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Heya everyone, playing Dante's Inferno for a bit since my Saints Row 2 disc won't work =/ Just started for a heads up and playing on my Xbox 360. Going to make paragraphs as I get further and further. Each new paragraph is after I paused. Throughout the paragraphs you'll notice tips, guides, bugs, or just comments on everything I've been coming across. Here we go: I've noticed they tend to tell you instructions after you need them. Like in the beginning the prisoners start attacking you and then like after 10 seconds they're like oh yeah you can press X and Y to attack. I figured this out quick considering X just seemed like the right button considering various games. Then when fighting Death, it's like you can block after you do your first 8 - 10 combo hit on him. Then they tell you how to evade after getting into one of those pressing B fights. Speaking of Death, I tried playing with the difficulty Hellish. I died four times and then found out about blocking after having known about evading but still. Combined those two and got him to a little more than a quarter health, he beat me in a B fight and threw me off the little asteroid thing we were on. After that I switched to Zealot and it was like BAM, killed him easily. So I figured out I'm definitely not too bad at the game after figuring out blocking and evading. I would block, get a 10 - 12 combo on him and he'd back up. He'd probably do the aoe attack or a ranged attack, I'd block it. Then evade/roll to him, get a 10 - 12 combo or a 5 combo and he'd block. Then just keep repeating and I massacred him.
So far I've been absolving everyone and have found this to be pretty easy. I'm currently at my first guy Pontius Pilate. I looked up his name and found out a little about him as I wasn't too familiar with the name. I like that it's not just some random name and actually has meaning behind it. I'm currently typing this before I do anything but I think I'm going to absolve him as that's the path I'm going with. Not sure how everything roles out if you punish or absolve though. Maybe the game really does have a big difference in the end. Or this ending as opposed to that one. Besides exp of course. Absolve it is. Just did the small mini game, meaning like 30 seconds went by in between the last sentence and this one =P I think I missed three, but I did alright. A couple times I had to press two buttons at once but didn't due to the way my hands were holding the controller.
Just a short note, I absolved Orpheus and missed three souls again. The little block in this room to get up top, it took me a minute to figure it out because of my perspective. Not being able to move the camera can be a little annoying at certain parts, but I suppose it works out.
Oh hey you're about to hit me? Well I just grabbed someone and am now absolving them, so I'm invincible. Yeah, that's what it's looking like so far, everything just like freezes or they stop trying to hit me when I start absolving at least. Probably the same with punishing I'd imagine. I suppose it'd make things harder, but still. I was practically about to die earlier around like 15 minions and just did that trick to every single one of them and was fine. Anyways, currently on I believe Acheron's Lake? I could be wrong. Just wiped out the minions and stronger ones and figured a good trick to the big beast you can tame. I was in front of it, getting a 6 - 8 combo evading/rolling backwards, then it would either attack the ground with it's arms in front of me or stomp and it's arms would be low enough to hit once or twice to keep my combo. If it attacks the ground with it's arms, start attacking it and then run forward and hit it's legs a few times. If it doesn't, start attacking forward and you'll probably hit it's arms once or twice but keep your combo and you'll start hitting it's legs again. Then evade/roll backwards and you just keep repeating. Before you know it, you'll grab them. I also noticed when you evade you're invincible, even if they attack the ground where you evaded through or were about to land. Not necessarily a bug, but probably just could of been developed differently or better. Regardless, makes it easier for me. I also love how once you tame the beast, they're like now we're going to send in minions and such. Could just be timing but who knows. =P
Well the beginning of Limbo is seeming interesting. I got into the room with the baby and kind of just let it follow me for like two minutes seeing if there was anything good I could do besides the obvious, kill him. Tried to make him leap into the fire of the Mom. Yeah I know, not that good, but I mean er.. at least I wouldn't of been killing him. You know, just putting him back into the womb.. of fire... uh... yeah... that's it. Pretty much figured out I had to kill him and then just started killing them all. Yeah, I'm a mass baby killer! Woohoo. I hate not being able to tell if I'm going forward or backwards. Sometimes after you go a little too far the right way and sometimes it's not even that far, a door closes behind you and you can never return. Say good bye relic or whatever else. I think I skipped one spot so far, but I'm keeping an eye open.
