I enjoyed DmC: Devil May Cry but haven't played the others.

Played it for like 20 minutes before stopping out of boredom. Feels like shit to play, your attacks push the enemy just out of your range so that each successive swing misses creating this clumsy, awkward feeling to the combat. There's no multi-hit string or anything, no dodge, it's insanely basic. I don't know how you fuck up the combat in an SSSmokin'-like that's the one thing you have to get right, but trust capcom to fuck it up