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8. The Higher Your Stylish Rank, The More Aggressive The Enemies - Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening
The Devil May Cry franchise is all about your Stylish Rank - basically, the more badass and dynamic your combo of moves is, the cooler you're going to look, and the higher your Rank will be from D to SS.
But in Devil May Cry 3, widely accepted to be by far the most difficult game in the series, your Stylish Rank also has a direct impact on how challenging your overall experience will be.
The higher your Stylish Rank, the more enemies the game will end up throwing at you, and they'll also tout a much higher degree of aggression.
It's effectively a form of adaptive difficulty within the game's own delineated difficulty modes, in an attempt to ensure that you never get too good at combat.
And so, if you start showing off every last stylish trick in the book, you'd better have the chops for the onslaught that's coming next.