Tameem Antoniades, co-founder of Ninja Theory, has defended himself from several internet forums that have claimed the revamp in Dante’s appearance was a decision to make Devil May Cry’s hero look more like him. Speaking to PSM3 he said:

“What can I say? He’s a decade and a half younger than me, way better looking… The only thing he’s got is black hair. And he’s male,” he said.

“I didn’t design the character. I didn’t go to our designers and say, ‘I think it’s a really good idea if we make the new Dante look like me, because I want to be in the game.’ They’d laugh at me. They’d throw me out the window.”

Saying that we took a look at this Antoniades and well, there is quite a bit of similarity. Just take a look at the picture.

He also addressed the idea of the reboot, saying that Capcom  came along with the idea of shaking up the franchise.

“Capcom said something which they’ve said to us often, which is, ‘if it was going to be the same as the old DMC, why would we give this project to you guys? The reason is to surprise us, to come up with a reinvention. To create something we couldn’t have conceived in Japan.’”

So what do you think? Have Capcom killed the series, or is the new Dante just gaming evolution?

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