So I found Electra. Not knowing much I looked her up and found a few chicks half naked, not bad, but obviously not what I was looking for =P Looked a little more and found a wiki. Supposedly Electra helped kill Clytemnestra; her mother, but Pylades and Orestes did more of the work when it came to murdering her. Orestes was cursed by Clytemnestra after the murder, but was purified at the temple at Delphi. Not sure what happened to Pylades. Electra wasn't cursed and didn't really read up past that. Just read a little more about the murder of Agamemnon. The death of Agamemnon was avenged by Orestes because the Delphic oracle ordered this. Therefore, Electra wasn't really a major part of the murder of Clytemnestra. Interesting little history lesson there definitely. I'd absolve her either way, but after reading that I would of definitely.
Currently fighting King Minos. He's the blind one with tentacles. Here's some tips about basically every situation that comes up. When he's popping the tentacles up out of the ground just keep running until he stops. When he brings his head down, I'm not sure yet if he does the right first, or the left or if there's some trick to figuring out which way he shoots his tongue. Although you can jump in the air and start attacking his head, it doesn't hit every time but I'm pretty sure it avoids his tongue. If he hits you, you'll get knocked over and a tentacle will pop up ready to kill you. That one never hit me, it'll get ready to hit you and I think it was left stick to the right and then the left. Then you'll get back up even though you missed the opportunity. When his head is down though you can start attacking him and if you hit him enough times he'll bring his head back up and hold it. Then he'll reveal a red area at the bottom of him and you can get like a 18 - 25 combo of attacks there. Then he comes back. If his tentacles move on the left and right that are wrapped around the buildings, you'll see the orange sphere. Go near it and then when the right bumper shows up at the top, press it right away and it'll dodge an attack. When he starts smashing the ground with his fist, instead of evading constantly, run to the back right area of the game. To the right of the spike machine he used to kill the suicide victim. If you go the farthest back, he can't hit you with the smash. When he puts his arm on the ground to the farthest left or right, jump and wait a second in mid air, then do a double jump to jump right over his arm. When he does that move, that spot where I said to hide in the back, doesn't avoid it. But you can just double jump there. After beating him and you do the RB leash thing to swing, swing all the way up and then jump. I didn't go all the way up and fell. =P
On the repelling spot, on the second rope, climb up to the top. There's a soul statue dispenser sorta thing that has a silver Judas coin. I just missed a spot, but I believe above the third rope is an area. I think you can reach a rope attached to the wall if you pick up momentum on the top of the second rope and leap over to above the third rope. I saw two orange spheres at the top of the ledge above the third rope, so it looked like something of interest. Maybe a relic.
Small tip, when you repel on the rope to the shiny object and break that. If you're relatively low on the rope where I'd imagine you'd only be able to hit it, you're probably low enough to jump and RB leash the orange sphere.
Looked at a wiki quick on Francesca da Polenta. The name was familiar and I remembered what was explained in the small description slightly. I looked up her name on google and got Francesca da Rimini. I think Rimini is her maiden name. There wasn't a whole lot in the wiki I looked at quick, basically whats in the description. I'll absolve her, but thinking about it and not sure what I'd do.
For the tornado part where you move forward and the lightning stops at each circle and goes down the middle. You can run like two at a time after it's passed, but you can only avoid it on the left I believe. I don't think the right works. At the second statue on the left, there's a lever, the orange sphere should make it stand out. When the lightning shows up, use it, and it'll change the direction of it towards the tornado, making a door for you to go through into it. You'll see the Poet right before the tornado, so you may want to talk to him before making the door as it'll disappear before you finish talking to him making you have to open the tornado again.
