Ranking the Devil May Cry 3 Bosses from Worst to Best

[@shawngriffith6901]

"Agni and Rudra, fire and ice baby!" Nah bro, fire and wind.. Cerberus is ice.

[@t.a.w.3492]

@TheWorkingMachine Hay, that's pretty güd! Thanks for that little insight, m8!

[@AstralPhnx]

@Abhinav Banerjee huh, I actually didn't know that. Neat

[@matheuscruz8574]

He was using Cerberus against Rudra instead of Agni, which is made of fire. What a genius.

[@matheuscruz8574]

@White-Van Helsing >ignoring the fact that they work

[@xanious3759]

@@matheuscruz8574 I actually refrain from using cerberus on agni specifically so i dont drain his health too much faster than Rudra's. Cerberus fucking *shreds* Agni to pieces off of a stun. I try to stun both of them and use large hitbox attacks to damage them equally so i can finish them off at the same time.

[@lindaunderling4637]

I love how this guys is actually really good at explaining DMC3 mechanics and clearly knows the complexity of the game and yet has footage of triangle spamming. Which is fine its just kinda funny

[@andyho4048]

Yep it is but again he’s judging them based off of their difficulty not how to style on them so it’s fair I guess

[@theatheistbear3117]

@@andyho4048Part of the difficulty is how easy they are to Style on, though.

[@lucasphilip4822]

The best is Virgil, the second best is Virgil and then Virgil, and the best game in the series is Virgil may Virgil: Virgil edition.

[@Scroteydada]

*Vergil

[@lucasphilip4822]

@@Scroteydada oh yeah you got my crappy phone and my lack of attention to thank for this.

[@gandalftheblack8836]

Featuring Virgil from the Virgil may cry series

[@youssifsamir796]

Come on boys .. WHERE IS YOUR MOTIVATION?!

[@maikkniss3971]

You man vergil May motivate : foolishness edition

[@vashido1866]

Vergil 3 is my favourite final boss of any videogame ever. The build up, the stage, the music, the fight itself, the motivation.....it's just perfect

[@GamerFreak354]

YOU ARE NOT WORTHY TO BE MY OPPONENT

[@JayfroC]

I second this. To me, the only boss fight that even comes close to it is the final battle in Okami.

[@hozzy2649]

"normal" mode on the original ps2 version: Vergil: "I'm starting to get motivated" Me: "you're still feeling motivated after killing me 10 times?"

[@ShadowBaofu]

The phase 2. "You're going down.... HAAAAAAAH!"

[@fenrir139]

playing it on DMD mode is my favourite gaming experience of all time, between how intense it is and how much emotion is in that fight even after playing the game multiple times its fantastic

[@adreamer5920]

Featuring Vergil from the Devil May Cry series

[@Aliens1337]

You meant Featuring Vergil from the Marvel vs Capcom series?

[@joshmciver4847]

I see this comment posted all the time... why? what's the joke?

[@thedude3065]

shcum

[@adreamer5920]

@Drake Barnes please leave me alone

[@achmadraditya7826]

More like vergil from special edition series

[@chrisossu2070]

You can actually get rid of the slugs fairly easily in the Arkham fight by using the Kalina Ann.

[@JustBrandon-i]

The game does that a lot with the weapons. The shotgun can shoot off Cerberus' ice easily. Igni and Rudra can be parried with the Cerberus nunchucks. Igni and Rudra just slaughters mostly everyone to the point Nevan can be broken down quite easily. kinda poetic that Kalina Ann can make the fight easier. Hell if you devil trigger when Vergil does. You can keep the fight at an even pace.

[@omerdirekci8857]

@@JustBrandon-i A year later, kalina ann also can distrupt lady so you can get hits very Easily.

[@biggore8338]

@@JustBrandon-i Agni and Rudra can be parries with anything. I used Rebellion

[@JustBrandon-i]

@@biggore8338 but can it parry as quickly?

[@JustBrandon-i]

@@biggore8338 but can it parry as quickly?

[@odedil87]

Beating Vergil in the final fight on DMD is still one of my highest peaks as a gamer. That was straight up nuts.

[@sebotrp]

DMC4: Easily beating Balrog on my first try with near full health like the game was made for toddlers DMC3: Easy mode is now selectable.

[@kurosakikun96]

If you are talking base DMC3 that is a bad comparison, seeing as they fucked the difficulty on release so that Normal was actually Hard in the Japanese game

[@mi7sen95]

I Think you mean Burial. Balrog is Dantes weapon in 5.

[@johnperez2202]

@@nbnediit4364 dude DMD was so wild I've yet to beat it

[@Conflict-ff5pi]

Love the video, but i have to say seeing you spamming the basic rebellion combo over and over on every boss was really painful to watch.

[@fenrir139]

i thought the same, watching how he played it was so painful i blanked it for my sanity

[@Ghettojaku]

Wow didn't take too long to have these people

[@elegantcat1496]

@@Ghettojaku "these people". In a game that goes out of its way to grade you based on style. Yeah, we are the problem I guess.

