This Thursday, April 3, the Netflix platform released a new series inspired by a very popular video game on Thursday. A news that seems to have won with the media specializing in play.
Adapting a video game, whether in the cinema or in series TV is always a risky challenge. In fact, the challenge lies in addition to producing quality content in the goal of staying true to the original universe of the work to satisfy the audience goal, namely the enthusiasts in that video game.
In recent years there have been many more or less successful adaptations of video games, from the last of us to Uncharted, including Witcher or Super Mario Bros. This Thursday, April 3, Netflix has set online its latest adaptation of a video game in the form of an animated series: Devil May Cry.
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Iconic video games
Devil May Cry is a series of video games developed by Capcom and created by Hideki Kamiya, consisting of five components released between 2001 and 2019. It is a “beat’em all” type game that consists of the confrontation of a horde enemies to reach the end of the level. She contains the nature of Dante, a demons (but also half -demons) that can be played in all games, although it is possible to embody more characters from Devil May Cry 2.
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The franchise had already been the subject of an adaptation in Manga -animated in 2007 without special success. That is, whether the challenge that Netflix launched was huge. To realize it, they called for Adi Shankar, who was already at work with the Netflix adaptation of the Castlevania video game series in an animated series and who met with great success.
Positive criticism
The day after it is located online on Netflix, the animated Series Devil may be crying, many positive criticisms from the specialized media. Jeuxvideo.com -Websted consider it especially to have used one “Comfortable moment” In front of the series, even offers “A holy show at times” And “Completely upset moments”.
As per the Nørdeavisen, the book series “All its essence” With “a series of clashes as danted as each other”. ONE “Infernal Cadence” which stays true to the spirit of video games. On its side insists a wide screen on the rejuvenation that the character Dante has suffered that could surprise and confuse the most experienced from Video games.
On our site, Demotivator can only advise you too much this series. Whether his manuscript, his loving characters, his animation or his way of making us understand that nothing is never white or black, Devil May Cry will give you a nice show, as entertaining as deep at times.
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And even if you are not familiar with the universe of Devil May Cry, it may well be seduced by this adjustment made in Netflix. In eight episodes, the series looks at itself in just four hours, half a day or a long night in perspective to use a fascinating universe.
