Which Devil May Cry is the HARDEST? : Ranking The DMC Games Difficulty

[@xDevilNeverCry]

Smash that mf like button like DMD Vergil Boss Battle 3 Judgement Cuts peoples will to live.

[@XenojinHayabusa615]

I hate how accurate this is 😭

[@Ashcoop]

yOu TRaSh

[@sahandsaleem6697]

Hey Mr devil never cry i have a question i have to say I'm struggling to get the ex costumes in dmc 5 they say you have to beat 25 missions but It didn't unlock it for me can you help me and can anybody help me pls thank you very much

[@ShortThe1st]

@@sahandsaleem6697 you can unlock 2 ex costumes one for Vergil and one for V, to unlock V's costume you have to kill the hell judecca in the credits scene as Nero and for Vergil's costume kill more enemies as Dante than Vergil (might have to get Vergil's on SoS I think )

[@sahandsaleem6697]

@@ShortThe1st I'm talking about nero and v

[@PKD145]

The hardest DMC game to beat. DMC2 Cause you actually have to play it

[@laxmirio]

Lmao

[@OM-qi9rl]

Well i bet dmc 2 on normal difficult just to check story but yes it was bad...

[@artistanthony1007]

I stopped because the entrance to the Demon World was brutal, everything else was fine.

[@awepsalmgamin]

hard to swallow

[@ultragamer4465]

@@Saltyaf38 r/wooosh and I cast a protection spell against r/ihavereddit

[@justlloyd7881]

DMC3, original version that dropped in 2005 with Hard disguised as Normal 😑 That was a pain in the ass...

[@xDevilNeverCry]

I still remember the struggle. Agni and Rudra destroyed my soul as a kid

[@nero3948]

Yeah I agree

[@justlloyd7881]

@@xDevilNeverCry Bruh, Mission 2, that Hell Vanguard took me more than a week. Agni and Rudra damn near made me stop playing completely...

[@munem939]

@@xDevilNeverCry You were lucky to get as far as Agni and Rudra! When I was a kid, I struggled against Cerberus on that original PS2 version

[@dantevega5103]

Pfff dmc1 was the hardest... I couldnt beat phantom wjen i was a kid

[@dynotartartino3360]

The thing that made DMC1 was the hardest was the fact you can get hit offscreen while the others dmc games you’re safe if you’re offscreen.

[@Ashcoop]

Nightmare spike attack always gets me offscreen.

[@dynotartartino3360]

Ashcoop Frost and shadows were the worst when it came to offscreen attacks

[@TARINunit9]

There's certain attacks that DMC3 enemies can still use while offscreen. Mostly the arrow spam enemies, they can shoot whenever, also the lunging attack from the Hell Prides, they can start that from offscreen

[@dynotartartino3360]

TARINunit9 That’s was true. I think you able to overcome that better in DMC 3 than in DMC 1 doe

[@Omega-jg4oq]

@@TARINunit9 wait, BUT SOME OF THEM CAN STILL HIT OFFSCREEN like Bloddy Status and Soul Eater and The Chess Status and Armored enimes and The Fallen Angel and Sometimes Enigma And Spiders, and They are perfect to know how to pisse me off

[@songoku9348]

DMC1 no contest. DMC3 onwards was generous due to being able to go back to earlier easier missions to farm orbs and buy healing items. DMD mode on DMC1 really made you think twice about using items due to the game’s design, you could only carry ONE vital star etc.

[@xDevilNeverCry]

Yeah its for that reason that DMC1 feels a lot more fine tuned when it comes DMD and balance

[@ArchlordZer0]

Aside for Mundus, DMD in DMC1 wasn't as hard as DMC3. The bosses and enemies were easier to react to and they had much more exploitable flaws.

[@martmine4618]

@@ArchlordZer0 but you didn't have as much control over your character so it doesn't really matter.

[@ArchlordZer0]

@@martmine4618 Well, there was also less to manage and it was a much shorter game than DMC3. The toughest enemies in DMC1 were rare encounters, even on DMD. In DMC3, there are twice as many enemies on screen going Devil Trigger and they throw the hardest enemies more frequently.

[@AntiSoraXVI]

I really don't get the mindset that one game is "harder" because the other has more cheap tactics lol. Going back and farming orbs for items doesn't mean the game is easier. Easier to cheese? Sure, but that's a different conversation The fact that you needed to farm items would indicate that you had a harder time with those later games, no?

[@laxmirio]

Lol DNC said, "Devil May Cry 2." Let's all point and laugh guys 🤓🤣

[@forthegoddest]

Lamir Lowe 🤣 so hard

[@ArchlordZer0]

Well, he's not wrong. It was the hardest to get through because how bad the game was. I mean, the helicopter boss was a 30min bullet sponge.

[@FrostshadowStudios0310]

@@ArchlordZer0 Hey, what's really happening is that the game is ramping up difficulty as you progress.

[@The-Eric-Cartman]

​@@ArchlordZer0 30 minutes? That fight is only about 11 minutes

[@oofyr3058]

I beat DMD for the first time on DMC1 HD remastered last night and escaped Mallet Island just at the stroke of midnight for the new year, it was great. Devil May Cry's a rockin', don't come a knockin' baby, yeah!

[@lamarhosey267]

I already knew before clicking the vid that DMC1 is definitely the HARDEST. Any other difficulty, no problem. DMD on DMC1....impossible for me.

[@xDevilNeverCry]

Its one of those games where you can sink 3 hours and still make no progress

[@SuperReno3]

@Darth Nutsack same here, as a kid I rented the game, beat it on Normal and took it back. Now I am playing it and just beat Nelo Angelo's 3rd fight on hard (not even DMD) after hours, split into a couple days. Now I am on mission 19 grinding so I can max out my health and DT before the last Nightmare and Mundus fight.

[@songoku9348]

I don’t know how I did it, but I beat DMD in DMC1 on Switch using joycons. I just refused to give up and persevered. So now I can play Super Dante on the go.

[@mastergee7075]

@@SuperReno3 did you end up beating DMD?

[@chelinox4504]

the mastering of Royal guard makes DMD modes after DMC3 far more easy, in DMC1 you don't have that tool to stop neo angelo of deleting your two life bars with a single hit

[@DonMiguelXVIII]

I actually agree with this. Especially regarding the hidden battle mechanics regarding Nightmare (and woe be you, if you don't understand them), and the insane buffs to Nelo Angelo 3 (whose spiral hanging formation is an automatic instant kill on DMD) and Mundus 2 (hardest boss in series on DMD), and the increased difficulty at dodging, these make DMC 1 the hardest.

