iMike said:
You're not getting the point. Dante has moral to him. He doesn't go around slaughtering innocents. In fact, he saves the chick from each game numerous times.
Kratos is just too badass to care, and is evil. Evil will always win out in the end over good, it's just how life is.
DMC 1: Trish looks like his mother. Sentiment prevails and he saves her.
DMC 3: He's an obnoxious teenager. He grabs Lady as she's falling because he's fishing for a piece of ass, plus a chance to mouth off.
DMC 2...I have no clue why he saved a whiny bitch like Lucia. That wasn't Dante...
And um...about evil winning out? Play just about every game out there...it's cliche, but good always wins...in this case it would be the lesser of two evils...Dante.
Let me put it this way...Dante beat Mundus, the emperor of the Underworld, essentially a god. Dante beat Argosax, a demon as powerful as they come. Dante (with Vergil's help) beat Arkham, who actually HAD THE FORM OF SPARDA, mutated beyond recognition by the sheer power coursing through him. The only reason he even needed Vergil's help is because he was still a frickin teenager. Adult Dante would have stuck Alastor between Arkham's buttcheeks and twisted until he was shitting out his internal organs.
Plus, I have seen the pathetic page of enemies that Kratos has to fight. Puny and weak, most of them humanlike. Oh, he fights Medusa...big woop. Omg, a hydra.
Ok, hydra I'll give him, but aside from his brother, every single enemy that Dante faces is a hardcore badass from the underworld. In DMC 3, his WEAKEST opponents are the freaking soulkeepers of Hell. About the ONLY impressive opponent Kratos has had is Ares. Dante fights at least demigod-level demons like they were breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Let me list:
Bosses:
Phantom: Badass lava spider/scorpion from the Underworld
Griffon: Badass lightning bird from the Underworld, big as a house
Nelo Angelo: His brother, Vergil, only seriously powered up by Mundus's power.
Nightmare: A machine of destruction crafted in the Underworld SPECIFICALLY to destroy everything it comes across.
Mundus: Emperor of the Underworld, aka Hades, Satan, the Prince of Darkness
Nefasturris: A demon coming out of a freaking skyscraper, as big as his birthplace, with energy cannon that can evaporate an Olympic swimming pool by proximity.
Bolverk: A demon warrior who gave his father, Sparda, a hard time.
Plutonian and Tartarussian: A pair of MASSIVE demons with iron flails.
Furiataurus: Huge molten minotaur with a BIG-ASS hammer.
Jokatgulm: Massive water demon with poison gas and regenerating tentacles that can swat you into a puddle.
Trismagia: Huge demon heads that play with you in THEIR realm, using THEIR rules, blasting you with electricity, ice, and flame from way off while you run around on an itty-bitty platform in the void of nothingness.
Argosax the Chaos: A massive conglomeration of a whole bunch of past-beaten bosses, one of the most powerful demons around.
The Despair Emboddied: An androgenous fire-angel that can morph parts of its body into weapons.
Cerberus: The three-headed guardian of the Underworld, using the elemental power of Ice.
Hell Vanguard: Essentially the grim reaper...and Dante's killed loads of them.
Gigapede: A centipede the size of a train, that flies, and blasts electricity at you.
Agni and Rudra: Demon swordsmen, essentially gods of Fire and Wind.
Leviathan: A massive beast that EATS Dante, and Dante kills it from inside. I mean massive, too...its stomach has buses, ships, and all sorts of bric-a-brac in it.
Nevan: A vampiric lightning witch who assails him with electricity and energy-bats.
Beowulf: A huge, ancient light-demon with a serious vengeance complex.
Geryon: A demon horse leading a phantom chariot with the ability to slow down time to kick your ass.
Doppleganger: A shadow version of his own Devil-Triggered self that is completely invulnerable until you hit it with light, at which point it can still take some serious damage.
Arkham: A power-tripping half-demon who came into the power of Sparda and became mutated into a giant, multi-appendaged blob of nastiness that can summon HORDES of hideous eel-things called Arkham's Legions.
And those are just the bosses. Vanilla enemies include fallen angels, hellkeepers, ice elementals, anamorphic beings made purely of energy, shadow beasts, and much much more.
Compare that with a couple minotaurs, Medusa, a multiheaded snake, and a Greek God, and I think we see who the real badass is. Even more to Dante's credit, most of these enemies he had to fight more than once, some of them four freaking times. Give it up, guys. Dante has beaten legions of demigod-level enemies...a newly-turned-god playing with his powers would be no challenge.