Devil May Cry 4
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| Devil May Cry 4 | |
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| Developer(s): | Capcom |
| Publisher(s): | Capcom |
| Release date: | Playstation 3/Xbox 360  January 31, 2008  / February 5, 2008
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| Genre: | Hack and Slash, Shoot 'Em Up, Action |
| Game modes: | Single Player |
| Ratings: | Mature |
| Platform(s): | Playstation 3, Xbox 360, PC |
Devil May Cry 4 is the second sequel (Devil May Cry 3 being a prequel) to the Capcom action game Devil May Cry. It was announced in March 2007 that the game would be released simultaneously for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and later PC. It is being developed by Capcom Production Studio 4, the producers of Resident Evil 4 and the original Devil May Cry.
In the game, the player controls both Nero, a new character, and Dante while they fight demons using firearms and melee weapons in a survival horror setting. Other characters include new appearances Kyrie, Sanctus, Credo, Gloria, and Agnus, and returning characters Lady and Trish.
The game begins with Nero running to a church of the Order, late for a ceremony after being attacked by demons. He arrives as Kyrie ends her song, but the ceremony is interrupted when Dante bursts through a window and seemingly kills Sanctus, the leader of the Order, and his bodyguards. Nero then attacks him, and they fight to a stalemate. However, Dante escapes and reveals to Nero that the soldiers are actually demons. An invasion of demons then falls upon Fortuna, and Nero is ordered to pursue Dante while Credo evacuates the populace. Nero follows Dante throughout Fortuna while fighting the fiery centaur demon Berial, the icy toad demon Bael, and the plant demoness Echidna. He eventually makes his way to Agnus' research laboratory and is heavily wounded by his Angels and Agnus himself. However, Nero's true, demonic power awakens, calling Yamato to him and sending a large shockwave throughout the area, forcing Agnus to show his demonic "reborn" form, and flying off to headquarters to alert them of his actions. Shortly before this, Sanctus had been brought back from the dead. Nero then heads to headquarters and encounters Credo who reveals his "reborn" appearance and fights Nero. Credo is soundly defeated, but Kyrie arrives and sees Nero's arm and her brother defeated. She then assumes that Nero has abused some sort of demonic power and attacked her brother. While Nero tries to reassure her, Agnus shows up and holds Kyrie hostage. While Credo tries to limp over to save his sister, Agnus transforms and flies away, and Nero pursues him. He finally catches up inside the castle and finds Kyrie in a containment field of some sort. Agnus appears and fights Nero but is defeated, his death only interrupted by the appearance of his minions and their distracting Nero long enough for Sanctus to tell Agnus to escape with Kyrie to prepare for "activation". Nero fends off the demons and jumps after Sanctus and Kyrie, but is only able to grab her necklace; his gift to her. As Nero continues into the headquarters, he meets up with Dante yet again, but Dante demands Yamato back, saying it was his brother's and that it needs to be kept in the family. Of course, Nero refuses and fights Dante instead, ending in another stalemate. After Nero calms down, Dante allows him to keep the sword and tells him to go. Gloria shows up and reveals herself to be Trish in disguise. She then says that things are about to get "ugly". Nero arrives at the Savior about to be activated by Sanctus, who reveals his plan and shows that Kyrie is being absorbed into the Savior. Nero attacks but is stopped by the Savior. Sanctus then reveals that Nero has the blood of Sparda and then takes the Yamato. Credo shows up and delays Sanctus' killing Nero, but is stabbed by Sanctus with Yamato and falls, only to be caught by Dante, who tells Nero to retrieve the sword before he dies or else he'll be "pissed", but Nero is absorbed into the Savior, but before he is, he tells Dante to "come and get it", flipping him the bird as he sinks into the Savior. Credo, in his dying moments asks Dante to save Kyrie and Nero. Dante is forced to fight Berial, Dagon, and Echidna to destroy the hell gates doors that Nero had previously only closed, Afterwards he makes his way back to the opera house to kill Agnus and take back Yamato. With Yamato in hand Dante combats the Savior and frees Nero. After Nero completes trials involving re-combatting the bosses Dante faced, he battles and slays the corrupted Sanctus, who was then wielding the sword Sparda. After saving Kyrie and returning Sparda to Dante, Nero ends the battle by destroying the Savior who had fused with Sanctus. As the credits roll, Nero defends Kyrie from an onslaught of scarecrows, and if the player is successful, a scene in Dante's Devil May Cry shop, featuring Trish and Lady, is shown.