[@agt_pendergast8899]

DMC3's DMD mode is the one that kicked my ass the most, but I feel like 1 has the best designed and most fun DMD mode of the series. It makes the bosses feel more tactical and intense. Even the items effectiveness seems to have been neutered on this mode meaning you can't brute force your way through it. It feels like a lot of time and thought was put into it.

[@Senketsujin]

One thing I can say about the difference between the difficulties on Easy/Normal to Hard and DMD....they truly arrange the game that there's less on stage support orbs at your disposal. lol I went to beat Dmc5 on Normal&Easy and I never noticed how much White and Green pillars/orbs they leave on the map for you.

[@Senketsujin]

Dmc1 forces to either get good or stop playing. There's only certain mission when I used the untouchable star only on last nightmare and Mundus 2.

[@Senketsujin]

@Krueger Pool The 13th Yeah that last part of the fight when the core is exposed....idk how the pros beat it but I fucking panic and just use the star lol

[@YuriNoel7]

I know I’m a few days late but as an hardcore fan of DMC (I’ve played every game and beaten them all in all difficulty levels). I’d list the games from personal experience I find to be easiest (even on DMD) to hardest DMC2: literally the easiest game in the series regardless of what difficulty level you’re on. The enemies attack patterns are so bad that sometimes enemies don’t even attack at all or have horrid AI. The pew pew memes are really true here since you can just gun down everything and not really have to worry about anything. Oh and Maijin form can obliterate everything even if you have to be low on health to activate it but if you’re low health on DMC2 you’re either intentionally trying to get Maijin form or you just don’t care. Only hard part was Bolverk and Argosax since they’re the only good designed boss fights. Every other boss is still piss easy cuz pew pew DMC4: This game just has stupidly designed enemies that make the game feel harder then it should be (try killing a DTed Blitz as Trish and tell me that’s good game design). Other then that the game is fairly tame in it’s difficulty. The hardest boss was Sanctus only because of bad design choices for his fight. DMC5: Like you said only certain enemies become an issue due to how much of a tank certain enemies become. V’s missions are hard by virtue to the fact his familiars do not receive a defense boost against the damage of DMD enemies so more often then not they’re dead 80% of the time if you do not learn how to manage them. Even then it’s just a chore because they still die in one hit even if they are DTed themselves. I found the bosses to actually be the most fair even on DMD (except for King Cerberus, fuck him and his stupid ice roar attack). DMC1: This game honestly has the best designed DMD mode as if you know how to exploit certain enemy weakness you can down them before the timer runs out. Mundus, Nightmare, and Nelo Angelo 3 however are pretty fucking BS at times because one slip up can lead to death in just 3 hits or so. (Fun fact this game was the first game I ever platinumed and the first one I beat on DMD). DMC3: holy shit this game was actually irritating for me first time I beat it on DMD. Certain enemies like Enigmas, Hell Vanguards, Fallens, and Soul Eaters can really make you want to break your controller and the fact there’s a hidden timer this time around can really lead to moments of anxiety when it comes to certain encounters. Also the “if you kill 3 enemies every other enemy in the room DT’s” rule really wasn’t necessary since DMC3 likes to throw a lot of enemies at you anyway and certain rooms are just unbearable due to the enemy combinations since you’d want to prioritize the annoying enemies first before taking on the stronger ones but if you do that the stronger enemies become even more stronger. Key use of DT explosion is needed to make this mode even the slightest bearable. The bosses oh man they’re tanky and they can kill you in just 3-5 hits, good luck (DMD Geryon is literally the worst thing ever followed by Arkham). All in all I find this game to be the hardest period, this game on DMD mode really doesn’t fuck around.

[@boyeri3558]

I recently beat DMC3 on DMD and all i can say is fuck Geryon and Vergil 3, when i fought these two i actually wanted to punch my monitor and almost did, did it without heals

[@munem939]

Definitely DMC2! I mean, Infected Chopper is like the hardest boss ever! Jokes aside, trying to finish that game whilst staying sane is really difficult

[@xDevilNeverCry]

Accurate

[@thegamewin100]

It’s an ok game it’s got some cool customization but it really doesn’t make much of a difference when the whole game you just spam square

[@DNchap1417]

With DMC 2 I just slash, slash, dodge, shoot, slash, slash, dodge and shoot. The weapons are all the same, the only difference being the range and the power. The thin sword has the most reach but is the weakest while the meat cleaver is the strongest but has the shortest reach…

[@MEMEboi1357]

The only thing hard about dmc2 is the infested chopper. I NO JOKE SPENT 40 MINUTES BEATING HIM

[@mikotristijono6775]

DMC 2 is clearly the hardest game. I couldn't finish it due to my boredom even on normal :V

[@rikhardarling8672]

I decided recently to put myself through it to see what could have possibly fussed the whole fandom up. I had played every Devil May Cry game except for 2. And Jesus Christ do I regret using my time on that game

[@marccalebflores8270]

@LaTory50 W/roooosh

[@flamer1]

Definitely dmc 1 DMD proto angelo is the tip of the iceberg !

[@ivanmascot]

Though i am personally really bad at games (and everything else) so that it is just my personal experience, but I've decided to complete each mission of DMC1 on DMD without dying during it. I was playing it only in weekends. So just for comparison - some bosses took me at worst 2 weekends, but Mundus... every weekend I was trying to beat him without dying and i only managed to do so after straight 2 months after I've reached mission 22. So Mundus on DMD is devastating comparing to others

[@officialrivv]

Yesssss. Especially Shadow. I hate that bastard

[@Mocha13E]

I think DMC 1 being the hardest one just shows how hideki kamiya was ahead of the game he was in terms of how to handle difficulty in game design.

[@yaqubebased1961]

Bayonetta 1 also has a wonderfully designed difficulty curve, where you get absolutely crushed each time you go up.

