Abandoned concepts include a weapon Dante could figure-skate with and one modeled on the ribbons used in rhythmic gymnastics Click to expand... Click to shrink...

Itsuno has long wanted to build on the Nevan, a guitar-like weapon Dante used in DMC3. "It's so hard to do in a cool way" A character in Itsuno's fighting game Rival Schools was a violinist, so there's certainly precedent - though his dream of a saxophone weapon seems set to wailing metal. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

"All the ideas we've had were too ridiculous, though that isn't to say we won't find a way of implementing it somewhere down the line" Click to expand... Click to shrink...

Edge recently did a cover story on DMC5. Most of the stuff are things we already know but there is a section where they talk about scrapped weapon ideas that I thought was very interesting:That's not all, it seems like Itsuno really wants to make some crazy musical weapons for this game (including a new take on Nevan)While the weapons for the base game are almost certainly all locked in by this point, it does seem like there might be a possibility for getting DLC weapons down the line:And last but not the least, if you have any ideas, Itsuno is open for suggestions:Anyway, what do you guys think about the scrapped ideas and what new or classic weapons would you like to see?