Unlockables and Secrets
- Easy Difficulty: deliberately use a continue during one of the first three levels: when the next level loads, the option to set the difficulty to Easy appears (you stay locked to that setting for the rest of the game).
- Hard Difficulty: complete the game.
- Legendary Dark Knight Mode: complete the game on Hard difficulty: you can play as Sparda.
- Dante Must Die Mode: complete the game in Legendary Dark Knight mode.
- Super Dante Mode: complete the game in Dante Must Die: Dante can transform into a demon with unlimited magic.
- All-Star Group Photo: complete the game with an S rank in all missions.
- Skipping FMV cutscenes: press SELECT during a cutscene.
- Mega Cannon: in combat mode (R1) hold the fire button for 3 seconds: the firearms glow with demonic power. With the pistols Dante fires 3 or 4 very powerful shots; with a single-shot weapon he performs the Demon Cannon.
Secret Missions
They are timed skill trials, in the castle locations you have already visited and accessible only at specific moments. Almost all of them can be replayed: if you fail, leave and re-enter.
- Critical Hit: after defeating the Phantom in mission 3, go back to the submerged Sargasso place. Kill the Sin Scythe by hitting its left mask with the shotgun after grabbing the giant scissors. Reward: blue orb fragment. Underwater Dante's health drops.
- The Little Phantom: enter through the cathedral doors at the start of mission 4 and, with the pistols, kill 100 little spiders; stomping on them works. After the first horde go next to the holy altar, where there are plenty.
- The Little Phantoms 2: in the study at the back at the end of the long corridor, like the previous one but without weapons: squash the bugs with your body (activate the demon, run, stop, drop, roll and repeat).
- Three Beasts: after the shadow of mission 4, at the underground ring of mission 1. You face three Shadows: concentrate on just one, isolate it, shoot it with the shotgun and when the heart is exposed activate the demon and strike. Eliminating one makes the fight much lighter.
- The One-Eyed Demon: before mission 8, in the room of the first encounter with Beelzebub. Stay out of the two cyclopes' line of sight by climbing onto a low pipe and let them fight each other: the winner has to be finished off.
- Wandering Ghosts: past the doors at the start of mission 11: use the enemies as steps and jump from the scythe's mask to grab the blue orb fragment in the air.
- Water Cell: before mission 14, in the ghost ship, in the captain's cabin examine the skeleton on the chair. Swim and use the harpoon against the blades, throwing your shots into the group.
- The Reaper's Treasure: after the start of mission 15, in the low corridor with spears coming out of the floor, examine the painting. Three shadows come out: use the shotgun or the grenade launcher, push them onto the spears and defeat the first one as soon as possible.
- The Stairway of Tranquility: at the coliseum, at the start of mission 16, a narrow line of sargassos leads to the blue orb fragment: jump from the skulls at the top without falling (hold R1 to orient the camera).
- Shadows in the Darkness: after the Nightmare of mission 16, in the hangar: destroy 4 shadows (two on the plane's wings, one in the main hall on the left, one in the outer area that holds the reward).
- Blue Gem in the Sky: at the start of mission 17, in the trial park, jump across the bridge without falling into the water. Do not kill the death scythe: use its tornado to fly, activate the demon and the air raid and hook the orb. Alternative method: jump onto the ledge above the door where you got the red orbs, use the hook and the air raid (you need at least 4 or 5 of demon activation). The mission cannot be repeated.
- The Hidden Wand: at the start of mission 21, in the secret corridor near the first time statue. Follow the path, kill the Nobodies, climb onto the ledge and cut off the head of the fire-spitting dragon with the demon's weapons; then defeat the two ice demons with Ifrit and climb onto the platform to take the time wand. Reward: blue orb and time wand.