[@thelastgogeta]

Thanks for acknowledging how the mission select and item balance can change transform DMD even though I personally avoid older missions or items for the most part. Maybe a follow up could be about specific encounters which are difficult in DMD or other modes (not just bosses, but a locked room which asks a lot of you). Enemies are also interesting but you never fight a lone Frost even though they are decent foes in 1 and 4. (Discussing tough floors in BP is sorta like a room, but DMC5 makes them easy to practice at least... Still doesn't make me like 3 Furies. DMC3 is too random to count unfortunately. )

[@harmanpatel8692]

I seriously wonder if I am a masochist or something when I play these games at their highest difficulty "for fun". Just love these games so much.

[@Walamonga1313]

I always play games on 2nd highest difficulty. Usually the highest one tends to be overtuned sponges that 1 shot, which are just tedious to fight. That said, I've beaten DMD on DMC1 twice because I 100% that game on 2 different platforms. I'm not really a big DMC fan but I love the first game

[@sarika3689]

DMC1 imo. DMC3 is technically harder, but since it has stuff like Roll into Royalguard and in general there's alot more options. Imo

[@jlogan2228]

With DMC 3 it only really feels harder bc when you start you have almost NOTHING to work with and cerberus can be damn near unbeatable. But if youre willing to replay missions 1 and 2 for and hour and a half to unlock air hike and a few rebellion combos and ebony ivory charge shots it makes the cerberus fight night and day different as far as difficulty. Especially if you also manage to grind enough to level up sword master style or practice with royal guard

[@sarika3689]

@@jlogan2228 I actually think the hardest fight in that game is the final Vergil fight. Even at low difficulties he can murder you exceptionally quickly.

[@youreadiseaseimthecure1986]

Thank god i'm not the only one who said that DMC 1 is even more brutally and unfairly harder than the Sequels because of the limited movesets and some of the most frustrating bosses ever that is Nightmare and the most annoying mini bosses ever that is the Phantom.

[@KnoxCarbon]

The first time you play Devil May Cry 3, the following will happen: 1. You'll get past the tutorial with a few scratches 2. You'll get to the first miniboss 3. You'll die several times in a row before giving up and switching to easy because normal isn't fun for a first time playthrough

[@keeper0ffire]

exactly lmfao but I still continued with Normal

[@zoids95ilmioanime]

The platinum of the original HD collection is one of the achievements I am most proud of. Now I’m replaying the collection on PS4 and I’ll try to platinum it again. I hate the last games where they gave more importance to the ranking. I like to play as I want and not for an S rank. I believe that “a legend was born” trophy of DMC5 will block my platinum for it, and it’s a real shame. I still have to complete DMD of DMC5 tough, so I have to see

[@ffnovice7]

One thing about dmc3: if you beat Very Hard you get Super Dante before DMD. It's limited DT with no health Regen but that actually allowed me to beat dmd on 3. Dmc1 however was so rewarding because there are times where you have to go back; collecting 3 digits of yellow orbs to fully learn how to react to Nelo 3, or counter every measure to Mundus 2. It was a one way ride to hell and it was so satisfying to hear "Devil May Cry's a-rocking, don't come a-knocking, baby yeh!" for the first time ever.

[@tristanchriesmon1056]

I have ta agree dmc1 was tough we all got frustrated at that game lol

[@xDevilNeverCry]

It did help spawn a new genre at least

[@tristanchriesmon1056]

@@xDevilNeverCry that's right

[@Dynocrusher]

2:50 I love you so much just for putting that song reference in there :v

[@xDevilNeverCry]

Nice catch! Didnt think anyone would realise

[@hwms001]

DMC 3 was the most challenging in my opinion.

[@AdnanAbbas1995]

Especially because of Bloody Palace. Because of Joker 3 I eventually used the super costume to beat it.

[@Nico-the-Nacho]

No game has ever given the sense of accomplishment, pride, and utter RELIEF that DMC1 did when I completed it on Dante Must Die mode. I remember it was night, no other lights were on, and I spent hours on end struggling with Nightmare and Mundus back to back. My eyes were stinging, I was tired, consumed by the black of the room, suffering death after embarrassing death until, by some miracle of luck, I did it. I beat Mundus. My ass was clenched so tight as I hauled my way out of Mallet Island, every lesser demon encounter putting me in fight or flight mode. As if a single death would make me have to go back and do it all again. But, somehow, I tore through Mundus 3, escaped, breathed a sigh of relief and heard Dante shout the line he ONLY does on DMD mode and my hype returned. And then that exclusive rendition of Pillow Talk it rewards you with... I left the game on and went to sleep with it playing in the background that night. Devil May Cry 1 is truly unique.

[@phootaphan9166]

I'm really looking forward to seeing what kind of tweaks are made to the enemies in DMC5CE. If they can manage to give the enemies DMC3 levels of aggression, I think DMC5's DMD mode will be an entirely different beast difficulty wise. The Better Vergil Boss mod makes that fight so much more intense

[@kombatant648]

Hardest to finish without going mad: 2 Requires you to be like Dante: 1 Requires you to really learn: 3 Requires you to be stylish: 4 Requires you to think harder: 5

[@eyevenear]

I wish you included the reboot in the ranking. even though it would've been a little cringy, still had decent gameplay then worth including it on next rankings.

[@jlogan2228]

I actually really enjoyed the reboot. The combat system plus how they cycle the weapons was actually really neat and visually was great bc most of the sets had their own distinct style and gimmick

[@kevinmoore2474]

The item cap break in DMC1 is a HUGE life saver when fighting Nightmare.

[@stormcutter59]

I havent played 1 in a long time but between 3 to 5 I have to say DMC3 on DMD is the hardest thing I've ever played in a long time. So many cheap enemies make it almost impossible to win sometimes. The enemies that can phase in and out of walls, the shooting enemies that constantly back off and you cant stagger, the swirling razor discs along the walls that you had to deal with while fighting, the summoners being particularly harder to kill with their small hit boxes and tremendously big health bars, not to mention the pace breaking spiders that are always stopping your momentum in your tracks, etc. All these factors and many more make DMC 3 a nightmare to me compared to the latter games in the series. Their is hard but 3 particularly borders on the line of cheap when it comes to DMD. The unfair kind of shit you have to deal with in that game is unrivaled by any game except maybe 1.

[@hellishsnake]

god, the time I spent learning the boss fights and strategic to beat DMC in DMD when I was a kid, was fun tho

[@aureateseigneur5317]

in DMC1 you can orb farm by saving mid mission and reloading. A good early farm is Phantom 2 in the hallway. Aside from buying moves and early Blue Orbs this isnt terribly useful, agreed.

