Seen@GDC: 'Imagine Dante in a Western movie'
When Capcom tasked Ninja Theory with rebooting Dante, the main character of its classic Japanese franchise Devil May Cry, it wanted to draw a clear distinction. This was a new Dante, a new Devil May Cry, and the series told through a westernized lens.
"Imagine Dante in a western movie," Capcom told Ninja Theory's art team. And so it did. There's Dante above, shooped into a scene from Brokeback Mountain – a very western movie, after all – and below Dante takes a breather with Brad Pitt in Fight Club.