[@Ghettojaku]

@@elegantcat1496 but it's the games job to grade you not these peoples job. Is it that big of a deal anyways? It's ok to not like the gameplay but try not to be an elitist in a video game.

[@elegantcat1496]

@@Ghettojaku Yo buddy, the guy just said it was painful to them. Nobody Is going to prohibit anyone from playing like this. It's just how we are feeling, don't we have a right to that?

[@destoroyahofhope4005]

"Arkham is easy" Every DMC3 fan would love to have a word with you. His eels are awful and having Vergil replace Devil Trigger was absolutely awful. I love mah boi Vergil, but he should've stayed in the background until the end of that fight. I'd say Gigapede was the worst boss. He was a boring, bland, unexciting boss that felt like he belonged in a different game. The bosses in the fourth game are a huge mixed bag though. I like half of them, felt like I'm forgetting half of them.

[@sethfeldmann3204]

His eels are weak to Katlina Ann

[@ShinAkuma]

Single shot from Kaileena Ann destroys like 7-8 eels at once.

[@Bloodhurl67]

How could you forget half of them when you fight them like 3 times?

[@destoroyahofhope4005]

@@ShinAkuma I abused my girls rocket launcher at first, never really worked out for me.

[@aleisshiki3649]

DestroyerOfHope which bosses would you want to forget in dmc4?

[@mattventures5009]

*talks about how Lady doesn't fit the stylish gameplay too well* *continously spams Rebellion's basic combo* *used a yellow orb instead of biting the dust for a potentially better rank*

[@Zytomega]

this

[@sethfeldmann3204]

@TheWorkingMachine Yes, but the man doesn't have those Smoking Sick Stylish combos.

[@UrbanlegendBD01]

Yeah this irked me so much

[@stardustgirl323]

i never used rebirth with Vergil!! boy, that's cancer

[@starshape6650]

@@kozodoev any game like this which requires skill and has deep mechanics and combat will atract those type of people, unfortunately.

[@rdc4461]

Arkham is pretty damn hard actually because of those eels even pro players at this game like donguri stay back in the second phase and shoot

[@sethfeldmann3204]

I never had trouble. It's annoying, but using Katlina Ann, they're a cake walk

[@rdc4461]

Seth Feldmann yeah my first play through I didn’t and it sucked trying to hit them all but on my second play through it was pretty easy

[@royal6978]

I'm right with you there. Arkham kicked my ass several times lol. but i did play it when I was much younger so I'm way better now

[@MrVince329]

He's not ranking them on difficulty, he's ranking them on quality

[@iota-09]

@@royal6978 was the other way around for me, pretty sure i killed him when i was younger, but i just couldn't now, i don't care how dumb it sounds when i say it, but dmc3 is genuinely harder than dark souls(at least, the 3rd)

[@brandonerickson5753]

I always get chills during Vergils final scene. The voice actor delivers the hell out of some of the lines. "No one can have this Dante. It's mine. It belongs... to a son... of Sparda"

[@mathewhaight]

The best part is that Dan Southworth had a cold during recording and still killed it.

[@WeirdTroll666]

yep

[@pancakesonrage902]

[@CustomGamesStudios]

I played this game for the first time ever last year. It was so tough and I believe it’s one of the best action games ever made. WOW

[@Fedorchik1536]

it is!

[@112523]

i replay it yearly and it never bores me so i do believe its one of the best

[@raresmacovei8382]

Ike Andrews It truly is one of the best action games ever made

[@goodxd701]

Passed it on normal,hard and now on very hard.

[@BrandoB2557]

@@goodxd701 Dante Must Die mode will be your TRUE test. Super Dante is worth it, though. There are other difficulties after that, but they're basically just gimmicks

[@DBfan106]

probably my favorite strategy to use against Vergil is that whenever HE goes devil trigger, so do I, the feeling of trading hits when both of you are in a powered up state is absolutely fantastic!

[@Survivor976]

I agree. It makes the fight much more intense and epic.

[@gojochillmode839]

This party's getting crazy LET'S ROCK

[@jackenglish5777]

*aaaAACHOO!*

[@magicalduckye2356]

I hope you all have enough to pay for all this!

[@TheHellsreject]

I love Virgil's fight for the fact you can bait his Devil Trigger early by taunting him so he doesn't get the benefit from a fully charged DT.

[@grandpanoogie2665]

Damn i didnt know that

[@yaboi2500]

Good to know. I’ll keep that in mind the next time I fight his bitch ass.

[@ThePotatonator979]

Man ranking a combo based game with a ton of weapons moves and mechanics while mashing triangle with rebellion for the whole game is kinda bad. It's like you miss 90% of the gameplay and reviewing the other 10%. Can't really have an opinion without even doing the basics, most bosses are much better when played properly.

[@mredator1000]

"When the game is played properly". If the game gives you tools to play the way you do, then you play properly. Only way you dont play properly is if you do something with the coding of the game.

[@ThePotatonator979]

@@mredator1000 Ok then go play Tekken using only jabs on the easiest difficulty, you can probably at that too put you're missing on 90% of the game just like DMC

[@joaokiwi2543]

​@@ThePotatonator979 you dont understand , you SHOULD be able to beat this game bosses with all weapons, this way all of them are usefull and the gameplay will feel, fresh, dynamic and not repetitive... do you understand weaboo?

