#dmc pinnacle of combat

[angel-sephiroth]

[mooshs-crack-headcanons]

*Something, Something, obligated hornee dmc post of the year*

His face his really pretty though, I'm excited to see him in pinnacle of combat and just in general the game is apparently getting more and love and care put behind it going off the official twitter and discord and apparently we're getting an english beta soon! :)

[4dmc]

I made this vent post quite a long time ago. I still stand by what I've posted, though there are grammar errors AND looking back, I feel that it looks hateful on the og but that couldn't be further from the truth.

Also someone said that they thought I interpreted the og Dante as lacking depth, so I'll clarify now.

I do like DMC. Its oddball blend of gothic supernatural Judeo-Christian themes with a ridiculously cheesy and too powerful for his own good protagonist are always fun and intriguing to try around.

The og Dante, despite all the B-movie Japonized Western Noir shenanigans he has running for, is a man of many interpretations.

I do think Dante has MORE he has going for. Manga after manga of him in it, Dante is shown to have baggage. Kamiya Hideki saying he's "afraid when doing his thing" is nice to know but... I feel like we SHOULD know that by now, right?

To me I think it's not just fear but exhaustion. Perhaps it must be exhaustion. He's killed thousands of demons by now, including his own brother (And Vergil has PLENTY of baggage as well..). And nothing's changed much in his world. That aspect would be nice to explore even further right ..

But it's been 2 decades already, and I feel like despite loads of supplementary media (some are in this vague state of semi-canon? Retroactivity?) about Dante and the characters, there's this distance or gap in between the tone/focus on their stories when we're experiencing them in the games.

Like it's okay to have supplementary media to support the games' on-going narrative..😬.. but I feel like it became the other way around, if that's even what happened.

I also have to say this..as much as I deeply appreciate the DMC fandom's efforts on providing more interpretation on the gaps of the franchise's lore (especially before 5 came out), I can't help feel that Capcom has to really rely on the efforts of the fans when it came to polishing out what were even the events that game didn't provide.

Sure, it's interpretation and lore-diving that has so many of us clamoring like bees to pollen, and it's probably a very lucrative move on their end.

But on criticizing it on how legible it's narrative is structured and the on-going story has gone so far, all I'll say is that I've managed to understand the fandom's collective interpretation and it's trajectories, MORE SO than what Capcom has provided. It's so colorful, and there's at least an understanding of Dante's characterization AND pushes the envelope even further with him when it comes to fanfics, compared to the Too-Safe-Everything-Is-Cool-Again-Nothing-To-Worry-Look-He's-Doing-Wacky-Wahoo-Pizza-Moments-Again!-Isn't-That-What-You-Wanted moments he's always expected to go through..

And now that DMC has Pinnacle Of Combat and an upcoming Netflix Anime (and I'm calling it now, even if it's not from Adi Shankar or the one being teased in the Tudum Drop Trailer, it's still the one that's gonna be made because Capcom has already seen how lucrative enough DMC seems to be for their higher-ups & shareholders and such..), what are they adding and subtracting in the lore now, or is the anime gonna be like Arcane LOL type of adaptation, etc. IDK...

In closing this new mess, I just wanna say that DMC fans deserve a much bolder move on the og as a character.

I remember (quite vaguely, if anybody has any research on this article/artbook, lemme know because I'd read that, I crave for info) how their lead writer Bingo Morihashi has wanted to do something about DMC's story for quite a while now, but Hideaki Itsuno himself advised against such a move because it wouldn't fit the style and expectation about DMC.

If this is true, I'm like ??????? 😨

Bingo Morihashi is a novelist by career. I'm not wondering why so many of the supplementary novels are written AND taken well by the fans because I believe what he has written was always crucial to DMC. However why such skills aren't put in the same vein for the games? The games are the highlight of the franchise! It would be even more lucrative if they had let Bingo Morihashi do his thing (I really want to find this article/written interview..)

Video games today benefit a lot from narrative. It always did but with the tech today, video game screen writing is even more significant today!

I don't blame Itsuno (again if that was true....) because I actually understand because he knows the DMC fans😓 and yes I'm sure his experience with DmC has lent to some decisions from his part.

But imagine the better possibilities with the og Dante. I really think it's been long overdue to push some new boundaries with DMC.

[stuff-of-legends]

DmC sequel ideas-

Dante as a Mentor-

My take on Nero would similar to Zephyr from Resonance of Fate. This could be a new character called Tristan but he does wear black and white colors as a reference to Nero. He would be a teenager Dante mentors. He's a half-demon looking for his father Rodin. He's more of a live wire and unstable so Dante has to reign him in.

