I won't say that I hate DMC5 but it's probably the low point in the series. I present myself before all of you, not as a "hater" but as someone with what I feel are fairly decent issues with the game.
1) As someone said they changed Dante's design to make him appeal to the Twilight audience. An audience that doesn't typically play these kinds of games anyway, but Ninja Theory was hoping. But unfortunately, Dante wasn't the only character who received a Twilight makeover.
2) The theme of the game is the people versus corrupt systems i.e. the 99% versus the 1%. If this were 2010 or 2011 then this game would have a place in the collective consciousness. In 2012 and 2013 its issues are irrelevant.
3) DMC is about speed. This game is somehow slower than DMC3 which is nearly a decade old at this point.
I for one enjoyed the "head-trip" of the art and level designs but that was about it. DMC5 is to DMC what the Forgotten Sands was to Prince of Persia.