More Dante's Inferno – Did You Read The Poem? 1

by Adam Blue • Editorial

Without flinching, I’m playing through Dante’s Inferno again. This time may be quite quicker though…well, obviously because of the upgrades. But I mention ‘without flinching’ because it’s like I just continued on without the feeling of boredom. For instance, Visceral’s previous title, Dead Space (another fucking awesome game) warranted another play through after I completed it. Now, I didn’t make it that far because I honestly did get a little bored. That, to me, just says a lot about Dante’s Inferno. The achievements seem to be rather easy to get. Seeing them, it made me think about how fun these types of games are and that when I have time, I’d like to go through others for 100% completion. Conan, The Force Unleashed, Viking, etc. I think I’ve narrowed down my favorite genre.*

*On consoles. Because my favorite genre award belongs to RTS’s! C&C FTW!

Back to Dante’s Inferno…did you read the Divine Comedy? Inferno? It’s almost completely different. The poem is interesting because it explains aspects of the Christian afterlife in amazing detail. Now, there’s so much detail and intrigue here that the world would certainly survive and thrive in the realm of an action game. Hell, death, and sin screams action. So instead of taking the ideas and calling it something else, the developers use the same characters and plot points and twist it to fit the action genre. Sometimes though, this method doesn’t work. Like the Super Mario Bros. movie. I know they were trying to make it make sense in a live action world, but…it didn’t feel like Mario. It just had some reptiles, plumbers, a princess, and mushrooms. Dante’s Inferno, though, is putting the player through the events of The Inferno, with the action building up the suspense.

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