So real talk I never noticed the Qliphoth wasn't actually grown by Vergil's own hand, it's just a thing that "happens" every hundreds or so years (and is how Mundus got his power). They really don't make a good job explaining that in the game. But while it makes sense as to why Vergil finds the tree to be a distraction and agrees to cut it off, it makes Vergil's actions in DMC5 come across as excusable through technicality; he never murdered any innocents in this game - he just sat on a chair and sucked up human blood.
Which is honestly all kinds of fucking hilarious.
Not quite. The tree was always there, only the fruit appeared every X years. After Sparda defeated Mundus and separated the worlds, the tree never bore a fruit again. Now there is a new portal between the worlds, and the tree starts to grow a new one. So someone must have created this portal for the tree.
The further question would be, how much of that was Vergil's plan from the beginning.
He holds onto his life, just because he wants to beat Dante, so in order to gain more power and not die, he splits himself. Urizen then goes to the tree, but we don't know how Vergil knew about the tree. If that was really the next step in his plan, split himself and get the fruit. We don't know how V knows about all the actions Urizen is taking, and how he knows about the tree.
And so on and so on. They don't make a good job in explaining a lot of things.
There are also a lot of sentences and smaller scenes I just really don't get at all, what they should tell me.
After rewatching I'm still getting the most angry around the final reveal from V to Nero that Urizen is Vergil. They tried to play hide and seek with us before, leading to strange dialouges and actions to keep the mystery. After the last drop of info is dropped, they are suddenly using clear names the whole time. Now Dante starts to talk a little bit to Urizen and runs far to late towards him, to hinder him from eating the fruit. (Too little too late.) The whole logic behind Vergil's motivation isn't sound at all, how he thinks Eva abandoned him and envys Dante's life. Dante addressing the Eva issue to Vergil comes kinda out of the blue. How does he know about this being Vergil's motive? Something V might have told him?
And then their determination to kill each other. V says, they were always at odds regarding their very existence and thus must fight. This is never ever addressed in DMC3.
Dante never knew why Vergil wanted Sparda. He has to stop him, because the damage would be too great, not because they have always been rivals.
The ending then is rushed as fuck anyway.
What's up with the XX:XX AM/PM anyway? Just type 20:06 instead wtf.
As a european media has taught me, americans are easily confused by the 24 hours system. Dunno. ^^
