MY FIRST PLATINUM 🏆

I am now the proud owner of a DMC2 platinum trophy!(～￣▽￣)～
It honestly feels like the easiest to unlock out of all the HD collection. Might be that Capcom wanted to cut the players some slack for delivering such a clunky game lol. But, even after 46 hours of playtime, I still want to play more... PS2 100% playthrough in the future... maybe....

Another few weeks passed by leaving my controller to collect dust ;(

I've been watching multiple streamers who are playing DMC2 for the first time (or going back to it) and there's rlly a lot of fun to have witnessing their rage and confusion at how bad this game can get lol. Fueled me enough to pick this game back up (i had stopped at M10 bc fuck Noctpteran) and i bashed through DMD to the end! I finally had made it past the wall that was Trismagia!!! Trish was the trick haha. Her dodge animation is faster than Dante so I'd actually avoid attacks way better. And, for the flame balls specifically, running in circles kinda helped more than a simple left-right back and forth like for dodging the lightning bolts.
Anyway, I'm so glad I could even make it to the end! Seeing my terrible total results, I'm still considering going back and playing through Normal again. After all, those are still my rankings from my very first run so I can definitely do better this time!

Found a trick online to help farm a lot of red orbs quickly . I never get anything better than a B-rank on missions so that was a huge time saver for getting enough to max out all of Dante's gear. Now, as for Lucia, her shooting is slower than Dante so she doesn't really get the luxury of that nice convenient trick. I tried it in the same room as Trish but the margin for error is annoyingly big and found myself barely collecting anything. Trish also has a bug where she will auto-lock on enemies flying behind walls, which will break the combo style. I read it can be avoided by jumping/double-jumping but I always ended up getting hit mid-air. Real pain-in-the-ass. Another way to fix it would be to turn off auto-lock, but I haven't tried that yet.