Game Review 5

Devil May Cry 4 

Devil May Cry 4 or known as DMC:4 is a Hack-and-Slash game, act as the fourth series of Devil May Cry franchise developed and published by Capcom in 2008 for consoles and Windows, later the iOS version came out and planned to be re-released in 2015 for PlayStation 4 and XBOX One.

In this game, the player may play as either Nero or Dante, depending on the mission. Along the story, the player may get a new weapon or upgrading the existing weapon by collecting the red-orb that can be found by destroying a boxes or defeating enemy. The player may also upgrade their character stat , by adding a new combo that will help them in their mission using Proud Soul that was calculated using the player's game play stat and awarded when the player complete a single mission.

Using A.G.E framework, the Action side of the game, the player have a movement button including a jump and dash button, they can attack the enemy by using attack button (left click if use PC), and shoot the enemy using shoot button. For Nero the game provide the player with Devil Bringer button that used to catch and bring enemy closer to the player and for Dante, the player can change its fighting Style by pressing the corresponding button. Both character are provided with Devil Trigger button that will exceed their fighting ability.

From Game play perspective,  the main purpose are to complete the mission by attack and defeat the enemy and to solves some simple puzzle or gather and search in the game field for some key-items to advance to another mission. Because the genre are Hack-and-Slash, this games mostly provide a small battle that allow user to try a variety of combos, that include the use of Devil Trigger to add more combo points that will contribute on getting the Proud Soul, but the player have to avoid the attack to maintain the combo points.

And for the Experience side the game may trigger the player instinct to Collect the required item to complete the mission and red-orb or Proud Soul that will bring more Excitement, that the player may get a new weapons or combo to defeat and slashing the enemy, that will lead to aggressiveness, where the player will use various kind combo to maintain combo points, that will lead to pride if they can get a high stat at the end of a mission and joy when the player able to complete a mission and get the wished Proud Soul to upgrade their character.