Dante's Inferno (The video game)

Mapleleafs26
Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:02:50 +0000

lol I doubt it follows the actual Divine Comedy, the least epic epic I’ve ever read. They should have done Orlando Furioso instead

goes on wikipedia

yeah no, that’s not the plot haha
Basically Dante is all confused in the woods and the poet Virgil is like “let me show you around Hell and Purgatory” so he follows him, sees Mohammed, Alexander, and various d****y Italian princes and popes in the divers circles of “il inferno”
Then he goes to heaven and sees his late girlfriend in the 9 or so heavens which are all planets along with the sun and moon

interesting coincidence - I just discovered that this old mansion/museum I volunteer at has a statue of Dante, which I at first thought was Boccaccio because I prefer the Decameron to the Divine Comedy, but I was still impressed with the old owners’ apparent taste (they were lumber barons who typically enjoyed reading puritan religious texts and stuff).

The video game probably has a way more interesting plot than the epic. I have to put Paradise Lost and Orlando Furioso ahead as more interesting