[@ThePotatonator979]

@@joaokiwi2543 Yeah read my first comment again smartass...

[@exseraph-1344]

Joao Kiwi read his comment over again idiot, you’re saying his point back to him

[@Gat-Man55]

U forgot to mention with Agni and rudra that u can parry them with well timed swings and bring them to their knees for massive damage

[@M7S4I5L8V2A]

There's also the fact that you can jump on Geryon.

[@the-brown-dad]

He didn't forget, I don't think he was capable

[@thesnatcher3616]

@@the-brown-dad It's pretty easy to do. I just spam the stinger pokes and the hitbox around it can constitute as a parry. Pretty inconsistent, but the fight is still pretty mangable without it.

[@arthursnyder6935]

If can split the damage between Agni and Rudra evenly for the whole fight, you can win it without triggering the cutscene where one of them gets the fallen one's weapon

[@bashblade4026]

When vergil said "you're going down." I felt thag

[@austin432432]

Oh look a opening triangle, triangle, and guess what triangle

[@zesork5627]

dark souls players smh

[@austin432432]

@@zesork5627 wait who me?

[@zesork5627]

@@austin432432 Nah i'm talking about the youtuber. His content is mainly soulsborne so it seems he carried that game's mindset to dmc3.

[@austin432432]

@@zesork5627 yeah I can definitely see the R1 spam if I squint

[@thepeasant269]

@@zesork5627 He's a dark sword spammer

[@DanteValentine16]

Seeing the same attack pattern used over and over on the doppleganger , why no style ITS DEVIL MAY CRY FOR FK SAKE

[@bonnieshenton9426]

Watch my dmd vergil fights

[@alexlee4154]

I dont think jester is invunerable while inside that crystal And i think agni and rudra are fire and wind

[@NiaTheMilkTank]

He's not he takes significantly less damage. And your right.

[@OH-no4pz]

"Agni" means fire in my language. Haven't heard the word "rudra" though.

[@josephcirrincone9596]

You're correct

[@poisonousmushroom5183]

@@OH-no4pz which is your language?

[@poisonousmushroom5183]

@@OH-no4pz which is your language?

[@xidjsj1390]

Spamming the same combo over and over again was kinda painful to watch :/ Great video though

[@LegendaryDarkKnight602]

He knows Orphan of Kos. He's a Souls agent.

[@Foul_Ghoul]

The two brothers were my bane as a kid. I remember going to farm to buy three holy waters to kill them for one reason or another I just couldn’t figure out how to deal with them. While not as brutal of a ass kicking I got playing when I was 16 they still give me a thrashing anytime I play the game.

[@Fedorchik1536]

But you can just spam Cerberus's Revolver Lvl2 and they just die xD

[@androidj.n2106]

wow Dante and a particular alchemist both cried in the rain

[@BerserkerGoji9973]

“It’s a terrible day for rain”

[@yakiddphangcudi1192]

A FMA: Brotherhood reference in a Devil May Cry video? Who woulda thought?

[@friedpickle8332]

The only good thing about Arkham is even the characters in the game are like "You really think this jello mold is the final boss? Yeah, nahh. Just wait." Vergil was a hero all along for stepping up as the true final boss, we just couldn't see it.

[@dajoler]

I was in awe of Vergil's speed when I first fought him; the guy straight-up anime flash-stepped behind me and cut my health bar to shreds.

[@yellowcrusader8585]

For agni and rudra he didn't mention that if you attack right before they hit you you knock the wepon out of there hand for a massive attack window

[@fluidwolf]

Fun fact. Agni and Rudra have elemental weaknesses so they encourage you to weapon switch. The red one is weak to ice so Cerberus is effective against them and I think the blue one is weak to fire(not quite sure on this one honestly). Think other enemies and bosses have elemental weaknesses in this game too But Vergil is obviously the best boss imo. Least favorite is same as yours. Funny how Arkham's fake persona is a better fight in the end

[@Kldm3]

HECK YEAH MORE BOSS RANKINGS!!!

[@OmnicidalClown1992]

Vergil is hands down my favorite Devil may Cry 3 boss, as well as my have overall boss in the Devil may Cry series. Least favorite is Heart of the Leviathan.

[@danaltamirano2546]

Friendly reminder that Vergil (on Dante Must Die) with Force Edge melts your two health bars by doing *his standard combo* So yeah, he is a Dark Souls boss before Dark Souls.

[@arthursnyder6935]

Especially if you're trying to fight him on DMD without taking a single hit

[@nesoukkefka1741]

2:19 Vergil join in exchange from Devil Trigger making the battle. HAHAHA OH Man you never fight this boss on Dante Must Die do you ? Vergil is a curse in Dante Must Die for this fight, not only you lost Devil Trigger you also lost your style ability for him, and let's put him simply Vergil sucks in this fight his AI is terrible, the worst part is the boss has a move when he grab Dante and kill him slowly you have to hope Vergil will attack to free you, except some the bastard won't free you. Because of this move alone what is consider the best way to deals with this boss (especially if you want an SS Rank) is to keep your distance and slowly kill him with Guns what a fun fight -_-. You also forgot to mention that in his second and third fight Jester is assisted by a giant ball that attack you in tandem with him.

