1. Both critics and general audiences are stupid
2. General audiences probably don't even know about the games
3. Something being popular doesn't make it good
You know, DMC did have a lot of blood, and the anime had some gore here and there, but nothing like this
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Yeah because they always said that the series was going to be non-canon.
If people show interest at the most basic concepts of the series then Capcom could easily start producing DMC6 following the games lore.