i see faith in your eyes.

[rocknload]

Today:

✰ Make bed
✰ One load of laundry
✰ Write
✰ RP

I bet you wish you had a to-do list as formidable as that one.

Comments

[in-a-dark-wood.livejournal.com]

He was more complex in the first game, I think, once you get by the bad writing and very questionable voice acting. At the very least he has some emotional development. He goes from "HOT WOMEN DRIVING MOTORCYCLES THROUGH MY WALL = TOTALLY NORMAL" to confronting Satan underground and absolutely worrying about it. Also crying a few times. Also guilt at killing Vergil. I remember wondering if they were going to kill Dante off, things looked that bad for him. Then I remembered it was a Capcom game. He's still interesting in the later titles, I guess, but I know he's so "cool" he'll get out of whatever situation he's in. I care about him less as the series progresses D:

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

Now, I wonder. Are you the anon I briefly talked to in rp_advice_meme?

[in-a-dark-wood.livejournal.com]

I was! Well, one of them. The one who said the same thing about feeling more complex in the first game; but I wasn't the one who asked the initial question, no.

I hope they DO play DMC1!Dante, though. Oldschool needs more love.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

Heh, I should've known! That thread and the thread about Jim Kirk were the only ones I participated in, really, except for a bitchy comment on one of the later pages. And I agree! If I feel like relaxing and playing some DMC, the first one is the one I go to. The game's more fun for me, and, I dunno ... He's a nicer guy in that game, he doesn't have the attitude he did when he was younger and he doesn't have that edge he did in the forth, where he was the good guy, yeah, but he also disinterestedly watch some pretty bad stuff happen and, I don't know, he kind of creeped me out, in that one.

[in-a-dark-wood.livejournal.com]

Uch, he creeped me out too. He had that "creepy uncle" vibe going on, somehow.

He holds Trish in his arms and cries over her (albeit cheesily) in the first one. Moments like that one, and the one where he showed disgust at Mundus killing Gryphon, seem like they could almost be considered OOC for him in the later installments. The anime does a pretty interesting job of fleshing out what was established in the first game-he's fairly relaxed, but still goofy and a nice person. I hope that they bring some of that back to the games.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

In trying to put together a coherent characterization for him that incorporates all three games, those parts always tripped me up. Trish, I decided, is Very Special, possibly The MOST Special, and after watching that scene at the end of the first game, it's difficult for me to not consider them a couple, albeit a fucked up one.

The thing with Griffin is I think the biggest change, though. In the fourth game, he is clearly totally capable of cold-blooded murder, and that's the thing I found most off-putting about him, even if he's killing bad guys. I still like the guy, but he's got a nasty streak, the whole thing with Angus pretty much proves it. The first game's speeches about morality make it pretty obvious that that Dante

The only thing I could think of was, "Dante must have really fucking hated those cultists..." Which is possible, considering they were probably experimenting on Vergil.

[in-a-dark-wood.livejournal.com]

Part of the problem with Dante right now is that he's floundering. DMC 4 was not really his story and if it was I think it would have been less interesting. Nero is a little weird but has at least some potential for development, if he ever shows up again.

In the first game, Dante initially has some superficial resemblance to Ash (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVfnQtwXqkQ) but eventually emerges as an archetypal hero in his own right. This sort of metamorphosis doesn't happen in the later games and is barely even ACKNOWLEDGED in them. I think Dante could easily become hardened by what he sees but he should, deep down, still be the same person.