[@jlogan2228]

Dmc 3 made me feel like a punk. It was my first intro into the series that I bought literally in a bargain store in the middle of nowhere bc it looked kind of neat and i figured for 10 bucks whats to lose. Fucking reaper and cerberus were kicking my ASS and i had beaten mercenaries on re4, titan mode on gow2 etc so i was used to hard. I couldnt image how this game was kicking my ass so much then years later discovered that the copy I had was one of those where "normal" mode was actually "hard" mode and for a brand new player who Wasnt yet familiar with how the combat system or the necessity of buying new abilities was, it was basically like saying you have to beat mike Tyson when youre a newbie and the best boxing gloves you have are oven mits

[@jmonty1595]

9:38 I did multiple playthroughs for my DMD run of DMC1 a year ago, so I figured I'd give my experience. I did 5 runs on Normal (+1 on Hard to unlock DMD) to prepare for DMD, picking up a good chunk of the available items, but not all of them. I had 21 Untouchables and ~30 Devil Stars going into the run. I didn't use any Untouchables until Nightmare 1. Before that, bosses were definitely tough, but fair and possible to do without items. Nightmare 1 is a huge jump in difficulty, and not in a completely good way. Throughout the entire run, I used 9 Untouchables total: 1 on Nightmare 1 4 on Nightmare 3 (Yeah, this fight is really bad...) 2 on Mundus 2 2 on Mundus 3 You could probably do the Mundus fights with 0 or 1 Untouchables. I also didn't use Devil Stars outside of cheesing Mundus 1. In general, I think you only need about 3 or 4 item collection runs and 15 Untouchables max to get through DMD. Knowing how to handle the bosses is much more important than stockpiling items. Hope this helps!

[@fluffyflare578]

I like to add something: On DMC5, I had a harder time on Hell and Hell than DmD. The fact everything one hit kills was troublesome. I know mobility was straight through the roof on it, but getting hit by projectiles while trying to finish off an opponent was very irritating, especially when it came to the trio before Vergil...Watching three things carefully as you try to beat up one until Griffin threw a shock orb which added another source of damage was definitely a mind bender. But I will say DMC1 hardest. I struggled on the first boss till I read about jumping on his back XD

[@chelinox4504]

correct me if i'm wrong but Hell or Hell mode is two levels higer than DMD rigth? so naturally u 'll have a harder time

[@fluffyflare578]

@@chelinox4504 Well yeah, but Heaven or Hell is technically "above" DMD, yet is by far easiest difficulty. Hard to style on even XD

[@crosselsmith776]

DMC3 DMD SS rank is a pure nightmare and is the hardest possible thing without a doubt

[@DimkaSulegnaa]

I know this is in general which is more difficult, but Lady/Trish on DMD mode were giving me DMC1 DMD flashbacks. DMC1 was a nightmare to play on DMD mode but it felt rewarding as hell beating bosses or the tough mini bosses (Shadow). The best comparison I can give for it is like beating bosses in the souls games blind. While DMC4 was the first one I did play and beat DMD mode, it was challenging, it didn’t feel quite as rewarding as DMC1 DMD bosses.

[@devilinabluecoat3911]

You guys say what you want about DMC2. But DMC2 gave us Majin form.

[@samuelsobral3953]

Great content, but I'd really like such an in-depth analysis including DmC.

[@dmas7749]

easiest. personally think even 2 is harder.

[@EldenRingBuildsArchive]

I would put 4 above 1 any day of the week tbh, while it’s true it doesn’t have a difficult DMD mode, bloody palace with Nero in the original, and Lady/Trish in the remaster are harder than anything 1 can offer. Haven’t really played 5 to have an educated guess about it, but from easiest to hardest, it’s definitely 2>reboot>3>1>4.

[@assassinonprozac]

Disregarding items 3 is definitely the hardest. The only reason people say DMC1 is harder is because you can’t farm items (which i disagree with I think it’s much easier to farm items in DMC1.) but I don’t use items. You’ll never get better at the game by just spamming items using items is like learning how to crawl but never learning how to walk.

[@jkomodo]

It's a good thing I saw this vid. I just started dmc1 on switch and was completely surprised how: when you save in a spot at a specific place in a mission it actually just loads you back to the beginning of the mission, The bosses are darksouls levels of difficulty, loading previous missions isn't available, The camera is the true enemy (even worse than darksouls) Every boss death makes you replay the level I'm 2+ hours in and am fighting a giant bird rn.

[@GeneralErlend]

DMC2 seems really unforgiving if you're going for S ranks in DMD (I'm *never* going to bother with that for DMC2). The boss health and some of the moves you are expected to dodge by the bosses and on some of the regular mobs alone (like getting gangbanged by 3-4 goatmen) is absolutely unforgiving. This will drain a lot of your Time and Damage score. If the moves were not so bloody cheap in the game, getting an S in style during combat would be fairly easy, since you can dodge your way all up to the S rank. Never bothered to even try, I just farmed orbs, bought healing items, and tanked my way through the rest of the DMD mode once I got to mission 16, where the game started to really test my patience for all the wrong reasons.

[@Jetsfool27]

Proto & the behemoth "why won't you die!?" Seriously SO MUCH HEALTH I almost got tired of combo-ing

[@WonkyTonkBotty]

That's why I hate damage-sponges. They take ages of you just riding them, and if you get screwed over by one false move, you're back to depleting their enormous health pool again.

[@noiteradical25]

You forgot to mention that in the first game in dmd difficulty dt doesn't regen health

[@Thebigballsmanful]

I think that's true for all the games, but the effects of taking away the healing are extremely palpable in the 1st one.

[@dantesapprentice4581]

@@Thebigballsmanful DT regens health in DMC4 and 5 on DMD. This is probably true for DMC3 too.

[@julius00]

DT regens in DMC3 but in higher difficulties,it regens so slow that a full bar of DT will regen only one little health bars

[@hugodogobob]

I've only platinumed 1&2 I was worried going into 3 so you've calmed my nerves. Out of 1&2, jokes aside, 2 was harder. I enjoyed 1 and it never became a chore it's one of my favourite games of all time. 2 requires multiple playthroughs of garbage. I gave up for a couple years and literally platinumed it today. I originally wanted to platinum them all but 2 cause me far too much pain and then the wind went out of my sails and I know longer wanted to. DMC1 platinum is a nice proud moment, DMC2 is the sweetest relief I've ever had in gaming. To know I'll never need to touch it again fills me with such joy. I'm not even exaggerating for those who haven't played it. It's not just a bad game, it feels like the design goal was to make playing lack any semblance of fun and make you physically sick with some of the design choices combined with the only camera that's ever given me motion sickness, including vr games.

