Comments on: Behold The Pink Mouths Of Hell: Dante’s Inferno

By: Kelly

Kelly — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:03:09 +0000

I am reading Dante’s Inferno right now in my english lit class and I am just wondering how they could make this huge battling game and cakk it Dante’s Inferno when all that happened in the real story was that Virgil took Dante on a long tour of Hell. There were no battles or even alot of communication between Dante and the inhabitants of Hell in the story so I’m wondering how that translated into this game. I don’t mean to bash the game or anyone who is excited about it because I’m sure it is going to be really interesting and probably fun too, but I am just confused.
Thanks,
Kelly

By: Al3xand3r

Al3xand3r — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:10:00 +0000

Haven’t read much about Dante other than a fictional story title The Third Heaven Conspiracy (great mystery btw). It does reference some of his actual works in it though and uh, what the hell is this game, lol.

On the other hand, it’s the Dead Space dudes so it might be good as a game, despite the disgrace of the theme. Perhaps EA will do what Konami don’t and provide an actually good, 3D, Castlevania-esque game? Too early to tell.

By: clive dunn

clive dunn — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:35:55 +0000

How about a Rome:total war mod where the superior roman forces crucify a fellah. Three turns later he appears from a cave to smite his foes with +3 faith armour that is rendered in fancy bloom graphics.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:36:07 +0000

Also, regarding the use of ‘epic’ for the poem, that’s just what they’re called. It has no direct relation to the english word, as far as I understand it:
“An epic (from Greek: έπος or επικό “word,story,poem”[1]) is a lengthy narrative poem”
“Epic: a long narrative poem in elevated stature presenting characters of high position in adventures forming an organic whole through their relation to a central heroic figure and through their development of episodes important to the history of a nation or race.”

Although, yeah, ‘heroic’ seems much more applicable to other epic poems than Dante’s Inferno.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:27:00 +0000

@probe:

You realise most criticism stems from the fact that they felt the need to slap the Dante’s Inferno IP onto a generic (but possibly very fun) action-game, right? If this was Hellkiller : Hot Hijinx in Hell, that would have been entirely acceptable.

By: MrFake

MrFake — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:28:59 +0000

Not even close! But we all knew that already, I guess. I figured it would be a brash departure from the source material, but to include elements of the narrative in the game, and the most irrelevant ones no less, that’s surprisingly disrespectful.

And yet, this is exactly why I enjoyed Inferno; not the sissy Dante and his endless conversations with long forgotten Italians and other peoples of history, but Hell itself. And hopefully, oh wonderful God I hope, that we can have some Shadow of the Colossus inspired fights. My heart knows it’s just a tease, that fights like that will never appear in a diluted, whitewashed EA game. It’ll all be God of War-like quick-time takedowns, where you simply hack-n’-slash at a weak point until you get an opening to “Press X to chop off head.” I know it will be like this, because EA’s advancements of form come slowly, over many games, as they stick doggedly to norms. But I know I’ll be suckered in by the tease.

Curse you EA. *sigh* curse you…

By: Subject 706

Subject 706 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:48:50 +0000

It makes you wonder WHY EA even references Dante’s Inferno. I mean, most people who have actually read the real thing probably don’t even play videogames. Those who do, will probably hate this with a passion for debasing the original work. Why not just make game about Hell, and leave poor ol’ Dante out of it?

By: N

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:35:00 +0000

WHOOOO!

Looks bitchin’ to me, love the scythe. He clearly isn’t as young as most of you say he is, you guys and your obsession with young strapping boys, what are we to do with you? Look at his face when he uses the cross, 40ish.

By: ADamnFox

ADamnFox — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:31:44 +0000

More trailers should end by telling the viewer to “go to hell”…

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:16:38 +0000

“A man who fears no death”.

I ain’t afraid of no death!

By: tonypiz

tonypiz — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:56:09 +0000

I do not understand why almost everyone talking about this game refers to The Divine Comedy as an “epic poem”. There’s nothing epic in Dante’s masterpiece, it’s an extremely complex allegorical masterpiece. There’s no battle, no fight, or any kind of “heroic” action in it. The “main character” has even the mostly un-heroic tendency to faint. BTW, despite the fact that their “treatment” of the original material makes me cringe to say the least (but I’m trying to look at it with a bit of irony, not an easy task when you’ve studied Dante’s work at school for years), some of the artworks for the game seem pretty inspired (the Gluttony monster for example).

By: Malgate

Malgate — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:52:39 +0000

Hmm, this has inspired me to try to make a religious game… like some kind of Jesus FPS where he kills a lot of Romans with a big wooden cross thingie and shoots smiting lighting from his hands. You know, just like in the bible.

Regarding Dante though, what’s the odds of them having some “bonus levels” of hell? All the way down to the 13th level, where the REAL satan is hiding, who if you defeat will show you the REAL extended bonus ending that will blow you away (it’s just like the normal ending except Beatrice pulls off her face to reveal that she is the real REAL satan). I’m liking this concept more and more.