C64 Longplay - Dante`s Inferno

[ultrafly100]

if there were weapons and puzzles this game might have been alright. as is, it's homosexual

[RedAvery1]

Watch out for that Green guy....

[lawlietXcake132]

.....why do i keep imagining him picking up a whip and killing everything?

[crazyanigamer]

So this is suppose to be the first Dante's inferno. Dante you look stupid! you should be beating the living hell out everybody!

[RandomID222]

Even if insanely short it does look promising tbh. and since its so short the music can be lived with.

Would have been interesting to see what would have happened if the latest "Dante´s Inferno" had been more survival than hack and slash.

[omgwtfcheap]

Man. Hell has an awesome soundtrack.

[UndefeatableTwilight]

...So you just walk up to Satan and then it ends? And plays "Joy to the World"? That's a pretty bad ending... "See once again the stars"? What the heck happened!?

[Sonofkong0]

God the new one had so much frichin material, they didn't use. The old one however only had each canto be a third if a screen long.

[Christhefireshark]

really cheerful music for being in hell...

[medeste]

playing this game as a little kid, it just seemed me a huge success to pass the first river... remember i was really mesmerized by the good looking graphics and good music, but i probably never passed the red river. this game was a bit scaring and hard

[valeriusfigus]

that game is probably more difficult than the actual Dante's inferno

[mailchibi88]

Wow. Hell sure is tiny.

[pikmintaro]

Great to see they went back in time and ported the game to the Commodore 64 eh?

[zeNinjan]

very lucky for the first time playing. :)

great post

[nix207]

much shorter than the 2009 game, yet follows the actual poem (in a roundabout way) lol. really? five minutes?

[paradox1410]

technology has come a looooong way :)

[johnwx777]

Almost better than 2009's version.Almost.

[beautyguys]

@johnwx777 if you mean xbox 360 and ps 3 version you're right!

[beautyguys]

@johnwx777 if you mean xbox 360 and playstation 3 version you're right!

[NinjaGhostScorpion]

At the beginning, you're treated to a scene of a giant skeleton about to snack on a bunch of naked toddlers. Then, you get to explore Hell. Too bad I never played this game. Looks like a gas.

[obelisklarvan]

lol xmas song at end

[thewowhead]

i'm assuming the new one isn't supposed to be a remake of this being that this seems to have no combat whatsoever

[Oreichalcos]

Just played the PS3 one, this is much better. Much more faithful and without stupid amounts of GRIMDARK!

[nnythesuicidalmaniac]

@Oreichalcos stupid amounts of grim dark? o.O *looks puzzled* you do realise this game is set in hell, no? i played through the game and honestly felt it should have been a lot more disturbing :P only thing that made me squick at all was when one of the gluttons took a dump on me Xo

[Oreichalcos]

@nnythesuicidalmaniac Yes, but The Divine Comedy did such a great job of scaring me without going into grimdark. I really wanted the game to be more like the supposed source material and less like something a teenaged cashier at Hot Topic wrote.

[nnythesuicidalmaniac]

@Oreichalcos eh, i think its a lot down to the medium really, the divine comedy worksn wonders as its a written piece, but to make a game people will want it has to be something a bit different. no offence to the above game, but something like that would just NOT be seen these days as it is. Also, i must admit that i havent read the divine comedy, so cant really form much of an opinion between it and the game ^^;

[Oreichalcos]

@nnythesuicidalmaniac Both games have their strong points. I suppose that just standing around like the original wouldn't be fun. But things like Beatrice being saved instead of saving and the lack of fun near the end suck. As long as they don't convert Purgatorio and Paradiso the same way, I'm fine :D

[SylvesterFox007]

I knew the Inferno was too good of a video game idea to just now be made. I think the Visceral version is more accurate to the poem (at least you always know which circle of Hell you're in). But I bet the folk at Visceral played this version before: the cross as a weapon, the constant descent, the look of Lucifer.

[xtremecoasters]

Just completed this on XB360. Have to say the 360 version looks a little better :)

[MStaceyface]

that music peirces right through my brain -

[markolipovec]

LoL! WTF !!!

Only 5 minutes long xD ?

[du0lol]

The music is pretty awesome, and challenges are nice, but the navigation really sucks. I mean, this dude knows the game, he knows where to go, but to play the thing for the first time. It's like you'll keep running in circles THE WHOLE TIME.

[osiris292]

@du0lol yet when you know the game you can complete the entire thing in 5 minutes! imagine if games these days were like that!

[charizardhero]

I recognize the characters here: Charon, Phylegus, King Minos, and Cacus or Geryon.

[jamesgravil]

The music is far too cheerful for Hell, though.

[jamesgravil]

LOL, this is like Zelda with demons.

[hakacumakac]

...i cant wait 4 new D.I game....

[extranged]

Loved it !

[necrotikflesh]

one of my first C64 game ^^

love it !

[robvalue]

Nice work, I used to play this game years ago and could never beat it. C64 games are the hardest! It has a certain scary atmosphere that even todays games have failed to capture...

[TheDarkHighlander]

5 minutes to finish the game? Well i guess you get what you paid for as the games back then were only a few pound.

[GeneralPotatoSalad]

Don't be fooled, this game is brutal. One hit kill and go back to the start all the way through, plus there's some objects that are useless, so you need to know WHAT to drag across Hell. You do it in five minutes flat if you've spent the last month learning the ropes.

