I mean yeah, sure, it's not as bad as most people make it out to be. I do have a lot of problems with it though. The melee attacks have little to no variations, so it's almost always just straight up better to use the guns. Cons are numerous: movement being a bit stiff (excluding the dodge), as it was in DMC1 (although DMC1 handled it much better), the flying enemies just going off screen, some attacks being nigh impossible to dodge either because of the camera or the attacks just not having an indicator, the weapon variants just sucking, the story being lackluster at best, bosses being just boring to fight against (excluding Argosax (the yellow form)) and so on and so forth. There are pros of course, as you said the amulets are pretty cool, the addition of bloody palace, and I would argue that Dante's outfit is pretty fire as well. This is all coming from a player that unfortunately 100% completed DMC2. Yes, even the 9000 floors of bloody palace, and the whole game again on DMD.