingers on how it will turn out, and hope that Capcom had not made any bad moves in taking risks to make Devil May Cry better than ever.
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