Never thought to talk to the Poet twice, but it paid off this time. If you talk to the poet twice in tornado area right outside the elevator you'll get Tristan's Desire. It's a relic that increases the damage of all Magic attacks. Lvl 1: 10%, lvl 2: 15%, lvl 3 20%. No requirements. In here there's a mana shrine/statue if you move far left of the Poet while still outside the elevator. Just jump over to the platform below you a little. Health shrine inside to the right. After pulling the statue from the farthest forward in the elevator area onto the elevator, use the lever at the left pushing the elevator upward. Then climb onto it, use the shrine/statue at the left for a Judas coin and then use the shrines at the right. Then use the lever at the right and quickly jump back onto the elevator.
On the elevator there are more of those chicks, I realized using the divine waves with B isn't too bad of a strategy at killing them. And the bigger/stronger minion doesn't get in the way while killing them with that really. After the giant chick climbing the tower punches through the wall, run toward the opening, jump, and then RB leash for the orange sphere near the hole. Another good strategy I noticed at killing the chicks is using Sacred Judgment(LT + B).
Well that was erm... interesting, a giant demon-chick... just popping babies out of her nipples.. ones with swords for arms... and her nipples had tongues.... hmm... I'd still tap it. To beat her, hit her hand at the right for an 8 - 10 combo, then run to the lever at the left as the elevator raises. Double jump to the lever, use it and it'll turn the snake heads outside toward her. Jump down, attack her hand again, double jump to the lever at the right. Use it and it'll make the snake heads shoot fire, wait too long and the snake heads will turn back toward you.
When you have beaten that little part, you'll see the shrine to the right, go toward it, use it, then to the right of that is a secret-ish rope you can climb down to a soul/Paolo Malatesta. After going back up take the left to get back. Now lets see, we dealt with Francesca already. Paolo says, I betrayed my brother, my own flesh of blood. It was not a passing aroma, it was our destiny." I think he says aroma, it's hard to tell. I'm not sure if I'd punish him but not sure if I'd absolve him. I mean if he started flirting with Francesca and then she got interested in him, then maybe I'd punish him as it was his doing that he betrayed his brother kind of. But also that would go back to absolving or punishing Francesca, considering that would be like breaking her loyalty. But if Francesca flirted with Paolo and he fell into it, I'd take off the punishment as much. But I mean I suppose that's kinda the same with Francesca and loyalty. He should of said no. But I mean love is a crazy thing that you can't really understand or explain. So it's kind of a hard situation to make a choice on. You'd need to see it all happen as it did to really know how to choose. It comes down to perspective a lot as well. Absolve it is anyway though. Before I did this I wiki'd Paolo Malatesta and saw his picture of him kissing Francesca's cheek and a pretty sky in the background. Francesca's wiki picture shows the same kiss but instead Francesca on the leftm Paolo on the right and they're in a room. Gianciotto the husband/brother is behind a curtain behind them watching them with a sword out. Funny looking at the difference between the two.
Arrow of Paris relic when you go farthest to the right on the wall of people, you'll see one of those dog-like guys on a platform to the right where you have to jump off the wall and onto there or grab the ledge. Do the B thing to absolve them and you get it. Arrow of Paris requires Unholy Level 1 to equip. Grab attack damage is increased. Lvl 1: 25%, Lvl 2: 50%, Lvl 3: 100%.
