![]() He’s also physically weak and slowly dying Urizen has the vast majority of Vergil’s power, V has a small amount he’s using to stop himself falling apart. It’s implied that V is what Vergil would have become if things had been different vis a vis the death of Eva and Sparda, and Vergil’s own feelings of abandonment. V is eccentric but warm, with a sense of humour and a love of reading and quoting Blake poems that meshes surprisingly well with the ruthless way he deals with demons. His human side, aided by physical manifestations of Vergil’s haunting nightmares from his time as Nelo Angelo back in DMC1 are unconditionally on the side of good. In order for Vergil to come back from the brink and be a potential ally to Dante and friends he’s going to need to go through a pretty drastic change, and that’s what happens. V is literally Vergil’s humanity ripped from him and given life of its own everything he threw away in his quest for power. For each of the main cast of demon-human hybrids their humanity is what sees them through. It’s the character interactions that stand-out, with an overarching theme of humanity. It’s straight forward and, like I said, focused. They try, they fail, they wait a month and have another go, V rejoins with Urizen to reform Vergil and after a family reunion (more on that later), Dante and Vergil go to Hell to close the portal Urizen opened. After splitting himself into his human side V, and his demon side Urizen, the whole game is about the former, alongside Dante, Nero, Lady, Trish and Nico trying to take down the latter. So then, Vergil huh? He was confirmed in the final trailer and shown (with his face covered) as far back as the reveal, but I didn’t expect him to have quite as much of a presence as he does. If you haven’t played the game yet and want to know what I thought and then be able to go into the game blind, go read my review, otherwise, this is the last warning for spoilers if you stay. I’ll be going into things in greater detail here with no restraint on spoilers, so bear that in mind going forward. It’s a direct story with a tight focus, and that’s basically all I could say, other than the characters made real strides, especially Nero. So in my review of Devil May Cry 5 I did my best to avoid spoilers, which meant I couldn’t go into nearly as much detail about the story and characters as I would have liked.
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