Nicoletta Goldstein (or Nico for short) will be unplayable in Devil May Cry 5. Why? Capcom answered the question at the Tokyo Game Show to Dualshockers.

Hideaki Itsuno (the game’s director) and Matt Walker revealed why Nico was never planned to be playable, which, in our cynical opinion, could change if there was a Special Edition made for Devil May Cry 5: „We never thought to make her playable. The way we see Nico, she’s not the type to go out there fighting. She is the one who gives you crap. “You’ve gotta be better at fighting! You’ve gotta be careful with the merchandise! The idea is that you’re going to play as Nero, and that’s part of her appeal. She’s not the one who goes out there to fight. She is the one that tells you that you gotta man up and improve your game.”

They also talked about they designed her: „Nero has Kyrie, but Kyrie is incredibly important for him, so much so that he doesn’t want to put her in any danger. We wanted a character who would be able to go with Nero and be there for him. That’s how the idea for Nico came up. At the same time, we wanted a new kind of heroine character. We wanted one who was going to be sassy, the sassy that we hadn’t yet seen in the Devil May Cry series.”

Itsuno and Walker also explained the differences from your average female character: „You don’t see characters like that in many Japanese games. That’s something we kind of thought about. Not just in Japanese games, but especially in Japanese games you have these particular archetypes. You do have the same variations of male characters and the same variations of female characters a lot of the times.

One of our thoughts was “ok, let’s try to do something a little different with her. That comes from the sassiness. As a guy who gets the chance to interact with all kinds of people all the time, it’ll be cool to hang out with a girl who is that sassy, smokes all the time, points out your flaws, and gives you crap when you need it. There is something cool about being around that kind of person. That’s where Nico comes from.”

These comments are quite detailed. Maybe Nico won’t be playable in the future after all?

Devil May Cry 5 is out on March 8 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.

Source: DualShockers