[@achi5170]

Relatable, this list would flip on higher difficulties :P

[@devingilliam5601]

A c h i The list is best bosses not toughest bosses. I think far and away Vergil is the best boss in the game because of what he lends to the story of the game and how emotionally driven the fight is given the circumstances.

[@nesoukkefka1741]

@@devingilliam5601 I think you and A c h i misunderstand when I say Vergil sucks, I wasn't talking about his boss fight, as a boss fight he is excellent no complain. However he joins you during the Arkham fight and as an ally he sucks, his AI is crap which can end up killing if he don't do the thing you want him to do, and he impose himself removing both Devil Trigger and Styles's abilities which are 2 of the main features of the gameplay.

[@achi5170]

@@devingilliam5601 Agni & Rudra is my personal fav tbh

[@Next-xm2dh]

The Arkham Fight Sucks Even On Normal

[@AlterAce]

Vergil 3 the greatest boss fight in action game history.

[@kaskakiller]

Alter Ace just wait for dmc 5

[@sharavy6851]

@@kaskakiller Yay, he's still better...

[@yaboi2500]

Vergil’s DMC5 fight (playing as Dante) is arguably his best fight.

[@assassinonprozac]

@@yaboi2500 Glad you added that “arguably” in there because I heavily disagree. I really don’t like the 5 fight mainly because I was spoiled by Vergil 3.

[@yaboi2500]

@@assassinonprozac I found Vergil 3 to be too aggressive and too unpredictable to be fun. DMC5 Vergil is hard, but fair.

[@kujo4388]

Leviathan was a horrible boss, idk wtf you were talking about. Literally nothing redeemable about that whole level.

[@AzaiKang]

You Air Hike on the Gigapede? Dude, just drop down from the Ledge, you'll land on its back, LOL

[@antoniobandito3161]

After becoming a huge dmc fan and become pretty good at them and especially dmc3 its almost hard to watch someone who’s a beginner and not very good yet but then again i remember also being like this when i first started

[@johngamer-bp3pc]

Personally I would switch giganped and vanguard ranks.

[@danaltamirano2546]

I don't want to be that guy, but all of those "camera issues" are fixed by doing something. *Lock On*

[@sincord1]

there was even a camera rotate/switch button. P i think

[@benxen8844]

dan altamirano it’s honestly not, I play with my index basically stuck on r1 and the cam in the brothers fight still gives me shit, same for Berial in 4

[@silverbandit721]

Virgil: Oh ho! Dante! You plan approaching me? Dante: I can't kick your ass from over here! Virgil: Is that so? Then come as close as you want!

[@K1rkhammer]

Great list, Demod. DMC 3 fits nicely into my top 5 games of all time, and the bosses are of such high quality that they alone provide enough motivation to keep me coming back to it again and again. I remember saying the exact same thing about Nevan to one of my friends, it's almost unfair that she isn't the best boss in the game. Vergil just earns that by default.

[@beakiesan6918]

*Spamms on attack* *Says Nevan is a good boss* Me:Iggt imma head out

[@Purrest]

Very happy you’re doing one of my favorite series of all time. Love the video 👍🏻

[@FuraFaolox]

here's a tip for Vergil's final fight: you can cheese the fuck out of him with Beowulf

[@arthursnyder6935]

Also you can deflect the doppelganger's dark energy ball thing back at him if you're quick enough when he's about to use it

[@adamhall4549]

Giving this game some justice. Nice job!

[@matheuscruz8574]

Except for his insistence in comparing everything to Soulsborne.

[@WastePlace]

Adam Hall them combos not doin anyone justice

[@GenericPhantom1]

The heart was terrible I was so annoyed I just used the holy water twice and they all died.

[@WandererRedux]

Always fantastic to hear your impression of the bosses DeMod 🙂. Apologies if anyone in the community are overly rude to you regarding combos, style rankings, or item usage, there is a certain sections of the fanbase that can be pretty elitist/toxic in regards to these things. I am just happy you had fun with one of my favourite games honestly. That said, I would love to see you try the bosses on DMD difficulty if you ever cover this game again. Vergil 3 in particular is a fantastic fight and a real test of your mastery of the game 😏.

[@Aiden-wx9xr]

To any newbie who wants to try DMC3 and probably struggling with Agni and Rudra, keep in mind that this type of fight will prepare you for whats to come. My strategy is get both of them down to very low health so they dont get a chance to enter the second phase. I mostly use cerberus cuz cerberus swordsmaster moveset is fast and you can hit the enemies that standing behind you. Good luck devil hunter!!

