I played the PC version and I had a lot of fun. I thought the art direction was the best I have seen so far. I don't know why people hate on this game.
Top 3 reasons
1) Main character sucks, terrible writing and voice acting, main character is an unlikeable douche who does stupid things.
2) Gameplay is extremely easy even on hardest difficulty. Lets say for DMC3. even normal mode was pretty damn hard to pull off combos if you were new to the game. In DMC, even hardest is a joke.
3) Combos are extremely limited especially late game (yes, the only game in which you get less choices of what combos you can pull off the later the game goes, this is because the game limits weapon choices and so your effective combo list is halved) and there are almost no end game combos that actually take practice to use. In DMC 1234, you could pull off amazing combos that took absurd amounts of practice and skill to pull off and would be given the almighty score of a SSS. DMC has none of this and has an extremely simplified casual combo system that gives you SSS ranks for being able to mash the X button.
The death of the DMC genre signals another end to another genre defining action game. DMC1/3 are generally regarded as some of the greatest action games ever released.
Hopefully (and from the looks of it, probably) the game sells poorly and the DMC name can actually just go away before its defiled even more.