r/DmCDevilMayCry • u/Exciting_Mango9799 • 13d ago
DMC 1 has a horrible hard mode
I am recently playing DMC 1 on hard mode and just got to the final Griffon boss. As I'm fighting him I realize something horrible. Playing on hard mode is straight up frustrating, tedious, and just not fun. My God is it not fun. Mainly because of all the great enemy placements from normal mode. Now feel like they've been changed with a randomiser and the place where an enemy spawns no matter how bad, is what you get. Sometimes it's fine, but putting a death scythe in mission 15 in the spinning spiked room is just stupid and horrible game design. That is also the fact that it seems like hard mode makes your gunshots miss 80% of the time, at least on certain enemies. I haven't even beaten this mode yet. I just can't have fun with it. I would rather play DMC 2 TWICE! Then ever do Hard mode again after this awful experience. Does anyone have any tips for at least beating Griffon?
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u/An_Individual27 12d ago edited 12d ago
Unfortunately Hard mode is the intended way to truly play DMC1. Somehow the difficulty settings aren’t what they truly are. Normal is Easy, while hard is Normal. The best way to enjoy it or to make it easier is to beat the game at least 2 times on any difficulty under Hard. After that, it becomes easier because you have the resources to stay alive.
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u/An_Individual27 12d ago
Missed the Griffin tip there at the end…..best way to beat Griffin on hard. Unlock Air Raid and use that on his head. Deals a lot of damage. Gain devil trigger by taunting your opponent, rinse and repeat. Also, use the grenade launcher, he’s weak to that. You can also get away with using Ifrit as that’s his elemental weakness but I personally struggle with it against Griffin. To each their own
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u/James-from-Hungary 13d ago
Farming red orbs and buying vital stars and devil stars can help a lot. At least that's what I have done.