A Viewpoint

    Spoiler Warning: This article contains huge spoilers for the Mass Effect trilogy, so if you haven't experienced these games yet, I strongly recommend you to skip this. All true forms of Art are essentially imitations of Life, in their own uniquely creative ways. And this applies to Videogames too, or at least to those rare, few ones that truly transcend the limitations of it’s medium to deliver an experience that’s as deeply memorable and evokes enough emotionally affecting responses to be called as indeed something of an Art form. But like all forms of Art that’s ever been crafted, they all have the same thing in common—they all imitate one or multiple facets of Life itself, in ways that are unique, memorable and worth revisiting multiple times. And for videogames that focus on specific aspects of Life such as character developments or character driven storytelling, in all of my years of Gaming, I have never found an experience that’s nearly as memorable and engaging as

      This article starts by stating the obvious, and what you already know by now. It’s a universally known fact that Devil May Cry 5 is an all-round amazing action game and one of the greatest showcases of the hack-n-slash genre. It’s right up there with the very best in the series and is a colossal improvement over it’s predecessor DMC 4 is every single way. It’s also far more modular and layered in ways that make it both accessible for newcomers and challenging for players who are well familiar with the signature playstyle of the series, which is a great feat by itself. Overall, DMC 5 is as great as a sequel can possibly be, and simply a must-play for anyone who loves the genre. But that’s not what this article is about, rather it will focus on a far more subjective aspect of the game, and something that I had felt way back when the early gameplay demos and trailers had hit the Internet. Although it wasn’t until several years that I actually got around playing the game in it’