History VideoGame / DantesInferno

* AdaptedOut: As the original poem featured LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, not all of them could be included in the game. Some notable omitted characters from the poem include Geryon (a monster re-invented by Dante into fraud personified), Odysseus/Ulysses (one of the only side characters mentioned in all three canticles), and Caius Cassius, Marcus Brutus, and Judas Iscariot (who are gnawed on by Satan in the poem, though the last is referred to by way of [[PublicDomainArtifact the thirty Silver Coins]] that can be found throughout the game).

** In the game Dante is shown committing the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_at_Ayyadieh Massacre of Ayydieh]] single handedly, killing numerous women and children without Richard the Lionheart's permission. In reality Richard the Lionheart ordered the execution, and there is debate as to whether any non combatants were killed there. Additionally they were not killed in prison; they were killed on a hill outside of Acre.
* ArtisticLicenseTraditionalChristianity: This game is not a good way to learn about Christianity, particularly the Catholic faith.
** One of the doctrines is that damnation is permanent and irreversible because the person chose to be one of the damned in the first place. The mechanic where Dante absolves defeated enemies of their sins blatantly flies in the face of both of these facts; even if the game took place in Purgatory, Dante still wouldn't be able to absolve anyone simply because a mortal human would never have that authority.
** The game shows suicide victims in Hell. Christians believed this to be the case at the time The Divine Comedy was written, and the Catholic Church still considers it a mortal sin, but at the time of the game's release the church had since concluded that people who commit suicide can still make it to Heaven [[note]]Somebody might [[LastSecondChance repent with their last thoughts]], or they might be [[InsanityDefense in a state of mind that reduces culpability for the sin]].[[/note]]
** The game shows unbaptized babies in Hell proper as an enemy for Dante to fight. The church never officially stated where the souls of unbaptized babies go. While some (like Saint Augustine of Hippo) suggested it was Hell, in The Divine Comedy they were placed in Limbo. At the time of the game's release the theory that is most popular is that they just go to Heaven; Popes have stated as and were met without controversy.
** Many individuals are shown in Hell for specific sins, even when the circumstances of those sins would have reduced culpability to the point of making them venial. [[note]]In Catholic Theology a sin is not mortal if the person lacked full knowledge or deliberate consent when committing it[[/note]] The most egregious example is Beatrice, who is shown being damned for Dante's sins rather than for her own.

* WhamLine: This line Lucifer drops during [[spoiler:the final battle that makes you realize you were played right into his game]]:

* ArtisticLicenseTraditionalChristianity: This game is not a good way to learn about true Christianity.
** One of the key tenets of Christianity is that only God can absolve a human's sins, and another is that being damned to Hell is permanent and irreversible. The mechanic where Dante absolves defeated enemies of their sins blatantly flies in the face of both of these facts; even if the game took place in purgatory Dante still wouldn't be able to absolve anyone simply because a mortal human would never have that authority.

* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: The game changes the setting to the year 1191 as opposed to the presumed 1300 of the original poem, but the developers overlooked that some historical figures who were either still alive in that year (e.g. Saladin who lived 1137-1193 but is found in Limbo (in the animated movie at least) or weren't born yet (e.g. Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II is found in Heresy, but wasn't born until 1194) shouldn't be in Hell yet.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: InUniverse, everyone damned to Hell are stuck their for eternity and cannot change to become good, which is why it would be bad if Lucifer broke out. In gameplay though, Dante is free to absolve sinners left and right allowing them to go to Heaven, no heavenly grace required.

** Dante's is also visible during the ending. Blink and you'll miss it, but it's clearly there.

* ObligatorySwearing: Cleopatra is the only character who uses swear words other than damn. It comes off as forced and unnatural.

* StupidEvil: Satan. This shows pretty much everything wrong with modern Lucifer portrayals in media: the stereotypical pride and manipulative traits are so mixed up that, instead of an imposing figure, he ends up a raving melodramatic lunatic that only a moron would ever be fooled by. Unfortunately many under of his thrall firmly hold the IdiotBall.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even though he held a burning hatred of all Heretics during the Crusades, Dante actually [[IGaveMyWord honors his deal]] with the slave woman and releases both her and her brother after he sleeps with her. The thing is, he wasn't her brother. He was her husband.