[@1Synner]

I think that seems about fair for DMD mode on all of the games. Also, as a previously avid DMC1 player, "Do or Die" (that timer that appears) wasn't relegated to just story required encounters. There are some rooms that have it, even if it isn't necessary to go into that room to progress. If you're trying to speed clear missions (which is, to be fair, needed for S ranks), these rooms will go largely ignored. Furthermore, enemies still DTed at random if left alone long enough without the timer, so it was still punishing in that regard if you were taking too slow on getting rid of the first waves. The only thing that really alleviates this mode is that enemies in the game don't mix. If you get puppets in the room, that's all that's going to spawn until you leave. If you get Death scissors, that's all that will be there. If you get a pair of Kyclops, that's all the encounter will be. ETC. So, with that in mind, you could at least have a pretty solid strategy when facing off against the current mobs in the room that doesn't have to get too terribly complex. After all, enemy mixing didn't appear until DMC2...

[@rezanugraha2335]

I think it is DMC 2. even DNC said "playing that game on any difficulty wants to make you break your console", so how can you play other DMC games again if you actually break your console? lol jk :D

[@excaliburv1268]

11:20 I Definitely agree with you on that one. 🌹❤️👍

[@alaamahdi0164]

If you let enemies triggered in dmc1 you best to restart the mission plus bosses pretty dame hard it why i prefer dmc1 over others dmc

[@jotarokujo2053]

you forgot to mention that DMD in addition to More Agrresion,Health,Damage and devil trigger(hyper armor) there is the fact that DMD Add more enemies number and also mixes the waves like fighting demons from final missions at the early stages or combine demons that u never get to fight at once in normal mode wich create new encounter that u are not used to

[@moonraven6145]

The only thing about DmD I remember from DMC 2 was that Argosax's "parts" could fire off all at once so Griffins Lightning would've been happening at the same time as Phantoms fireballs etc... it was still an easy and dull fight though.

[@hollyfindlay4051]

It was a super weird shock too, as no boss prior really had mechanics changed like that. Definitely too little too late, but it made me laugh.

[@Syndralix]

When they said, "Dante Must Die!" they really meant it. But only the first time.

[@jonathanhunter7670]

The hardest DMC game for me was DMC4 because every time I played it I thought I would never play a new one again

[@cathallynch1]

Lol I like how you didn't even include DMC2 footage. One thing that really got me on DMC1 bosses was that many were at the end of the level, so if you died you would be repeating them without the items you used or else repeating the entire level (Griffon, anyone?), so lack of farming really made a difference.

[@bigboibebop]

I think that DMC 4 isn’t the hardest, but IS the hardest to master. Dante in that game I think is the most technical he’s ever been, and nero isn’t much different from his 5 version, and actually his 5 version was made a little bit easier in terms of Exceed timing and mechanics in 4 were just a lot more technical than five, because 5 was made to be a gateway it seems for newer generations, so they had to make it a tad easier for newer players that would obviously be coming in.

[@sacresful3827]

naaah, getting SS on all missions in dmc 3 without super dante is way harder than getting s ranks in dmc4. Also dmc4 wasn't meant to be played by dante.

[@kevinmartinibarra2222]

@@sacresful3827 But i think you don't need a no damage run to get SS in dmc3, while in dmc4 if you want the best rank in any mission you need yes or yes a no damage run (SSS,NI,ND) idk if thats counts to master the whole game in any aspect or as a personal goal.

[@sacresful3827]

@@kevinmartinibarra2222 You don't need to get no damage in dmc4 if you want S rank, you just need 3xS iirc or even SSA if you get high number of orbs like 95% (i think?). While in dmc3 damage counts also as rating, so if you want to get SS you need to do least damage possible. This means on dmd you can't get hit for shit. Also I didn't mention it, because of the recent update which allows you to change styles midgame and have all weapons it just makes game 100% easier. I think Vergil on dmd pre-patch no jump cancelling is one of the hardest bosses to beat to ever exist in the games after year 2000

[@kevinmartinibarra2222]

@@sacresful3827 Yeah but, isn't that the hardest is the difficult less estrict is the damage goal to get S? Correct me if i am wrong, also the Vergil boss fight have a simple patron making him predictable with his attacks, so you can make the same strategy to defeat him and you can evade mostly of his attacks just jumping.

[@alexmason896]

Idk if I can call myself a newcomer to the series because I played the first 3 for hundreds of hours as a kid but I’m just coming back to the series as an adult and I have to say the dmc community is mega hardcore. It’s crazy that I never see anyone talking about these games on anything other than dmd difficulty lol so far I’ve beat dmc reboot first because it’s not cannon, just beat dmc3 for the first time last night, I had the og release as a kid and could never beat it, and as my skill level stands right now I couldn’t even imagine playing through 3 on dmd lol it seemed pretty hard to me on normal, you guys are crazy in the best way possible lol.

[@DeitySkullKid]

Well, as someone who did use items through dmc1 dmd, (I did a lot of grenade cancelling for most of it, but I saved items for the tougher areas) With me spamming items on some harder bosses (Angelo 3/nightmare 3) I had 40 of each item, or about 8 playthroughs if you get everything When I did it again for the Xbox one version of the hd collection, I went ahead and got 60 of each to be careful, and had plenty left over Not saying it's an easy difficulty, I'm just saying about the amounts I had in case anyone is preparing and curious

[@Bluesine_R]

Wouldn't it be easier to just learn the game and boss attack patterns if you're having to do 8 playthroughs before you can cheese the hardest difficulty?

[@teamanbilbo5675]

Dmc 2 is the hardest hands down. I don't know how the developers managed to do it but every time I played I would fall asleep, meaning I would die to the enemy. I have tried to beat the first mission many times and I still can't do it.

