History YMMV / DevilMayCry5

** Stage 70 of the Bloody Palace, where the battle is against ''three Furies at once''. If you thought fighting one or two was annoying and tense, just wait until you have three of them combining their attack patterns simultaneously, warping around and stabbing you from every angle. Your best bet is to pan the camera so it only looks at one Fury at a time, since they don't attack from off-camera (like most enemies), but with how much they move around it's sometimes unavoidable.

** Not everyone realizes that the memes about Vergil sitting in a white plastic chair near the edge of the arena are all due to a [[GameMod mod]]. In the actual game, he sits in a black demonic chair connected to the Qliphoth. On websites like Website/{{Reddit}}, some newcomers even admitted that they thought the white plastic chair scene was "canon", only to be corrected by veterans saying that it's in fact, a simple fan-made model swap that has gone viral.

*** The fact that Nero automatically equips the last Devil Breaker he picked up, that Devil Breakers have limited actions[[note]]Several only have two unique actions,a standard action and Break Age, rather than having the directional inputs Dante's styles use[[/note]], that they can only be swapped by destroying the currently-equipped type, and that they can be destroyed by taking damage (whereas Dante can switch between his weapons and Styles on the fly) are usually cited as the most frustrating features in the game.

** Some fans saw ''5''[='=]s dynamic music as new or innovative for the series or the StylishAction genre as a whole. ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongJungleBeat'' combos added more to its music, capping with vocals. The ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct'' reboot for the UsefulNotes/XboxOne also has dynamic music where the music would intensify and skip around to different portions when a player used a Shadow Move, combo, or a [=Combo/Counter=]-Breaker. If those don't count as "stylish action" or if one is just sticking to ''Devil May Cry'', the dynamic music still debuted in ''[=DmC=]'', and similar to ''5'', the music would get louder or vocals would kick in when getting S rank or higher on the style meter. Then there are games like ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' and ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'', where the music changes based on how far/close an enemy is to you, or when the a boss is going through different phases in a fight, as well as during BulletTime finishers in ''Metal Gear''.

** The ''Special Edition'' got this treatment when it was revealed that it was exclusive to the UsefulNotes/PlayStation5 and UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesX, with everyone who owned the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne and PC versions only getting Vergil's campaign as paid DLC and not the Legendary Dark Knight and Turbo modes. Even more so for PC players is that Capcom wasn't going to add in raytracing to the PC version, despite the nature of [=PCs=] allowing people to buy the components necessary to get raytracing to work on them. The absence of the Legendary Dark Knight mode and Turbo Mode feature is also jarring to some fans who were expecting their inclusion on the PC version of ''[=DMC5=]'' on the basis that the original PC version of ''[=DMC4=]'' had them way back 2008.

* WatchItForTheMeme: This game brought a resurgence of interest into the ''Devil May Cry'' franchise as a whole and spawned some memes that spread to other related topics and groups, thus attracting the curiosity of [[NewbieBoom newcomers]] who never played any ''Devil May Cry'' game before (which also helped the franchise in forming some FriendlyFandoms). Vergil-related memes that were popularized by ''[=DMC5=]'' are common reasons for this. For example, some ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'' and ''VideoGame/HonkaiImpact3rd'' fans try out this game because others were comparing Yae Sakura and Kamisato Ayaka to Vergil, while more ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' fans saw interest in this game since 2020 because people were suddenly using Vergil's "Bury the Light" ImageSong on clips of Joon-Gi Han, a ''Yakuza'' character who has the FanNickname of "Korean Vergil". These newcomers also overlapped with those who just wanted to know why gamers are associating white plastic chairs with Vergil, or why the phrase "I Am The Storm That Is Approaching" is used in several video clips.

** [[While considered an AwesomeBosses in his own right, compared to his aggressive play and MirrorBoss status to Dante in ''VideoGame/{{Devil May Cry 3|DantesAwakening}}'',Vergil is more passive, toned down and generally easier and pattern-focused. This makes sense for Nero, who basically has no matching mechanics for such a fight and thus the changes to the style would make sense, but for Dante, this means that there's less parallel's in their styles and attacks beyond both of them packing Sin Devil Trigger and Dante being able to create floating swords with his Devil Sword Dante. This is, however, more or less only relegated to the easier difficulties; Sons of Sparda and Dante Must Die Vergil is ''very'' comparable to his his ''DMC3'' counterpart in terms of difficulty and behavior. ]]

** Mostly only one significant complaint of this so far, and that's focused on the FinalBoss, or more specifically [[spoiler:Vergil's two fights. Particularly the fact that compared to his aggressive play and MirrorBoss status to Dante in ''VideoGame/{{Devil May Cry 3|DantesAwakening}}'', now Vergil is far more passive, toned down and generally far easier and pattern-focused. This makes sense for Nero, who basically has no matching mechanics for such a fight and thus the changes to the style would make sense, but for Dante, this means that there's functionally no parallel in their styles and attacks anymore besides both of them packing Sin Devil Trigger and Dante being able to create floating swords with his Devil Sword Dante.]]

** Unlike the previous games, Gold Orbs are no longer {{cap}}ped to three and can be acquired for free just by [[PlayEveryDay logging in daily]], so dying over and over isn't a problem if you've stockpiled a lot of Gold Orbs beforehand. If you ran out of Gold Orbs, you can still revive if you farmed a lot of spare Red Orbs. The game tries to discourage you from abusing the Red Orb revival methods because their prices go up for each consecutive revive, much more so on higher difficulties. However, picking the most expensive Red Orb revival choice also takes away 50% of the enemies' current health aside from refilling your entire health bar. By just having a lot of spare Red Orbs, this ComebackMechanic has been used to cheese even the hardest boss fights.

** Unlike the previous games, Gold Orbs are no longer {{cap}}ped to three and can be acquired for free just by [[PlayEveryDay logging in daily]], so dying over and over isn't a problem if you've stockpiled a lot of Gold Orbs beforehand. If you ran out of Gold Orbs, you can still revive if you farmed a lot of spare Red Orbs. The game tries to discourage you from abusing the Red Orb revival methods because their prices go up for each consecutive revive, much more so on higher difficulties. However, picking the most expensive Red Orb revival choice also deals significant damage to the enemies aside from refilling your entire health bar. By just having a lot of spare Red Orbs, this ComebackMechanic has been used to cheese even the hardest boss fights.

** Lady and Trish also are none the worse for wear despite [[spoiler: being captured and used as power sources for Urizen's lieutenants and thereby taking active roles in the mass murder of Redgrave City's residents.]]