Dante's epic poem La Divina Commedia is getting turned into a videogame again

EA and Visceral aren't involved

Enotria: The Last Song developers Jyamma Games are making a caller action-RPG inspired by and named aft Dante Alighieri’s 14th period epic poem La Divina Commedia, aka the Divine Comedy.

Like the poem, it sees you descending done the circles of Hell, each the geological manifestation of a peculiar Sin. Unlike the poem, it features a acceptable of combat classes, a prime of protagonist genders, a communicative alignment system, procedurally generated extraction dungeons, and customisable weapons and armour. As the writer himself mightiness say: successful the mediate of the travel of our beingness I came to myself wrong a acheronian wood wherever I had to grind for crafting materials.

The games manufacture has not been mega gentle with mediocre aged Dante, whose monumental enactment helped found the Tuscan connection and influenced a brace of English writers, from Blake to Beckett. The best-known video crippled adaptation is astir apt inactive Visceral’s cheeseball 2010 action-adventure Dante’s Inferno, which is often much funny successful aping God Of War. A cynical antheral oregon snob (hello!) mightiness look astatine the below, hacky-slashy trailer for Jyamma’s adaptation and see it to beryllium different enactment of wanton literate desecration. Terza rima isn’t expected to beryllium a three-hit combo, you blistering philistines!

Still, this isn't rather different workout successful crafting boobwalls for the ellipse of Lust oregon punching organs retired of bodies. Enotria was beauteous metaphysical for a Soulslike, gathering a beingness and combat strategy astir the signifier of stagecraft, and Jyamma’s instrumentality connected the La Divina Commedia is likewise dreamy - it turns Dante’s poem into a benignant of overarching mythology.

“In this caller adventure, the workplace presents an epic travel acceptable successful a satellite wherever The Divine Comedy has supplanted the aged faith, bringing astir a aureate property of righteousness among humanity,” explains a property release. “When acheronian forces subvert the promises of the poem, bid collapses and the satellite is thrust into chaos. The subordinate volition instrumentality connected the relation of a warrior-poet trapped successful the infernal depths, called to descend done the circles of Hell, look progressively almighty demons, and redeem a sinful past.”

Sounds rather involved. Still, I’m not definite wherever the procgen extraction dungeons acceptable in, exactly. The thought of mining hellhole for loot and progression materials is the benignant of videogame conceit I’d emotion to laic earlier an existent 14th period theologian. I'm definite the humour of the concern would beryllium good worthy the inconvenience of being burned astatine the stake. Anyway, there’s nary merchandise day yet for La Divina Commedia. The poem took astir 12 years to constitute – hopefully, Jyamma volition crook their mentation astir a small sooner.

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