They'd be about a decade apart. Dante would be about 25-27 years old. The classic series made a mistake by not staying with DMC3 Dante longer. So I'd rectify that here.

Dante meets the Wizard of OZ

I don't mind doing a romp. I thought of a Wizard of Oz allusion that I don't mind that using here.

It’s a dark fairytale in the style of The Wolf Among Us.

Dante teams up with a band of travelers to solve a mission.

Scarecrow is a demon that starts think for itself

The Cowardly lion is a werelion who has to accept their curse

The tin man is a robot designed to kill Megaman.

Dorothy is a young girl who left her home to fight demons.

It's more like Pinnacle of Combat.

Also Vergil might seek Excalibur or run afoul of Gilgamesh and Enkidu.

Dante in a teamup-

I created an oc called Tarnaq that I'd reuse. He's a everyman demon who teams up with Dante. He wants to help Dante find a cure for "Limbo Sickness" out of self preservation. I wanted to tackle demon society and how they adjust to not being on top of the food chain anymore.  There some possible political commentary there so happy hunting.

A tale of 2 Dante's-

I thought about a potential crossover between the 2 parts of the series. "A tale of 2 Dante's ". ;)

Dante helps Nero during DMC5-

Another user pitched a scenario where DmC Dante masquerades as one of the soldiers in DMC5 and I'm fond of that. Maybe he had his own mission that went on during the 1 month between the prologue and the 1st mission? It would be a fun DLC.

[super-jump]

So confident.😎

[6-evil-6-soul-6]

I wonder why they scrapped old concept for controls in Devil May Cry mobile. I think it was a lot better and more comfortable for combos...

[adaru32]

Dialogue and appearance differences in the Pinnacle of Combat mobile game. Courtesy to John Fleer for showcasing this game.

[canaryarrow]

Vergil + Banned Tags

[swimmingferret]

Devil May Cry + Tumblr posts

[angel-sephiroth]

Dante and Vergil in Devil May Cry: Pinnacle of Combat

[mooshs-crack-headcanons]

Vergil's campaign in pinnacle/peak of combat

Okay, since this game is #1 a mobile game (though it is coming to pc eventually too!) #2 doesn't have a global release, and #3 convoluted if this game is canon or not it doesn't surprise me that fandom doesn't talk about this game that much. However, there is some things I do want to talk about with this game and I want to talk about Vergil (act shocked the Vergil simp wants to talk about Vergil)

I've heard it that's this game is supposed to be a "retelling" of dmc 3, from everything I've seen of this games story I belive (in my opinion since I think there's going to be more chapters added once the global release happens) this is false. I think most people think this because of the cgi trailer showing Dante and Vergil's first encounter once the tower in 3 "with a twist" - I'm sorry to break it to you but that cgi trailer is misleading on what the story actually is but it definitely was cool though. It makes much more sense that think game takes place in between dmc 3 and dmc 1 given Dante's started his business and already knows Lady.

However I can hear some of you saying: "But Vergil's mentioned in the story wanted to meet up with Dante!" I might make a more detailed post about this but the tldr is given some context shown in the story I don't think who sent the "note" was actually Vergil and if we do see/fight Vergil in game it's actually going to be like the retconned version of the Gilver situation all over again with this "Vergil" being a clone, except he's a more "accurate" clone given Mundus has his hands on the real deal in hell at this time.

Though if poC is non canon or a "retelling" of dmc 3 (which is ehhhh doesn't make sense given what the games story itself gives us) I'll treat this and the following more like headcanon because I rather like this approach.

Okay anyway, Vergil's campaign:

"Vergil has a campaign in this game?" Yes, yes he does and it's actually not an SE version of a campaign where basically you replay the games main missions with Vergil and it not being canon (but I think you still can do that with Vergil in this game, Vergil mains eating well as always) its a unique though straightforward campaign, think of dmC's Vergil's downfall dlc (but not too hard or you might hurt yourself with the poor quality of said dlc) it doesn't though have much story to it so what I'm about to say is extremely headcanony about what I'm about to add to it and includes context given from visions of V but I think given context/setup of the campaign could make sense.

So where does Vergil's poC campaign start?

Doesn't this scenery seem familiar to you?

That's right awfully familiar to the spot of hell we see in dmc 3 where Vergil falls and sights Mundus. Now, this is dmc 3 Vergil obviously, in hell. Are you putting the dots together? This campaign is Vergil's traversing hell.

"But Moosh in the cutscene we see Vergil running straight to go fight Mundus, he wouldn't have time to fight a campaign!!"

