'these traits don't work with this character' - For what reason? His design supports the characteristics, because he has modern hair that means he needs to be all emo? Old Dante was cheesy, we don't all want a character that's amusing
' a lot of it seems like pandering' - No, it was alterations based on feedback from gamers, why is this a bad thing?
'they did this with the devil trigger, missed potential' People were bemoaning the lack of white hair, and thus the devil trigger has that
'the quality of writing here is awful at times' see every DMC game. NT games have had great writing in the past, you're judging trailers and whatnot, when there's 4 terribly written DMC games for you to enjoy
*goes on to compare him to old Dante*
*goes on to criticize the story* (which on trailers alone looks more interesting than previous DMC plot)*
At this point I got bored and turned it off
I disagree with pretty much every one of your points
Let the old DMC Dante go, he ain't in this game, so deal with it
*prepares to be attacked*