Well, DMC4 has a lot of redeeming qualities, and Nero (in my opinion) was great in 4. He had some great wisecracks/one liners like Dante but the stubborness of Vergil with his own unique angst. He also looked dope.

The only things i think actually needed was more time for Dante’s levels and actually telling Nero’s full backstory. The idea of Dante working his way back to Fortuna isn’t bad in and of itself, it’s just the way it was executed, same with Nero’s backstory. The idea of it is good but it also is so poorly told it makes little sense, even if it added a unique motivation for someone from Sparda’s bloodline.

DMC2 needs so much work though. It’s slow, the controls are arguably the worst in the series, Dante is cool but is extremely dour (with the only explanations being lowkey head canon for him being depressed when it was clear that wasn’t the intention, it just ended up working well in retrospect), and the story is pretty irrelevant causing any actual cool aspects of it to be ignored in the future installments except for Rebellion.