DK has endless army respawns, which is aggravating. The bosses barely put up a fight, even on Hard. The draw-in and pop-up is awful -- easily DW3-grade or worse, and certainly not up to par with DW5. The characters lack the move variety found in DW5, and the designs are awful. The stages are massively linear (and much smaller than DW5's), lack any sort of real dynamic events, and there's no concept of a morale meter to watch.
Thw latter DW games revolve around the dynamic field events and closely monitoring army morale, as well as the regular capture of bases and supply posts. Devil Kings has none of that -- it actually *is* the straw man haters concoct when they mock the DW games.
I rented DK planning to really like it -- DW with Devil May Cry style coulda been incredible. Instead, I got a really sloppy, glitchy BEU with a muddled sense of style, absolutely no dynamic stages or sense of managing a battle, and really retarded character designs. Pass!
