Oh yeah, there is also the Heaven Smiles bleeding like victims in a Miike movie when killed by methods other than their weaknesses. Plus the ability to shoot various parts off, still not stopping their pursuit.

Certain death's in DMC were very violent, outside from the fact that you were maiming your emeny left and right. If you play the original DMC on DMD mode (assuming those here know what that acronym means) and are killed by particular monsters you can bare witness to some grissly death movies for Dante. Straight RE2 style. One in particular would have a shadow eat half of Dante, then take the rest of him, shake it back and forth, to finally detonate, blowing everythings to bits and only leaving his sword. Aside from that, DMC3 had some wild deaths for the monsters in the game. Poor Beowulf...

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