Currently at Semiramis. Just searched in google her name and found a hotel and her wiki. Skimmed through the wiki and found out she married her son after her husband died and ruled for her son. Not exactly sure what they were referring to in the description. But going to absolve her. Got all the sins except one =/
Died twice at fighting Antony but figured out a slowish but good method. Just a quick tip which you'll see probably 2 - 4 times during fighting Antony, the chick will put her hand on the ground from outside again and you'll have to attack it a few times until she pulls it back. She'll be strengthening Antony if you don't take it back, not sure what happens if you don't do anything. Maybe he gets a lot of health back or something. Just a guess. Well anyway, my last time of fighting him I managed to take out like 75% of his health just by being a distance away, double jumping and then pressing B and hitting Antony with that. If you jump or double jump it automatically makes the attack into three crosses. May be stronger than the one, besides being able to hit multiple people. That's good too for when he runs at you ready to kick you. It'll stop him. When he's just walking around use it once or twice. When he puts his shield down and has that move that shoots forward and then curves to the left or right, you can sometimes shoot over the shield but not always. Also when he puts his shield down and then does that attack where has the swords go forward. After the time of that attack finishes, he'll pick his sword up and shoot a horizontal fire wave at you for the first half. In the second half he'll also do a jump toward you and slam his sword down into the ground. Jumping doesn't really dodge that, but you can probably evade. You can double jump over the fire wave though, but if you're in mid air when he does it, it'll shoot in mid air at you. It shows wherever you were once he starts it. Every now and then I used Sacred Judgment(LT + B), it did a little damage and I kind of just used it if I was on the ground near him after a few melee attacks and he was shielded. Or maybe after I evaded. He usually blocks the lure/pull part so it just does the aoe damage which is nice. Divine Force(Holding and releasing B) may of been a good idea for when he shields after you melee him and then evade/roll backwards. Or a few other times when he uses his shield. I didn't use it, but I'd imagine it'd knock back his shield or take it away. He'll do a four hit attack if you're close to him after he kicks you. The first three slices you can block, but then the third one is a forward flaming thrust that goes through your block. I suppose either stop him before he can use it or evade/roll away maybe. I tried to evade/roll a few times but I had difficulty with that, so not sure if it would or wouldn't work. Kept forgetting I had it but, maybe you could use Vindication(Press B after countering) during that. Not sure if it'd work or not as I didn't, but it's an idea to try. I used my spell Righteous Path a few different times randomly until out of mana. Great move for fighting him as it breaks through his shield and he can't block it. I'm sure this attack can be used for wiping out a small portion of his health and probably tactically.
After beating Antony a scene happens and then an interactive scene: LS Down, LS Up, LS move from right counter clockwise to left, LS Up. Then you stab her, but it looks a little weird if you ask me from the vision the camera has it. Thankfully it zooms out and proves you wrong =P Hello a new spell, Lust Storm. "Dante surrounds himself with a storm of dark energy that deals damage to enemies."
After all that you'll start going down on the elevator. After fighting enemies something will drop and break a part of the elevator. When it drops there will be no monsters and it'll go into slow motion. Regardless if you're under it or not. If you're under it, don't try to run, evade/roll away from it. You can roll off I believe, so watch that. After the elevator breaks completely and you fall, there will be an orange sphere kind of obvious and you'll have to press RB. Then again to catch the leash momentum one. Then go from there.
Alright, so as you're fighting Cerebus you'll notice these orange things on the ground, which are basically the orange spheres that tell you to press RB. You can go up to one, press RB, then mass press B, and it'll make fire come out of the ground. Then one of heads will lunge at you to bite you, but they'll hit the fire. If you're still in the area, it'll still hit you, but the fire will cause it to fall over and allow you to start beating the hell out of it. As you'll notice they shoot some sort of vomit ball at you that they get from the water around you. If the word water even counts. Anyway, when attacking the head on the floor, hide on the outside part and attack it so the others can't spit at you. Meaning, start with the left and right first. The middle you can't fight until they're done. I suggest mainly only using the orange spheres closest to you as it is easiest. After using one it'll take a little while until it comes back, so get one side and then the other. Then while waiting for them to come back as it takes a little, run up a little close to the left or right one, it'll pull it's neck back and do the lunge again. Evade/roll away and then come back and start attacking it. You can only attack it for like two seconds or so, but the damage adds up. I believe they'll only flip over though on the ground if you hit them with the fire. Although as they're going back up from a fire attack sometimes while you're attacking them as they slide away they'll flip. After they've been attacked so much they'll flip onto their side and you'll have to run the closest to the end of their neck toward them and you can press the right trigger and stab their neck. Then you'll start stabbing it's neck automatically as it goes back up. Then it'll have an interactive quick scene where you press Y. One down. Repeat as such with the second one. Then the left one will be like these ones, except you may have to angle it's bite onto the fire. As this is the last one, it will be a bit quicker when it spits and bites making it slightly harder and more annoying. Regardless when this is done you'll press RB I believe it was, jump toward them and BAM it eats you. Game over, not really. =P I was wondering what happened once it happened to me and it took a few seconds with nothing happening. I was just like, alright, game over, after all this, good bye Beatrice =P But nope, after this another interactive scene occurs. Nothing too complicated but it goes like this: LS Up, LS Down, LS Left, LS Right.