[@Spritzkrieg]

Oh, man. This is one of those games where I'll remember the first time I faced every single boss. This game is so goddamn amazing. I had been waiting for years to get a chance to play it (after watching my older brothers play it when I was a kid), and about a month ago I finally got my opportunity. Anyway, boss time! Hell Vanguard? Yeah, he's aight. I didn't die to him on my first go, so that was nice. Cerberus. What a good boy. But when I first faced him, he was a VERY bad boy to me! I think I actually died to him like four times, and finally got him on the fifth round. Then, when I went back to fight him again at a later date, it was like... ridiculously easy. I don't know if something changed, or if I had just progressed that much. Anyway, it's a good fight. ^^ "Gigapede"? Yeah, that's what it's called. I can beat every boss without items now, but I'll admit I used a couple of stars during the worm-thing fight. It was kinda boring. Next. Agni and Rudra were pain the first few goes. I didn't know they could damage each other, nor did I know how to dodge attacks with finesse. The most I knew was that a jump made you invincible for a couple frames. I must've died to those two six times in total, but I did eventually triumph. Knowing how easy it is to make them damage each other, I don't have as much fun with that fight as I used to... but that's my own fault for not playing as stylishly as I could be. I'll be changing that in the future. So, my main motivation (yeah, ha-ha) for playing this game was just to fight Vergil. I had no idea what he was like, other than what my memories from as a kid told me: he was damn hard. So that's what I was expecting as I went into the first Vergil battle, and then... it was kinda easy? Like, oddly enough, I struggle with the fight more now than I did when I first fought him. I guess it was just the high of Agni and Rudra affecting me. I was in the zone and I refused to die. I knew what was to come, though, so I wasn't disappointed. I like how these bosses sometimes fit into entire different genres of combat. The heart of the Leviathan was one abnormal boss. I actually don't remember what happened during this battle. It was difficult for me at the time, I know that - but I don't remember the outcome, or how many times I died (or if I didn't). It was a boring one. Nevan, though, oh my God. I am embarrassed. See, for some reason I felt like my sword strikes were not connecting with her shelter of bats. So I thought that I had to whittle down her ENTIRE DEFENSE with ONLY MY PISTOLS. That was hell. I wish I knew what I was doing. I think Nevan claimed the most deaths out of me than any other boss, purely because I didn't know how to fight her properly. The other parts of the fight weren't that difficult, either, but fighting her for soooo looong was wearing me down and I fell apart, every time. Nowadays, though, it's no problem. She's a fun one. Beowulf was pretty difficult for me, too, but I realized a few deaths in that he really wasn't that big of a problem. Like you do with every other boss, I learned his moveset and adjusted accordingly. He did stomp me a good few times, but he's no problem for me now. I'm sort of baffled by my performance against Geryon, though. I did pretty bad the first couple of times. Although in my defense, his attacks are the kind that aren't immediately obvious to a newcomer. They're telegraphed, but you can't guess what he's going to do unless you already know what each warning means. There's a few bosses like that in this game - which is fine, I'm not complaining about it. I like all the fights, really. The second Vergil fight... I actually played this one early on someone else's save (I was using an actual PS2 and memory card. OG.), and dear Lord, did I love it. It was so much more difficult than the first Vergil fight, and so much more satisfying to watch. At some points, Dante and Vergil look like they're dancing more than fighting. Anyway, although Vergil pummeled the shit out of me the first couple rounds, I did eventually beat him. Now I've played that battle so many times that it's actually kind of a piece of cake, but that's only because I know it so well. Lady was kind of just annoying. It was a good fight, and it changed up the dynamic that I had gotten used to, but not in the most fun way. That might just be because I set up a false expectation for what the fight should've been, though. It's still a good fight. But Doppelganger? The only reason I have ever taken damage from this guy is when I get bored of fighting him and try to turn the lights on faster, allowing him to hit me. He's just so boring. At least with the Hell Vanguard and heart of Leviathan, I could move around to wherever I wanted. For Doppelganger, there were a select few strategic positions you could take and actually do anything. It is at least minimally fun, but I can't call it a good boss battle. Arkham, though? I mean... I don't really like him. As a boss. Well, not as a person or character, either. I like him as he serves the plot, of course, but... I'm getting way off track. Arkham was a very boring boss, and you end up spending more time spamming Kalina Ann at his slug nuggets than you do hitting Arkham himself. The thing that really saves this fight is Vergil coming in for the second half. Vergil Battle 1, 2, and 3 are all great pieces of boss music, and I love them all so much - but Arkham phase 2! That shit is my JAM! So fucking epic, I love it. The buildup, the fast action beat plus the swelling orchestra... the second half of the Arkham fight is the most immersive experience in the game. I can look past how boring the boss is because of the way that music makes me fucking move. And, dear Lord, Dante and Vergil together absolutely shred that tumor-lookin' ass. Of course, the crowing jewel of boss battles in the game is Vergil 3. This was the moment I had been waiting for, and it was everything I had hoped for. People say that Vergil was really difficult in DT for the second fight with him, but I never really had a problem with it. It's in Vergil 3 where DT becomes a true threat. Unfortunately, I succumbed and decided to use items to beat him the first time, which I regret. It didn't take away too much from the adrenaline-pumped experience, though. However, after I had beaten him for the very first time, I resolved to later go back and beat him without items. I did that. I was proud of myself. But then I thought, "Eh, I used Beowulf... It'd be a lot cooler if I could beat him without that handicap. Plus it'll align visually with the cinematics." So I beat him again, without items and using Cerberus instead. Kinda proud of that too. But NOW, I really want to face him on Dante Must Die difficulty. I'm very discouraged about doing that, though, and here's why: I want to play through the entire game with Super Sparda, because that essentially just makes him his normal self. It's just the pure demon Sparda versus his son, and that sounds really cool to me. He's unlocked by beating the game on Dante Must Die difficulty... but only in the Special Edition. With the original release of the game, I don't have that option available. So I just don;t care as much. I won't feel like a true master of the game until I've beaten it on Dante Must Die difficulty, with normal Dante and no items, so that is one motivation I have to beat it on DMD. But knowing that I can buy the SE game on Steam or whatever and get an extra reward that's very valuable to me, I'm not very motivated. I swear I'm not saying "motivated" as a dumb reference, it's just the word I'm using. I will inevitably revisit this game. When I do, it'll be with the special edition of the game, and I will beat it on Dante Must Die. Then I'll have fun with everything else it has to offer, too. I will come back to this novel-length comment one day...

