After the demon invasion, when a younger Vergil managed to survive alone and mistakenly believed that his mother abandoned him during the crisis, he started to deny his humanity and embraced his demonic legacy, in contrast to his younger brother's embrace of the human side and initial rejection against the devil. “If you didn’t know who Nero was, or if there’s someone that doesn’t like some aspect of the game, I’m hoping that we can all accept each other and focus on the things we have in common – that we love video games and are excited for DMC5.Vergil was one of the twin sons born from the demon Sparda and human Eva and is the main antagonist of Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening and a playable character in its special edition. In the end, it’s all video games – which should be fun! “As such, one of my personal goals is to continue to involve myself with that shared excitement we all have, and hopefully contribute to keeping that atmosphere positive and understanding. “I’d like to say that I understand how people can have different interpretations of things, and as producer I’m really grateful that fans have been so overwhelmingly excited for what we’ve been making,” Walker says. “You’ll find that there are both gameplay and story reasons for why Nero’s Devil Bringer has now been replaced by Nico’s patented Devil Breakers – you’ll get a chance to see more of that at Gamescom,” Walker says.Īs for the people who got confused when Nero appeared on the screen during the reveal, how does Capcom feel about those guys? This isn’t just an aesthetic decision, however. As well as the haircut and the wardrobe change, Nero’s demon arm has been replaced with a mechanical limb of some sort. “For DMC5, our solution was to pick a colour that we felt was the next closest thing – a dark, navy blue.” Not NeroĮlsewhere, Nero is rocking some other visible differences from his DMC4 incarnation. “The change in colour palette for his costume actually comes from the way colours read in the game – both in DMC4 and for DMC5 Itsuno-san wanted Nero to be wearing black (since ‘Nero’ means black in Italian, after all) but in both games we found that a black costume wouldn’t read very well,” Walker explains. Game director Hideaki Itsuno wanted Nero to look like a “sports star at the top of their game, someone at their physical peak, who could seemingly take on anything” - that was the direction he gave to the team. So why did Capcom give Nero a haircut and a redesign? “Nero’s redesign came from a want to show Nero at his prime,” producer Matt Walker tells me. If you had watched the trailer carefully instead of rushing to write words on the internet, you would have realised this because of his signature weapon and the fact his arm wasn’t an actual arm. It turns out it’s not, though - it’s yer boy Nero, Dante’s nephew from Devil May Cry 4. You might have been a little confused about who the leading man was in the Devil May Cry 5 debut trailer (I definitely wasn’t, but you might have been) - especially since he looked so similar to Dante in his DmC incarnation. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a Dante? Nope, it’s a Nero.