>Devil May Cry 5 is, like the entire Devil May Cry series, cool. But it s a particular kind of cool loud, dark and fascinated with the occult and forbidden. It s a mish mash of all the things you thought were edgy when you were a teen: explosions, pizza, guitars, leather, hair, more guitars, a big sword.

So when we re looking for an artistic genre, a mood, a milieu that has influenced Devil May Cry, where do we look? To heavy metal, of course.

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If fighting through hordes of endless demons committed to sucking life from your soul sounds fun, I bet you’re loving this Monday morning of corporate April fool’s japes. Refuge can be found in Devil May Cry 5‘s Bloody Palace, where you also fight through hordes of endless demons, but also have motorcycle swords or robo-arms that fire ridable rockets.

It’s a free mode that launched earlier today. I’ve thrown my (xp-gambling) hat into the ring, but the naughty demons keep stamping on it.

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Over the weekend, I finished my first run through Devil May Cry 5‘s wild and self-indulgent story. I’ve still yet to master its complex combat, so I’m eager to return to the Bloody Palace, the arena challenge mode from every DMC since the first. While not quite ready in time for launch, Capcom announced today it’ll be rolling out as a free update on April 1st, ready to make fools of us all. If sneaky data-miners and modders are correct there might be more to it than arena fights too, maybe even including a fourth playable character. Warning: Spoilers as to their possible identity below, but DMC fans may have guessed already.

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Devil May Cry 5 is a very good videogame that lets you dress every monster in a hat. Even the bosses.

I was tragically unaware of this at the time of my Devil May Cry 5 review, which is why the review did not consist solely in screenshots of the monsters wearing hats.

Here is a gallery.

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Motorbikes become deadly weapons in Devil May Cry 5, and not in the usual way. Capcom’s return to their mega-murdersome hack ‘n’ slash sees our lad Dante not only running over demons with his motorbike but picking it up to whack ’em over the head. That’s the sort of rockin’ wackiness you can now partake in, as DMC5 launched today in the wee hours.

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