You might be right, but think about it this way: he might appear close here and not that far away but this is the form he takes when he's watching/observing things - ex: the form he watches then kills OG Griffon with, the form over Trish's shoulder when he tells her she's failed him - yes he might be able to communicate and attack in this form but this isn't his true form, and here in this scene in one of Sparda's children fallen right in his domain - you know, son of his biggest rival he's going to want to see him while in true form.

Now this is also Mundus we're talking about, the Demon emporer, without a doubt I imagine just by just looking at Vergil he can tell how weak and exhausted he is after just getting his shit wrecked by Dante on top of all of the other battles he's had in just one day on that tower. Vergil in this moment I see being on 15% strength, extremely weak but strong enough to pull a Vergil and not back down from a fight when he sees one - especially against his mother's killer. Mundus is of course going to taken advantage of this situation, not because he's worries Sparda's son might defeat him (if Vergil was on 100% honestly that might be another story) but because this is Sparda's son. He wants him to go through as much pain and torture as possible BECAUSE he's Sparda's son for his own sick amusement and way as revenge.

And Vergil? Vergil throws away Yamato's scabbard fully ready ride or die in this fight before charging at him - charging at his own demise.

So imagine this; Vergil's campaign doesn't really have a "story" to it - its just basically fighting hoard after hoard of demons. Imagine this is exactly Vergil's charging towards, running towards Mundus but is ambushed hoard. After hoard. After hoard. After hoard of demons coming to Mundus' service just to further and further wind Vergil down, that 15% strength percentage goes down with each encounter but he toughs himself through it just to get closer and closer to Mundus - unknowingly this is the demon emporer's plan to weaken him down further and further, yet, he is Sparda's spawn afterall so Mundus knows he will make it to him in time: each hoard leads the son of Sparda further and further towards Mundus' court where the emporer waits patiently for him.

Of course Vergil's has his trademark three weapons in game of course strictly for gameplay purposes but in this hypothetical canon he only has Yamato on him, no need of a scabbard because there is never a still moment as he goes through the hoard, but unknowingly the blade actually grows weaker and weaker the closer he draws towards Mundus but he holds onto it tight with every attack he makes, it was his savior during the attack when he was a child as evidence by vov and deep in his heart Vergil tells - no promises himself it will be what cuts out and destroys the one responsible for the destruction of his family.

Eventually, the last hoard falls and there Vergil stands in Mundus' "court" staring down the demon emporer's true blasphemous angelic form. He didn't get his father's power as planned, he failed... but that was okay now he faced his true enemy.

His father did it. He can too.

Bloodied, beaten, and barely on his feet the son of Sparda points out his blade - his back stand tall. Right now he's at 3% but he doesn't care, he refuses to show this repugnant filth any weakness. He's waited elven years for this exact moment. Imagine the wicked smile across his face, no matter how bloodied and bruised and on the verge of collapse he might be. He will have this. He will have this victory.

Mundus one shots him.

You know those red eye lasers that he shot at Dante and Trish in dmc 1? It only takes one.

Yamato shatters.

Only left at the hilt as Vergil watches in actual terror - his sword, his protector, for eleven years. But he doesn't let go of it. It never leaves his hands once, in fact he only grabs onto it tighter from his place on the ground. It looks pathetic in its current form - blade as small as a kitchen knife - but he refuses to let go. Even as his body, numb yet highly aware, limp yet stiff, and nearly lifeless as it currently is, is suddenly impaled and sprawled up from off the ground.

The demon emporer's words ring:

He refuses. He refuses. He refuses. He refuses. He refuses...

It's all helpless. Vergil feels like a child again. The fear. He can't move. He can't do anything. What came and saved him as a child; the Yamato - broken and only a fraction of it's previous self only minutes prior - no matter how much he tries to use the mere thread of demonic power flowing through him to summon it back to him, he can't. His hand reaches outspread towards where the sword stabs the wet ground below, begging for it to come save him once again.

It doesn't.

As everything grows dark.

[cerezzzita]

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New Vergil trailer of DEVIL MAY CRY PINNACLE OF COMBAT (鬼泣 巔峰之戰) I don’t do gifs this time because of the voices. It seems that the team listen to fans hope, now you can hear the voices of Vergil changed back to Daniel Southworth, YEAH~ There’s a livestream on 23, March before the final test.

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Vergil telling Dante to get off his back in the pinnacle of combat trailer is just so funny to me because when Vergil is left to his own devices, children happen

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Devil May Cry: Pinnacle of Combat

Vergil's summoned swords animations.

[adaru32]

Dante not a fan of listening to some historical stories, huh? From JohnFleer's Pinnacle of Combat gameplay.