Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition Reviews

Good game, bad port. I've ran into so many issues with it. I will be honest and say that i do play on my Steam Deck via Desktop Mode, but it doesn't excuse how frustrating it is to deal with this game. DMC4SE has crashed my Steam Deck more than a dozen times. In Desktop Mode, I have to play in windowed mode, or else the game itself crashes. Even then, if I attempt to close the game manually, it freezes my entire system, forcing me to hold down my Steam Deck's power button to restart it. The ONLY WAY I can close the game without freezing is having to minimize the application before closing it. If you don't care about mods, just get the game on PS4 or Xbox One until Capcom fixes this port... that is if they ever will considering how little they care about their ports.

I loved this game don't get me wrong, but its so broken and is in desperate need of fixing as crashes are common and while there are checkpoints for dying and continuing, there is NO checkpoints if the game is closed it seems, please fix the game CAPCOM. This was a great game but it NEEDS to be cleaned up, I literally cant progress past chapter 09 because no matter what it breaks after the bosses cutscene no matter what I try

While yes, Devil May Cry 4 never was fully finished and Dante's part of the game is repetitive. I still had a lot of fun killing demons with my devilbringer and enjoying style switching with Dante. This is in fact the first game to include Nero, A kid with a demon arm. Even though he isn't Dante, he has his own movesets and own combos that make playing him fun and enjoyable. His gimmick DevilBringer, is really fun to use in combos and I think is the most badass thing to use in a boss fight, this game wasn't perfect but jeez its really fun and has really great gameplay, his track "The Time Has Come" is one of my FAVORITE battle songs in all of DMC. The gameplay being fast and smooth the whole time playing it. Running through levels and killing demons fast and smooth was really nice. I loved Nero's gameplay and style that he has is also really fun. His "Red Queen" being his main sword looks really cool. It's gimmick being that you can rev it up to deal more damage and overall pack a punch, I didn't use it all that much but when I did, it dealt a lot of damage. Dante being the complaint that I hear when someone talks about DMC 4. I didn't have that much of an issue playing through Dante's part, it felt nice playing him again after just getting done with DMC 3. He does have a repetitive backtracking which I didn't like all too much, his combos and the addition to style switching made up for it. The new devil arms he gets aren't all too great, I only really used Rebellion and his gauntlets. His boss fights are also repetitive and that got annoying to me a lot of the time but being able to use a "certain weapon" as him at the end of the game felt so fun and made up for the repetitive stuff. While Devil May Cry 4 isn't the strongest out of 1, 3 and 5. It has it's bad parts and great parts! But I think that It certain does deserve more love and appreciation as it is a great DMC game and is very fun! (I also like it a lot more because I can play as Lady and I loveeeeee Lady)

Pretty good game 8/10 Cheers to the victory after dying hundreds of times in dmc games.😌 Nero's abilities and devil arm was coolest things to play with that we can dodge,perry and attack in stylish ways. The story felt like a anime and it was well animated too. the only bad thing was the repetitive Boss fight (like some bosses came 3 times in the main story) and they were so easy BUT THE FINAL BOSS was the hardest in this game!

Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition was my 3rd game in the series. Going from DMC3, to 5, and now this isn't disappointing. Even with only 14 hours, this game is a blast, and I assure anyone who considers purchasing it: it is an experience. Thus far, 9.5/10

C'MON, CAPCOM. The game is listed as unsupported on Steam Deck, but I've been playing it there just fine. However, on Windows it refuses to launch. Awful. Even if you have a Deck, it's still crap that you can't play it on a desktop PC, so I'm saying don't bother until Capcom fixes it.

Broken port after update (unless you fix it through fan file editing and downgrading). Bad until fixed officially.

It's not a bad game but it's currently convenient to play it everywhere but Steam. The game crashes at some point and you can no longer recover the game, there are a thousand solutions and some may work. First time I write a review because I find it horrendous that people can keep buying this game and it has so many bugs.

Random update in 2023 broke the game and made it always crash on launch, rendering it unplayable.

Capcom pushed an update randomly that completely bricked the game, the game boots to a black screen and will not go any further. There is a very awkward "fix" but that comes with its own issues like the steam overlay and steam input being disabled meaning certain controllers will no longer work and the game will now crash if you tab out during gameplay. It has been like this for the better part of a year and it has not been fixed Edit: So this crash seems to be a your mileage may vary thing and some people can play the game just fine while others have this issue