Today Capcom announced plans to reboot Devil May Cry and completely miss the entire point of the series, Kotaku reported today. "For the longest time, we have felt that we've totally needed to miss the mark when it comes to Devil May Cry," Capcom said in a press release. "Devil May Cry has meant insane combos and frantic gameplay with an emphasis on craziness, and quite frankly, we are very excited for this upcoming opportunity to completely ignore that."

Ninja Theory has been brought on board to develop this new game. Ninja Theory has been realized by the gaming industry for previous masterpieces such as Heavenly Sword. Ninja Theory said, "When developing Heavenly Sword, we began with one question - 'what if we took God of War, but added more tits?' With this new Devil May Cry continuity, we again return to a single question - 'What if we took a cocky, white-haired demon slayer and gave him the body frame of a chemistry nerd?'"

With the reboot comes a completely new Dante, reimagined from the ground up. In response to comments saying that the new design looks remarkably similar to the lead project developer, Ninja Theory said, "No, there is no resemblance. Our project lead clearly looks like he eats more."

We will continue to bring you more news of this reboot as it develops. Until then, here is your first look at Dante's new design, as the eponymous hero attends some personal business.

I'm a pretty big fan of the series. I really like Dante as a character. I liked the gameplay, the boss fights, the insane combos, the corny dialogue, pretty much everything.

I don't like this though. Oh no. Nononononono. I don't care if this is a reboot, that isn't Dante, at least not the Dante we know and love. Maybe some guy who thinks he's Dante, but not Dante himself. He's pitiful looking, not at all what the son of Sparta would look like. Who knows, maybe he's all hopped up on meth...hrm...DMC...CMD...Crystal Meth Dream?

Excuse me for this next line.


LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOL

THATS NOT DANTE. It can't be. Dantes a white-head. and wheres Rebellion? Geez.

MAYBE HE'S GONE.... EMO ON US? But still, If that IS Dante, Vergil looks like a pussy too. LOL.

Edited by MegamanZero66 on September 17, 2010 at 4:20:44.

Ohhhhhhhhhh that character design...damn you Capcom.

Seriously, he looks like Marilyn Manson in that; no one's skin is that unearthly white; you know what, i'm not even going to get into it. If they want to turn a great series based on punching the devil in the face and make it into a game about Dante crying himself to sleep at night because his mom didn't hug him enough, then whatever. There's other fish in the sea.