[@Spritzkrieg]

One month later. Except about a week or two after I would've made this update. I've done it. I beat classic Vergil 3 on DMD without any items. I feel like I've earned the right to gloat.

[@Spritzkrieg]

Oh my Lord, I forgot these comments existed Past me, you should be really proud of how amazing you will become at these games. And you know I wouldn't praise you if you didn't earn it, because you're me

[@yamithewolfie5832]

fire and wind not ice for agni & rudra

[@HeelDashing]

I found Virgil 1 to be one of the easier bosses, in fact i used the mostly the same strat i used against Hell Vanguard. Just melee attack until parried then time your dodge using trickster's sidestep and use Stinger, preferably lvl 2 to close the distance. Said strat doesn't work on 2 and 3 though.

[@shubhagarwal9812]

Putting Beowulf below the horse is a crime.

[@elalcazar7374]

demod be happy that you did not fight the third Vergil on DMD. Might be the hardest bossfight I ever done.

[@yes7281]

My favorite part about agni and rudra is that you can infinite them with the 5 hit combo with rebellion and the right timing. If you get in the right groove you can knock ones weapon out of it's hands as the other one gets up.

[@blindtreeman8052]

Its so wierd seing footage of this game without the style switch mod. That thing just makes the game 10x better

[@grandpanoogie2665]

Donguri agrees with you

[@sinklar7946]

Eh, I can see it making the game more fun, but I feel like it breaks the game too much. It was balanced around only having one at a time so having them all makes things just too easy imo.

[@assassinonprozac]

@@sinklar7946 DMC3 is already busted with things like Royal Guard, DTE, and the Ultimate Tempest. Style switching isn’t that broken in comparison and I don’t think it makes the game that much easier even if we disregard those other things. DMC3 is extremely easy if you know what you’re doing even on DMD with or without style switcher.

[@ziggyberts]

I love vergil 3 but i gotta give it to his second fight, i just love his moveset with beowulf and the fact that he uses devil trigger for the first time seals the deal for me. Plus the YOU WILL NOT FORGET THIS DEVIL'S POWER, YOU ARE NOT WORTHY AS MY OPPONENT gets me everytime lmao

[@jerrysmith8814]

I remember almost breaking my controller during the Beowulf battle. I thought that he was the hardest boss ever. And many hours later, during the boss-rush mission he felt like such a pussy. The game truly changes you

[@raiaanahmed8804]

Have you fought Beowulf dmd version he is a nightmare

[@jerrysmith8814]

@@raiaanahmed8804 nah, my limit is hard. I'm not a particularly hardcore gamer

[@raiaanahmed8804]

@@jerrysmith8814 oh ok but Beowulf in higher difficulty is ridiculous

[@Jojotheprocrastinator]

Personally beowulf, the horse, and vergil 3rd battle are probably my weakness. Anytime in bloody palace they'll always give me a run for my money.

[@darkmoonwarrior2813]

Fun fact: while i was fighting vergil for the first time, i accidentally managed to get him in an AI loop, turning him into a joke. :|

[@benortiz8702]

The first fight, especially in easier difficulties, is such a disappointment, the fact he blocks actually makes him easier since you’re no longer stuck in a long animation. Because of this, every time he blocked, I immediately dodged his attack, since I was now free to do so, and just countered. Easiest fight in the game.

[@nievesofficial]

I didn’t mind the Arkham fight at first because fighting alongside Vergil was badass as shit, but I hate replaying it now

[@ultimatemoose2150]

BuT DmoD, wHERe's thE Ds3 aReA raNkInGs??

[@borbende]

At the end of the video with the last part of the ds2 area rankings.

[@EthanSchmethan]

Bende Borkovits Glad to see someone else saw that video to the end lmao

[@borbende]

@@EthanSchmethan Yep

[@MrBordmahn]

A ton of people are going to bash on *repeated triangle mash*, however growing up I did not see much love for this game. These days there's been what feels like a resurgence but with the semi mediocre entries afterwards, I don't care how he plays the game or what gets mashed, but damn am I just happy to see some recognition for one of my favorites.

