Ryan's Inferno

You poor poor man i feel for you ryan :(
 
i am a lesser man, my controller would of been broke the first night attempting it 50 tries and most likely various other things in my house would broke including my fist for punching my bring my wall over and over and over

3 tries, normal difficulty.
 
So freaking stoked I went half holy/half unholy on this, the crosses maxed out saves your ass on this challenge.

3 minutes in, wondering if the whole 37 minutes is this challenge over and over
Ruh-roh

Amazing.. at the start of the video Ryan turns a platform and has to jump off as it moves back to it's original position. I vividly remember doing exactly that on GoW2

I couldn't helpt but notice, like some of you here, that Ryan perhaps went into this game with the wrong mindset. Seeing as he really rely on a bit too much on the buttonmashing of this game and not taking advantage of the spells and other tactics which the game rely on you to use. Since I have not played this game I can't judge it myself, but I get the feeling this is like that dude who reviewed Mass Effect 1 without using his experience points to boost his skills, instead hoping shooting would solve everything. 
 
But then again, the problem is perhaps that this game had not presented itself to Ryan at all, during the game (up to till this point), that you perhaps can't beat this game with just mashing buttons and only use holy crosses . And that's a design fault which Ryan can't be held guilty for. He was just playing the game how he thought it would be played. 
 
Watching this is just brings back my memories of playing Ninja Gaiden, for the xbox, where I could be stuck on bossfights and even on some ordinary enemies because I just tried to beat them with share force. So it's kinda frusturating for me to watch this since it just reminds me of foolish you really seems to be when trying to beat a game by the wrong means and how easy it would be to tell Ryan "YOU PLAYING IT WRONG GODDAMIT, DO THIS AND THAT INSTEAD" because that's easy for me to say when I don't actually play the game.

the relic that prolongs the combo time out widow is a useful device

Ha ha. We've all been there. Battle Toads and Double Dragon SNES. 4 Years.

Dante's Inferno Strategy #1: Spam the cross 
Dante's Inferno Strategy #2: See #1

Well that was one HELL of a challenge. Yes.

Sweet baby jesus.  What little interest I already had in playing that game is GONE now.  You are a better man than I, Mr. Davis.

This is where I was stuck exactly this part. I gave up after a lot of tries. I hadnt put it back in the PS3, b/c of Heavy Rain. and Bioshock2 for the 360

This game looks so bad it actually makes me less excited for God of War.

A game should not punish you for choosing to level up the powers it provides you with.

man i was so relieved when ryan finally beat it.  that was stressful even for a viewer. but seriously challenges like that should not exist in the main game. Thats why you usually see those kinda challenges in like "Challenge mode" or "arena mode" something like that. anyways seeing that was enough for me to justify not buying dante's inferno. let alone i probably wont ever play it especially with god of war 3 coming out so soon.

I kept expecting Jeff to mock Ryan; "You can't handle the truth!" and Ryan would respond by bitch slapping him with the 360 controller, thankfully he beat it and everyones friends. ^^

I am never playing this game.
 
Ever.

omg i full on applauded when you beat ryan. jesus christ that was painful. iwas totally scared that bridge wouldve curshed u, but i was ready to laugh :) congrats

YOU'RE A SAD, FALSE, SHELL OF A MAN.

For such a long book they didn't bother using many quotes.

Kind of silly that you have to do specific challenges like this to progress through a game. Stuff like this only comes off as filler and should be something that is a bonus or something on the side rather then something to progress with.

i did this like first time, was using the artefacts that make sure ur combo doent get interrupted if u get hit or summat, it pays to look in all the corners

If you spec holy, you can use a magic spell that makes you damage and knockback immune.

Ouch!

Was actually kind of nice to see that we all have our frustrating moments in gaming, no matter how many games we've played or even if we make our living playing them.  Was also cool to get to be there for the moment of success - I shared the relief.

if Ryan goes to hell this will be his punishment playing this level over and over again

that was/is painful.  i NEVER want to play this game!

Part of me think this is horrifying to watch.
 
