It is an allegory telling of the jurney of Dante traveling through hell, purgatory and heaven, and it represents the souls journey towards God.
Dantes Inferno is a action adventure videogame which was released in 2010, and is made by the same company that made God of War. Both of the games also have some similarities when it comes to the soundtracks, which are very dramatical and fits right in to an epic gory adventure.
Dantes Inferno soundtrack
God of War soundtrack
The video game uses the same characters as the poem, but the plot has a little twist. Dante tries to free his beloved Beatrice's soul from Lucifer, who needs a soul of an innocent to escape from Hell and take over the throne of God. During this journey, Dante must face the 9 circles of hell, and all the sins that he has commited.
In the game, you meet many historical people that you also meet in the poem. Some of these are bosses, and others are lost souls who begs for forgiveness. As a mainperson you can choose to send them to God, or kill them in a brutal way, which will either give you holy points, or unholy. The reason is that you have an unholy weapon, which is the scythe you stole from Death, and a holy weapon which is a cross. Being unholy will give you unholy points to upgrate your scythe and its attacks, same with the holy cross.
The creatures you meet in the video game, depends on which circle you are in. The circles are made pretty much like the poem described them. During your travel you see small details like people hang in trees, people that are twitching while their body are being penetrated by a spear to the ground, people screaming from the pain of being drowned in bioled blood, sinfull souls faling from the sky, and so on.
And in the end I will just post some pictures of the artwork from the game.
Gluttony
Limbo: (and the falling sinfull souls)
Dante and Virgil
Unbaptised child.
All in all I loved the game. The surroundings was really well made according to the poem, I liked the story, and how the gameplay worked, but I was not too happy about the design of the creatures and historical people, but all the small details and surroindings sort of made up for that.
