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What Devil May Cry games came after 3?

A new hero, a reboot that became a branch, and a homecoming.

Devil May Cry 4 (February 2008) handed the series to a second hero: Nero, a young knight of the Order of the Sword whose demonic right arm, the Devil Bringer, snatches enemies out of the air. Dante arrives as the apparent villain, becomes playable halfway with on-the-fly style switching the PlayStation 2 games never allowed, and the game sold over three million copies by 2016. Its Special Edition (2015) repeated the family ritual: Vergil, Lady and Trish, all playable.

Then the fork. DmC: Devil May Cry (2013), developed by Britain's Ninja Theory under Capcom's supervision, rebooted the series in an alternate universe: a dark-haired Dante, half angel and half demon, fighting through a shifting demon city called Limbo while the game aimed its satire at media and consumer culture. It reviewed well, 85 to 86 on Metacritic, but its continuation was abandoned, and the classic line resumed instead. Devil May Cry 5 (March 8, 2019) reunited Dante and Nero with a third hero, the frail summoner V, and became the series' best seller, at roughly ten million copies by the end of 2024, Special Edition included. Its own Special Edition (2020) completed the pattern one more time: Vergil, playable.

THE LATER FACES

Pictured on the gallery shelf
Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition cover art: Dante, Nero, Trish and Lady
Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition · 2015
The ensemble cover of the edition that made the whole cast playable: Dante firing both pistols, Nero below, Trish and Lady flanking.
DmC Devil May Cry cover art: the reboot's Dante in Limbo
DmC: Devil May Cry · 2013
The branch, in one image: a Dante who is not the Dante of the other covers, in a city coming apart at the seams.
Devil May Cry 5 cover art: Nero, Dante and V in Red Grave City
Devil May Cry 5 · 2019
Three heroes in the ruins of Red Grave City, the town where the brothers grew up, and the source of the name in Dante's old alias: Tony Redgrave.

THE COLLECTION YEARS

How the old games stayed in print
HD Collection · 2012, 2018
Pipeworks Software and Double Helix ported the PlayStation 2 trilogy for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2012, and the set returned on PlayStation 4, Windows and Xbox One in 2018. On Nintendo Switch (2019 to 2020) the games sold separately, and the third game's Special Edition gained exclusive modernizations: live style switching, free weapon switching and co-operative Bloody Palace.
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