** Of course, she does lie to Dante that her husband is her brother.

* DisproportionateRetribution: The nameless assassin, in retaliation for [[spoiler:Dante sleeping with his wife as part of a deal for freedom which Dante actually honored, a deal that ''she'' offered]], [[spoiler:kills Dante, travels all the way to Europe to find Dante's home, and kills Dante's father and his love Beatrice]]. His {{determinat|or}}ion is nearly on Dante's level.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even though he held a burning hatred of all Heretics during the Crusades, Dante actually [[IGaveMyWord honors his deal]] with the slave woman and releases both her and her brother after he sleeps with her.

* AdaptationDistillation: The sinners Dante encounters in the book are all there, and you get the option of forgiving them or smiting them. They even say a lot of the same things. Virgil's speeches are mostly accurate. Even the original political satire survived mostly intact ("In these popes and cardinals, greed suffered its excess"). The design of the Nine Circles in-game is actually quite accurate with Alighieri's descriptions (except for the level of Greed, and the changes there are understandable). About the only thing that's really different is Dante himself, and the whole "Famous pagans as lords of hell" thing. Also, a few politically incorrect things, like Mohammad in hell, and crusaders in heaven have been taken out as well.

** In the poem, Beatrice is immune to all of Hell's tortures, nigh {{Omniscient}}, and able to travel between planets instantaneously, which qualifies her to save Dante from his sin. In the game, she's Dante's DamselInDistress {{Love Interest|s}} who needs him to rescue ''her''.

* ArtisticLicenseTraditionalChristianity: This game is not a good way to learn about Christianity.

* WombHorror: The game begins with Dante being sent to Purgatory before making his way deeper into Hell. Purgatory contains enemies in the form of demonic unbaptized babies who spawn out of fiery furnaces shaped like a woman's enlarged birth canal.

* {{Chickification}}: This happens to Beatrice, who in the source was infinitely more intelligent, moral, and beautiful than Dante and who came allowed Dante to get through Hell unscathed in the first place. In order to turn Dante into an ActionHero who single-handedly kills every demon ever, Beatrice has been reduced to a passive object of desire who gets captured by the Devil and can't do anything because of Dante's sins.

* DealWithTheDevil: Beatrice. She's agreed to become Lucifer's lover in order to appease him.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Remaining relatively true to the source material, Dante's former mentor is in Hell for engaging in sodomy. The dissonance may be why you earn an achievement for absolving him.

* StupidEvil: Satan. This shows pretty much everything wrong with modern Lucifer portrayals in media: the stereotypical pride and manipulative traits are so mixed up that, instead of an imposing figure, he ends up a raving melodramatic lunatic that only a moron would ever be fooled by.

Now has a [[Characters/DantesInferno character page]] under construction.

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* DrivenToSuicide: Well, the [[CaptainObvious Suicides forest]]. If Dante is hit by the effect of the forest fruit, you must button mash before he kills himself.

* OneTrueFaith: ZigZagged. Pagans are in supposedly in Hell, but Lucifer tells Dante that those he fought in the Crusades are not, after all, in ''this'' Hell. What he means by that is anyone's guess, and is probably best left that way.

* FireAndBrimstoneHell: As might be expected from a game set in ''[[TropeMakers Hell]]''. Though it to be fair its not true for the entire game: Anger and Violence are the ones that play this straight, while Limbo and Lust are dark and gloomy realms, Gluttony is a visceral realm and Treachery is a icy land.

* FullFrontalAssault: Lucifer's big floppy dong is in full display, though with the lighting and the angles, you'd have to actually be looking for it to notice it most of the time.

* LoadBearingBoss: Cleopatra after you kill Marc Antony. You'll need to take her out with quick time events.

* HangingUpOnTheGrimReaper: Death comes to claim Dante's life. Not only does Dante refuse, he ''kills'' Death with his own scythe and claims the scythe. [[spoiler:It turns out Death never came in the first place, Dante himself was DeadAllAlong.]]