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Devil May Cry (2001)

Capcom Production Studio 4

PlayStation 2

3.66 from 2070 ratings

4315 members have it in their collection · 107 playing now · 843 backlogged · 579 wish listed

How long? Main story 6h · with extras 19h · 100% 6h (from 42 logged playthroughs)

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Developers
Capcom Production Studio 4
Publishers
Capcom
Genres
Adventure, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
Themes
Action, Fantasy
Franchises
Devil May Cry
Series
Devil May Cry
Event
SCEA E3 2001 Press Conference

Release dates

  • Aug 23, 2001 (Japan) PlayStation 2
  • Oct 16, 2001 (North_America) PlayStation 2
  • Dec 07, 2001 (Europe) PlayStation 2

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Rating distribution

5 stars
397
4 stars
784
3 stars
709
2 stars
147
1 star
33
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garamir

Status garamir Jan 22, 2025

Solid action-adventure and start of a series. I believe it was meant to be resident evil game at some point, and it shows(positively).

Rather shameless recycling when it comes to bosses. I liked that snail/slug boss so much I wanted to fight it two more times, obviously.

(Edit) Also has one of the greatest spoken lines in the history of …

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Solid action-adventure and start of a series. I believe it was meant to be resident evil game at some point, and it shows(positively).

Rather shameless recycling when it comes to bosses. I liked that snail/slug boss so much I wanted to fight it two more times, obviously.

(Edit) Also has one of the greatest spoken lines in the history of games.

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Lij

Status Lij Dec 20, 2024

Haven't played this game since 2020 when I bought it as a reward for finishing high school. Hated it back then cause I'd never played a game with fixed camera angles before. Now I love it!!! Dante is just so cool and I feel delicious when wrapping up some good combos. I'm sorry I judged you too harshly back then. …

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Haven't played this game since 2020 when I bought it as a reward for finishing high school. Hated it back then cause I'd never played a game with fixed camera angles before. Now I love it!!! Dante is just so cool and I feel delicious when wrapping up some good combos. I'm sorry I judged you too harshly back then. You will have justice 😖

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killerstar

Status killerstar Aug 25, 2024

The final missions are nuts. They've got the most bizarre gameplay choices, the dumbest plot developments and the cringeworthiest dialogue.

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killerstar

Status killerstar Aug 19, 2024

This is a very environmentally responsible game, always mindful of recycling bosses. 😅

BTW, is it me or does the Grenade launcher break the game? With its relatively large AoE and knockback plus the fact that you can autoaim even when the camera doesn't deign to show you the enemies, I'm blasting through enemy encounters just blindly shooting at nothing.

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killerstar

Status killerstar Aug 18, 2024

Again, I'm enjoying the atmosphere and some of the combat, but this game is just full of dull bullshit enemies. Now I'm with the scissor goat guy, which is another showcase of the worst this game has to offer. Tiny restricted space, enemy attacking literally form off camera, extremely tedious miniboss insanely bulletspongy that can only be damaged by using …

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Again, I'm enjoying the atmosphere and some of the combat, but this game is just full of dull bullshit enemies. Now I'm with the scissor goat guy, which is another showcase of the worst this game has to offer. Tiny restricted space, enemy attacking literally form off camera, extremely tedious miniboss insanely bulletspongy that can only be damaged by using a single type of attack. Also, that attack is jump + sword, which is harder to nail that it needs to be thanks to the dodge button being the same as the jump button.

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killerstar

Status killerstar Aug 16, 2024

I enjoyed the game until the first boss, which is a 2 vs 1 arena in which an angry lava spider teams up with the camera to fuck you up. I honestly can't tell what's going on 75% of the time in this fight. The boss' attacks are telegraphed in verys inolar ways to it's flinching, so it's impossible to …

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I enjoyed the game until the first boss, which is a 2 vs 1 arena in which an angry lava spider teams up with the camera to fuck you up. I honestly can't tell what's going on 75% of the time in this fight. The boss' attacks are telegraphed in verys inolar ways to it's flinching, so it's impossible to tell if it's going to attack you or it's just reacting to my attacks. I also feel that sometimes I can explode it's fireball and damage it, but sometimes I can't and I don't know why. Read online that a good strategy is to double jump and downward attack, but to double jump I need to get close to a wall, which fucks up the camera angle even more, plus sometimes I can't double jump and again I don't know why because I can barely see my character behind all the columns blocking the view.

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killerstar

Status killerstar Jul 4, 2024

As I sill haven't gotten around to fixing my laptop, I haven't been playing games at all (and my productivity has skyrocketed as a result). It's time to go back to emulating old games on my phone. I'm surprised that this runs pretty solidly at all.

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Malus

Status Malus Mar 6, 2024

Uninstalled and reinstalled the game and I can get through the door now. Just finished the level (mission 16)

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Malus

Status Malus Mar 6, 2024

This game is literally going to a black screen and nothing happens (but sound continues playing) when I go through a door in the current level (13 or 14).... I have to quit the game and restart it to do anything. Upon reloading my save, it happens again at the same door. =/

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BurningKirby

Status BurningKirby Sep 2, 2023

Really disappointed in the dip in quality near the end of the game here. I was pleasantly surprised for the majority of my playthrough, especially juxtaposed with my recent sour playthrough of the first God of War, but chapters 16-18 have been for the most part a frustrating slog, with the only highlight being the third fight against Nelo Angelo …

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Really disappointed in the dip in quality near the end of the game here. I was pleasantly surprised for the majority of my playthrough, especially juxtaposed with my recent sour playthrough of the first God of War, but chapters 16-18 have been for the most part a frustrating slog, with the only highlight being the third fight against Nelo Angelo. The bosses have gotten considerably more difficult this far in, and having to replay entire levels mostly void of enemies and filled with time consuming but easy puzzles just to get back to a boss for another attempt (sometimes 5-10 times) is really dragging the experience down for me.

I'd like to think it'll get better again before the end, but knowing I still have Nightmare fight 3 ahead of me doesn't inspire confidence.

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Olink

Status Olink Nov 17, 2022

god this game is too chaotic sometimes. fighting is super fun, even with this camera, but when there are dozens of projectiles shooting around the screen that leave little room to attack and are hard to judge, fighting just becomes damn annoying. i'm definitely checking out the sequels, very curious to see how this series has progressed up until 5.

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Sadaharu_TR

Status Sadaharu_TR Mar 13, 2019

This game is good.

It has everything about the old games.

Weird controls.

Terrible camera placement.

Hard bosses.

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Fugazi57

Status Fugazi57 Oct 9, 2018

Holy shit this game is impossible T.T Dark Souls got NOTHING on this T_T I can't keep up... I have no strength left...... T_____T

will skip to dmc 3. I'm hoping that more refined mechanics + less brutal save point system will let me enjoy that classic.

T________________T

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Khafra

Status Khafra Jan 7, 2018

Hideaki Itsuno says his new project, which could be anything from Rival Schools to Devil May Cry 5, is 'now under climax

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