As expected the characters are different in style and personality but Dante isn't really emo like I think most people expected (other than a part of his back story where he cuts his chest open to touch his own heart). He is actually devoid of a personality at all for the most part. He is basically blank with a few bad one liners. Not old Dante funny bad mind you they are all about as bad as the clips we've seen already. He basically just seems like most forgettable protagonists we have in other video games now a days. The bigger crime is what they did to Vergil honestly. He went from being a badass in DMC3 to a weak, shady, computer hacker in this. There is a point where he actually cries out to Dante for help. The turn at the end was weird. I didn't really feel surprised but something about it didn't seem to fit with the rest of the story and what Vergil proposed didn't really seem all that evil that it required Dante to immediately fight him.