I'm of two minds concerning nero.
one, i like for all the same reasons you do with the added bonus of he is easier to like and root for than dante in four because he was fighting for someone else where dante wasnt in the early parts of the game. But that could have been because of the poor writing of four.
True, Dante wasn't portrayed very well in 4. It really was all about Nero and Dante was just thrown in there, probably for fan service. I think Nero came in in the wrong way. Instead of making it about him in 4, maybe they should have did the opposite. Like, have it focus on Dante (with better writing) and have Nero as a secondary character.
i think you're on to something but i think it should be about them as equals rather than one being a supporting character in the other ones story. For example they should have made the game where you could have chosen to play as either one from the get go, telling the same story frm different perspectives. That way if you want to know everything you would have to play both but if you dont want too , you dont.
my main problem with nero was that he wasn't a character we need to see because he seems to have no other purpose other creating a dante clone who they can afford to do things like character development or flaws or relationships that flesh him out that they cant do with dante because they are too afraid to mess with an icon.
The better solution would have to do more games with dante after dmc3 but before the events of dmc1, with him trying to sort out what it means to be a hero like his dad and him trying to sort out the new world they live in Because now everyone knows demons are real and they arent happy about it and they arent trusting in dante too much think of him more like the punisher than batman.
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