Ninja Theory hasn’t exactly had an effortless ride because it revealed the brand new-look Dante that might take the spotlight in its forthcoming reboot. But Capcom’s supervising director and Devil May Cry veteran Hideaki Itsuno is ok with what the studio has done, and explains why it outsourced one in all its most cherished franchises within the first place.

“With DmC this time, we would have liked to prevent the issue that befalls some series where you retain making it with an identical team, same hardware, and it tends to diminish and fans move far from it,” he explains. “We desired to avoid that. We do not want the series to die.”

Us neither – DMC3 remains top-of-the-line games ever made and it might be a crying shame (no pun intended) to peer one in all gaming’s greatest action heroes retire. Well, unless he was retiring from Marvel Vs Capcom 3. We wouldn’t hate that in any respect. Still, Itsuno’s plan was to alter the formula, and that meant getting new blood to work at the project.

“What we decided to do was to feature new elements and search for a brand new developer,” he confirms. “Specifically a Western developer that can bring something new to the series, keep it fresh and perhaps attract new fans in addition.”

DmC Devil May Cry is out 15 January and we won’t stress enough how great a task the recent team has done with it. We’ve finished it. It’s pretty bloody good. But when we inform you any longer, we’ll get in all types of trouble and Capcom will probably set Phoenix Wright on us. We do not want that. So we can’t say to any extent further. Not yet, anyway. Watch this space, though…