First “Devil May Cry” Game to be Available on Switch Next Week

Looking to relieve the first time you ever laid eyes on the white-haired devil hunter Dante? Fret not, because you’ll get to do just that in your Switch consoles real soon! A quick look at the listings in the Nintendo eShop indicates that the first Devil May Cry game will launch on June 25 for the west and June 27 in Japan. The Nintendo eShop lists the game for $19.99, and is also revealed to support English, Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Chinese language options.

Plans to release the original Devil May Cry game for Switch was revealed as early as last month by gaming company Capcom, with rumors flying around that it will be released along with its sequels, Devil May Cry 2 and Devil May Cry 3: Dante’s Awakening . As there is no news of the latter two games, it seems fans will have to wait a bit longer for these to be ported to the Nintendo Switch.

Devil May Cry was first released in 2001 by Capcom. Originally developed as Resident Evil 4 in 1999, the staff of the game eventually realized that the story and gameplay would not fit the Resident Evil franchise. Thus, the staff decided to cut the game’s ties with Resident Evil and developed it as a game of its own. It became a commercial and critical success upon its release for the Play Station 2 console, spawning several sequels, comic books, novelizations, and an animated series.

Playstation.com describes the game as such:

”Legends tell of a demon swordsman named Sparda, who awoke to justice and rebelled against the devil, waging a one-man support of the human world. Now, 2,000 years later, a dark figure named Dante–private investigator of the supernatural–finds clues that the devil is rallying to rise up again against mankind. By Dante’s demon blood, you enter this dark realm of demonic marionettes, unearthly phantoms, grim reapers, and other retched souls. Transform to a demon state to inflict devastating attacks on enemies in this gothic battle of good against evil.”

Source: Gematsu