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Devil Must Cry
| Devil Must Cry |
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Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening (frequently abbreviated to DMC3) is the third installment of the Devil May Cry series, starring the hero Dante. It is a prequel to the first game.
Capcom, stating that they had learned much from the flop of the second installment, announced Devil May Cry 3 at E³ 2004. Its first trailer promised a return to the hallmarks of the original, such as spooky, gothic stylings and Dante's flippant personality, and was well received by fans. The development team consisted of staff from both of the previous two games. Yuji Shimomura, who was the action director in Ryuhei Kitamura's cult action movie Versus, serves the same role for this game. Upon release, it was widely lamented for its high level of difficulty, but was praised for its return to the engaging gameplay of Devil May Cry and various improvements. Most fans and critics agree that it is equal, if not superior, to the first game.
Devil May Cry 3 takes place just before the establishment of the Devil May Cry agency and before Dante has awakened to the majority of his devil lineage. The game focuses heavily on the dysfunctional relationship between Dante and his twin brother Vergil.
There is also a manga featuring the same characters, first published in Japan in 2005, which takes place a year before the events of the game.
Like the first game in the series, this part has allusions to The Divine Comedy, written by Dante Alighieri. Dante is the main protagonist of the game, whilst the author Dante is the lead character in his own book. In the game, Vergil is the name of Dante's rival twin brother. In the book, Virgil was not evil, but his soul guided Dante through Hell, which can be seen as an aesthetic metaphor within the game, in which Vergil confronts Dante in a final battle in Hell, and later chooses to live there. Cerberus is another example, and appears as the gatekeeper of the Temen-ni-gru (in the game) in the third mission, whereas Dante meets Cerberus in the third circle in Canto VI of Inferno.
The women in the first three Devil May Cry games, Trish, Lucia and Lady (Mary), are based on the three women who watched over Dante in "The Divine Comedy." Beatrice Portinari was a lifelong object of affection for Dante Alighieri and a character in both "The Divine Comedy" and in "La Vita Nuova" (English: New Life). In Devil May Cry, a female character named Trish guides Dante to a castle on Mallet Island, and later on, in the Underworld. Trish is a nickname for Beatrice because in Italian, the trice part is almost pronounced like Trish (Bay-ah-treech-ey). In "The Divine Comedy," it was Lucia who told Beatrice about Dante, and subsequently Beatrice asked Virgil to aid him, and a character named Lucia appears in Devil May Cry 2 to aid Dante. Mary, the mother of Jesus, is a character in the book, though she is only briefly mentioned and called the "gentle lady", and her parallel character in Devil May Cry 3, who takes the name Lady, was named Mary at birth.
All these characters are not based in accurate ways on their historical counterparts. The seven deadly sins are mentioned in the game as seven different kinds of demons. There are allusions to many other sources, but The Divine Comedy stands as the most prominent one. Other examples are Agni and Rudra, Beowulf, Ambrosia, Devils, Ifrit, and Alastor.
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