Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Dante's Inferno: The game vs the book

The game is pretty good if you like random happenings of "WTF is that shit?", but at least Dante doesn't pass the F out every time he sees a bad guy... Picture this if you will.... your playing a game and you come to the first enemy. What do you do? You kill him, right? Well if the game was an exact replication of the book then you would just pass out from fear and then probably wet yourself and cry in a cowering ball on the floor. Doesn't that sound like a exciting game? NO!!! The people realized this when they made the game and this is what they put together. YOU, as Dante, are some kind of crusader that has committed every F-ing sin imaginable and as you go further into Hell your story of how you did it unfolds. You get to "kill" enemies, not cower. Which brings me to my next point, WTF? OK, you're in Hell there are demons everywhere and you can kill them or absolve their sins. If you kill something that is already dead or was never alive where does it go? It was already in Hell. And, if you absolve them you are sending them to Heaven, but WTF would God do with a whole bunch of demons that were spawned from absolute sin and evil with no good in them at all? Do the souls of the baddies get freedom in Heaven for serving the lord of the underworld? If that would to happen wouldn't the universe cease to exist due to the whole God being infallible thing or what was it part of the plan? I don't know, but what I do know is the book and game should not be read or played as truth towards anything. SO, anyways... the game follows the story in the sense that a guy goes to Hell then walks down... down... down until he gets to the bottom and then ***SPOILER*** goes to purgatory. The end. Game Over. There can not possibly be a sequel right, the next 2 books in the Divine Comedy are about getting to Paradise and no real enemies so we will see if they mess another book up by trying to make it cool for the newer generation.