I don't know what motivated me to potentially open another DmC can of worms solely for the scene where Vergil talks about his penis but here we are.
DmC is not a well written game. For whatever we'll say about the gameplay, and most of us can at least agree that the Definitive Edition bumped the game up to something worthwhile, DmC's dialogue is universally reviled, and for good reason. Characters intended to be more grounded and down to earth spout absolutely pathetic barbs such as "The world is your bitch, as am I", and there are scenes that are, at best, in poor taste (and you know which one I'm talking about).
Nowhere is the more prevalent than with lead characters Dante and Vergil. Dante as a character has been dissected here enough, while Vergil is kind of a fucking dorkface. The once proud Son of Sparda who deftly wields the Yamato and detests guns is now a fedora-clad hacker running a counter-demon Anonymous, and who murders a demon mother in cold blood with a sniper rifle in one of the game's most loathed scenes.
And then he just casually reveals himself to be a villain, because this a reboot.
But today I want to talk about one particular slice of this story, and that is the conversation Dante and Vergil have while in Mundus' tower, where Vergil gives the iconic, Shakespearean line.
In this scene, for the first time in the whole game, Dante and Vergil speak to each other like actual human beings, and as brothers. They're playfully squabbling with each other, showing a degree of respect and camaraderie with a level of writing this more realistic universe was meant to display all the time. It's one of two, maybe three scenes in the entire game where Dante is allowed to emote like a human being (the other two being his attempts to reassure Kat as she's taken away by the SWAT team and, seriously I will fight this, the time where he talks about his experiences with self harm), and does a standup job at characterizing and selling Dante's growing sense of purpose and place in his world, where he can finally bring himself to care about other people.
Is it anywhere near as good as Dante refusing to admit he's crying after Vergil descends into Hell, and then throwing himself into a horde of demons to distract himself? Heck no, but it was nice to give a shit about the cast of DmC for once.
DmC is not a well written game. For whatever we'll say about the gameplay, and most of us can at least agree that the Definitive Edition bumped the game up to something worthwhile, DmC's dialogue is universally reviled, and for good reason. Characters intended to be more grounded and down to earth spout absolutely pathetic barbs such as "The world is your bitch, as am I", and there are scenes that are, at best, in poor taste (and you know which one I'm talking about).
Nowhere is the more prevalent than with lead characters Dante and Vergil. Dante as a character has been dissected here enough, while Vergil is kind of a fucking dorkface. The once proud Son of Sparda who deftly wields the Yamato and detests guns is now a fedora-clad hacker running a counter-demon Anonymous, and who murders a demon mother in cold blood with a sniper rifle in one of the game's most loathed scenes.
And then he just casually reveals himself to be a villain, because this a reboot.
But today I want to talk about one particular slice of this story, and that is the conversation Dante and Vergil have while in Mundus' tower, where Vergil gives the iconic, Shakespearean line.
In this scene, for the first time in the whole game, Dante and Vergil speak to each other like actual human beings, and as brothers. They're playfully squabbling with each other, showing a degree of respect and camaraderie with a level of writing this more realistic universe was meant to display all the time. It's one of two, maybe three scenes in the entire game where Dante is allowed to emote like a human being (the other two being his attempts to reassure Kat as she's taken away by the SWAT team and, seriously I will fight this, the time where he talks about his experiences with self harm), and does a standup job at characterizing and selling Dante's growing sense of purpose and place in his world, where he can finally bring himself to care about other people.
Is it anywhere near as good as Dante refusing to admit he's crying after Vergil descends into Hell, and then throwing himself into a horde of demons to distract himself? Heck no, but it was nice to give a shit about the cast of DmC for once.
