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Devil May Cry 5

Capcom acknowledges the striking similarity between Devil May Cry 5’s V and Kylo Ren

Every franchise gotta have a Kylo Ren type now. it’s essential. I stan Devil May Cry so hard (except 2…) and I’m so excited because V (the Kylo clone) is a playable character and also a main part of the plot.

I found some lovely anecdotes about Kylo looking like V and vice versa and Capcom addressing the similarities:

“Matt Walker said:

We’ve been making this game for a while! When we saw Adam Driver, we were like ‘oh man’. We were making this before Star Wars Episode 7!”

Followed by Hideaki Itsuno:

“We were sort of surprised! When we started making the game, the new characters were the ones we started to work on – so Nico, V – we came up with those designs early on. And we went to see Star Wars and saw Kylo Ren and we were like ‘oh man, he looks just like him!’ If you ever come to Osaka we’ll show you the designs, how we’ve made them, what order, when that was and prove there’s nothing to do with Kylo Ren!”

And then GamesRadar+:

“Lastly, we get an all-too brief tease of an entirely new character, known only as “V”. He looks a bit like every emo band’s lead singer, or sexy YA novel Kylo Ren, but I can dig it - after all, the Devil May Cry series has never taken itself too seriously (except DMC2, but we don’t talk about that game) so why hold this guy to an unfair standard?

Oh sorry, did I say “lastly”? Because after the what-if-Adam-Driver-but-tattoos reveal and a title card showing the release date…”

OVER THE TOP is currently backordered but the other two can be found in the link in profile. MAKE RACISTS AFRAID AGAIN.