Part 4 of the complete Devil May Cry 4 game guide.

1. Power up, and be sure to check out the new purple orbs you can buy and the Yamato skills you can now upgrade.
2. As you begin, you should be able to see a pod just on the other side of Nero from your viewpoint. You can break these for red orbs. You'll find several in a log next to the stone arched building up ahead. There's a secret mission in the building, but you can't complete it without Dante, so move on to that red crystal you'll see just past there and hit it for orbs. Go forward.
3. In the next area you'll see a big drop, but move along the left side before dropping for a pod to destroy and then some holy water on a ledge just higher from there. Drop down, pods abound, and some Chimera Seeds (new enemy) will confront you somewhat lazily. Buster them to immediately kill them, they shouldn't give you any trouble yet. You'll be forced by blue walls to go up some stairs and into the Ruined Church.
4. Inside, a cutscene will present the Chimera Seed-driven scarecrows, which can be a bit tougher due to the blades the Chimeras deploy at certain times, no matter what state the scarecrow is in. Shoot them a bit, then use Snatch and Buster to kill them when their blades aren't going. In general, keep distance between them and you. Smash the glass to your right for lots of pods and yet another Dante-only combat adjudicator. You can break some glass below the staircase only to find a "strange tree" blocking your path in that direction.
5. Head up the stairs and hit the blue pedestal. A path across will appear and eventually disappear, so sort of hurry across as the path creates itself slowly.
6. Grim grip across two gaps and then hit the blue pedestal. Platforms like the ones inside the church will appear, but just go onto the first one then come back to land to deal with the Mephistos that will appear. Once they're gone, activate the platforms again, so you don't have to deal with them. If the Mephistos knock you off the platforms, you'll end up in a Torture Chamber-esque area with more enemies to kill.
7. There's a blue orb fragment in mid-air above the fifth set of platforms which you can reach either with Air Hike or a jump, roulette spin, and Snatch. Hurry before the platform disappears, though. Hint: Platforms that are about to disappear become bluer and darker, before suddenly turning red and almost immediately afterwards disappearing. Typically, they're just the set of platforms that had previously come up, but sometimes they'll disappear faster to trick you. Keep on them as they appear until the platforms lead you directly onto a ledge with a door.
8. Go over the bridge or search around for pods, then turn left. At the end of that path behind a tree is Secret Mission 05. Once you've either completed or had enough with that secret mission, go down the right path instead to get to the Ancient Plaza.
9. Near that small pit in front of you, scarecrows and Chimera seeds will come at you. Take care of the seeds first with an instant-kill Buster, or else you'll get the much more irritating Chimera scarecrows. When ready, head out.
10. Now you'll be given a Gyro Blade to bust through those blue walls blocking your way earlier. After that will be more chimeras and scarecrows, so use the Gyro Blade if you wish in dealing with them. Pointing directly south on your map is the second blue door you should break, and the next path you should take.
11. Once onto the catwalk, a large dragon will start chasing you, so proceed towards the camera and break or jump the pods in your way before it breaks the catwalk you're on. You don't have far to go before a cutscene will interrupt and make it look closer than it actually was.
12. A blue adjudicator sits past the door clearly in sight, so hit it with varied attacks until you get to Atomic Stylish level for red orbs and a blue orb fragment. Continue on, kill the chimeracrows, use the Divinity Statue if you wish, charge your exceed and get ready for a boss.

1. This boss is a dragon-like creature from earlier with a lady inside its mouth. Here are some strategies for successfully attacking her: if she's in the air, jump up and slashing her. If she's drilled into the ground, jump up and slashing her. If you can see a pink flower object, use a Buster on it. If she ever looks dazed or slumped, use a Buster on her. Use your new Devil power (L1) a fair amount to get extra damage in.
2. She will attack you by: Swinging her head around, in which case you need to be on the ground. Swinging her tail around, in which case you need to be in the air. Zooming around as a dragon, when you should be shooting her, then rolling out of the way when she gets close. Using big tentacles or shooting seeds at you when she's drilled into the ground, just keep moving to dodge them.
3. She's not especially tough for a boss, just use your L1 power, hit seeds on the edges of the map for health if you need to and keep slicing and using Buster on her. The mission is complete once you've beaten her and used your new Sephirothic Fruit to get rid of those strange red trees.

