10 Video Games That Mock Bad Players

Whilst the hack-and-slash adventure Devil May Cry franchise is notoriously hard, the first title has a pretty insulting fix for players that are struggling out of the gate.

If Dante uses a Vital Star to patch up his injuries or in fact dies and must use a few Yellow Orbs to revive himself in the first few missions of the game, Devil May Cry will sheepishly ask the player if they want to activate Easy-Automatic Mode.

This setting is quite ridiculous in the amount that it moves the goalposts: making the player stronger, able to pull off strings of context-specific combos with simple repeated taps of the melee button and it turns Dante's sidearms into essentially fully automatic bullet hoses. Furthermore, the game takes out a few of the more tough enemies to be safe.

The problem is, once you’ve opted to go this route, you can’t undo it.

Even finishing the game in Easy-Automatic doesn’t let you swap your difficulty, and any New Game + run you might attempt commits you to the dead-end of the game essentially holding your hand in every single aspect. You made this choice and Devil May Cry won’t let you forget it.

If you want to play the game “as intended” then you need to delete your save and start all over again.