Lacking a truly original take on the premise, it’s at least fairly easy to see Dante’s Inferno for what it really is; a fairly unremarkable fighting game that’s seriously wounded by an egregious wealth of tiring QTEs, needless gore and boring characters and enemies.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/raising-hell-eas-dantes-inferno-ad-stokes-fire/story?id=9731472&page=2
"The whole concept of killing babies is just horrendous on its own, but to add fuel to the fire, the title is 'Bad Nanny,' which I think is unconscionable," Wendy Sachs, co-president of the INA. Though unbaptized infants are mentioned in the original poem, she said that "the book is a story that's read and digested and put away ... whereas a game like this is stringing the ideas from the story and putting it into an interactive mode." As for Sunday night's ad, she said, "I think that it's just outrageous that anybody would promote a game that promotes killing babies and rewarding that."
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/raising-hell-eas-dantes-inferno-ad-stokes-fire/story?id=9731472&page=2
"“It’s just a gross misrepresentation of the original work,” said Rob Bricken in THE NEW YORK TIMES. The UK Guardian Reported: "The philosophy with which Inferno is shot through is completely jettisoned, and the quotes the game occasionally chucks your way are very short and pretty random." THE IRIS NETWORK reports: "#EAFail is a total cluster**** of misogyny and pandering to the lowest common denominator." --http://whilenotfinished.theirisnetwork.org/2009/07/24/eafail-link-roundup/
It is hard to tell which JOHN RICCITIELLO'S & JONATHAN KNIGHT hate more--money or art. The hilarious thing is that they thought they could rescue EA's flailing stock price by stripping Dante's immortal, exalted, incorruptible Beatrice naked, taking her from heaven where Dante had placed her and throwing her in hell, and then selling her debauched nudity to fanboyz mashing buttons in their single mom's basements.
Do they not believe in Karma and Divine Justice? And if not, how can one hope to exalt the Divine Comedy if one does not believe in Divine Love? The entire exalted, epic point of Dante's Inferno was the incorruptible nature of Beatrice's exalted spirit and soul--she was the only reason that Dante the Poet made it on down through hell and back on up again. She was his pristine guide and inspiration. And the fanmba CEOs arrogantly stripped her naked and cast her into hell in their lame and failing attempt to make a buck.
Jonathan Knight and John RICCITIELLO will, of course, epic EA Fail, as check out what happens to EA's stock price when fanmbas try to recreate art in their own debauched image!
http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chdet=1265230800000&chddm=494615&chls=IntervalBasedLine&q=NASDAQ:ERTS&ntsp=0
Speaking of eafail, check out the #eafail link roundup: http://whilenotfinished.theirisnetwork.org/2009/07/24/eafail-link-roundup/ "“It’s just a gross misrepresentation of the original work,” said Rob Bricken in THE NEW YORK TIMES. The UK Guardian Reported: "The philosophy with which Inferno is shot through is completely jettisoned, and the quotes the game occasionally chucks your way are very short and pretty random." THE IRIS NETWORK reports: "#EAFail is a total cluster**** of misogyny and pandering to the lowest common denominator." --http://whilenotfinished.theirisnetwork.org/2009/07/24/eafail-link-roundup/
Dante had met Beatrice in real life, and she became a lifelong inspiration to him. This is what Dante wrote about Beatrice in la vita nuova: "At that moment I say truly that the vital spirit, that which lives in the most secret chamber of the heart began to tremble so violently that I felt it fiercely in the least pulsation, and, trembling, it uttered these words: ‘Ecce deus fortior me, qui veniens dominabitur michi: Behold a god more powerful than I, who, coming, will rule over me.’ At that moment the animal spirit, that which lives in the high chamber to which all the spirits of the senses carry their perceptions, began to wonder deeply at it, and, speaking especially to the spirit of sight, spoke these words: ‘Apparuit iam beatitudo vestra: Now your blessedness appears.’ At that moment the natural spirit, that which lives in the part where our food is delivered, began to weep, and weeping said these words: ‘Heu miser, quia frequenter impeditus ero deinceps!: Oh misery, since I will often be troubled from now on!’"
Dante placed Beatice in heaven.
EA stripped her naked and cast her in hell and they're still trying to market it as Dante's Inferno to bolster their flailing market cap.
Dante continued, "From then on I say that Amor governed my soul, which was so soon wedded to him, and began to acquire over me such certainty and command, through the power my imagination gave him, that I was forced to carry out his wishes fully. He commanded me many times to discover whether I might catch sight of this most tender of angels, so that in my boyhood I many times went searching, and saw her to be of such noble and praiseworthy manners, that certainly might be said of her those words of the poet Homer: ‘She did not seem to be the daughter of a mortal man, but of a god’. And though her image, that which was continually with me, was a device of Amor’s to govern me, it was nevertheless of so noble a virtue that it never allowed Amor to rule me without the loyal counsel of reason in all those things where such counsel was usefully heard." --http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Italian/TheNewLifeI.htm#_Toc88709639
The entire center and circumference of the Divine Comedy is Beatrice's exalted nature, which inspires and guides dante up into Paradisio.
Dante writes, "Nine times already since my birth the heaven of light had almost revolved to the self-same point when my mind’s glorious lady first appeared to my eyes, she who was called by many Beatrice (‘she who confers blessing’), by those who did not know what it meant to so name her. She had already lived as long in this life as in her time the starry heaven had moved east the twelfth part of one degree, so that she appeared to me almost at the start of her ninth year, and I saw her almost at the end of my ninth. She appeared dressed in noblest colour, restrained and pure, in crimson, tied and adorned in the style that then suited her very tender age."
http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Italian/TheNewLifeI.htm#_Toc88709639
"“It’s just a gross misrepresentation of the original work,” said Rob Bricken in THE NEW YORK TIMES. The UK Guardian Reported: "The philosophy with which Inferno is shot through is completely jettisoned, and the quotes the game occasionally chucks your way are very short and pretty random." THE IRIS NETWORK reports: "#EAFail is a total cluster**** of misogyny and pandering to the lowest common denominator." --http://whilenotfinished.theirisnetwork.org/2009/07/24/eafail-link-roundup/