And we get ourselves a new relic! Azrael's Apprentice. Requires Unholy Level 1 to equip. Any successful block on an enemy has a chance to stun the enemy. Lvl 1: 10%, Lvl 2: 15%, Lvl 3: 25% Can't wait until I get some holy relics =P
So now after going a little into Glutton I find a rope leading into a hole where I just saw one of those worms eat a minion and a couple other minions ran off. This sounds like a great idea already. Looking forward to this area, especially the way it looks. Very pretty and welcoming. I mean like only every other time there's been a rope that once I drop down and can't go back up it leads to a boss or something terrible. But you know what, I bet this time it's going to be great. Maybe there will be some rainbows =P And I just dropped.. and it wasn't rainbows =/
Just a heads up, 3:47:04 time played so far, although writing this while playing and got up a few times for like 5 - 10 minute breaks.
Now we have ourselves another soul stuck here for eternity, what ever shall we do. Ciacco is our customer. As he's not a major historical figure, historians haven't found out much about him other than him being in the Divine Comedies. Along with a few theories being made about him. Giovanni Boccaccio may have of mentioned Ciacco in the Novel VIII of the Ninth day of the Decameron. In the story this character was the protagonist, but their name was never mentioned so it's only a theory. But they were described as quote on quote, ""a man second to none that ever lived for inordinate gluttony ... and being, for the rest, well-mannered and well furnished with excellent and merry jests". Ciacco in the game, it sounds like he says. "The only God I will shoot with my.. excess. I was loved for my kindness." The developers probably knew about the second last quote and made this connection. If this is the truth, I'd Absolve Ciacco. He made of been a glutton, but he was a friendly glutton maybe cancelling it out, making him a neutral, making it balanced out. Like a second chance. Missed a few this time on the sins. Also noticed one of the sins is darkened, let it go by, don't press the button on it.
Hello Clodia. Hello Wikipedia. Clodia Metelli, wife of Metellus. Or shall I say the Medea of the Palatine as Cicero once said. I read up about Clodia a little bit. I would punish her as she did everything that description says. She also made false accusations about Caelius attempting to poison her. And it's suspected she poisoned her husband. Her husband and her had gotten into tons of arguments, even in public. But I mean divorce, split up, something, not poison him. She had tons of affairs with other people. Not exactly a good set up. But I'm still going to absolve her. 32 sins captured, coulda done better.
After jumping through that area, you'll go through a tunnel and meet up with the Poet yet again. Talk to him twice and you'll get a relic. Ciacco's Bile. Woah, for reals, I finally found a holy relic =D Ciacco's Bile Requires Holy Level 5 to equip. Grants Dante persistent mana regeneration. Leveling up this relic will increase speed of mana regneration. Equip relics to modify stats and abilities. Equipped relics will upgrade as you collect souls. Might have to equip that one.
