History VideoGame / DantesInferno

* Wangst: Lucifer begins to crack in the final battle and starts screaming to God asking him why he has abandoned him, in a sort of ''Paradise Lost'' style.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Lucifer proposes this to Dante in the end.

** One of the damned souls in Heresy gives us a fine exemple of scenery chewing:

* OffModel: The Anime's animation ranges from gorgeous and/or fluid ({{Manglobe}}, FilmRoman[[hottip:*:plus BigStar and DigitalEMation]] and DongWoo), to sub-par (ProductionIG) to just average (JMAnimation).

* TheAtoner: Dante. When Death tells him that not only is he damned, but everyone he loved, he goes on a quest, not only to redeem himself, but everyone else he loves as well. DoubleSubverted at the end.

* RecycledINSPACE: It's ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' '''[-IN (Judeo-Christian) HELL!-]'''

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* HornyDevils: The Temptresses and Cleopatra, but instead of being attractive, they're [[FanDisservice extremely]] [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel disturbing]]. Lucifer may count too, judging by his appearance, but he is not particularly horny.

* ProphetEyes: St. Lucia.

* YourMindMakesItReal: [[spoiler:Death's Scythe]].

* LoadBearingBoss: Cleopatra.

* RecycledINSPACE: It's ''{{God of War}}'' '''[-IN (Judeo-Christian) HELL!-]'''

* FollowTheLeader: The developers are being pretty open about their ''GodOfWar'' inspirations.

* ProphetEyes: St. Lucia.

* RatedMForMoney: Somewhat subverted as this was meant to be a realistic depictions of what hell is said to be like. Which would be horrifying and filled with nudity(especially in lust) and violence, not to mention people only go there for one reason. While it did change the basic story of what the book was about it was pretty faithful to it's core message of redemption and ends on a peaceful note.

** The pagans residing in Hell might be a ShoutOut to ''ParadiseLost'', in which there is an epic catalog of the various pagan gods amongst Hell's residents.

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Almost all the bosses are very large. The most glaring example is Phlegyas.

* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Cleopatra.

* OffModel: The Anime's animation ranges from gorgeous and/or fluid ({{Manglobe}}, FilmRoman[[Hottip:*: plus BigStar and DigitalEMation]] and DongWoo), to sub-par (ProductionIG) to just average (JMAnimation).

* FreudWasRight: Lust, in its entirety.

* RatedMForMoney
* RecycledINSPACE: It's ''{{God of War}}'' '''[-IN (Judeo-Christian) HELL!-]'''

** The Gates of Hell. The Gate itself was modeled after Auguste Rodin's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gates_of_Hell Gates of Hell]], which was described in Dante's Inferno to have a sign that read a poem about Hell ending with the infamous "Abandon all hope ye who enter here". The sign itself was removed from the Door and is instead spoken by Charon (who is also half-demon half-ship and not a boatman demon)

->This game would actually make a good recruiting tool for Christianity. Never has saving someone's soul been so hardcore! I'm sitting there on the good play through, and I'm forgiving every enemy I can, and going "I forgive the shit out of you!" and "mutha fucka, you just got forgiven" and "oh, you little bastard, I'm gonna forgive you for that!" and the always good "go to heaven fucker!" I just wish you could forgive the lust demons. Heaven would be so much better with those sexy bitches in it.

The ''Inferno'' part of Dante Alighieri's ''DivineComedy'' is one of the most well-known, well-referenced pieces of work today. It described in great detail Dante's vision of what hell would be like, and in doing so invented many of the tropes associated with Hell. This has led to several film adaptations, theme park rides, and -- most recently -- a video game "adaptation," which is what this page is concerned with.