Dante's Inferno demo

Really? Really. Really? REALLY? Okay...

That was just about my reaction to playing through the recent demo release of Dante's Inferno.

Already the premise of Dante's Inferno being a video game is ridiculous. In the story he literally just goes around, looks at stuff, and talks to people about philosophy and politics. So turning that into a hack and slash rush through the 9 gates of hell is a little bit of a stretch.

Especially when you turn Dante into a Crusader in the 11th century.

Who stitches a cross for no apparent reason onto his bare skin.

Who then finds his wife dead (with exposed breast), and gets stabbed in the back.

Who then fights Death with a poleaxe.

And wins.

And then steals Death's scythe for himself and kills Death.

And then travels into hell with Virgil, a ghost of the poet, to find his wife and slay a couple thousand demons in the process.

This is button mashing at its normalest, with no reason to ever take your finger off the square (light attack) button except to do quicktime events (push the right buttons at the right times to kill the boss) or to jump to flying enemies.

The best thing about it are easily the graphics, which are frankly incredible. Otherwise, I expect this to be yet another hack and slash God of War clone with nothing new to bring to the table.

Dante's Inferno Demo gets a 4/10 (and most of that is for the graphics).