Uh, wut

So literally a day after I make a post regarding more story in games being the only thing that can save the videogame industry, a trailer for a game based on Dante's Inferno sprouts up on the Spike Videogame Awards. NOT WHAT I MEANT GUYS. I'm not exactly a huge fan of classic literature, but Dante's Inferno is one of the few bits of classic literature I actually have read, and I can't imagine this game not absolutely missing the entire point. It's going to be some God of War action clone probably, they'll have you fighting demons and damned souls based on each circle's theme or something, which doesn't make any sense. The demons that are there are ripping damned souls apart for all eternity already, they're just doing their job. It's when demons are flaying anyone BUT damned souls anywhere BUT hell that they become a problem.

As for the souls themselves, they're not going to be fighting you, or at least they shouldn't be. They should be way too busy being flayed, re-killed, sauteed, re-raped and everything else by the demons to bother with you. You shouldn't be freeing these souls from demon rape-flaying either: They're in hell for a reason. They deserve it, apparently. God says so, and he's a cool guy, at least in Dante's world.

You can go several ways with this to actually make it make sense, which is sad because none of these will happen:
1. Inferno Tycoon. You have a quota of torture to visit on an ever increasing number of damned souls daily. You have several rings to oversee. How do you organize your rings of hell to maximize eternal suffering? Make sure to put the anus hornets near the heretics to save valuable transport time, and have ample bathrooms so the ever-agonized don't piss themselves.
2. RPG. Dante himself must navigate each ring of hell to his eventual goal of enlightenment, but he must perform quests for souls and demons in need to open his way forward. See, this rape demon would love to open the gates from the Lust ring, but he's chafing from all the rape he's had to do over the years. If you can convince Lou the anger demon to give up his salve, he'll do you a solid and let you through.
3. Action brawler. The opening cinematic is the ring of damned souls lining up to get eviscerated for the day. The sword of the demon raises high and then comes down, only to have the hand of the prisoner catch the demon's wrist and stop the plunge. You hear a gravelly "That's enough" as you cut to the eyes of the tortured prisoner. "Let's blow this joint" he growls as he cuts down the demon, puts on some sunglasses and starts hacking his way out of hell itself.

What's sad is that it'll probably be a whole lot like number 3, except they'll be one hundred percent serious about it.