[@nashklasher4292]

Increase your difficulty man .. Top 6 for me Vergil Nevan Agni and rudra Beowulf Arkham Cerberus

[@SamsarasArt]

I agree, I'd like to hear his opinion after playing Dante must die

[@humansnake2091]

I don't think this top is based of difficulty. I think it's based on how good the boss felt to play against. Imagine saying that cerberus is difficult. Yes he is but not above beowulf for sure. My top for design bosses are: 1)vergil (duh) 2)Agni&Rudra (I love them too much) 3)Cerberus 4)Nevan 5)Beowulf

[@DrnMontemayor]

Arkham is hard because of the minions in DMD. He is still a GARBAGE boss. Quality doesn't always relate to difficulty.

[@myster1ousdemon]

@@humansnake2091 hey that's exactly my list! high five xd

[@humansnake2091]

@@myster1ousdemon high five right back pal

[@josephcirrincone9596]

You released a video talking about my favorite game in the DMC franchise on my birthday

[@vorpalinferno9711]

"We got ONE final game to before the launch of 5" HAHA! I like how he is discarding the failed reboot.

[@welcometovalhalla2884]

Since I can tell you enjoyed the game a lot I have to recommend that you play on the higher difficulties and try to go for high mission ranks. You have to use your full arsenal to get high ranks and it makes the game much more fun that just blasting enemies with the basic Rebellion combo. Which is fun for sure too, but that's mainly due to how good and satisfying the animations are, not because of particularly compelling gameplay. And not only it makes it more fun, it makes it more effective too, since for the first time in the series your best strategy isn't the most boring one. The main combo isn't very damaging and it throws enemies away with the last hit, which forces you to close the gap again (and unless they're against a wall Stinger won't work that well because it also sends them flying on hit). I can also see you're only using Split and your guns in the air, while changing weapons or using Swordmaster could help you stay in the air for much longer. You can MELT bosses like Cerberus (without even knocking him down) or the Heart of Leviathan that way. All that aside, higher ranks give you tons more of red orbs if you need more motivation than "it's more fun". As for the higher difficulties, Hard mode is kinda just a NG+ mode with small differences, you can blast through it like NG+ in Dark Souls 3, but Very Hard not only gives enemies more health and damage, it gives them more agression and changes their placements. And in the highest difficulty certain bosses get new moves and regular enemies can now Devil Trigger. Revisiting missions with your full moveset and perhaps a different Style, alongside new enemy placements can make it feel very fresh.

[@boyanski890]

That was a great video, DeMod!

[@GaMeR1019]

i love it how 90% this video he used the same combo over and over lmao

[@helvete_ingres4717]

Vergil in mission 7 one of the hardest fights in the game? I remember it being one of the easiest; one of the few boss battles I never died at. I think I had level 2 trickster by then, may have made things easier

[@MrEinFan]

For Arkham... I played through the gameon DMD and Vergils appearance actually makes the fight harder, because the game takes away over half of your moveset (you can't use yor Style Moves..)

[@siner6666]

We need the 4th game before this Friday.

[@Verillionmiles]

I was literally just checking your KZbin to see if this was up, watched the first two, and then you uploaded. Thank you!

[@vladimirhajs4106]

I'm gonna make a wild guess, number 1 si Vergil.

[@PotatoVoid255]

0:02 funny how it’s the Umbella logo since it’s a reference to Biohazard 4 before it was changed to DMC 1 (P.s yes to do agree with the Arkham since it looks like a blob and doesn’t really have a lot of moves it would been such a cool moment if he taken the form of Sparda himself and uses Nelo Angelo’s with a bit of Dante’s movesets then it would been a challenging boss fight)

[@H1GHLANDER360]

Arkham was a pretty tough fight I won't lie honestly. I had to be super conservative of healing items and not get hit for the second phase of the battle. So, I disagree with that one I do however agree with number one. The Vergil fights are probably my favorite fights in the entire game. Mostly because you're on equal footing, the final fight with him is really great. I didn't had any healing items with me so I just used my devil trigger to heal and do damage. Beating him in the final fight was so satisfying. I much prefer the bosses in this game over the bosses in DMC 2. While DMC 2 had some creative concepts for the bosses; the execution of the bosses is what turned me off. They were just waaaaaaay too easy and were a joke. The final boss in DMC 2 was actually not bad compared to the rest. Except for the helicopter and tank bosses. They should've been in the cutting room floor to begin with.

[@RedDeadSpartan31]

Pretty dope list, but I would probably replace nevan with beowulf and replace King Vanguard with the chariot and put the heart of levi last, I agree with everything else, tho

[@napstablook8858]

11:28 ZA WOURLDO

[@kellygraves4189]

I still argue that this is top 5 PS2 era games period

[@crudnom7090]

Wait democracy do you not know there’s multiple jester fights that have different attacks?

[@AstralPhnx]

To be fair the other fights are optional hidden fights

[@assassinonprozac]

@@AstralPhnx I don’t think a massive circle with lighting shooting onto it in the middle of a room your have to go into to progress the game counts as hidden.