1. Move along this path until you move under the arch with a pod on the ceiling. Break it (you may need Air Hike) and you'll get a quick and easy blue orb fragment. Move on through for a quick pair of Chimera Seeds and Scarecrows, which you should defeat in the manner mentioned in the last mission.
2. Once you're into the next area, a strange tree will block your path, but your Sephirothic Fruit will dissolve it if you examine the roots. Move on over the bridge and head north unless you haven't done that secret missions (#5) to the south yet.
3. Move in just a bit more, and a cutscene will show you the new lizardmen, Assaults. The trick for these enemies is to attack them so that they'll block rather than attack you. Once they've started blocking, you can either move around their back or Snatch them then use a Buster to slam them into the ground. Once they're down, start slashing normally. Try not to get surrounded. You only want to deal with one at a time unless you use Streak to hit several at once.
4. Once you moved out of that area, you'll come to the Windswept Valley with the Gyro Blade, but there are no enemies here. Take some time to destroy the pods around here for orbs and health, then move up the steps to the Ruined Church.
5. Several scarecrows and three Assaults will come up inside the church. Deal with them one at a time with the room you have in here. Bust the pods to your right as you enter, then go through to the strange tree below the staircase (you may have to break some glass leading to it).
6. You'll reach an area with a statue and a glowing tablet. Here you get a forest maze "puzzle." The only trick is to look where the statue's shadow is, and head the opposite direction. The tablet sort of hints this by mentioning that you should "seek the light". First, head the wrong direction so you can reach a blue orb fragment.
7. After you've gone the wrong way, Chimeras will attack you. After you've defeated them, a portal back to where you were will be opened. Before using that portal, jump around the edge of the area with Air Hike until you see the blue orb fragment high up in the air. Your Devil Bringer should also help you find it. Just jump up to it if you've bought that ability. Head back through the blue portal, then go the correct way from now on through the woods.
8. Three correct turns will take you to the Forgotten Ruins. Go straight through this bridge to the blue door. A team of scarecrows and Assaults will attack you. Kill them as usual. There's a Divinity Statue here, which you should know means a boss fight is coming up. Continue onward past it and over a long path to trigger the fight.

1. This time, you'll be facing Angelo in his angel/demon form. Slashing him in this battle is basically pointless. All you need to use is your revolver and Buster. Keep running and side-rolling to dodge basically every attack Credo uses. Shoot your revolver constantly in breaks to slowly lower his health. After one of his big sword combos, when he's stuck into the ground, use a Buster and you'll hit his shield. You have to do that several times until the shield turns orange, and then one more time so the shield turns blue again. Then your next Buster will be the good one, so you should use Devil Trigger just before you do it. You'll probably only have to do that twice if you've kept firing the revolver.
2. Credo will use various sword combos whenever you come right up to him, so just run up then run away again. Be sure to stay close enough to get up and Buster him once he's finished with his combo. Then, sometimes, he'll throw lances at you, which you should just dodge by running perpendicular to wherever he's throwing from. If you're close enough to him while he's throwing the lances, you can Buster him. Also, you can time it just right to Buster the lances themselves. The mission ends after the cutscene.

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• General Tips
• Mission 01: Birds of a Feather
• Mission 02: La Porte De L'Enfer
• Mission 03: Fortuna Castle
• Mission 04: Cold Blooded
• Mission 05: Trisagion
• Mission 06: Resurrection
• Mission 07: The She-Viper
• Mission 08: Profession of Faith
• Mission 09: For You
• Mission 10: Wrapped in Glory
• Mission 11: The Ninth Circle
• Mission 12: A New Beginning
• Mission 13: The Devil Returns
• Mission 14: The Forest of Ruin
• Mission 15: Fortuna Castle
• Mission 16: Inferno
• Mission 17: Adagio For Strings
• Mission 18: The Destroyer
• Mission 19: The Successor
• Mission 20: La Vita Nuova

• Secret Missions