4.5/5 ★ – radiopomp's review of Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening.

It's been a real blast revisiting a favorite and a hugely influential game in my early life. My first true character action game love, despite having been with the series since the first, and a game I played enough to have beaten it on every difficulty before the Special Edition was released back in the day, something I've never really done again or since with many other games. Largely has been surpassed in nearly every way ever since, but that doesn't mean this has aged poorly at all. While Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance has more recently unseated it as my favorite character action game, there will always be a place in my heart for DMC3. For my money, one of the best turnarounds a director has ever pulled off for a franchise that wasn't originally theirs.