Also, the demo recorder is skirting the rules a bit - the Gorgon is 'supposed' to be defeated differently, but it involves doubling back before crossing the flaming river to get another item. Which would increase playtime more.

[haxel75]

Does anyone know the titles of the classical music pieces in this game? I think it is a lot of Bach, no?

[GeneralPotatoSalad]

@haxel75 A lot of Bach, yeah. I've been told it uses Bourrée from English Suite 2 (though maybe played backwards), Minuet from French Suite 2, and Overture (Partita) in B minor. Overture in B minor's the only one that sounds dead-on, IMHO.

For the completist: BWV 807, BWV 813, and BWV 831,

[GeneralPotatoSalad]

@haxel75 Not a problem. And just to make sure I didn't screw up that BWV, if you want to know where I got the info from, it was on musipedia's forum. I poke around there every now and then and some guy asked about it. Thread's still on the first page of their melody forum as of April 2010 -- just look for a thread about Bach video game music.

[Kaandorpius]

Ehmm,,.. wheres Virgil?

[fuckitsgay]

looooooool i dont know if you making a funny or being sarcastic ar w/e but u made me laugh this is dantes infeno not DEVIL MAY CRY CRY cry (u may/may not have new that but i 4rt id comment n-eway)

[EpicPhailSH]

Virgil was Dante's guide through Hell and Purgatory. Way to know your Divine Comedy.

[fuckitsgay]

lool i know that now but 2 months ago i didnt lol and i 4rt he was bein funny lol i didnt know anything about divine comedy lol so sorry

[MaddingMetaller]

this one rocks more than the new one xD

[longdivision87]

Questa musica picchia in testa di brutto....

[siberiano1981]

vero......

[Alianger]

More like Fred Flintstones Inferno.

[schtolteheim]

I loled.

[BlackenedBeans]

That music isn't especially imposing.

[KrakenZero]

Wow brings back memories of the good book.

[humidibeam78]

Uhhhh..... What?

[venexia75]

grande videogioco! l'avevo finito anch'io quando avevo il commodore 64, l'ho addirittura registrato in una videocassetta, ma ho perso il video. Ora l'ho ricuperato qui! E' un gioco ben riprodotto perchè si vedono tutti i gironi, ma proprio tutti

[Aokiji01]

la divina commedia è italiana!! Dante era di firenze... dobbiamo essere orgogliosi di avere dato i natali al poeta per eccellenza..Durante Alighieri

[Presidentjh]

They made this a game?

Aligheri would be like "/facepalm".

[krystalizedhope]

No-no-no. This actually looks like it's staying remotely true to the book.... Look at the trailer for the NEW Dante's Inferno game.... Gah...

[kimsey0000]

I'm with you bud... when i heard of the new Dante game i was excited... then i saw the trailer... ack. Amoung other things, the all powerful protaganist Duke Nukem Bellmont is sure going to make the atmosphere scary *rolls eyes*

[Presidentjh]

Well, I rented the new one, and I found it actually pretty enjoyable. But I do have more of an appreciation for how this game stayed closer to the book.

[PrickledMantis]

I KNOW RIGHT!!! thank you i played the game first which really drew me into the book

[Presidentjh]

Yeah, I gave them props for that, it is related to the book.

[fenrat]

How do you think he'd feel about EA's marketing... the fact they're using the fact there is no liscence holder to just destroy the intent of one of the world's greatest works of literature?

[AnTiVid]

u think they destroyed it? EA presented us theire version of dantes inferno, sure in a more brutal, morbid and macabre way but it has its own style.

and if u ask me, today we need games like this, before EA's Dantes Inferno, alot of ppl dont even knew about dante's divine comedy ( dantes inferno ).

and thats the sad thing about it, that ppl today need fancy videogames instead of books.....

[osiris292]

@AnTiVid couldn't agree more - so many people were unaware of what the Divine Comedy was and in turn its first part "Inferno". I bet there were people who had never heard of Zeus before God of War came out as well! lol

[Rabyte]

Unusual scenario, nice music!

[nuezoo]

Que recuerdos... La Mocodore 64 de vez en cuando la enciendo y recuerdo mi adolescencia, esos días de "intercambio" de programas en las tiendas Aurrera en mex. d.f. SALUDOS A TODOS LOS SOBREVIVIENTES.

MIJOLIN SOFTWARE....

[eighthcircuit724]

Cool!

[ScriptKidNoob]

At first, I didn't like the sound of Bach, now I like it chiptuned.

[viz76]

great game and soundtrack bach-styled!

[KutaPuta]

Do you have Rockey Horrer picture show?

ANd murder on the Missippi?

neaver could finish those games

[Gojira87]

Power walk, Dante! Power walk for your life!

[GypsyRed]

LOL! ROFLMAO!! XD XD XD

[JesusSavesGetSaved]

@Gojira87 The second level is extremely dark and mute of all light. The wind bellows as the seas rage in a tempest. This is a place or realm that is an eternal residence of the lustful. Sinners in this level are blown around needlessly and aimlessly by the unforgiving winds as a sign of punishment for their sins. The blowing of these souls aimlessly symbolizes the power of lust to blow one about aimlessly and needlessly.

[FiveStarJah]

wow

[ospididious]

remind me when that system came out?

[tonyhoffmans]

crappy games we used to play

[wormwood5073]

only if you were born in '97 kid