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|  "Dante in Viewtiful Joe"
, posted Tue 31 Aug 07:39
I've been naughty and have played the PS2 beta (dont roast me alive I'm buying the real thing)
The game plays just about the same as the GC version, there are some difference in the way it looks but it's nothing major - only thing that does become noticable is the drop in framerate during certain sections (Charles III, Another Joe get it worst cos of the wrap-around stage).
That aside the game is just as wicked as before - I've been playing the Cube version LOADS recently and can honestly say the conversion is very good, it's a little slower overall but not terribly so. It took a few minutes to get used to the controls, I had to change them to type B:
[] = Zoom
/\ = Punch
O = Kick
X = Jump
L = Slow
R = Mach Speed
Only Joe is available at start - Played through with Joe on Adult and got standard V overall, Unlocked V-Rated, Sylvia, Dante and Viewtiful Video.
Regarding Viewtiful Video:
Spoiler (Highlight to view) -
Why are thay SO sick??? It's not the same video! It's a music video version - the entire thing has been redone and it's even better than the first one!
End of Spoiler
Sylvia is the same one we know and love.
Dante is GRIME! :ph34r:
In-game he has proper quotes but during cut-scenes the voices are as they are with Sylvia/Alastor. He's voiced by the same brer that did him in DMC1 and he sounds MINT! :D His quotes are so heavy! NOBODY can buss "Yeah baby" like Dante, he's borderline Austin Powers! XD
Dante plays......different! He's nothing like Joe, he's an excellent variation of the system - your approach has to be amended to how you deal with the game with Joe as his moves are so different.
His punch while on the floor is sword attack, kick is always kick no matter where you are - punch in the air (off a jump or off an upwards dodge) fires the guns. The rest is all the same commands as Joe but all moves are variations, instead of an Uppercut (down+P) he has a launcher with his sword that has a lot more range than Joe's Uppercut and connects in fewer frames (so it's even faster than Joe's rapid punch in Zoom). To connect the guns after a launching uppercut you have to press and hold the punch button instead of tapping it to activate the uppercut - then as Dante reaches for the guns start tapping P fast to get him to fire. Dante's answer to the Joe One Hundred (Zoom + hold P) is the Million Stab - it's slower than Joe one Hundred. His standing floor combos are diferrent too - Joe can string together anything anywhere or cancel a whole sequence of moves to get the final one in the set out first, Dante cant and this is the difference in style I meant - Joe is Finesse, Dante is brutal power. His standing P chain will stop at 2 hits unless you cannect it on an enemy then it extends (when extended the combo goes into 2 gunkata attacks into Stinger to finish. It's not as cancel friendly you cant get Dante to track horizontally like Joe the only tracking he has is Sliding/Uppercut - which is perfect for him anyway as his uppercut has insane range. What happens when you push R2 with Dante in DMC? *TAUNT* "Sweet Dreams" - That's right baby, and it actually connects as a strike but does minimal damage (so you can use it to get more X-multiplies within Slow than usual)
The bullets have the same properties as the ones fired by the helicopters etc, they behave the same within Slow etc but will not count towards X-multiply combos within Slow - It's better to use bullets within combos before going into Slow I find as they dont do much damage and you can score lots of hits before multiplying in Slow. His Mach Speed attacks dont hold enemies like Joe's do - for example the Pink girl robots I can maul in one Mach Speed flurry after a dodge, but with Dante they break out of this setup and I have to get them with it twice to kill.
Against bosses he's an animal! Helicopters and Jets get PWN3D! by Dante's guns - they arent powerful againt standard enemies but against machines thay do silly damage! Charles III (bomb/Round Trip = Death), Davidson cant actually hit you if you keep firing at him, Dante's zoomed uppercut is so damn fast that you just chase Gran Bruce around the screen attacking constantly - against Leo it takes a whole bar off him each time he does the spinning claw move. Finished V Rated with Dante and unlocked Alastor - that's all the same as the GC one.
Dante is tings in this game and it's definetly worth buying it to play as him as it's a whole new style of fighting for the game. I'll be going back and forth between GC and PS2 to play Joe and Dante until VJ2.
Myyyy a-soh-shee-utssss buh-leeeevve that I amm waay-stinng mmyy timmme withhh yooouuu...
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