>>724518183
I think personally I like Vergil's SDT more, but what the design of Nero's is made of and it's significance in the game's and series' story give it the edge.

>>724518790
>an issue everyone's design has in 5
But you say later in your post people like 5's designs?

>That looked cooler than his actual DT form and differentiated him a bit.
Nah, it was underwhelming. Dante had a DT the entire entire series and was scheduled to have his SDT in 4 to boot, compared to that Nero's DT just felt like he wasn't on his level at all. Imagine what it would have felt in 5 where not only does Dante have that, you have Vergil with his own SDT and his own Doppelganger.

Besides, while Nero's old DT was visually interesting, functionally it didn't add that much to the character. His new DT gets to do the same stuff and more with the bringer wings.

Nero just felt like a very ill-defined character during DMC4, specially visually speaking. I get why some people like some of his stuff there, but he's just generally incohesive.