Just a tip, the worms can be used to attack enemies. Near the end of this part of the Glutton area when you're flighting the monsters, I noticed you can go near the mana well area and the worm will go back down underground. Then evade/roll out of that area and have the minions and/or stronger minions walk toward the hole and it'll lunge out at them. =]
After the first Glutton area and entering this white place, you'll come across like a mini-boss. He's not hard, just has a load of health. He ran at me once, but never saw him do it after that time. He'll spit bile in a U toward himself in front of him. He'll fart bile in a U toward him. Getting hit by it or standing on it will hurt you. It disappears after like 2 - 3 seconds. I let him spit the bile at me, ran behind him but not directly, started attacking him, kept attacking him as he turned around to face me, evaded/rolled to the right, got behind him again and continued until he died. After a while he'll fall over and then when he gets up you can RT him. For Absolve you have to start pressing B a lot instantly or else he cancels it like right away. After beating him, prepare for your mind to be mind fucked. As this part would be very difficult to explain, you can figure out how to do it in this youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXQrkOPSb-Y&feature=relmfu#t=5m03s
Now I've been playing for 4:30:44. Now start counting to keep it on time. =P
After getting through that area, you'll get into the new area. Follow along and once you get to the first rope, you'll swing to another spot you can climb up or down. It's not a rope as it's stuck to the wall. Climb all the way up and you'll find a Judas Coin and a relic. Octavian's Gold. Impossible.. another holy relic! Level 1/1 Requires Holy Level 3 to equip. Grants the ability to perform an automatic Special Recovery attack whenever Dante is knocked down. Not going to equip it, but it sounds like it could come in handy.
Now we're a bit further along, after getting through all those fire traps you're back on the ground. Follow the tunnel until you get to the spot where you have to jump onto the elevated ground, then jump again. Well do that part. Get to the top, then go furthest to the right touching the wall. You can kinda see something under the wall right? Now walk along the wall and drop, then move under the wall, and double jump forward. Heya Mr. Relic. Crown of Carthage. Requires Holy Level 5 to equip. Dante is protected from ranged enemy attack damage by an additional percentage. Lvl 1: 10%, Lvl 2: 15%, Lvl 3: 20%. Now go back up top. Walk straight a little bit and you'll see an opening to your left. That means there's a ledge you can jump to at the right wall. Climb up, use the shrine, jump across, use the shrine and you get a Judas Coin. Drop back down and walk forward a bit, there's a shrine to the top left but I'm not quite sure how to get to it.
After getting the achievement for killing 30 demons I just realized that every time I said stronger minion, I meant a demon. =P
4:52:26 is the clocked in time. Have you been counting the seconds? =D
Now when you come across the gears after the save you'll see a soul at the top right once you jump from the gears on the right to the ones on the left to keep going on. Just from the third highest gear on the left, to the one sticking out of the wall, the highest one. The horizontal one, obviously not the vertical. Then you have to try and jump off this gear around the verticle gear, then double jump to the ledge and pull yourself up.
Here we have Tarpeia. As the description says, she opened the city gates allowing the Sabines to attack Rome. But the description says for gold, when rather it was for the bracelets they had. She had gone to their camp and saw the bracelets which she wanted out of greed. Instead the Sabines threw their shields at her crushing her body, killing her. They then threw her body from the Tarpeian Rock. Just a little history fact, they Sabines got into the city but couldn't take the Forum due to boiling jets of water protecting it's gates. For wanting the bracelets, I have nothing wrong with that. I mean who wouldn't want these probably golden bracelets. But it's the fact that she broke her loyalty to Rome and opened the gates allowing tons of Romans to be slaughtered. The description says, "Insouciant with those around her" she should care about those around her. Even if she doesn't care about them, that doesn't mean allow them all to die for a bracelet. I suppose greed is where it starts, but just have to know where to cross the line. She's been absolved. 34 sins that time.
I have to admit, even in hell there are some nice parts of it. I got the chance to spin around on gears for a few minutes =D
The timer is 5:09:22 and I am checking out for now. I thank you all very much for reading through this and perhaps tomorrow I will finish up the game with my tips, guides,walkthroughs, comments and opinions, and all that other great stuff.
~ Cya later =]
~ Snakester
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