Dante's Inferno Goes Gamer

So I finally picked up a game that challenges some very set conventions around video games. Dante's
Inferno was uber-disturbing. Lets start with the imagery that was taken straight from the poem. If you have not read it well you are missing a lot. The minor demons are standard fare for video games; slightly uninspired for this game yet what makes them stand out would be the damned souls that they are torturing. The ambient noise and music also lends to the feeling of surreal and slight freakiness. This game goes into some great visuals on everything in the foreground but everything in the background is very generic. This is one of the game's small failings but by and large this game deserves at leat a 4 star rating. Music and ambient noise lend to the overall sense of impending doom up until the last level. Then the game takes a turn for the cheeseball. The inclusion of the orignal poem does lend the game some credence epecially if you read as you progress through the levels of hell. For those unfamilar with the actual poem here is a chance to see a chilling but possibly drug induced dream of a mans look at Hel. Now back to the game, it was good but the gaame on the last few levels seems to run out of stema and resort to cheap over played video game sentimentality. This would be the game's major failing but over all the game holds togther with out any major glithces. So gamers go check out this game and see a dream a vision come to life on a gaming system in a very good mix of action platforming and level progression.

Why do we hate truth

Why do we hate the truth?  I mean we are taught to tell the truth.  In fact more often than not we learn from the examples our parents set for us.  So it becomes easy to tell white lies and we go to church and they do it there and we learn to slowly hate the truth.  I recently was introduced to 2 videos that state the Truth is small simple words that everyone can understand.  And the response to these videos was universally the same.  People posted as to why this man was so wrong in telling the Truth. Listening to a young man describe the difference Jesus and religion and state Truth. Because

See God speaks to us in so many ways and we are so busy with our lives and our worries that we forget to be still and listen to simple truth. And being still is what it is all about, just so we can hear that small still voice tell us the Truth. Funny thing is we don't want to hear it because that would mean we would have to stop lying to ourselves about ourselves. Or that we would have to challenge tightly held beliefs because it doesn't really jive with real Truth.  

Think about it like this.....real truth is ugly at first, because it makes us see the ugliness in us. But then it can transform us into something beautiful, majestic, inspiring if we just let it and we stop and listen. 

More blogs to come starting this saturday. If you are easily offended please stop reading. If you are religous, closed minded or just plain obtuse please dont read however yourr comments wil be accepted but be aware you will be ridculed laughed at and generally made fun of. Ok so more on saturday.