Check out the new screenshots from Devil May Cry, which shows the new Dante in action. The character model seems to have undergone significant changes since the first reveal.

Ninja Theory says the studio was asked to ‘go crazy’ with Dante for his new look in the recently announced DmC, reboot of the popular action franchise, Devil May Cry.

“The concepts for Dante went through a lot of different iterations – they went all over the place – we went really far out with some,” Ninja Theory’s Nina Kristensen told Develop.

“The first time we sent our initial concepts to Capcom Japan, they said no, no you need to push it way further.

“Because, obviously, Dante is a big character for Capcom, we stuck fairly close to the original design template. But Japan said we needed to go much further, go crazy with it, and so we did.”

After having recently said that the new Dante is ‘all about cool‘ and that hate against the new Dante was ‘anticipated,’ Alex Jones, Ninja Theory’s lead producer and Tameem Antoniades, chief creative director, in a video interview with the US PS Blog, have backed why they chose for the new emo, gay looking Dante, and why they think it was a good idea. Check it out, it’s given above.

The all new teen Dante looks emo and gay, we all know that. But did Ninja Theory expect such a backlash against him? Well, they say they did.

“This was not unanticipated,” Alex Jones of Ninja Theory told Kotaku.

“Dante is an iconic character that people have genuine affection for and this is a radical departure.”

“We said, ‘No, no, we want you to risk making us angry,” he continued. “We want it way out there and then we will walk the design back.”

Pfft, emo kid.

People have been talking about how the new Dante in the recently unveiled DmC looked like an emo teen and… gay (he does, but he’s smoking cigars). Creative director Tameem Antoniades, however, think’s Dante’d overhaul has made him cooler.

“It’s about Dante being cool and making you feel cool when you’re playing it, and so the combat and the style system and everything is integral to that,” he said.

“But, you know, what was cool 12 years ago, I think that was when the first game came out, isn’t cool anymore,” he continued. “If Dante, dressed as he was, walked into any bar outside of Tokyo, he’d get laughed out.”

“What Devil May Cry did when it launched was it brought everything that was great about action cinema like the fashion, music — it was like a cultural melting pot — and I feel like now, for Devil May Cry to have that same impact, it needs to draw on new things. New music, new ways of cinematography, new fashion.”

I don’t care, he looks gay, that’s all I know. Pfft, emo kids.

The recently announced reboot to the immensely popular action series, Devil May Cry, is being criticized a lot- because Dante looks gay (but the trailer was cool). Hideki Kamiya, the father of the Devil May Cry series, says he is not very impressed with Ninja Theory’s latest DMC rendering.

Kamiya told how disappointed he is with the all new, emo Dante, by tweeting as follows:

Oh, Ninja Theory. You must prove all the haters wrong! Even me. If you can. You monsters.

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