He simply sounds like a guy who has a plan and our leads just happen to not like that plan. He had a different view of what needed to be done at that point, but at no point does he sound like an evil overlord whose finally gotten his way. He's very forthcoming through the whole game and what's one of the last things he says? "I loved you brother", that's not something someone who planned to betray you for some evil deeds says.Įven his little speech at the end doesn't suggest he has negative intentions. A point backed up in Vergils Downfall where you see the conflict that he still holds feelings for her, but also feels as if he's been betrayed.Īnd I don't think you can argue his engagements with Dante was all an act.
That's how he was portrayed from the start and at no point does he seem like anything other than that, in fact there's several scenes where it appears he cares for Kat. Vergil was a realist with a goal who recognized battles couldn't be won without collateral. If there's no realistic way for her to escape and they just die with her then nobody goes home happy. I didn't see Vergils abandonment of Kat as him showing his true colors or being evil, but rather being a realist who recognized that if they wanted to complete their goal both he and Dante needed to survive.
Does that make them a bad person? Up to a persons opinion I suppose but you'd be naive to think success could be achieved any other way. It's regrettable but generals always have to perform "triage" in every battle they go into, weighing the worth of what they can gain out of something versus how many lives it will take to achieve that goal. But let's be realistic here, wars are not won without casualties. Yes, you can make an argument that he was using everyone from the start and was always a bad person, but there honestly isn't a lot to back that up.ĭid he put Kat in danger and in the end leave her to die? Yes. You're putting imagined traits on to him, and making a judgement based on a few lines of dialogue just like our heroes did.
When in reality because this is a reboot they could easily have introduced a different threat as I quite enjoyed the comradrie between the two brothers until they just decide to start stabbing each other at the end. It feels like they had to force in the "Vergils the badguy" at the very last moment simply because he was in the previous games. I guess what I'm getting at is it feels incredibly out of place. But man if the ending was out of character Vergils Downfall just bashed that character to pieces, he just goes from altruistic leader of the people to psycho murder stabby-stabby in less than two hours. I know it's supposed to be him losing his mind on the brink of death to cement him as the antagonist for a sequel we'll probably never get.
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But rather than have a rational discussion they just immediately assume he's gone full blown evil and is no better than Mundus with barely any dialogue between them.Īnd don't even get me started on Vergils Downfall. What exactly did Dante and Kat think was going to happen when Mundus was dead? Did they just intend to leave the now anarchic world to fend for its own? In all honesty Vergils right, the world does need guidance or it's just going to implode in a war with the demons. Even though I was expecting it, it still felt incredibly out of character for a person who while a realist still showed empathy toward others.įrom another angle is he really wrong? I feel like this is something that could have worked out if they'd just sat down and had a conversation rather than both Dante and Vergil going completely against their previously set characters and just deciding they needed to kill each other out of nowhere. Or just because he was an antagonist in the original timeline he has to be one here. It feels like he "turns" at the last moment simply to have a last moment "twist" ending. One thing bugs me, Vergil and the ending. Take for instance the scene where he's instructing Kat on what to do just before the SWAT bust in, that was incredibly well done.īut I digress I'm getting off point. And honestly I don't get the hate for this Dante, one of the biggest complaints I see levied against him is that he's "angsty" but while he does dress like a fashion model I felt a greater connection with this Dante as an actual person than any of the previous games. It's got a great combat system, the story while nothing amazing is harmlessly cheese entertaining, and it's got a ton of fun modes to screw around with like HoH and HaH. So honestly I don't get the hate for this game.