16 Severely Underrated Video Games That Deserve A Second Chance
3. DmC: Devil May Cry
Nobody likes change - least not when it's the nostalgia-reworked variety. Suddenly your childhood favourite demon-slayer - all cocksure, white-haired and quip-happy - is turned into a strange hipster-ish A-hole with a penchant for fobbing people off and ignoring all those around him. Hell, developers Ninja Theory even addressed the fan-complaints directly by having Dante try on a white wig, only to mutter "Not in a million years" - it was actually pretty insulting. Talk about a way to straight-up pee-off your core demographic, DMC went down about as well as a steak dinner at a vegan wedding, despite its gameplay and a cracking premise of "There are actually demons controlling Fox News" being pretty damn awesome. These days it's easy to play it without the hate-specs on, and with the Definitive Edition actually having some of the more immature or questionable character dialogue and phrases taken out thanks to the developer's own admission that it wasn't the best call first time round, Dante's (potentially) last hurrah is more than worth your time.