Devil May Cry is weird. I love it, but it’s weird. And complicated. The ridiculous unnecessary Inception meets Tarantino back and forth timeskips and flashbacks within flashbacks thing doesn’t really help.
This is a problem. Or, it *was* a problem, as I have destroyed it- with SOLUTIONS.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you...
DEVIL MAY CRY 5: THE ABRIDGED AND SLIGHTLY BETTER EDITION.
“Kyle, just what is so ‘abridged’ and ‘slightly better’ about this edition?”
I’m glad you asked.
It’s ‘abridged’ because it’s shorter. That’s what abridged means. True story.
It’s ‘slightly better’ because I painstakingly rearranged some of the scenes so that it forms a more coherent, chronological narrative instead of zigzagging back and forth constantly. Plus a few minor tweaks where it just made sense.
My goal was to make a simplified sort of “Previously on Devil May Cry..”/“Story Recap” that skipped as much ancillary filler stuff as possible while still covering all the key plot points and maintaining a decent narrative ‘flow’ (ie not an endless series of abrupt jump cuts every 5 seconds).
Ideally, someone with no knowledge of DMC could watch it and have a basic idea of wtf is going on if they happened to see one of my DMC livestreams (eg “what’s the deal with this big blue energy explosion thing and the ceiling exploding and why won’t Kyle shutup about being “motivated” and being a total fan girl?”- DMC guys, you know what I’m talking about...). OR maybe if someone was playing DMC5 and took a break and wanted a quick reminder of what’s happened so far.
All things considered, I think it turned out kind of decent.
Mind you, I am *not* a fancy professional internet famous YouTube person, and I don’t want to be. I’m just this guy, you know? Most of my ‘videos’ are just raw livestream archives. On the rare occasion that I do any sort of “editing”, it’s something along the lines of “cutting out the solid hour of dead air at the beginning of the video”.
Also, this entire video was made only using my PS4 by going to the DMC cutscene gallery, manually recording each individidual scene (there’s at least 4-5 per mission- this covers from the prologue to mission 12), then using PS4 Sharefactory- which is like MS Paint, but worse. So yeah.
It was a bit of an ordeal.
But I made it happen, Cap’n. Because I never go back on promise- that’s my ninja way. Believe it!
So there’s that. It might not be perfect. It might not be particularly good. It might not be a little good. But it’s decent.
And on that note.
Let’s do this.