Part of me remembers I've wasted WAY too much time not having fun playing games in exactly this way.
eg.
- COD2,3,4 on Veteran
- Last boss in Guitar Hero III
- Last guitar song on Expert in Rock Band 1
- Getting stuck at 499 orbs in Crackdown

There's no Unholy equivalent of the ranged attack?  That seems like a pretty strange design choice.

Come ON, Ryan. I did this part on my first try. There are a lot of stupid and frustrating parts in this game, but this is definitely not one of them. I'm going to assume that you weren't even aware of the relic that increases the window for combos. And relying on a cross attack that you didn't upgrade at all probably wasn't a good idea either. I am in no way defending this game, because it's honestly not that good, but this part is simple shit.

Don't feel too bad Ryan

Ryan. You did miss a key part of the game. You are trying to go about it just using two attacks. Regular attack and the holy cross...the holy cross is just to string along the combo. You have a mana bar which was explained way earlier in the game, and you have magic powers to use by pressing L2 (or L1 maybe?) also you have a "Go crazy"-mode by hitting L1 and R1 which is blinking at you all through the video :)

Ryan, don't feel awful about this! Everyone has their games that give them trouble, this part just happens to be yours.

I will admit some of these challenges were harder than they needed to be I managed to get by this one on my 3rd try. Between Vile Wind (the spin around in a circle move) and Holy Cross I was able to keep the hit counter going.

It seems to me that just mash X when the little guys are around and mash Y against the big dude.

I did it on the hard setting in 1 shot. The easiest way that I found is just diving around the arena using cross attacks.

this makes me never want to play this game... and maybe not god of war 3 either, lol..

I enjoyed this game, except for this part.  I don't know why otherwise fun and solid games (IMO) throw challenge levels like this in out of nowhere.  Darksiders being another recent one.

The moment the developers started talking about repetitive arenas with different qualifications for passing each arena, I decided I was not going to get this game.  Why do developers have to do this bullshit?  It takes you out of the immersiveness and just annoys most people.

i hate being 'that guy' but seriously this game is not difficult. like at all. 
 
these challenges were definitely a sticking point for me, but not nearly to this degree.

" Ryan. You did miss a key part of the game. You are trying to go about it just using two attacks. Regular attack and the holy cross...the holy cross is just to string along the combo. You have a mana bar which was explained way earlier in the game, and you have magic powers to use by pressing L2 (or L1 maybe?) also you have a "Go crazy"-mode by hitting L1 and R1 which is blinking at you all through the video :) "

that's is just horrible game design

There are SO many things you can do that make this challenge a breeze, like literally no luck (nor skill) involved.  
 
First and foremost, make sure you obtain the relic that adds window for your bonus time, when maxed out, it gives an ADDITIONAL 3 seconds to the regular window time. 
 
Second thing I'd say is to have cross at level 3. It's on the holy tree on the very left of it, you looked at it for a split second and didn't seem to notice that you didn't have it, and I'm sure you had points for level 2 at least, that would've helped tons.  
 
In general the holy tree has a lot of AOE and lots of control moves that knock even the larger enemies down and you can spam the combo that's done by holding block and spamming B (I think) that pulls everyone in towards you, knocks them into the air then slams them down.  
 
If you don't go that deep into holy, you can just throw the relic that disallows interruption while spamming Holy/Cross attacks, and the extra combo time, and literally walk around the edges throwing crosses into the centre, no need to block, or roll or anything like that. With level 3 cross, the final "throw" has a HUGE knockback and damage. 
 
Last but not least, I believe Jeff asked if the attacks were interchangeable. It took me a while to realise the combat system, but eventually I did. What you can do is something like, three cross attacks then hit Y and do the final heavy attack that breaks guards. Pretty sure it works to do three cross attacks then hit X for the three sixty knockback with scythe too, and this works vice versa; three scythe attacks, hit cross and it does the final "multi-cross" attack. 
 
If only you knew this beforehand. :(

I this is all you need for the review. This game blows!!!!!!!!!

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