Are the super costumes worth using?

[Nico]

The penalty of -80% in style rank makes certain achievements nearly impossible to get.

[hammerstar]

They're the same as they always have been, basically just there for a nigh-invincible power trip after you manage to beat Dante Must Die.

For actual play for score, no, they are not and have never been worth using, because they're too powerful and break the game, that why the penalty.

[Majora]

They're worth using if you just want to have a "I want to just mess around right now" moment with the game. So it is fun just to have a costume to go all full power trip.

[Sobek]

If you want to have an easier time beating Hell and Hell for your first time, then they're worth using for that. If you don't care about the ranking at the end of the level, then using the super costumes will make things a lot easier for you on Hell and Hell.

There is another use for the super costumes though. There is an achievement in Mission 11 for Dante. If you beat Mission 11 without any weapon on Dante, you will earn an achievement called "Who Needs Weapons Anyway?". But since you can't do anything without having your weapons on you, using his super costume may probably be the only way to earn this achievement, since it allows you to turn into his Sin Devil Trigger form. I don't know if there is any other way to earn that achievement without Dante's super costume. Maybe if you kill demons by using Dante's air taunt, which allows him to throw a rose at enemies. But it does very little dmg to them, so it is going to be quite a run to do it that way. Especially against the boss at the end of Mission 11. But it sounds like a fun challenge to me, honestly.

Other than that, there really isn't much use for these costumes. You can use them in the void to help you practice with some abilities. Like Royal Guard for example. Funnily enough, the super costume for Dante also charges his Royal Guard gauge, just like how it charges his DT gauge. Knowing that makes playing through Hell and Hell even easier with him.

Anyway, that's all I have to say about the super costumes for now.

[leljuanl]

I find it only useful for go through high difficulty levels and farm those red orbs

[Nico]

I thought about using it for HaH, but that would only mean I'd have to beat it twice to get the Worthy of Legend achievement. What a pain.

[Kibarussell]

Originally posted by hammerstar:

They're the same as they always have been, basically just there for a nigh-invincible power trip after you manage to beat Dante Must Die.

For actual play for score, no, they are not and have never been worth using, because they're too powerful and break the game, that why the penalty.

I dont think they had the penalty in DMC 3 tho.

[hammerstar]

Originally posted by Kibarussell:

Originally posted by hammerstar:

They're the same as they always have been, basically just there for a nigh-invincible power trip after you manage to beat Dante Must Die.

For actual play for score, no, they are not and have never been worth using, because they're too powerful and break the game, that why the penalty.

I dont think they had the penalty in DMC 3 tho.

Maybe not, I don't remember off-hand. But if you can actually beat DMC3 on DMD to get the Super characters, you definitely don't need them, since I think that's the hardest DMD mode in the series.

[Kibarussell]

Originally posted by hammerstar:

Originally posted by Kibarussell:

I dont think they had the penalty in DMC 3 tho.

Maybe not, I don't remember off-hand. But if you can actually beat DMC3 on DMD to get the Super characters, you definitely don't need them, since I think that's the hardest DMD mode in the series.

You got the super characters off very hard mode in DMC 3. I think i used super characters to beat DMD on DMC 3. Tho tbh on DMC 3's DMD mode was very ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hard compared to other DMD modes.

[FamishedPants]

Originally posted by Casdir:

If you want to have an easier time beating Hell and Hell for your first time, then they're worth using for that. If you don't care about the ranking at the end of the level, then using the super costumes will make things a lot easier for you on Hell and Hell.

There is another use for the super costumes though. There is an achievement in Mission 11 for Dante. If you beat Mission 11 without any weapon on Dante, you will earn an achievement called "Who Needs Weapons Anyway?". But since you can't do anything without having your weapons on you, using his super costume may probably be the only way to earn this achievement, since it allows you to turn into his Sin Devil Trigger form. I don't know if there is any other way to earn that achievement without Dante's super costume. Maybe if you kill demons by using Dante's air taunt, which allows him to throw a rose at enemies. But it does very little dmg to them, so it is going to be quite a run to do it that way. Especially against the boss at the end of Mission 11. But it sounds like a fun challenge to me, honestly.

Other than that, there really isn't much use for these costumes. You can use them in the void to help you practice with some abilities. Like Royal Guard for example. Funnily enough, the super costume for Dante also charges his Royal Guard gauge, just like how it charges his DT gauge. Knowing that makes playing through Hell and Hell even easier with him.

Anyway, that's all I have to say about the super costumes for now.

Literally just did that achievement on SoS and it was relatively annoying but not impossible. I forgot I could've just used the Super Costume to make that much easier but really you just need to be okay at Royal Guard to get through and royal release to kill things. I had the most problems with the stupid Nobodies refusing to actually attack rather than the boss because that fight's so fun I've already done it multiple times just because.

[Lynfinity]

Originally posted by Kibarussell:

Tho tbh on DMC 3's DMD mode was very ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hard compared to other DMD modes.

It's hard only because it's stupid. Enemies are literal healthsponges and if they activate DT - good luck killing them without a few DTEs. In 4 and 5 DMD is more fair and interesting, in 3 DMD is just frustrating.