Listening to: Die Another Day by Madonna
First and foremost: I finished Devil May Cry last night. It's a good game. They could have done sooooo much more with it plot-wise, though. Like, they could have added a lot more depth about Dante's family, especially his father and brother, who were barely more than mentioned. Also, Trish really didn't have any character development. Sure, she was created by Mundus to be an exact image of Dante's mother to fuck with him, and therefore has the exact appearance and personality of his mother (basically IS his mother, for all intents and purposes), but beyond that we don't really know much. She had an awesome outfit, though. Also, it would have been much cooler if they had named her Beatrice instead of Trish. You know, continuing the whole Divine Comedy thing the game has going on with Dante and Vergil (for you heathens who haven't read that book, here's a uber-quick synapsis: Dante is the author, and the main character of the book. It was written as a rather scathing commentary on the state of affairs in the city of Florence, Italy in the 1500s. Vergil is classical Greek author who wrote the Aeniad. In the book, he appears to Dante at the beginning of Hell and leads him through the seven layers of it. Vergil cannot leave hell, so after Dante finds his way out a girl named Beatrice shows Dante to Paradiso, or Heaven. See? It would have been cool if they named her that. And that so just used my daily quota of smart).
Dante had plenty of character development, though, which was nice. n__n It wasn't all explained or spoken, but easily visible in the wide range of emotions that he conveyed; he laughed, cried, was happy, afraid, bratty, arrogant, sympathetic, compassionate... really an amazing range. I just really, really wish they would have added more stuff about his past and family. Some of the dialogue was kind of... bad. It even had the occasional engrish moment. O__o The graphics and environments were awesome, though. Great use of color and lighting. Hell was gross. All the pulsing vein things made me want to barf on my controller. But overall, I felt content and satisfied at the end of the game- things were wrapped up nicely, and there were lots of cut scenes of Dante being hot. Oh yes, I am in love with Dante at the moment. Now I am presented with a conundrum: should I obtain a copy of DMC2 and play that while I'm in the mood, or get my hands on FFX (Riiiiichaaaaard can I borrow it?) and play that first? I'm thinking DMC2 first, because it's WAY shorter. And I want to see more Dante. Did I mention that he's hot? Decisions decisions.
Bowf. Now I kind of want to read the Divine Comedy again. And I want Final Fantasy Origins. FFI > other RPGs. It'll be cute with 16 bit graphics, and the FMV screen shots I've seen so far are way sexy. =D It's tricky to rock a rhyme!

