Topic: Need some help with Devil May Cry 2...

[Claimh Solais]

I'm trying to get 100% completion in Devil May Cry 2 (for some reason, I'm doing the series backwards, starting from 4 and working down to 1). Anyway, yeah, 100%.

But for the life of me, I cannot figure out how to unlock Easy Automatic mode. Anyone got any clue? I checked GameFAQs, IGN and several other of those game websites and stuffs, and couldn't find it anywhere. Just some derps with methods that didn't work or were totally unreasonable (die at least 50 times in stage 1. Fucking seriously?).

So yeah. Any help?

[VladCT]

Damn, not even pretending to suck hard helped?
I may have no idea on that one, but usually the trigger has something to do with the player sucking like all hell.

[Claimh Solais]

I've tried everything I could think of. Dying up to 20 times in stages 1-3 (ALWAYS has to do with those stages), getting the WORST rank possible, taking over half an hour to complete on stage, etc. I've got no freakin' clue.

Unless there isn't even an easy mode, thus the book was lying to me (kinda like Dead Island's boxart about local co-op).

[Lumi Kløvstad]

The whole game is an easy mode. It's the easiest entry in the series, requiring little thought or strategy to fights, and the developers acknowledged that by not putting in a mode marked Easy.

Just keep your distance and keep popping pistol caps in demonic asses, healing when necessary. And when you max out your devil trigger, just wail away on the guns.

You can't lose at that game. Which is why a lot of people hate it, among other things.

[Claimh Solais]

The whole game is an easy mode. It's the easiest entry in the series, requiring little thought or strategy to fights, and the developers acknowledged that by not putting in a mode marked Easy.

Just keep your distance and keep popping pistol caps in demonic asses, healing when necessary. And when you max out your devil trigger, just wail away on the guns.

You can't lose at that game. Which is why a lot of people hate it, among other things.

You missed the point of why I asked and thus gave me a very not helpful response. It's not a matter of easy or hard. It's a matter of completion.

[Lumi Kløvstad]

There's nothing below normal. You're wasting your time looking for an easy mode.

[Claimh Solais]

There's nothing below normal. You're wasting your time looking for an easy mode.

Had you begun with that, things would have been much simpler, would they have not?

So then. Does the book lie, like Dead Island's boxart?

[Lumi Kløvstad]

The Devil May Cry novels? Officially non-canon. I still enjoy them anyway. They're not the best written novels, but they did more for pioneering Dante's attitudes in DMC3 (and by extension DMC4) than the games ever did. I especially love the DMC2 prequel novel, if for no other reason that Dante acts like Dante, and the story offers something of more significance to the mythos.

DMC2 itself offered practically nothing of value to the franchise, but the prequel novel is pretty good when you get over Beryl being a mary-sue Lady prototype character.

Give them a read if you can find a copy; the American publisher Tokyopop stopped publishing in 2011, and the novels never really sold all that well in the American market, so while I wouldn't call them RARE, I'd call them at least challenging to find.

[Claimh Solais]

The Devil May Cry novels? Officially non-canon. I still enjoy them anyway. They're not the best written novels, but they did more for pioneering Dante's attitudes in DMC3 (and by extension DMC4) than the games ever did. I especially love the DMC2 prequel novel, if for no other reason that Dante acts like Dante, and the story offers something of more significance to the mythos.

DMC2 itself offered practically nothing of value to the franchise, but the prequel novel is pretty good when you get over Beryl being a mary-sue Lady prototype character.

Give them a read if you can find a copy; the American publisher Tokyopop stopped publishing in 2011, and the novels never really sold all that well in the American market, so while I wouldn't call them RARE, I'd call them at least challenging to find.

I actually meant more along the instruction booklet that comes with the game, but the misinterpretation comes from my own doing due to my lack of properly explaining. >.<

I have indeed read the novels. They were actually really good reads. The second novel can still be considered among the canon (even though it was confirmed otherwise), due to the fact it contradicts naught in the series.

DMC2? Probably my favorite version of Dante. I don't know why, but Dante as the silent badass seems awesome (far better than the prepubescent gets-ass-kicked-in-first-cutscene guy from the first game).

[Lumi Kløvstad]

I like the first Devil May Cry novel, as it shows a bit of Dante's life before he became a Devil Hunter proper. I'd like to see a game that adapts that general story without the canon contradictions.

Or just adapt it straight in the Reboot timeline.

Concerning instruction booklets, I don't think I've ever actually read one. For any game.

[Claimh Solais]

The first novel was leagues better than the second, though the second was pretty good. I liked the art for the first one better also (the picture of Dante sitting there with Goldstein or whatever her name was toward the end of the book looked awesome). The whole plot twist of Gilver was... well, I saw it coming.

I read the instruction manuals to see if the credits are listed. I look there for the voice actors, since I'm always curious.

[Ahasverus]

You'll need psychological help after playing DMC 2