Who here started the game on "Nephelim" difficulty for their first playthrough?

[ShabbyOrange]

And what has been your experiance so far?

I'm not blowing my own trumpet, i feel like i am a "hard core" fan of the DMC series and starting on the hardest available difficulty felt like the right thing to do.

My personal experiance is that (Unknowing if the game is "easy" to develop your fighting skill) i quickly progressed to getting A-S ranks as an average for every level.
Arbiter seemed to be my little trick, upgrading that first and grabing enemies closer to me for the AOE destruction.

(I'd like to keep replies like "____ Game had better ____" and "___ Is crap because ___". Because.. well.. Opinions are like arseholes, everyone has one, lets just not talk ♥♥♥♥)

[Jake]

That statement has been so overused in this forum... The opinions one.

Anyways I started the game on Neph on the 360 for my first play through and averaged S-SS and getting SSS on bosses because there being no collectibles. It wasn't easy but it wasn't exactly hard either. Although DMD and SoS make up for it.

[O Último Filho]

Nephilim was good, but Dante Must Die really kicks it... I have trouble with those rages... I totally hate those bastards! But Nephilim was a good way... but the real deal is the new settings...

[ShabbyOrange]

How many degree's of difficulty are there now, 5?
I take it the xbox and pc are the same with the higher settings, such like same number of monsters.

[Pony]

Nephilim is training wheels, the real game begins after the credits roll.

Saying that, the game in general is fairly easy, SoS and DMD modes only really shaft you over when the sword portal guys appear with someone to back them up.

[Li Xin]

i have never played devil may cry games before (mainly becouse the ports were terrible and i am a pc gamer) but nephelim was too easy. used 1 gold orb and a few hp items in first playtrough. dident die once. did only use devil trigger for last boss.

[Jake]

Originally posted by orbmaniac:

i have never played devil may cry games before (mainly becouse the ports were terrible and i am a pc gamer) but nephelim was too easy. used 1 gold orb and a few hp items in first playtrough. dident die once. did only use devil trigger for last boss.

You didn't die once because you used a Gold orb and items lol.

[Pony]

Gold Orb even counts as a death rather than an item use on the stat screen too, lol.

[samDLIVE]

Yes, its easy to cheese an SSS ranking, but all SSS aren't equal, you do get more points for variety, the only thing they need to fix is the fact that the axe and demon dodge don't seem to lessen their points as much as they should in repetition. It's always beneficial currently to finish off enemies with arbiter after demon dodge with the tremor shock attack. I think you should get more points for doing variety, because its never enough against a simple axe kill.

[Spag]

I started the game on Human....yeah I kick ass !.......But hey Im slowly working my way up.

[Purple]

Nephilim is like easy, Son of Sparda normal, and Dante Must Die Hard. HOH is for fun / unlock HAH. HAH is the one that takes skills and time.

[ShabbyOrange]

Just started playing SoS mode, and oohh yes, the game really does start now.

[Kattaro]

I also started game on Nephilim difficulty and now I'm playing ond SoS mode and now I feel it's really Devil May Cry.

[iNol]

I started on Humans, because I want to unlock stuff asap. Besides, without the lock on mechanism, many things are different, noticeably how to do stinger and uppercuts. So basically, I start as a noob again though I play DMC4 quite skillfully. From Humans I go to Devil Hunter/Nephilim to practice my weapons with tougher punching bags, plus evasion practice. Once I feel I have enough practice, I will go to SoS and above :D

[ShabbyOrange]

Originally posted by DenebV201:

I also started game on Nephilim difficulty and now I'm playing ond SoS mode and now I feel it's really Devil May Cry.

Entirely agree with you.. WOW, it's not so much feeling like a new game, but i just had that "One more level" feeling on SoS.

[De Wollah Meneer]

My lowest rank is S on first playthrough . This game is way to easy ......