[quote name='ninja dog']I watched the Game Informer Replay video (good "lets play" style series with a mix of shitty and classic games) for DMC1 last night, which made me rebuy the game today.
It rang up $2.99 at gamestop!
I played about an hour. The game's atmosphere is still pretty great...its clearly a recut Resident Evil game, but even a bit darker + spooky. Combat is not as fast or easy as the subsequent action games it inspired, but it's still fun. Tough as hell.
Brings back lots of memories too-- its one of the first games I played for PS2 and it blew my mind. I remember thinking I had sprung a trap and lost the game after seeing Dante get impaled by Alastor. Also, the spiral staircase was really impressive for some reason.[/QUOTE]
I played through DMC1 again last year. The combat's definitely not as good as what DMC3 had, but the game is still fun as hell. The gameplay feels really different for some reason... maybe it's the pacing. It's more adventure-ish.