Here’s the debut submission from my 10-year-old nephew “LiLSyKo” (also known around these parts as Gaming Nephew), who is well-versed in many video game genres across all gaming platforms. He hopes you enjoy his review of this game and that you too have fun playing it. He also wants you to know that although this game is rated M for Mature, he did receive permission from his parents to play it.

By LiLSyKo

Devil May Cry 3
Dante’s Awakening
Special Edition
Genre: Action
ESRB Rating: Mature
Developer: Capcom
Platform: Playstation 2
Price: $39.99; Released: August 7, 2006

Hello, this is LiLSyKo and as you can see by the title I’m going to tell you about the Playstation 2 game Devil May Cry 3, the prequel to the first Devil May Cry video game. Now I know pretty much everything about the game so I can give you a lot of information and you might wanna get the game yourself.

The first and second mission tell you a lot about the backstory of the game. Also, in those two missions you are basically just fighting enemies but here’s a good tip about them — if you need red orbs, which is practically money in DMC3, you can get up to 1000 red orbs in both missions plus a rank bonus. If you are wondering what a rank bonus is, it is the extra red orbs you get for getting obtaining an A, B, or C rank. If you get an A rank, you get an additional 3000 orb bonus. For a B you get a 2000 orb bonus… as you can see it deducts by 1000 each rank.

Now it’s time to tell you about the crazy weapons that I know you will like. My personal favorite is Agni and Rudra, but I will get to that later. The first weapon you get is Cerberus, a 3-headed dog that turns into triple nunchucks. My favorite move is the revolver. What the Revolver does is it spins you around attacking enemies. A move that you can do is when you lock onto someone and press the attack button.

Now to tell you about my favorite weapons, Agni and Rudra, the twin swords of fire and wind. My favorite move of all time is done with Agni and Rudra, it’s my favorite because this move attacks anything that gets in its way. It is called Tempest and what it does is fire completely surrounds you and there is a tornado surrounding the fire. That’s all I’m telling on the weapons, but there are a lot more.

Since I don’t want to spoil anything, I am just going to say a little about the story. In DMC3 the main character’s name is Dante and the villain is his brother Vergil. They are both sons of the legendary Dark Night Sparda. The reason they call him this is because Sparda rebelled against his own demon kind for the sake of the human race by closing the portal to Hell but because he was a demon himself, he was trapped in Hell as well. [My Aunt tells me that Dante and Virgil (different spelling) are from a book called Dante's Inferno and that they travel through the nine circles of Hell and that one day I will read this book in college.]

Vergil and Dante were both half demon and half human because their mother was a human. I don’t know when or why Vergil became evil but Dante stayed good and made a shop for hunting demons but he wasn’t opened for business because he never thought of a name of the business until the end of DMC3.

That is all I have to say without spoiling anything for this good game that I definitely enjoyed and I hope that you do too. This is LiLSyKo saying goodbye.