[@welcometovalhalla2884]

DMC1 by default because it forces you to play Space Harrier, which I'm terrible at. Jokes aside, it's still DMC1. Even if you refuse to use items, DMC1 is still harder than 3. To completely destroy 3 you basically just need to learn Royal Guard. Some might think "that's easier said than done", and that's true, but it's still easier than learning the entire movesets of everything in DMC1. Having such a strong tool that can deal with basically everything makes the game easier in every mode. And even if you can't do that, you can still trickster out of harms way very easily. It'll take you longer to beat stuff, and you'll have to play very well if you want good ranks, but you will have an easier time actually winning than in DMC1. Also would you say DMC1 is also the hardest game to S rank? I haven't done that with any of the games on DMD, but I don't think I have a single S rank in DMC1 so I kinda want to nominate that for the hardest, but tbh I don't know. The timer for the style meter seems very strict in comparison to the newer games, and it feels like it weighs your mission complete time more.

[@lightorchestrator]

Pretty good list. The original is probably the hardest for the reasons that you described, the enemies were a joke but the bosses were insane coupled with really dated mechanics made certain bosses such as Mundus and Nelo Angelo 3 nearly impossible to beat. DMC 3 might be harder is you aren't using any items or super forms. The final fight against Vergil is extremely difficult even with items and Super Vergil. I'm playing DMC 5 on Dante Must Die with Vergil and so far it is mostly kind of easy. I've still gone down a few times but so far it feels easier than DMC 3 with those features.

[@saper-qm3hd]

Meanwhile, DmC: Devil May Cry: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@jackisback4873]

Everything past DMC2 is EZPZ if you have decent timing and stay in Royal Guard, just spam royal release. Guess you can't do that with Nero tho...

[@ivanmascot]

let's omit the royal guard for a mere mortals, then what?

[@jackisback4873]

@@ivanmascot I guess you could do bitchster style but doing so is only for the lowest level of plebians

[@disgruntledgun18]

yo what's with the grudge for trickster

[@jackisback4873]

@@disgruntledgun18 because Royal Guard is a defensive/aggresive style based around knowing your opponent's moves well enough to block and/or counter your opponent's moves perfectly. And Trickster is a defensive style based around making up for your shortcomings because you could care less about how the enemy works because you can simply swerve out of your responsibilities by smacking the up button on your D-pad and hammering the style action button.

[@noiteradical25]

Also I agree with you on being the first to be the hardest. I remember when I had it on Ps2 I played so much that I finished hard but Toke me so long that the disk was broke and the 3rd cutscene of the intro wouldn't load so I couldn't start dmd so years later I bought the HD collection for ps4 and in one month I was on mission 15 of dmd. With more practice I pull through and I had platinum. Although I haven't completed dmc2 4 and 5 and the 3rd with vergil (at least on HD collection of ps4 cause back on my Ps2 days I completed with vergil) One final note I haven't been able to platnuim the 3rd because doing s rank on missions 16 to 20 is hard on any difficulty

[@hubson1443]

I think bosses were hardest in DMC 3, but DMC 1 overall was harder as a game due to the fact there were completely no checkpoints. I remember that one mission that had a mini boss (nightmare-like dog) and Nelo Angelo was a pain in the ass. If you died against Nelo, you had to start from the beginning.

[@danquaza9275]

After replaying every game including DmC just last month I have to agree with this 100%. If you say absolutely no items in any game, which ones hardest?? I’d say 3 but once items come into play 1 is by far the hardest. Great video man, like always 🤣

[@jlogan2228]

Plus as much as people dont wanna hear it, the fact that from 3 onward you can basically replay the first 1-3 missions to farm red orbs and style upgrade it makes the rest of the game insanely easier. In dmc 4 (bc of the ass kicking 3 gave me) I literally replayed the mission where you fighter berial til i had a vast majority of neros moves unlocked and a pretty decent use of the exceed move and really knew how to abuse the devil bringer. I knew id get to play as dante eventually so I saved up alot of orbs and when I got to him i was able to buy everything he had available from the start then just upgrade the new weapons as I got them If you dont mind a grind them yea 3-5 can be SUPER easy if you just spend a few hours replaying certain missions

[@demonicdonte7892]

I went through DMC1’s dmd and my god… it took me months to get to work on beating the fights. The ones that became path blocks were Griffon 2 because of tight space, Nightmare 3 because of the bullshit, and Mundas’s final phase… nearly took me days but oddly the last mission.. I got an S rank even though I was hoping to get a B rank of how many deaths I had. And using a Devil star before killing him.

[@danteaerosol]

Personally, I don't think any of the DMC1 bosses compare to Vergil 3 in DMC3 in terms of DMD. That fight alone makes DMC3 the toughest to get through even with items

[@xDevilNeverCry]

Understandable, that boss is a rough one for sure

[@blackout1524]

Just abuse the items and you're golden. Can't do that in DMC1 which is why it's the hardest.

[@danteaerosol]

@@blackout1524 That's also part of the reason I didnt think DMC1 was the hardest. I never found myself needing to use nearly as many items as in DMC3. I feel as though DMC1's items are more reliable than in DMC3, so I never found myself abusing item usage in DMC1 even on the hardest difficulty

[@themerovingian27]

DMC 1! NO CONTEST! It is so friggin hard even in normal mode. Fighting the Griffon, Nightmare and Mundus in DMD mode makes me wanna break my console. The game is so hard that its the only PS2 game I played countless times and ended up mastering it. Yeah, I beat it with New Game - Dante - Rank S all missions - No DT and life bar upgrades. Beat that 😈.

[@supervegeta881]

I think the reboot should've been included in the video, because gameplay wise it still plays like a traditional dmc game.

[@riku528]

Literally just did a run on completing every Dmc on every difficulty and Dmc 1 took me the longest cuz of its goddamn DmD bro that shit made me want to cry

[@Myth_or_Mystery76]

What about every game with: -No Orb Farming -No Buying/Using Items -No Skips -DMD Difficulty -DmC 3 Yellow

[@BigBossCQCLegend]

Wow you really are the true son of Sparta to platinum the whole series of dmc

[@MCHuang]

Having only played original and 3SE, my guess was going to be for original mainly because there were no style options and I didn't know about jump canceling back then. I do remember I DID item spam my way through original DMD (I think I just face tanked nightmare 3), so I must've farmed for quite some time to prepare

[@SiCslenderMAN]

Yeah DMC1 is by far the hardest but also feels super fair. The Nelo 3 DMD fight is one of my favorite boss fights in any game as it's a true and fair test of skill of you vs the game.

