Nero got his redemption arc in V. He can definitely hold his own now which was not the case with DMC4.
Nero is a call back to DMC 1 Dante IMO, a great mixture of seriousness and fun, which makes him a good protagonist figure. Ever since post-DMC 3, Dante just became old crazy uncle Dante more and more.
Yeah, me too. I'm pretty surprised to be honest. Seems like control would be a big issue. Tbh, the franchise hasn't been a thing I've thought about it a while. I picked up the latest DMC last year but didn't spend more than a few hours with it. The franchise just isn't for me I think. Last cag I enjoyed of any real accord would be Metal Gear Rising.
Nero is just less fun to play for me because he has less of a weapon tool set and I really didn’t like the resource management they gave him with his arm. The game time you play as Nero feels too long and Dante tends to feel too short.
That's even more of a reason why he feels like DMC 1 Dante, but I agree about him holding too much playtime compared to other characters. I think he's good as an introductory character for people just jumping into DMC at a later entry like 5. Dante is essentially like playing with an end-game RPG character at this point, so I think it would be too much for the average player for him to be first billing.
