15 years in the past, in February 2010, Visceral Video games launched what gave the impression to be their subsequent surefire hit after 2008’s Lifeless Area with Dante’s Inferno, a brutal third-person hack-and-slash recreation based mostly on the primary a part of Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century poem The Divine Comedy.
Right here, gamers embodied a King Templar referred to as Dante throughout the Third Campaign as he fought Loss of life and thru the 9 Circles of Hell with Loss of life’s scythe and his fiancée Beatrice’s holy cross to rescue the soul of Beatrice from the clutches of Lucifer.
Regardless of that includes hauntingly enthralling creature designs and a reasonably outstanding advertising and marketing marketing campaign, which included a cinematic business aired throughout Tremendous Bowl XLIV, Dante’s Inferno was solely reasonably profitable and a sequel to resolve its “To Be Continued” cliffhanger was shut down early on in manufacturing.
Now, simply over 15 years after Dante’s Inferno‘s preliminary launch, IGN has formally unveiled never-before-seen idea artwork, storyboards, and plot particulars of not simply Inferno’s deliberate sequel, Dante’s Purgatorio, but in addition a proposed third recreation to conclude the trilogy referred to as Dante’s Paradiso from former Visceral workers.
Dante’s Continued Journey to Rescue Beatrice
On the finish of Dante’s Inferno, Dante is proven to have come to phrases together with his previous sins, rescues Beatrice’s soul, and presumably defeats Lucifer and stops his plan to overthrow God and conquer all three kingdoms of the afterlife.
The sport concludes with Dante about to climb Mount Purgatory as he rips off his skin-stitched cross tapestry, just for the tapestry to show right into a snake because it falls to the bottom with Lucifer laughing because the phrases “To Be Continued” seem on-screen.
In response to a 240-page-long script penned by former Murderer’s Creed 2 author Joshua Rubin, who presumably joined the Dante’s Inferno sequel mission in 2011, Dante’s Purgatorio would have begun with Dante residing by means of a imaginative and prescient of himself, Beatrice, and their new child daughter within the Backyard of Eden earlier than Dante is pressured to combat a snake in a gap boss battle akin to the combat with Loss of life within the first recreation.
After a quick cinematic and recap of the primary recreation, Dante would have woken up on the base of Mount Purgatory and start his journey up the mountain to rescue and guarantee Beatrice’s secure passage by means of the Gates of Heaven.
Nevertheless, simply as Dante is stopped by the cliff-sized guardian of Purgatory Cato, a former Roman senator, Lucifer, within the type of a snake, slays the guardian and causes a crevice within the seashore to open, permitting his military of demons led by Lilith, the unique spouse of Adam, to invade Purgatory with the intent of invading Heaven as effectively.
The remainder of the sport would have seen Dante obtain a brand new scythe weapon from Lilith and have the previous crusader joined by Virgil and Saint Lucia, who was a playable protagonist in Inferno‘s DLC The Trials of St. Lucia, combat by means of 9 terraces of Mount Purgatory based mostly across the seven lethal sins, with the Backyard of Eden positioned on the mountain’s peak.
When it comes to gameplay, Dante’s Purgatorio would have seen Dante combat each demons and angels, together with boss fights towards the angels Vicar of Saint Peter, Gabriel, Uriel, and Michael, whereas Dante himself would achieve new heavenly talents, together with:
- Spirit Bounce
- Spirit Dodge
- Spirit Sprint
- Possession
- Angelic Wings (usable solely throughout boss battles)
- Spirit Mode (a brief highly effective mode just like God of Struggle 3‘s Rage of Sparta or 2018’s God of Struggle Spartan Rage)
Dante’s Purgatorio would have ended with Lucifer seemingly being defeated as soon as once more, just for the satan to trick Dante and Michael into letting him by means of the Gates of Heaven, and Lucifer sends Dante again to Lake Cocytus, with Dante’s Paradiso following Dante and his daughter as they lead a military of individuals and angels into Heaven to defeat Lucifer as soon as and for all.
