Overthinking Games runs every other Monday, and is an opportunity for Malindy Hetfeld to take something about a game and think about it too much. This time, she’s looking at the ways heavy metal tangles itself in Devil May Cry V.
Devil May Cry 5 is, like the entire Devil May Cry series, cool. But it s a particular kind of cool loud, dark and fascinated with the occult and forbidden. It s a mish mash of all the things you thought were edgy when you were a teen: explosions, pizza, guitars, leather, hair, more guitars, a big sword.
So when we re looking for an artistic genre, a mood, a milieu that has influenced Devil May Cry, where do we look? To heavy metal, of course.