Even just last year, Capcom released a Special-er edition of Devil May Cry 3 for Nintendo Switch, which backported some of 4 and 5’s features to the original 2005 game. And so it was on the wind: re-releases are in Devil May Cry’s blood. And just a year and some change after the original release, Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition is here to occupy the limited storage space on shiny, new Xbox Series consoles and PlayStation 5s around the world. The release was peculiar at the time, but retrospectively makes a lot more sense now that Devil May Cry 5 has released and returned to that original canon. It contained three new characters to play as, including a retooled Vergil as well as Dante’s companions, Trish and Lady. More inexplicably released in 2015, though, was Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition, released a staggering seven years after the original release. First was the Definitive Edition of DmC, which brought gameplay rebalances, a performance upgrade to 60fps on console to match the series standard, as well as new features such as lock-on to resemble the original series more closely. At release, the project seemed like a one off, just an opportunity to retool the enormously successful third entry. The series continued to press on at a start-and-stop pace with Devil May Cry 4 in 2008 and attempted series reboot, DmC: Devil May Cry in 2013, with an HD remaster or two of the original trilogy tossed into the mix for good measure.Īll was quiet on the Devil May Cry front for a couple years or so, but quiet rumblings started to come to life in 2015.
Among some bugfixes and a rebalancing of the game’s difficulty modes, it also boasted several new additions, including new difficulties altogether, new boss-fights, a reintroduction of the Bloody Palace gauntlet from the otherwise maligned Devil May Cry 2, and – most notable of all – a new playable character in series protagonist’s brother, Vergil. It all began with Devil May Cry 3, which unleashed its “Special Edition” upon the public just a hair over a year after the original release. The Devil May Cry series has a storied history of re-releases.
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