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naznatips on 27 December 2009
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heruamon said:
naznatips said:

Bayonetta I can see being called better than God of War, but as someone who played all 3 demoes and all the God of War games I don't think Dante's Inferno was even as good as God of War 1. It was bad. Very bad. Gameplay was horrible, plot of the game was some sick bastardization of the epic poem reworked to show as much boobs and guts as possible, and it lacked any of the clever setting of God of War.

See, while Kratos may be a meathead, God of War is actually pretty accurate to the coniving bastards that the Greek Pantheon was in the original Greek epics, and deserves credit for a pretty successful recreation of ancient Greece and its mythology.

Dante's Inferno plays like someone read the cliff notes to the poem, then said "you know what, fuck this. Copy the names of characters and scrap everything else."

So, God of War is a great take on Greek Pantheon...lol..I'll beg to differ on that.  After playing DI, it's a bit over the top, kinda like Bayonetta, but I am curious by this statement "...I don't think Dante's Inferno was even as good as God of War 1..."in what way? 

Well, first of all, I'm half Greek and grew up on the Greek epics. Jason and the Argonauts was literally a bedtime story for me, so I seriously doubt you have the knowledge to argue with me on the Greek Pantheon. If you're complaining about it changing the history of the Greek Pantheon, almost every single story in it was in conflict with another, so there is no complete history, and characters were added and history changed with every new story. What you can follow on the Greek Pantheon are characterizations, which God of War was quite accurate on most of the time.

As for it not being as good as God of War 1, I'd begin with the mediocre combat. An attempt to copy God of War, it's not nearly as smooth and the combos aren't nearly as interesting. In addition the enemies lack any early variety, and the first boss fight was nothing but a pathetic guard and slash. The scale is pathetic compared to GoW, and the setting an extremely shallow, poor, and fractured representation of the Divine Comedy, which the developers have even dropped the theme of completely. I'd carry on with the forgettable music and the mediocre graphics (for this generation), and end with the fractured pacing broken plot delivery.

I also find it insulting to Bayonetta to compare it to this.

Hope that answers your questions.