[edit] PLOT
The game opens with Nero hurrying towards the Opera House where the Order of the Sword is conducting a ceremony, with his right arm in a sling. Meanwhile Kyrie, Nero’s romantic interest, is beginning to open the ceremony with a song and is disappointed not to find Nero in the audience. She begins her song nonetheless as Nero encounters several Scarecrow demons on his way to the Opera House; he dispatches them and arrives at the Opera House just in time to hear the end of Kyrie’s song. Following this, Kyrie joins Nero in the audience where she finds Nero has left a present for her in the form of a golden necklace. The High Priest of the Order of the Sword, Sanctus, beckons the Order members to join him in prayer; Nero is visibly bored by this and is about to leave despite Kyrie’s protests, when his right arm begins to glow ominously. At this moment, Dante bursts through the ceiling and assassinates Sanctus.[15]
Nero, under the impression that Kyrie is in danger, attacks Dante to initiate a fight. As Dante gains the upper hand, Nero's right arm, the Devil Bringer, awakens and uses its power to seemingly kill Dante by impaling him with his own sword upon the statue of Sparda. Dante responds by saying that Nero is "getting better", and then pushes himself off the statue. As Dante removes the sword from his chest, Nero asks, "You're not human are you?" Dante replies that "We are the same you and I... and them," pointing to one of the dead knights. Nero looks and it is revealed that the knight was possessed with a demonic appearance. Nero looks up to see that Dante is already resting on the hole in the ceiling from which he came. Dante states that he thinks Nero "has something different from the others", and then swoops out of view just as the knight reinforcements arrive.[15]
Nero is charged with capturing Dante and bringing him back to the Order to answer for his crimes by Credo, the leader of the Order's knights and Kyrie’s brother. Upon leaving the Opera House, however, a demonic horde begins to lay waste to the city. Nero and Kyrie are separated as Nero begins to slay the demons. Whilst journeying to Fortuna Castle he meets Gloria, a new member to the Order. Nero fights his way into the depths of Fortuna Castle. On the way, it is revealed that Sanctus has been infused with the soul of a demon to be revived. Agnus, the stuttering scientist and mastermind of the Orders demonic power manipulation, is also introduced.[15]
Nero finally reaches Agnus' facility where he is ambushed by several white knights and injured. Vergil's broken katana, Yamato, responds to Nero and mends itself before flying into his hand. Nero fends off Agnus' attacks with the aid of a spectral blue demon hovering behind him before he collapses in exhaustion. Agnus flees back to Sanctus and informs him of Nero’s new-found power. Credo vows to take care of Nero while Gloria takes over Nero’s pursuit of Dante.[15]
Nero is confronted by Credo, who has also been infused with demonic power, giving him the characteristics of an Angel, yet is defeated by Nero. However, Kyrie arrives in time to witness Nero with his demonic arm standing over her defeated brother. Agnus uses the confusion and distraction on Nero’s part to kidnap Kyrie and flee. Credo postpones his feud with Nero until he can investigate the situation. Nero once more meets Dante, but his quest to capture him is long since forgotten; he wishes to simply pass Dante. However, Dante wants Yamato, the sword used by his twin-brother Vergil, returned to him. A fight ensues where Dante is victorious; however, he decides to let Nero keep Yamato after the latter has “cooled down”. Gloria appears before Dante as Nero leaves; however, it is revealed that Gloria is in fact Trish, Dante’s partner in his demon hunting business “Devil May Cry”.[15]
Nero reaches Sanctus and the “Savior”, an enormous demon which the Order intends to bring to life using Nero and Yamato’s power. Using Kyrie as a human shield, Sanctus is successful in detaining Nero. Sanctus reveals that the Savior requires the essence of Sparda to reach full power; he originally intended Dante be used as the core, but accepts Nero as a suitable substitute, claiming that Nero is also a descendant of Sparda. Credo attempts to rescue the two, but is mortally wounded by Sanctus. Dante arrives and tells Nero to give him his sword back. Nero is absorbed into the Savior. Agnus uses Yamato to open the true Hellgate, releasing a multitude of demons onto the city. Sanctus arrives with the Savior and begins to exterminate the demons. Dante, upon hearing Credo’s dying request to rescue Kyrie and Nero, fights his way back towards the city. On his way, he destroys the three smaller Hellgates used to release the demons.[15]
Dante arrives back at the Opera House and kills Agnus. He then retrieves Yamato and uses it to destroy the true Hellgate before confronting Sanctus and the Savior. After discovering that the Savior is invincible from the outside, Dante drives Yamato into the chest of the Savior, where it is retrieved by Nero. Nero defeats Sanctus inside the Savior and rescues Kyrie. Nero eventually uses his Devil Bringer to destroy the Savior and Sanctus. After entrusting Nero with Yamato, Dante departs. Nero and Kyrie's reunion is interrupted by another demon attack. In the secret ending, at the Devil May Cry shop, Trish and Lady bicker over the small reward Lady had offered, with Lady accusing Trish for having disguised herself as Gloria and delivering Sparda's sword to the Order. After Trish forcibly drags him into their argument, Dante ends it by saying that it's better than nothing. Afterwards, Lady sets out to leave, but then the phone rings, with a customer having another job for Dante to do, and the trio moves out to help.[15]
