Now onto the gameplay. This game is bitch hard. It’s a little bit easier than Devil May Cry 3, but still, casual players beware - if I see a review with someone saying “omg teh gamez too hard 1/10″, stab yourself in the head, please. Seriously, if you don’t know how to play HARDCORE games, go back to Zuma.
The difficulty is indeed unforgiving. It kicks off much like DMC3 with hordes of enemies coming at you, but this time around you are rewarded with lots more gorgeous cut-scenes and a very deep and emotional story.
Unlike DMC3 where you had lots of backtracking and “time to breathe”, in this Devil May Cry 4 review I have to say that sometimes it gets even too challenging for me (I’ve beaten DMC3 on the hardest difficulty twice), as sometimes you go into a room filed with enemies, only to get thrown into another battle in the other room - and just when you think you have time to breathe (and your health bar is almost at null) - another horde of demons is sent your way.
Let me draw a graph of the difficulty in DMC4: