Devil May Cry 5

I give AAA games a try once, and I'm immediately reminded why I shouldn't. Or rather, it's this specific type of AAA games, I'm not quite sure what the subgenre here is. I'm sure there's thousands of fans of the series, hence the high rating, but I played Devil May Cry 5 rather briefly, and I absolutely hated it.

I would think I rather enjoy action games. Hack and slash is really cool. I like doing fancy moves, building combos. I figured, "hey, DMC5 is a really highly rated game like that, surely it's gotta be good." How ridiculous of me.
For one, it's a console game. The PC experience is yet again a complete afterthought. The control scheme just doesn't work well on a keyboard, and I feel myself pushing ridiculous key combinations to get the character to do what I want to, and even then some actions just aren't possible because they would have probably been too hard to map to a controller.
Secondly, it's a "story game". Now hey, those cutscenes were pretty good, and I feel like if you just took all the gameplay out, you could make a pretty cool action movie. But I'm not here to watch a movie. The level segments are so brief between being interrupted by yet another cutscene that it feels more like a movie with gameplay spliced in, than the other way around.
And even if I could ignore those two major problems, I failed to really see anything special in the gameplay. Melee attacks, ranged attacks, special attacks, combos... Kind of basic stuff. Sure, it didn't seem bad either, but I feel there's way better hack and slash combat out there.

Well, good to check up on AAA games every now and then and remember that, yup, they're still mostly not for me. But hey, with how popular DMC is, you'll probably already have played it if you liked it, and don't need my opinion. If you, however, don't have an opinion on this game and feel like your tastes align with mine, I can confidently tell you to stay away from it - I don't recommend it.