Back from the depths of Hell, and my hometown, I have returned, truimphant and bloodied, to type into a keyboard about Dante's Inferno. Hooray! Relevant gaming news!
I've got a copy of the real Dante's Inferno and I've tried to read it a few times, but unfortunately it's a poem translated from Italian, and a lot of the flow is lost in translation. I sort of get what's going on, but when Virgil is chatting for a page about something, and I realise I haven't got a clue what he's talking about.
However, Dante's Inferno THE VIDEO GAME forgos all that talky talky crap and just throws you into Hell, with the SCYTHE of DEATH and a MAGICALLY HOLY CROSS and says "Kill the crap outta everything and save yo lady" which is a lot simpler than a page full of text talking about sinners.
I picked up the Death Edition of the game, which, amongst other things, contains a code to download a Dead Space costume for Dante. Although it doesn't add anything major to the gameplay, it's quite fun to see Isaac waving a scythe around and blabbering about honour and God.
Dante's Inferno is a good game. It's not great and it's not revolutionising any genres. My major issue with it is that it isn't just similar to God of War; it IS God of War. Visceral Games haven't just taken inspiration from GoW, they've used some of the same ideas. I won't go into too much detail, cause I've thrown in my two cents to a review Crofterz over at the Newb Review wrote, so go and have a look when it goes up. Possibly today. I am not sure of these things.
I've actually completed DI, and in one weekend, which for me, is generally unheard of. I've also got quite a few of the achievements (side note; Dante's Inferno is a great achievement game). I thinking about taking it back to GAME and returning it to get all my money back, as opposed to a trade in, and then use the money to buy Bioshock 2 (and I'll still have some left over. Maybe I'll get this)
Well. I'm hungry so... Yeah, it's about lunch time. See y'all in Purgatorio!
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9 Feb 2010
18 Jan 2010
Hack N Slash N Tits
I'm back at uni. My 360 isn't. Lame.
But, briefly before I left I had a go at two demos; Bayonetta and Dante's Inferno. And since they are fairly similargames I'm going to compare them in a simple and concise way.
Bayonetta features a main character, who is apparently a witch, but looks more like Sarah Palin at a dominatrix NRA meeting. The whole game uses her"sexual attractiveness" all the way through, by which I of course mean, her tits. I was fighting a giant... thing and then all her clothes came off and turned into a dragon. This is a game entirely marketed towards slightly perverted gamers. Which is all of us. The point is, the entire game you are wondering if you are gonna catch a peek at her lady dumplings, and I have it from a reliable source that you don't. Spoilers I guess.
Dante's Inferno, on the other hand, clearly establishes that there are tits from the outset. For some reason, Dante's wife always appears naked, because apparently there are no decent places to go shooping in Hell. I wasn't really listening to the plot of the game, so as far as I understand it's like this; "There's a pair of sweet tits at the bottom of Hell. Off you pop." I've checking in my copy of Dante's Inferno and it's exactly the same. Trust me on this.
In actual real people world, I do enjoy Dante's better. It's ripping a lot off from God Of War, but it's got a decide amount of scope to be good. The enemies in the demo were all pretty samey, but the potential combo moves looked good, and the later levels were enough to move me from "indifference" to "interest".
Bayonetta, whilst appreciate is going for the crazy Japanese thing, is just about as sensible as a new pair of shoes for a pirate. Assuming the pirate had a pegleg. There's another bunch of people who are showing diversity in the work place. Pirates have amputees, and people with one eye. Pirates and cyborg detectives.
It's late, people. I need to go to BED. Catch y'all when I wake up. Peace out.
But, briefly before I left I had a go at two demos; Bayonetta and Dante's Inferno. And since they are fairly similargames I'm going to compare them in a simple and concise way.
Bayonetta features a main character, who is apparently a witch, but looks more like Sarah Palin at a dominatrix NRA meeting. The whole game uses her"sexual attractiveness" all the way through, by which I of course mean, her tits. I was fighting a giant... thing and then all her clothes came off and turned into a dragon. This is a game entirely marketed towards slightly perverted gamers. Which is all of us. The point is, the entire game you are wondering if you are gonna catch a peek at her lady dumplings, and I have it from a reliable source that you don't. Spoilers I guess.
Dante's Inferno, on the other hand, clearly establishes that there are tits from the outset. For some reason, Dante's wife always appears naked, because apparently there are no decent places to go shooping in Hell. I wasn't really listening to the plot of the game, so as far as I understand it's like this; "There's a pair of sweet tits at the bottom of Hell. Off you pop." I've checking in my copy of Dante's Inferno and it's exactly the same. Trust me on this.
In actual real people world, I do enjoy Dante's better. It's ripping a lot off from God Of War, but it's got a decide amount of scope to be good. The enemies in the demo were all pretty samey, but the potential combo moves looked good, and the later levels were enough to move me from "indifference" to "interest".
Bayonetta, whilst appreciate is going for the crazy Japanese thing, is just about as sensible as a new pair of shoes for a pirate. Assuming the pirate had a pegleg. There's another bunch of people who are showing diversity in the work place. Pirates have amputees, and people with one eye. Pirates and cyborg detectives.
It's late, people. I need to go to BED. Catch y'all when I wake up. Peace out.
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