Dante's Inferno
2010 · Visceral Games
Source book
- Inferno — Dante Alighieri
A hack-and-slash that borrows Hell's floor plan and invents a Crusader named Dante.
Platforms
PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation Portable
Fidelity
Visceral's 2010 action game, published by EA for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PSP. Wikipedia calls it loosely based on the first cantica of the Divine Comedy. Dante is a Templar, Beatrice has been taken, and the nine circles are combat arenas. The poem's language is not the script.
Read first?
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When to read first
Read the poem first if you want Dante's version of the descent before a game turns it into a God of War cousin. You will recognize the circles either way.
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When playing first is fine
Fine. The game spoils the geography of Hell more than the poetry, and it adds a backstory the poem does not have. Do not count it as having read Dante.
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Why
Loose adaptations are allowed to be played first when they are this loose. The warning is about mistaking the map for the book.
Source
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante%27s_Inferno_(video_game)
The call above is an editorial reading of that public page. If the page and this note disagree, believe the page.
