This is Phlegyas, you can hijack him, so long as you make it through the generic, repetitive, and frustrating combat.
Based on part one of Dante Alighieri’s classic poem “The Divine Comedy,” Dante’s Inferno is a third-person action adventure game taking Dante on an epic journey through Hell as he seeks to rescue the soul of his beloved Beatrice. Descend through the nine circles of Hell: limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. Each circle features distinct environments, enemies, and story elements befitting the sins committed by their inhabitants, with large-scale beasts and bosses, some of which Dante will be able to fully tame, utilizing them to throw back Hell’s wrath to its minions. Armed with Death’s Scythe, Beatrice’s Holy Cross, magic powers and a deep, customizable upgrade system, take full advantage of fast and fluid gameplay running at a constant 60 frames per second. via xbox.com
I’m not often a fan of excessive nudity in games. The violence I can deal with, but something about playing a game and having naked men women and sexual symbols bombard me kind of creeps me out. It’s not like I haven’t seen it before (those of you who are at all familiar with me will know my aptitude for dick jokes and tasteless humour), but I just think that it’s usually used as a “shock factor” as opposed to an actual design choice that adds to the game… well, adds something other than bewbs. Somehow though, while playing Dante’s Inferno, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was playing through a lonely artist’s (I am one, it’s not uncommon) fantasy for putting plenty of ridiculously sexual content in the game. most of this content is in the 2nd circle of hell; Lust. In most of the Circles, there is a “boss” character that you end up fighting, however in Lust, the boss character is a 200 foot tall Cleopatra that ascends her tower of Lust (made of two lovers getting it on, I may add). Why do you care? Well, old Cleo is topless, and her nipples are mouths that regurgitate unbaptized children with blades for arms. I can only assume your reason for going to the top of the tower was originally to give her a breast exam or a physical of some kind, because somehow that doesn’t seem healthy. This is just one example of the extremely mature content in the game. Seriously folks, this is not for the squeamish.
You’re probably wondering if I like any part of the game since all I’ve done up until now is (surprise surprise!) complain about it. Yeah, I actually do… sort of. The game is made by Visceral Games, the guys who brought you one of my personal favorite games of 2008, Dead Space. So going in to Dante’s, I had some high hopes, and some of them were met, some of them came up short.
