uhm, yeah, I kinda have to chime in here.
Preface: my alias Dante came before the DMC series, as I was reading Inferno
That said, Devil May Cry is one of my favorite series. I actually just popped in DMC4 on my PS3 two nights ago and have been playing that for a while. I've played and beaten all of them. I've stuck with the series through thick and thin, bad storylines, cheesy ass sayings (I still roll my eyes, heh), and insanely difficult bosses. But that's what I like about the series. Dante with the black hair and the boy band attitude. Ok, maybe this is his origin. This is how we see this brit-punk emo boy turn into a cheesy one-line, trench coat wearing badass. or maybe we just see a glimpse of that and he really does sparkle in the sunlight throughout the whole game.
I believe we've already seen a younger version of Dante in DMC3 but that's neither here nor there. I guess they decided that it wasn't far enough into his past to really get him.
Now, maybe we'll get a really good story out of this. I mean, it may not be King, Grisham, Koontz, Chaucer, Milton, Hemmingway, Adams pick your poison, but maybe it'll be more than, "hey, I got a case for you, go solve it and discover more obscure things about your family."
What I do want to see is an end to the mission thing. Although I do see it's appeal: you can section off the game and come back to parts where you think you could have done better, it doesn't make for a storylined game. The bosses all come back, but you're stronger, have more health, weapons, and abilities you didn't have the last go around? Of course you're gonna do better.
All that aside, it's a wait and see for me. Honestly, I'm not gonna play something that doesn't interest me. But I guess I'm flexible. I know I'm gonna buy it, add it to my collection. The important thing is, will I play it and not want to kill myself.
(if the post sounds disjointed I'm at work and going back and forth between this and work stuff)