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Nelo Angelo "Design & Behaviour" Analysis - Devil May Cry

Nero the Sky

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Join me as I talk at you for far too long about a seminal boss in the history of action games. You should play DMC1.

Nelo Alt. Armour Design by Brae Forbes: https://www.instagram.com/braeforbes?...

Audio Treatment by Eren Dönmez: https://www.instagram.com/erendonmez3...

Twitter: Twitter: Nero_theGame
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Kain's channel: @kainunot
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Music
"Jouin High School" - Tokishi Konishi
"迂回之径" - Sān-Z & Hoyo MiX
"Seto's Arrival" - Waichiro Ozaki & Hiroshi Tanabe
"faint" - Rungran
"Underground Complex" - Masashi Hamauzu
"Out of Phase" - Yoko Shimomura
"Turks 101" - Masashi Hamauzu
"Twilight Eternal (Sam & Max)" - Jared Emerson-Johnson
"闲散度日" - Sān-Z & Hoyo MiX
"Non-Negligible Error" - Keita Inoue
"Also Sprach Brooks" - Shoji Meguro
"Main (night) for the Man" - Kazuhiro Yuki
"Starling" - Arooj Aftab & Danshin
"HUDIE" - Masafumi Takada

0:00 - Introduction
11:27 - Design & Context
33:11 - Basic Behaviours
1:09:12 - Parrying
1:34:01 - Blocking & Teleporting
1:51:28 - Summary
1:55:08 - Analysis
2:36:33 - Credits

#devilmaycry #dmc #vergil

20 Comments

@Comet9000. 1 year ago

A 3 hour virgil video essay without virgil

@amandanascimento69 1 year ago

I think Nelo's design premise was "if Mundus tried to recreate Sparda from memory in his Beginner level Sculpting class". If you compare him to Sparda's design, you'll find the horns in the armor are in similar positions. And the big ass sword, of course.

@papierkot 1 year ago

3h video on nelo angelo covering JUST dmc1, and there's still gonna be two more parts? this is insane

@Star_John_s 1 year ago

I like to think the horns are meant as a satire of Sparda by Mundus. Both Nero Angelo and Sparda are "a Dark Knight with horns" but Angelo's look more like a jester hat. Making Jester(Arkham)'s design foreshadowing basically.

@vergilthedarkslayer8593 1 year ago (edited)

Neat detail from side materials is that Nelo's armour is actually a restrain or seal upon Vergil to limit his power. The more he removes his armour the more powerful he becomes. Also even his body is not his own. Black Angels was a line of artificial demons crafted from battle data of all the Spardas. For example Gilver post retcon is a Black Angel. Hence the same appearance as Spardas, they are biological clones and suit of supernatural armour forged in hellfire, serviced by Machiavelli. They were frequently sent to assassinate the Spardas, then fail and remade with constant experiments and adaptations.

In his battle against Mundus, Vergil had his demonic name and identity stripped away and put his ripped soul in one of these artificial armour demons. He was the strongest servant of Mundus and was considered a threat to himself, hence the restrains.

@trinfamous5639 1 year ago

*Dante when he stingers

Dante: im something of a ZOOOOOOOOO myself

@Arcana_zero_studios 1 year ago

God, Vergil really is the embodiment of the secret sauce that makes DMC goated af.

@kez_the_reaper2657 1 year ago

Just knowing that his name in the original translation was Nero Angelo makes so much more sense now

Gonna start calling Nero nelo now

@ykomat6860 1 year ago

I never knew Vergil’s motivation was chocolate

@VergilHiltsLT 1 year ago (edited)

Nightmare's "missiles" are meant to be parried with Ifrit's Rolling Blaze. It's absolutely worth it and even somewhat mandatory in Nightmare 3 final phase, to quickly refill DT and finish off the boss.

All Nightmare fights are much easier and faster with Ifrit and the charge method.

@Zabyatta 1 year ago

This video has been the catalyst for my latest hyperfixation

@RhoQuixote 1 year ago

Babe wake up new Nero the Sky dropped.

@sehtuk3953 1 year ago

It's very interesting that with how complex Nelo Angelo is as a boss, it kinda seems like a fighting game match where Dante and Nelo are trying to bait each other's attacks out and get a punish. Like, the bit with how you can partially charge Ifrit to bait Nelo into attacking is basically a frametrap.
I know this video series is already long enough as is (hearing that this is gonna be a 3-part series at the end of this video felt like a flashbang), but I think the knowledge of fighting game concepts, even a basic level, would be interesting to apply to Nelo given that this is Capcom.

@krissybtw 1 year ago (edited)

3 hours of gold :face-purple-crying::face-purple-crying:

@sophiebubbles07 1 year ago

The constant referral of Nelo’s dash as “Zooooooooooooooo” made me laugh every time. Great stuff.

@PikseliKropka 1 year ago

This video is incredible. Seeing almost 3 hours of content, I expected something good to have on in the background — but it's packed with information and visuals that perfectly illustrate the points being made. I admire the depth of analysis and the perseverance it must take to create something like this. Good luck with future projects — they're truly remarkable.

@m.biilrain7754 1 year ago

This feels like that famous excrept of DMC5. 'Vergil's bro, Vergil's son and Vergil's human half etc etc'

@SimplySwayze 1 year ago

“If it turns out no one wants this, it’s probably not the move to spend another year making more, right? Do you want this?”

Me, yes, over here. I am he. I want this. Please and thank you.

@hayond656 1 year ago

58:56 I just want to say I like that Healthbar edit

@kadinquill5238 1 year ago

Yoooo, your DEF Value idea is kinda a lot like the "revenge value" that's found in Kingdom Hearts! Like even as far back as fighting Riku on the island. It could be an idea that carried on and evolved which is super crazy... Btw, did you know KH is really go-

Great video btw. So cool to hear someone nerding out about Nelo Angelo for 3 freaking hours