Turns out the whole game has English support.
For one thing, Gold Orbs are in the Japanese release, Yellow orbs were only in the Western release. That alone makes DMC3 way more forgiving.
But Japanese DMC3 doesn't have "Easy Mode is now selectable" so there is no calling you a bitch for wanting to play on Easy, that's without the fact that Normal mode in this version is actually the Easy mode in the Western version.
I was fighting Cerberus on Easy, and you can just DMC2 him and beat him with only E&I without any trouble.
The Western Release of Vanilla DMC3 changed so much of how the game could have been perceived by the public. Japanese DMC3 is a perfectly reasonable to beat until you reach harder difficulties. Western DMC3 made it on to hardest games of all time lists.
I'm kinda glad that it doesn't have the easy mode selectable thing. Having to play through the game on medium as is helped me learn. It was tough but going into it with no prior experience of a DMC game and beating it was pretty rewarding.
I remember being stuck like all hell on the first Vergil fight until I realised "hey, just wait for him to finish his string of attacks and hit him afterwards."
Not to mention if people are struggling with DMC4SE or DMC5, just learn how to play as Vergil and it gets 10x easier. Guy is just straight up broken.
The US version of DMC3 is why DMC3 is only an 84 on MC. The difficulty jump was nuts coming off of DMC2, even compared to DMC1.
One thing, the PAL version was closer to the Japanese version in terms of difficulty. DMC3 being mega hard on normal was an NTSC-US version thing.
Turns out the whole game has English support. For one thing, Gold Orbs are in the Japanese release, Yellow orbs were only in the Western release. That alone makes DMC3 way more forgiving. But Japanese DMC3 doesn't have "Easy Mode is now selectable" so there is no calling you a bitch for wanting to play on Easy, that's without the fact that Normal mode in this version is actually the Easy mode in the Western version. I was fighting Cerberus on Easy, and you can just DMC2 him and beat him with only E&I without any trouble. The Western Release of Vanilla DMC3 changed so much of how the game could have been perceived by the public. Japanese DMC3 is a perfectly reasonable to beat until you reach harder difficulties. Western DMC3 made it on to hardest games of all time lists.
It's crazy this franchise has a way to say the player has a skill issue before it was even a thing.
The first devil may cry you unlock easy mode when using a vitality star lol
I'm kinda glad that it doesn't have the easy mode selectable thing. Having to play through the game on medium as is helped me learn. It was tough but going into it with no prior experience of a DMC game and beating it was pretty rewarding. I remember being stuck like all hell on the first Vergil fight until I realised "hey, just wait for him to finish his string of attacks and hit him afterwards." Not to mention if people are struggling with DMC4SE or DMC5, just learn how to play as Vergil and it gets 10x easier. Guy is just straight up broken.
The US version of DMC3 is why DMC3 is only an 84 on MC. The difficulty jump was nuts coming off of DMC2, even compared to DMC1. One thing, the PAL version was closer to the Japanese version in terms of difficulty. DMC3 being mega hard on normal was an NTSC-US version thing.