what is dmc 5

[Pornelius Hubert]

never played dmc before, can i start with this game? people say that its good and its on sale now

[WhiteAngel7]

The DMC series is a hack and slash game based on stylish combat, where you improve your skills and experience by beating your own score (after completing the story once the game has increasingly higher difficulty levels) and also an interesting story.
As for me the game is really good and you can start with this one, I started with DMC5 myself, however, this left some of the story threads unclear to me, so I started playing the previous parts of the game and read more about it later.

It only depends on what you expect from the game itself. If your goal is to focus only on the gameplay, then play DMC5~ in the game's menu is something like a summary of other parts of the game, it isn't very detailed, but it's enough to understand the main story thread~ if you decide to play other parts of the game, I recommend DMC3 and DMC4.

However, if you ever decide to play the whole series, the chronological order is: 3, 1, 2, 4, 5, and the release order is from 1 to 5. You can skip DMC2, because this one has a very bad reputation and I don't recommend it to you myself.

[TehWildcard]

dmc5 is a fine game to start the series with. that's what i did, and i mostly went in for the gameplay and not the storytelling. if you want storytelling, buy the hd collection first and play 1 and 3. dmc2 is skippable, and doesn't really have any important story beats. dmc4 and dmc5 would come after. dmc4 plays sorta like 5, but a tiny bit clunkier. dmc5 feels loose and free, so it's the game i prefer.

[RaidenFury]

Pass. You are't missing anything at all by skipping this series.