Originally posted by Sin_Volvagia
In all seriousness, Onimusha and Devil May Cry are spawns of Resident Evil. DMC also had similarities to Castlevania (which then allowed Konami to make a DMC-like Castlevania game). DMC started to differ in DMC2/DMC3.GoW is still a DMC clone. I can list all the reasons here:
1. Both have red and white colors in their appearance.
2. Their main weapons (Rebellion and Athena's Blades) tend to be useful throughout the entire game.
3. Both collect red orbs which is used as currency. Also in both games, it symbolizes blood.
4. Both have green orbs which is used for healing.
5. Both collect round objects to increase the health bar (Blue Orbs and Cyclop eyes).
6. Both have a stronger form which lasts briefly and can be regained by dealing damage (Devil Trigger and Rage of the Gods/Titans).
7. Dante is referred as Son of Sparda while Kratos is sometimes called the Ghost of Sparta.
8. Both games enable stylish combos with a combo counter.
9. Both double jump.
10. Both have 4 levels of difficulty (that was until DMC3 SE).
11. Both franchises were born on the PS2
12. In their first games, they kill their antagonist with a big sword. Also their antagonists are fought in at least two different battles.
13. Mundus's and Ares's defeat causes an explosion.
14. Mundus and Ares are gods (or in Mundus case, god-like).
15. Both games have weapon-switching at the press of a button.
16. Dante and Kratos won't stay dead (though Kratos might at GoW3)
Doesn't change the fact that DMC shares some similarities with and was inspired by Onimusha, hence DMC is a clone of Onimusha, if we use your point of view that is.
1. Kratos is bald. Dante is not.
2. Kratos has a tattoo. Dante does not.
3. Dante has a brother. Kratos does not (that stupid little extra in GoW about his brother is non-canon).
4. Kratos killed his family. Dante did not.
5. Both games have different sets of enemies.
6. GoW uses finishing moves via QTE's for most enemies. DMC does not.
7. DMC has a combo system that revolves around style and chaining different moves together. Using the same move over and over again will not work. GoW's combo system just revolves around getting in as many hits as you can.
8. DMC(3) uses different styles. GoW does not.
9. DMC(3) uses a lot of different techniques, such as buffering (v1, v2), canceling, jump canceling, etc. while GoW only uses minimal canceling and buffering.
10. Dante usually has to purchase his double jump. Kratos does not.
11. GoW uses magic as an aid in battle. DMC does not.
12. DMC uses items such as health stars, holy waters, etc. as an aid in battle. GoW does not.
13. GoW weapons are upgraded via levels. Each level grants new moves. In DMC, we have to purchase moves for weapons.
14. Sparda (DMC) is a person. Sparta (GoW) is a place. Sparta is well known to historians and the like, and I've never heard of a Sparda in history.
15. GoW uses chests to replenish health, etc. DMC does not.
16. GoW uses chain blades as its main weapon. DMC does not.
17. DMC's on-the-fly weapon switching is a little different from the on-the-fly switching in GoW, GoW:CoO and GoWIII. GoWII has a completely different method of weapon switching, one that was not continued as it led to a number of "game-breaking" exploits.
18. DMC sucks at platformer elements. GoW does a decent job.
19. Rebellion is often left in favor of the newer weapons that are unlocked (at least, that is the case with DMC3). GoW's chain blades do not suffer from the same dilemma.
20. Kratos is mainly white (was brown before). Dante is mainly colored red, but has pale skin. He has some black on him as well iirc.
21. Kratos' father is the king of the gods. Dante's father is not the king of the demons.
22. DT is mainly regained by the style bar (i.e. if you are stylish, you gain DT). RotG/T is gained via taking damage/dealing damage. I doubt you gain DT if you take damage.
23. Dante can run on walls under his own power. Kratos cannot (under his own power)
24. Dante is a half-demon. Kratos is a demi-god.
25. Kratos rips apart some enemies with his hands. Dante prefers to shoot them or slice them.
26. Dante has never used a bow and arrow in his games. Kratos has.
27. GoW is set in a timeline of the myths. DMC is in the present/near future.
28. Kratos is growing insane as time goes by. Dante is not.
29. Dante has some corny one-liners. Kratos does not.
30. Dante has rotten luck with teh chicks. Kratos bangs two of them each time, and has done so countless times before that obviously.
31. Which leads me to another difference, GoW has that minigame. DMC does not.
32. GoW uses feathers to increase the magic bar. DMC doesn't even have a magic bar.
33. GoW is a shallower than DMC when it comes to combat. Instead it focuses more on puzzle-solving, platforming (small aspects here and there), brutally finishing off opponents, and the story.
34. GoW does a much better job at conveying the story than DMC does.
35. GoW is made to look like it is a movie (seamless transitions between levels, no mission screens, etc). DMC is not.
36. DMC gives us bonus orbs in the mission results screen. GoW does not as it does not even have a results screen.
37. Frankly, GoW's boss battles feel a lot more epic than DMC's does.
38. Ares tries to destroy a city. Mundus tries to escape and then destroy the world.
39. Mundus looks like a statue at first and then a blob. Ares does not.
40. Ares is actually a decent antagonist, using psychology and what not against us. All Mundus does is try to kill us and Trish.
41. GoW is heavily laden with glitches and glitch exploits ('good' glitches). I don't think DMC suffers from the same thing (numerous good glitches).
42. Typically, one can very easily make it through GoW runs by using a number of these exploits. DMC does not afford this to us.
43. I'm growing tired of these trivial differences, but I have one last one, DMC and GoW's plot are different (OMIGAWD! HAR HAR, DERP)
~ Bravo if you went through this whole list. I could go on and on and on and on about their differences (trivial idiocies or otherwise), but it is a pointless waste of time as we're both losers trying to debate this; seeing as I'm obviously right when I say that GoW is not a clone because of some trivial similarities ๐.