People make mistakes and that´s an undeniable truth, we all do and this can hurt our loved ones around us, even if that wasn´t the intention in the first place, humans are weak agains´t the flesh of the sin and is no surprise, since the begining, humans did terrible things to each others, sometimes for the sake of surviving and some other times because of the malicious of the human being.
Fear not, people change, not everybody but we can change if we are willing to accept our mistakes and the punish imposed on us, it´s not an easy task to take the way of redemption, it may be the hardest way actually, it´s something not everyone can do. This is the story of Dante in Dante´s Inferno, a man who lost everything and because of his rotten guilt, he crosses the entire hell to fix his mistakes and saving his loved one.
Dante´s Inferno is inspired in the -Divine Comedy- book, a long italian narrative poem written by Dante Alighieri. The poem tells the story of Dante's travels through the afterlife to find his beloved Beatriz, in the poem, Dante descends to hell, the purgatory and finally he is reunited with Beatriz in paradise.
Don´t get yourself confused, before you play this game, let me tell you something, Dante´s Inferno is inspired by the book but it´s not a faithful adaptation, it has a lot of creative freedom, for example, in the book, Dante is a shy poet who is afraid to be close to the demons and in the videogame Dante is a brave knight who is not afraid of them.
Dante´s Inferno follows the story of Dante, a warrior of the medieval crusades, tired and desperate to purge his sins commited in the battle field, decides to find the inner peace with his beloved one Beatriz, he finds out that Beatriz sold her soul to Lucifer, so he fights with the grim reaper, stealing its scythe, already decided, he descends to hell to fight Lucifer and Save Beatriz.
The game takes place during the first part of the book, so our task as Dante won´t be nothing easy, we´ll be in company of Virgil, a spirit of a passed away famous poet that will guide us through hell, explaining us all the punishments and tortures in the Circles of Hell, our only weapons will be the scythe and a cross, with that in mind, we will have to fight hordes of bloodthirsty demons that will get in our way to save our loved one from the hands of Lucifer.
As I said before, Dante will open his way through the nine circles of hell with his styche and cross, than can be upgraded through the game with souls he will gather, magic will take an important role as well, with magic we can do special attacks that will help to defeat demons, not only that, for every circle we explore, we´ll be given certain special abilities that costs us magic but they are way too useful.
In the game, you´ll be given the option to forgive or punish the crimes of many tormented souls, if we decide to forgive them, we´ll have to do some kind of minigame to earn more souls, if we punish them, dante will kill them.
It has to be emphasize that the abilities and upgrades of this game are divided in two sides, -Holy- and -Unholy-, for everytime you forgive a tormented soul, the Holy side will improve so you´ll get the right to get new abilities and upgrade things like your stamina or magic bar, if you punish them, the unholy path will clear little by little and you´ll get the right to get other new abilities, the holy side is for cross attacks and upgrades, also the unholy side is for scythe attacks or upgrades.
It´s recommendable that you pay attention to these two, not just focus on one side, this game mechanic doesn´t affect to the karma of the character of the ending you´ll get.
The gameplay feels sastifactory and fast-paced, the sensation of making combos and defeating demons will feel just great as it´s supposed to be in a Hack-and-Slash game and this is partly thanks to the styche and cross that feels so good using them, with a well done coreography of attacks and a stable frames per second rate without too evidenced drops.
It´s usually said that Dante´s Inferno is a copy and paste of God of War and I disagree in this statement, while true, it inspires too much from the spartan, but the game achieves to be its own thing in the end with its own charisma, although, I must repeat myself, it´s undeniable the inspiration that takes from God of War, even if it was a copy, that doesn´t make it a bad game.
Graphics are pretty nice and is what you would excpect from a game of the year 2010, nice textures, animations, shadows, but what really Viscerall Games did oustanding was the artistic style which is excelent and it helped a lot the setting and environment, Dante goes to the circles of Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Anger, Heresy, Violence, Fraud and Treachery, thanks to the artistic style these circles of hell looks awesome even today in 2020, in its time it was marveleous to see what the team did in this aspect of the game.
The amount of enemies won´t get you bored in Dante´s Inferno, there are a lot of demons you can kill in the way you want, their design is flawless, there are some bosses through the game that looks splendid and it´s fun to fight them, sometimes challenging, difficulty is well done, the game has multiple options to set the difficulty as you please.
Sadly, Dante´s Inferno was a disaster at sales, ruining the probability to see a sequel ever, the reason? 2010 was already a year full of important titles like Bioshock 2, Mass Effect 2, Super Mario Galaxy 2, God Of War 3, Bayonetta, Fallout New Vegas, Final Fantasy XIII, Red Dead Redemption, etc. The main reason is EA wanted it to compete agains´t a titan like God of War 3, for those who doesn´t know, Dante´s Inferno was launched in february 2010 and God of War 3 was launched in 2010 march, just with one month left, it was impossible to Dante´s Inferno to succes that battle.
Dante´s Inferno is on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and the Psp, if you like fast-paced Hack-and-Slash that feels like a God of War but has its own charisma and a marveleous artistic style, you shoul play Dante´s Inferno and help Dante in his big journey through the circles of hell to save her wife.
Great review. I have this game on PSP but never actually played it. I believe I even have a copy on PlayStation 3 as well (problem of having several hundred games is you forget exactly what you have).
I need to give this one a run through as I can only run through various God of War games so many times. I know I picked up the PSP copy at clearance on the recommendation that it was like God of War but a different setting and different gods and enemies.
It just amazes me that with the success of God of War that there really are not that many games in that style. I guess because it is a lot harder to create a game in that style versus other popular games that were copied to hell and back. Games like Mario Kart, Super Mario Bros, Sonic, Contra, etc.
Thanks! I haven´t played the psp version but I think that´s a good start too, however you should pay the PlayStation 3 version if you can someday, it´s amazing.
I just looked and yes, I have the PlayStation 3 version. I just have to hook that console back up. I focus more on portable gaming due to real life getting in the way of being home for very long.
Glad to hear that, I hope you can enjoy the experience as much as I did!
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Definitely a game that should be remade for new consoles.
I agree!