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A DLC titled "Trials of St. Lucia" was released on April 29th, 2010.

 

* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: The sinners Dante encounters in the book are all there, and you get the option of forgiving them or smiting them. They even say a lot of the same things. Virgil's speeches are mostly accurate. Even the original political satire survived mostly intact ("In these popes and cardinals, greed suffered its excess") The design of the Nine Circles in game is actually quite accurate with Alighieri's descriptions (except for the level of Greed, and the changes there are understandable). About the only thing that's really different is Dante himself, and the whole "Famous pagans as lords of hell" thing. Also, a few politically incorrect things, like Mohammad in hell, and crusaders in heaven have been taken out as well.

** The Gates of Hell. The Gate itself was modeled after Auguste Rodin's [[wikipedia:The Gates of Hell|Gates of Hell]], which was described in Dante's Inferno to have a sign at the top that read a poem<ref>''Through me the way to the suffering city; Through me the everlasting pain; Through me the way that runs among the Lost. Justice urged on my exalted Creator: Divine Power made me, The Supreme Wisdom and the Primal Love. Nothing was made before me but eternal things And I endure eternally. Abandon all hope - Ye Who Enter Here.''</ref> about Hell. The sign itself was removed from the Door and is instead spoken by Charon (who is also half-demon half-ship and not a boatman demon)

* [[Art Shift]]: [[The Anime of the Game]] goes through at least four different art styles over the course of the story. Most notable with Vergil, who goes through the most drastic changes in appearance each time.

* [[The Atoner]]: Dante. When Death tells him that not only is he damned, but everyone he loved, he goes on a quest, not only to redeem himself, but everyone else he loves as well. [[Double Subverted]] at the end.

* [[Ax Crazy]]: Dante himself, during the Crusades.

* [[Badass]]: Dante all the way. He starts off the game by ''killing Death'' and taking his scythe. He proceeds to fight his way through Hell, ultimately killing any and every demon that gets in his way. All as a [[Badass Normal|baseline human]], to boot.

* [[Building Swing]]: One of Dante's primary means of locomotion.

* [[Calling the Old Man Out]]: Subverted; Dante's father taunts him to do it, but Dante absolves him instead of punishing him. Dante's father's last words to his son are:

* [[Censor Steam]]: Subverted in the final cutscene.

* [[Collapsing Lair]]: Lust and Heresy.

* [[Dead All Along]]: Dante, [[Spoiler Opening|of course]].

* [[Deadly Lunge]]: The disgustingly tubby Gluttons of the Third Circle are incredibly slow and easy to take down, but if you are distracted by other enemies, they may lumber towards you and snatch you up. If you fail the [[Press X to Not Die|quicktime]] [[Smashing Survival|struggle]], they [[One-Hit Kill|eat you alive]].

* [[Demon Slaying]]: Considering that almost every enemy in the game is a demon, this is a given.

* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Malebolge and Cocytus, which compared to the other circles are the less expanded levels. Many of the guardians of Hell in the original novel however appear as statues (like the Minotaur, Geryon and Pluto).

* [[The Determinator]]: Dante starts out his quest by killing Death, the proceeds to bring a one man holy war down upon all of the legions of hell that dare to stand in his way, up to and including the Devil himself.

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: The nameless assassin, in retaliation for {{spoiler|Dante sleeping with his wife as part of a deal for freedom which Dante actually honored, a deal that ''she'' offered}}, {{spoiler|kills Dante, travels all the way to Europe to find Dante's home, and kills Dante's father and his love Beatrice}}. His [[The Determinator|determination]] is nearly on Dante's level.

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Lust is a [[Freud Was Right|Freudian nightmare]], and it's not subtle about it.

* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Well, the [[Captain Obvious|Suicides forest]]. At one point Dante is influenced by a demonic tree and, if not quick enough, kills himself.

* [[Fire and Brimstone Hell]]: [[Sarcasm Mode|You don't say]].

** Though actually is sometimes averted.

* [[Full-Frontal Assault]]: Lucifer.

* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: The Absolve finishers aren't too terribly less brutal than the Punish finishers. For those who haven't played the game, the Absolve finishers literally burn the sin out of the damned, causing them to ''explode'' in holy light.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: {{spoiler|Dante when he finds his mother in the Forest of Suicides, since he always thought she had died from a fever when he was a child.}}

* [[Historical Domain Character]]: You find famous souls scattered about all over the place, such as Boudica, Attila the Hun, and a couple different Roman emperors, among others. In addition, there are a significant number of people present who were not famous, but whom the real life Dante had a personal beef with and so wrote into the original story to get back at.

* [[Holy Hand Grenade]]: Dante's trusty cross.

* [[Horny Devils]]:

* [[Large Ham]]: Many; King Minos, Lucifer, and the [[No Name Given|cutscene bishop]] are the most obvious examples.

** One of the damned souls in Heresy gives us a fine exemple of scenery chewing:

* [[Like a Badass Out of Hell]]: Dante.

* [[Load-Bearing Boss]]: Cleopatra.

** Also, {{spoiler|slaying Lucifer's titanic body frees his human-sized true form that was trapped within.}}

* [[Nipple-and-Dimed]]: Completely averted, to occasionally [[Squick|squicktastic]] effect.

* [[No Name Given]]: The [[Large Ham]] cutscene bishop.

* [[No OSHA Compliance]]: It ''is'' Hell, after all. Bridges are especially prone to collapsing, cracking, and generally falling apart.

* [[Notice This]]: There's a glowing wheel attached to anything in need of pushing, pulling, or climbing.

* [[Oedipus Complex]]: {{spoiler|Dante and his father end up duking it out in the Fourth Circle of Hell.}}

* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: It wouldn't be a game set in Hell without it.

* [[One True Faith]]: [[Zig Zagged]]. Pagans are in supposedly in Hell, but Lucifer tells Dante that those he fought in the Crusades are not, after all, in ''this'' Hell.

* [[The Power of Friendship]]: {{spoiler|Dante returns Lucifer to his prison by using the souls of his family and friends.}}

* [[Rated "M" for Manly]]

* [[Redemption Equals Death]]

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: The game's enemies include, among other things, giant naked succubi, not to mention all the demonic creatures liable to offend anyone of a religious upbringing.

 

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