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WildStorm Productions, a publishing imprint of DC Comics also released a serialized adaptation of the game in February and an animated film was released alongside the game on February 9. The numerous advertisements highlighted certain sins associated with the circles of hell, at times promoting fake services before accusing the viewer of the sin linked to it.
The three parts of The Divine Comedy are titled: "The Inferno" (Part one), "Purgatorio" (Part two) Purgatory in English and (Part three) "Paradiso", Paradise in English. PlayStation Official Magazine – UK also echoed this view, saying that the game was "just going through motions for the last three or four hours", despite what it considered to have a "robust fighting system" and being "visually strong". Beyond that, there’s not much else here to go on, or to provide any enjoyment after the seven hours of play it takes to get through it. If a sequel is on the cards – as is hinted by the ending – the developers would do well to institute a more consistent level of quality. Dante leaves the Crusade, sewing a red holy cross-shaped tapestry into his torso, depicting every sin he has committed in the past.The game's story is loosely based on Inferno, the first canticle of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. By cashing this check you succumb to avarice by hoarding filthy lucre, but by not cashing it, you waste it, and thereby surrender to prodigality. Most importantly, though, Dante was reinterpreted as a veteran of the Third Crusade and Beatrice, despite having only met her twice was depicted as his fiancee'.
EA produced a commercial for the game that was shown during Super Bowl XLIV, a fast-paced cinematic of Dante's descent into hell, overplayed by what was considered an unusual use of Bill Withers' song " Ain't No Sunshine". It is here where Lucifer shows Dante how Beatrice and his father Alighiero met their demise, both being slain by the assassin from Acre, revealed to be the husband, not the brother as she claimed, of the captive Dante slept with. Journeying through the icy realm of Treachery and fighting his way to Lake Cocytus, Dante finally confronts Lucifer himself, an enormous demon with three faces, chained within the frozen lake. The content includes two new enemies known as the "Forest Siren" and "Death Knight" and involves a series of puzzles to overcome.Combine this with the squirrelly jumping segments and obnoxious puzzles, and you're in for a bad time. Lucia Edition" was released in Italy, containing the Dark Forest and Trials of St Lucia DLCs and St. Even conspiring to stealeth thy best friend's soul mate is the worst kind of mortal offense imaginable.
Beatrice's soul appears before Dante, telling him that she knew he would come after her before a shadowy manifestation of Lucifer ( John Vickery) drags her into darkness. Dante's Inferno was actually just based off Part One out of Three Parts in Dante Alighieri's poem, The Divine Comedy, hence the end of the game showing the red, cross shaped cloth that was sewed on turning into a snake with Lucifer's laugh being heard as it slithered away. Through great struggle, Dante is able to defeat Lucifer and impales him on the grim reaper's Scythe.After arriving at and travelling beyond Limbo, Dante confronts the serpentine Judge of the Damned, King Minos ( Richard Moll). The Holy Cross had a magical ability that fired a burst of holy light that would destroy everything unholy in it's path. Film Roman, the Starz Entertainment unit behind Dead Space: Downfall, released an animated direct-to-DVD version of the story that was released simultaneously with the video game. The package contained a small wooden box which, when opened, played the Rick Astley song " Never Gonna Give You Up", thus " Rickrolling" the journalists that received it. Prior to Dante's Inferno 's release, in June 2009, a protest began during E3 2009 in Los Angeles to oppose the game.