devil may cry 3: dante's awakening special edition (2024)

as someone who has always been an exclusively console player, valorant and league were the biggest games that i pretty much couldn't play, everything else major got a console port of varying quality, but these two remained elusive and were two of the few elusive PC exclusives i actually wanted to play, while they're not the only good big PC games, some like WOW or DOTA2 are also exclusive, but those seem a little boring and i wouldn't want to play those, visually and vibes wise those just don't seem for me, but league and valo didn't have that issue, they had cool designs and they played super differently to anything i'd played on console, last year i caved and gave league a few month try on my roomates pc and very very recently i did the same with valorant, but on console with its ps5 port that got shown off at summer games fest, even for someone who has never touched either genre it ended up going pretty well!

as far as the port goes it's very solid, i think, it transferred everything over seemingly well and it played well too! i have so little experiance with a keyboard and mouse that to me the game controlled a lot better since it was a little more familiar to me and i seemed to play a lot better too once i managed to unlock killjoy, which you can do pretty quickly since it gives you 2 free hero tokens in about an hour of playing. it's a lot more precise and intense a shooter than i've ever played, it's a nearly one shot one kill kind of game where firefights are over in a second and death means spending the whole rest of the round waiting, i'd seen something similar when i tried rainbow six siege once when a friend begged me to (i hated it) but this is even more swift in its time to kill than that game was and thankfully its rounds are significantly shorter to the point where it's not as eggregiously annoying to die early as in that game. i also do like how the currency system works, where you purchase weapons and abilities at the start of the round and doing better will give you more and as such better guns and items or you can just steal them from dead enemies too. i mostly stuck with the snipers and the rifles, the snipers i just liked that it was an instakill and it let me stay out of the fight a little more, which fit with killjoy being my main since i could set myself up a perch to stay in at the points i guarded, never worked well but it felt like a fun time anyway, i also preffered the swiftplay mode overall too, the longer 15 round mode just felt like too much, over half an hour games just don't feel good, especially when you spend half of that time dead and watching your teamates play, so that i am really iffy on, especially when you get a quitter or an afk player which happened to me a *lot*

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league was also a neat novelty to me, this was pretty much my first real mouse and keyboard game, i'd played some PC games before it sure, some BL vns and otome, saya no uta, some zoo tycoon as a kid using a laptop trackpad, a tiny bit of FF11 once for a few hours with a controller and i'd played recettear also with a controller once but i'd never sat down and used a full KB&M before until this and i can't say i was all that into it, the keyboard to me just feels like worse, more confusing controller buttons but i do like the mouse at least for these kinds of games, i'm less sure on it for shooters though, with valorant it felt like i couldn't aim well at all and keeping it steady was an issue for me, but this was also basically my first time using one so its really honestly on me, but in league it worked a lot better and i can even imagine this being better than thumbsticks, though i do think controller buttons would work better than a keyboard, i'm sure for some games the amount of buttons on a keyboard work better but here it just felt like too much for me, but again, i am the most beginner of beginners. i'd also never played a real moba before, honestly up until i played this i wasn't even sure what one was, i'd played battleborn before which is a moba of sorts, a really good one at that that i would love to talk about sometime, but it wasn't the same as a more traditonal moba, i assumed it was an RTS with more action and that's kind of what it is? just without the S but, it's all about that action and it's really fun! it probably sounds silly to see someone act like this is some new cool thing since the genre and league itself is so big in the industry, especially on PC and mobile but to me this really is new, it's not something i've ever played before.