Hell Yes

DEVIL MAY CRY 5 is one of the best brawlers on PC.

- Tom Senior

Devil May Cry 5 is a 16-hour exploration of the hundreds of ways a magical man might hit a demon. Nero hits demons with robot arms like a hyper-aggressive Inspector Gadget. Dante hits demons with two halves of a haunted motorbike. V lets demons do the hitting for him. All things considered, Devil May Cry 5 is one of the best games about hitting demons ever made.

You switch between Nero, V, and Dante across DMC5’s 20 missions. A demon called Urizen is using a bad tree called the Qliphoth to drain the city of all its blood and it’s up to the trio to fight through his minions to stop him. The story is preposterous, genuinely funny at points, and supported by earnest performances and quality performance capture. Though the areas you visit can be simplistic and washed out, it’s a decent enough setting for combat encounters.

In classic Devil May Cry fashion you clear the level room-by-room and collect ranking scores from each encounter that feed into an overall score for the chapter. The point isn’t merely to survive, but to reach the upper echelons of the scoring system and claim the coveted, ridiculous ‘Smokin’ Sexy Style!’ title.