>>14606338
All that matters is if the games are being made by competent people who respect the original vision.
DMC2 was a shit show because Capcom rushed it out the door without getting Team Little Devils back. DMC2 didn't work because without proper direction they were only able to put together what they thought people liked about DMC1. The only orders they possibly could have had were to make DMC2 cooler then DMC1, so they ditched the camp, and tried to make Dante more "Badass" and serious.
But Itsuno was still determined to fix this mistake and redeem DMC, so he went right to Kamiya for advice on just what Devil May Cry should be. That plus Itsuno and his teams own Style is what made DMC3 so great dispute not being directed by Kamiya himself. You could argue that in the end Itsuno ended up making DMC better then what it would have been if Kamiya ended up making DMC2.
On the flip side you have Ninja Theory who are all pretentious, They didn't respect what the original Devil May Cry games were. They didn't understand the heart and soul of Devil May Cry, they made the exact same mistakes with DmC that DMC2 had. They made things too serious and too edgy, thinking that would improve the series. There attempts at making things cooler were only superficial, They made Dante Half Angel AND Half Demon because being both is superior to being just one, and that is completely missing the point of Devil May Cry because the series is about how important one's humanity is, and that is lost when the main character isn't even a fucking human anymore.
Ninja Theroy doesn't understand nor care why people didn't like DmC They think what they made is better, and they just see the original fans as whiny people who hate change.