[@Ro-fw3lc]

Call me crazy but I feel like ninja gaiden 2(xbox 360 version) REALLY shoved it in compared to DMC 5 where everything can fucking kill you while being horrendously tanky

[@Walamonga1313]

Hopefully this video compares Normal modes and then DMD modes separately

[@MrNitron87]

So I just started playing this series recently, I have only played the first 3 games but 3 definitely has killed me the most from what I've played so far, 2 was just a boring slog, and dmc1 the only 2 pains in the asses are nightmare 3 and mundus on dmd

[@veggielord5550]

To this day, I've never been able to beat dmc1's final boss on Dante Must Die.

[@SolidSnake684]

I find DMC 3 is crazier compared to 1, as the enemies are way tougher and meaner, but so is Dante so it evens out. The first game in comparison feels much more balanced and tightly designed around exactly how difficult each encounter should be, which leaves much less wiggle room for how to get through. The only way to do it, is to fuckin do it. So my answer would be 1... But I actually beat it way before I ever beat 3, so I really don't have an answer lol.

[@okami7847]

For me personally on DmD Mode, it goes: 1. DmC4 2. DmC3 3. DmC1 4. DmC2 5. DmC5 I think DmC5 is the easiest but is also much funner than all the other titles so I enjoyed that game's difficulty alot more.

[@delroku]

DmC1 is the fucking hardest due to how arbitrary it is Items are expensive Orbs are extremely limited Lives actually go down You have like 3 movements to perfectly time and it's not even trial and error because the enemy patterns can be so unpredictable sometimes that even trial and error after nearly 2 decades of playing it can result in error My uncle and i used to play it a lot And he'd pretty much know the game from top to bottom, weaknesses, tricks, strategies and patterns This was back in the PS2 era too There was no internet to learn how to cancel a combo or grenade roll It was something you learned on the way And his save file really was just that old The only time I accidentally opened it i got my ass kicked faster than light And even so i already had 5 playthroughs behind me I was like 8 at the time still so at least 3 of those playthroughs were on easy mode I still learned the game and i can sweep through normal mode aight But hard mode, not even DMD but just hard mode Is a test to your patience, reflexes and everything you've should've had learned so far And rage holy waters can also fizzle if the enemies are off screen so there's fucking that... a little mistake as experienced as you are can cost you half the life bar.

[@shamwow4273]

You platinumed dmc2 twice? Jesus, i cant even imagine the bill your therapist sent you afterwards

[@dante19890]

DMC5 on dmd has whats called bullshit difficulty... making the enemies soo tanky and resilient bulletsponges that its not actually fun to fight them when they DT.

[@xDevilNeverCry]

Not fun yeah but not the end of the world in terms of difficulty

[@justlloyd7881]

I actually like DMC enemies with tanky/spongey behaviour. Gives you a chance to be a lot more stylish on em without em dying too quick...

[@dante19890]

@@justlloyd7881 ye but when some eneimes are tankier than bosses... things are taken too far

[@amarson2322]

Just Lloyd I always thought the point of dmd is to kill enemies as fast as possible before they trigger.

[@GokuInfintysaiyan]

Well there’s also instant kills for several enemies (prime states) and tons of high damage maneuvers. Optimal combos are something people seem to have forgotten about while favoring stylish combos instead. People also tend to not use distortions like they did in 4, even though they still are incredibly useful

[@petwisk2012]

To me is DMC1 the only one i couldn't beat The DMD mode (also the PS2 Original is Harder tham the HD Version of DMC1) 9:05 but there's no cap in the itens you can find, and after you clear hard mode you can select the dificulty If Go straith Away tô dmd of keep playing on normal or hard a little more to Farm them Devil/Vital Stars, untoucheables and Holly Watter, what keept me from beating It was that i was stuborn and was trying to get an all S Run because you can Skip a Lot of shite (even the First griphon battle) but i got stuck with hin in the ghost ship and couldn't beat hin

[@Jackpot003]

Dmc1 for sure. I remember that fight with 2 shadows, it was really hard to complete.

[@WESKERsgm]

Jackpot003 dmc 1 is pretty slow and methodical game, every enemy is not that hard even on DMD if you know right tactics. Yeah back in PS2 era I thought that DMC 1 on DMD is impossible! While I somehow could complete DMC3 on DMD. Hard as hell and item spam of course but unlike DMC1 I did it. But nowadays with power of internet where you can find all tactics I think that DMC3 is little bit harder.

[@Jackpot003]

@@WESKERsgm maybe, maybe... :) u got the point

[@rpgfanatic9719]

I haven't played 1 but 4 is harder than 5. The only thing that makes 4 lenient at times is distortion damage, everything else is crazy, enemies hit you passively and force you into certain weapons, royal guard is not broken like it is in 5. I guess it depends on the characters you're able to play in the campaign. V makes every fight a joke because you don't have to play at close range, you also have to do other things like orb collecting for higher scores, so you just have to be more knowledgeable in 4 than 5 in general. Also crazy that DmC is not in here considering it helped with the development of 4 special and 5.

[@theguywholikesturtlez]

I've heard stories about Nightmare 2 and 3 for DMC1 on DMD, let alone mundus

[@TheUltimateNatural]

Air Raid, Air Raid everything.

[@mastergee7075]

Assuming you don't use items, DMC1 is the hardest to me. The normal rooms aren't that bad but the later bosses are brutal. I consider DMD Nelo 3 to still be the hardest challenge I ever faced in gaming. Vergil 3 is not that hard to just JC stomp to death. Plus, DMD Mundus is the only boss in the whole series that actually required me to use items. I just couldn't kill him without items. DMC3 is still very hard and the normal rooms are worse than in the first game, but the bosses are easier in my experience.

[@Comkill117]

3 because it’s the most challenging overall... But 2 because you have to sit through 2 to beat it.

[@bradl.602]

To this day I've never beaten two. That damned helo boss fight always makes me quit, my sanity won't let me try any further!

