Devil May Cry 4 - Berial Fight on PS3
I downloaded the Devil May Cry 4 demo from the playstation store the other day, and I am damn impressed. The usual flaws with games like this is the inability to lock on. When the character uses a weapon like a spear or sword, trying to change enemies is a real issue, but you can actually lock onto an enemy to reveal their life remaining. It would have been nice to see this bar all the time, but hey, its not that important. You can charge your sword up to have a quick devastating flurry of attacks, and he can hang in the air almost forever shooting round after round into the baddies. You also have a demon arm, which you can use to grapply areas, throw the enemies, or grapple towards enemies. R1 seems like a power up, as in, you can hold it for more powerful attacks, which is really cool.
The game is unbelievably pretty and the videos I do could never do it justice. The ‘only’ thing that kind of annoys me is that you have to hold the powerup button to dodge. Not really an issue at all. The camera does well to follow your character around, but can get a bit behind in the action if things get really frantic and you start dodging and jumping around.
Anyway, on with the show:
This fight are against these pleasant chappies called Frosts. They aren’t particularly difficult to kill and don’t put up much of a fight. You can throw them into each other, cut them up and generally shoot the crap out of them easily enough.
This is the Berial fight. You face Berial just after the battle with 3 Frosts. I haven’t played Devil May Cry games before, but if Berial is the boss they will release in the demo it usually means he will be the first level boss. In saying that… oh em gee. This guy is a freakin titan. Imagine the Balrog from Lord of the Rings, if it had 4 legs and looked a tiny bit more insane. It took me quite a few goes to bring him down as his moves are just nuts, and having a huge, flaming, 6 limbed beast that has a gigantic flaming sword and somewhat aggressive attitude is very distracting. Like I said, the video cant to it justice so go and download the demo.