[@buhnana6117]

@@assassinonprozac no they aren’t hidden but they still are optional, after the first fight you don’t need to fight him the second and third time

[@assassinonprozac]

@@buhnana6117 Did I say they aren’t optional?

[@arthursnyder6935]

Only the first fight with Jester is mandatory

[@rebillionuf8917]

Funfact, if you fight this viollet blubble, someone can controll Vergil with the second controller. Have fun with that. oh and with doppelganger it works two

[@derekgarbelotto5173]

Garyon on dmd difficulty makes me want to puke my guts out

[@BigBossCQCLegend]

Nevan is Red Hot Fun and Well Deserved 2nd Spot

[@MrFiremagnet]

Do you even target lock?

[@kavr]

It's amazing how far we've come DMC 5 rocks

[@saltyfart2173]

Gonna post this again, you should play through dmd if you want to see what this game really has to offer, its like judging kh2 in normal mode rather than proud or critical mode. I get that you are in a rush and want to get this list done before 5 comes out, but at least play through dmd for dmc5 if you arent for 4. I can assure you that you wont regret it

[@darkjackl999]

can't wait for exhidna in dmc4 wherein Nero trivializes her with charge shot lv 2 (you can legit get SSS just using lv 2 charged shots on her its kinda dumb)

[@raygunner8643]

Vergil is my favourite character in the series. He's Cold Calculated and he's a damn badass. Not to mention Yamato is an awesome sword.

[@arthursnyder6935]

Fun Fact: if you activate Vergil's Devil Trigger while wearing his corrupt costume, you can pretty much play as Nelo Angelo (even with most of his attacks from his boss fights in DMC 1)

[@Martin-ts7co]

Arkham is actually one of if not the hardest boss in the game on Dante must die difficulty because in the second phase it's really difficult to dodge his attacks with Vergil in your way and he kills you at Max health with 2 hits,also when those fishy things come you have to just stay back and shoot them or hope that they don't hit you when you attack them because they will kill you in 3-4 hits(even in devil trigger they can kill you very quick)

[@FirstPlace97]

Sorry, but Arkham is not the worst boss, and certainly not "easy." No boss is "easy" on the hardest difficulty, and Arkham is actually one of the hardest bosses to beat without taking damage. Gigapede is probably the objectively worst boss, although I like him too.

[@kindlesstraitor5587]

Yep, but as he said in DMC 1 or 2 rankings: He applies his scores to the boss fights regarding normal mode.

[@FirstPlace97]

@@kindlesstraitor5587 Yeah, but how is it possible to rank Hell VanGuard, who isn't even a boss, and Gigapede over Arkham? I only want to hear that if he beats him without taking damage.

[@welcometovalhalla2884]

Arkham is a boring slog of a fight. Even if he gets harder on higher difficulties (and he really does, fuck those little slugs) he's incredibly boring to fight. Not to mention that he takes your style and DT away for the second phase. At least I can beat Gigapede in like a minute and be done with it.

[@FirstPlace97]

@@welcometovalhalla2884 Arkham is a good boss. He isn't as powerful as Vergil, but he is a nightmare to SS rank, and he is worthy of the penultimate fight. Not saying he is perfect but he is a great boss.

[@dwightvictor8001]

Your not wrong it's just that Arkham is the most boring boss the slugs were the worst part of the fight.

[@KaiserTrigger]

What I found easiest about Agni and Rudra is to use Sword Master and prop shredder. It has a series of two spins. 80% of the time it knocks their weapons out of their hands.

[@esodn762]

THE TIME HAS COME AND SO HAVE I

[@jakubdrabent8158]

Wrong game. That's DMC4. DMC3 had a piece called Devils Never Cry, which is less techno, more metal/rock, and a spicing of opera. It's badass

[@esodn762]

@@jakubdrabent8158 I know, I was just telling that the time has come and so have I

[@jakubdrabent8158]

@@esodn762 Fair enough

[@Solaire_of_Astora13]

Nevan is my favorite boss in the series I think

[@sealdogderp26]

Theory demodcracy becomes the jester they both like to slap that booty

[@uhobme2028]

Nevan's boss always freaked me out as a kid. Especially the way she approaches you to suck your blood. Also to this day Vergil's final boss is the standard to which i compare all others

[@cardmaniak2316]

Does this guy know anything other than spamming Rebellion Combo A and Pistol spam.

[@mayday2237]

I like the list but I really think you should do some playing on higher difficulties, there are a lot of mechanics you ended up missing that become way more necessary to be aware of when on hard, very hard, and DMD modes

[@UKFG1]

Rank the bosses in the DARKSIDERS series plz I love thos games and I would love to see you rank the bosses thank u

[@chatyxd6078]

I think DMC 3 is the best devil may cry game. Like 5 is better for the gameplay but 3 has like 2 bad bosses and a few mediocre ones, but none of the bad or mediocre ones are particularly challenging and the good ones, of which there are many, are really fun and remarkable. Whereas with 5 most of the bosses are fairly uninteresting, with the few good ones being admittedly pretty great.