Story is unfortunately pretty skippable (par for the course in the series), you don't need to have played the others to enjoy this one. That said, 3 and 4 have extremely similar playstyles to this one so if you like it, check those out. No, the story isnt a big deal despite what some would have you believe. DMC is primarily an action game so you can ignore the story and still have a good time, but if you pay attention you might Probably because it'd need significant changes to the input framework. You generally want to keep input processing to a minimum in games like DMC, Tekken etc. KB&M would require a different framework that is then abstracted by some API which emulates the controller moveset, which is not the best way to do thing. Unfortunately, you’ll still have to play Devil May Cry 5‘s default story mode to use the others, which is a giant missed opportunity. However, with character swapping mods, we’ll be able to The controls are so clunky if you play DMC1 on a keyboard. 1-4's ports are practically impossible with keyboard, no mouse support, DmC is pretty good (I platted it on mouse and keyboard), DMC5 is decent but holding down a key 24/7 for lock on is a nightmare. Obviously it's up to you, but this is one of those cases where I'd 100% recommend but IMO you should play the other DMC games simply because they are really great games, and you have a year until DMC5 comes out anyway so you may as well get into the series from the start just to pass the time. the DMC HD collection just came out on this gens consoles not too long ago so there has never been a better time to get into the series An easy combo to try when surrounded by a bunch of enemies is: jump above them -> wire snatch 1 of them -> do a few air combo hits -> jump off of them -> suspend yourself in the air with gun fire a bit -> wire snatch the next enemy -> air combo them a few times -> jump off of them -> repeat. Slowly add in more variations and find ways to link them together. It takes time and patience to learn the controls to any game. Especially one this in depth. Using auto anything is never going to help. Practice, practice, practice, practice, practice. r/DevilMayCry. No. 2 doesn’t have any real impact on the other games and is considered the worse. To fully grasp the story, you’ll need to play 3,1, and 4. 3 is also considered the best one and is a prequel to the others. 4 introduced one of the characters you’ll play as in 5. 5 also includes a video that’ll give you a summary of what happened in the Unfortunately, yeah. If you use 5 as a jumping in point, you'll have a lot of unanswered questions. Fortunately Capcom was smart enough to basically give the worst game in the series no story, so you can safely skip DMC 2. To know the story, the canonical order is 3, 1, 2, 4, 5. 3 is how Dante started out, 1 is his first real job where he meets rc0GPe0.