{"id":774,"date":"2010-02-22T10:51:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T18:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/?p=774"},"modified":"2010-02-22T10:51:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T18:51:01","slug":"dantes-inferno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/?p=774","title":{"rendered":"Dante&rsquo;s Inferno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not a very long game, I finished Dante\u2019s Inferno late last night after about 10 hours of gameplay.&#160; I unlocked a few bonus features, as well as the ability to play through the game again with all of my powers, although I don\u2019t know if that\u2019d be enough for me to rent it again.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll say this: I had fun.&#160; There were parts that made me a bit squeamish and there was definitely what I\u2019d deem excessive amounts of nudity and gore, but the actual button-mashing combo-unlocking gameplay was exciting.<\/p>\n<p>Spoilers after the break.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not to say there weren\u2019t things I found annoying.&#160; There were certain enemies that, without buying a particular combo, are frustrating to kill simply due to the amount of time it takes to wear them down.&#160; There are certain jumping puzzles that, with the fixed camera, simply aren\u2019t fun; dying while trying to judge camera distance is never fun.&#160; Lastly, the first half of the final fight with Lucifer had me spamming my ranged attack and using my healing spell for five minutes with little variation.&#160; Was I doing something wrong, or was it really meant to be that boring?<\/p>\n<p>Either way, it was a fun game to play through and the game works best when I\u2019m feeling super powerful.&#160; Other times, when I fail to make a jump because of collision I didn\u2019t know was there, the game feels stupid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a very long game, I finished Dante\u2019s Inferno late last night after about 10 hours of gameplay.  I unlocked a few bonus features, as well as the ability to play through the game again with all of my powers, although I don\u2019t know if that\u2019d be enough for me to rent it again.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll say this: I had fun.  There were parts that made me a bit squeamish and there was definitely what I\u2019d deem excessive amounts of nudity and gore, but the actual button-mashing combo-unlocking gameplay was exciting.<\/p>\n<p>Spoilers after the break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[323,322],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gamelog","tag-action","tag-ps3","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}