[@donavanfrea6768]

DMC 3 hands down. DMC 1 is mildly challenging mostly due to camera angles and the bosses. I haven't died once in DMC 2 cause it's a dull breeze and Dante is OP AF. Vergil in DMC 3 is the hardest boss in the franchise and there are a variety of challenging demons. DMC 4 is mildly challenging until you get to Dante's half of the game, the same goes for DMC 5 except they improved Nero so even he is OP as well. The attempted DMC reboot was just as easy as DMC 2 So in order we have 3,5,4,1, reboot, step off a cliff 2

[@darknightspider7495]

I think if you're going from low to no item spam, DMC3 is easily the hardest. The annoying enemies would just crank up their insufferable qualities by the thousands whenever they got DT. Bosses that were fun on lower difficulties like Beowulf, are now anti-fun because of gimmicks like constantly falling cages. As for DMC2, it's not that bad, but it's definitely unfair. You can't stagger enemies AT ALL when they have DT. Bosses also have absurd amounts of health. The underwater boss with Trish took me almost half an hour to beat because you couldn't lock onto it. Also, because of how enemy DT works and how early enemies get it in Bloody Palace, it makes DMC2's BP the hardest in the series by far. Fornicate thyself, I actually played the reboot's DMD on Hardcore, and it was unusually frustrating. Building DT in that game is so hard because there's no taunt button, and because DT is so OP in the regular mode, its meter gain was really slow by design. Unfortunately, they didn't rebalance this for HC so you could use DT more often like the older games, so you had to salvage your DT for the really hard encounters if you wanted to survive. Combine the DT with the color-coded enemies and demons with rage mode, and you're in for a miserable experience. So, for me it goes: 3 > 1 > 5 = HC DmC > 2 = 4

[@dmas7749]

i haven't beaten any of the DMD modes so here's my ratings based on each game's Normal difficulty. i will also assume Turbo is on if the game has it. i'm also assuming no items since most games are pretty easy with item spam. Devil May Cry 1 this game is hard, no joke. i legit couldn't beat Phantom on my first run, even on Easy. i did eventually come back and beat the game on Normal, and it's one of the most satisfying games to beat. this game also has my favorite boss in Nelo Angelo. Devil May Cry 4 maybe due to my experience with DMC3, and lack thereof with 4, as i'm not good with Nero. but there are absolutely brutal enemies like the Chimera and Blitz enemies which make not taking damage hell, not to mention some challenging (yet fun as hell) bosses like Credo, but this game is so frustrating at times I SWEAR TO SPARDA IF I SEE ENEMY HANDICAP ONE MORE TIME ON MY GODDA- [PLEASE STAND BY] Devil May Cry 3 (USA) i think this game is overrated in terms of difficulty, enemy tells are very obvious. i know exactly what Agni & Rudra are going to do and have plenty of time to react to it. while i don't think this game is easy, it's very fair. Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition just following the vanilla game, USA was made harder by making Hard mode into Normal mode, but more importantly using the Yellow Orb system. in SE, you get unlimited continues and up to 3 revives on the spot, however, this game has Turbo mode, making the game that much more chaotic and fast-paced. Devil May Cry 2 this game is harder than a lot of people give it credit for, but its still DMC2, being far and away easier than 3SE, even with Turbo off. there's some bosses that require you to pay attention such as the Assault Chopper, Trismagia and Argosax. DmC: Devil May Cry (base game) this is one of the easiest games i've ever played, i'm considering Nephilim Normal, even Devil Hunter is insulting, Nephilim is still easier than DMC2 normal, and at least DMC2 didn't hand out ranks like popcorn. the only way to get any challenge is to play DMD, but i have to admit DMD is quite fun, but barely compareable to most games' Hard modes, let alone compared to most DMC games. even then you'll have all your upgrades and weapons by the time you reach it. haven't played DMC5 Edit: i'm going to get looks for putting 4 above 3, but i think the twins as bosses exemplify this really well, in DMC3 you have more moves and ways of dealing with Vergil, but as Nero in 4, you have less ways to deal with Dante in DMC4, i can't beat him on SoS/LDK mode without cheating by using items or spamming max charge shot (a move i called useless), back to Vergil and i've first-tried his 3rd fight before Edit 2: also DMC4 has horrendous checkpointing. died after beating the second forced fight in M11? back to start.

[@Walamonga1313]

I'd say DMC3 is the hardest by far, but that may be because I love DMC1 so I have replayed it plenty of times. Along the way I may've actually gotten good, since I can beat Hard no sweat. DMD is ofc pain though. However 3 even on Normal mode annoys me, I genuinely don't like fighting most of the bosses and enemies in it. I love how they gave you more camera control and faster weapon switching tho. Then after that there's DMC4 which can get cancerous but usually not fatal. DMC5 so far is the easiest game, haven't died at all (on Normal). DMC2 doesn't even count since its just gun spam

[@dmas7749]

@@Walamonga1313 forgot to reply like me thinking 4 is harder than 3, experience and personal mentality likely has a lot to do with thinking 3 is harder than 1. i'd like to mention that the first phantom fight was absolutely dreadful on my first playthrough, so hard i didn't go back to it after finishing 3 and 4, and not from a lack of attempts. cerberus took me a fair several tries on my first run to be fair. i also think its unfair not to count 2, its still more challenging than DmC, while that's not saying much, 2 at least gives me a little bit of trouble on Normal with Trismagia and Argosax

[@highoctanesynx7950]

DMC2.....Lucia's disc.... The pain of just playing that game was harder than darksouls XD

[@TheRealJohnux]

DMC2. If you Play it eyes closed, one Handed and on hardest difficulty. But for real, DMC1 was super hard. I couldn't even finish hardmode on it.

[@vullord666]

Honestly the games got easier progressively just because they got better. With more controls, more abilities, a more fair treatment, and better difficulty scaling the games just got easier as a side effect of improving upon each other. DMC3 is easier than one because a gold orb will revive you on the spot, continues, styles, weapon switching, bloody palace (just for grinding red orbs), less item limits, and a much better camera (the real reason each game got easier). 4 is easier than 3 because style switching, buster attacks, a more straightforward bloody balance, more weapon switching, judgment cut end, and attacks easier to pull off. 5 is easier because it has a more straightforward game design overall, infinite gold orbs (that it just gives away), devil breakers (plus a better dt for nero), more weapon switching, sin dt (1 move will literally implode any non boss), easier royal guard/exceed system, and a much better camera. Honestly it feels like in comparison to DMC 5 the older games just gave you less options and were a bit more cheap. For Example King Cerberus is a much harder boss than dmc3’s Cerberus, but he feels so much easier just because Dante can do so much more.