Ryan's Inferno

This video kind of sums of the entire game. It is a good game, but there are certain parts where you get stuck at, or you die from the most retarted things. Also there are terrible checkpoints. You will literally finish fighting a group of tough enemies and then accidently jump into a pit of lava, then have to redo the entire event. 
 
I just got done playing, and i had to redo a part 5 times, might i add there were no enemies, because i climed a wall, had to go to a secret part on the right to obtain 2 itemes, and them when i go the path im suppose to  i have to jump across a gap and grab onto a tightwire of flesh, well everytime i jumped the gap i missed the tight wire somehow. 
 
It is not that hard, it is just frustrating. Also they love to throw random puzzles at you without explaining their purpose or what you have to do. In god of war  it makes sense why you have to complete a puzzle and they usually give you a subtle clue on how to complete it, in this game they just say fuck it and throw it at you. Fun game, but there were just alot of bad design choices.

The only thing I could think of after every attempt...
 
 

GAAAAH! Please, get it right this time, Ryan!

This looks like a ham and butter ass disaster.

This game looks really crappy.

Not a game for me... way too frustrating. That's for showing me that!

" 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. "

challenges like that in the game should be in the way of progressing through the game. Just my opinion anyway.

I THOUGHT i wasn't interested in this game...now  I KNOW it.  Thank you for this revealing insight into Dante's pooptown.

The worst thing about this video is seeing Ryan almost win and then see there is another 15 minutes left in the video.

I love the sheer number of exclamation points after "Challenge Fail."

Good think Brad wasn't playing this game.

WOW. It was bad enough that the last stretch of that game was advertised as kind of an "...umm... we dunno. Let's re-hash all the last bits... like... like Mega Man! Yeah!!" kind of thing, but that business...
 
That doesn't look like fun at all...

 Crazy thing I've noticed--  you have one minute to complete the challenge, yet, the timer starts before you've made the first strike.  What if you just ran around, burned some time off the clock, then go into the combo?  I don't know if the game would pick up on that or not, but it's just an idea.

0:01 ouch!

Alright, I'm never playing this game, ever.

Wanna talk about games that shouldn't exist, this to me seems like the best example.
 
The source material wasn't necessary at all to do this game and on top of that a pound for pound rip-off of God of War.  Anyone else share my incredible amount of disinterest in this game?

Mainly, you weren't using your magic. The ice rush magic is the winner here. Soon as you get hit, jump through that. It gets you combo hits and gets you out of trouble.
 
Also, the artificat that increases the length of time for combos is helpful.
 
Not to rub your face in it, but I beat that one on my first try with magic/artifact. Playing Holy only, as well.

done 1st try : just use the holy cross. simple as that .
or you can use the relics that increase time between hits so you can continue your combo a lot easier

Congrats Ryan! I didn't think you were gunna pull it off.

Whoever designed that is just dumb.

Ryan, you suck.  Also, it doesn't start the combo until you actually hit someone so just run around and group them up, then cross the shit out of em. Done.

This game gets a lot more hate then it deserves. It seems to be in vogue for gamers to hate on this because of the God of War games, which this games kicks the shit out of. 
Also, listening to that bitch say "youre a sad, poor, shell of a man." over and over again definitely doesn't help the ol self esteem.

Man this game wasn't hard at all.  Condolences on your gaming skills.

This is easily the best site on the internet.

Dude...did you not know about the relics? lol...there is a relic that allows you to extend combos....so you can have up to a 3 second gap between hits....then put that with the relic that lets you absorb some damage and you can EASILY beat this under a minute....I did......

"No, No, No -- FUCK!"
 
Poor Ryan, what difficulty was he on?

Not having played this game and knowing nothing about any of the systems put in place. . .I can definitely feel Ryan's pain.
 
This has to be one of the best videos on the website. There were moments were I literally as on the edge of my seat cheering Ryan on, then mutter a muted "F***" when the combos would fail.
 
This felt as if I were watching a friend play a game.

This is just sad.  He's not even using any spells and Lust Storm is practically tailor made for wracking up giant combos since it does a ton of little hits constantly.

Ryan, my respect for you just went up several notches.

Ugh. Game design 101: Don't require players to jump through arbitrary hoops to progress through the fucking game. No section of any game ever became better through the addition of a timer (Okay, maybe the escape sequences in Metroid) or an arbitrary moveset restriction.
 
You wanna put that shit into a challenge mode? Fine, good, great. Just don't require it to beat the game, kthxbai.

This is painful to watch 
 
like watching someone repeatedly bash thier head agaist a rock    

[silence].... you should try and not get hit

This is just painful to watch

Just spam the crosses, wasn't that hard at all.....
 
I did all the rooms first time without a hitch, really confusing how hard this is for you ryan???
 
edit: after watching i see you punished almost everyone, you really should balance it out and get those crosses more powerful, just jumping and repeatedly hammering out crosses will get you very far in this game IF they are powerful enough.
 
and JUMP man!

There should be a Sisyphus achievement for failing at a challenge so many times.

i like everyone here posting GAME DESIGN 101 rules.   
GAME REVIEWING 101:  BE DECENTLY SKILLED AT GAMES

"Nah check this out son!"

Did anyone else let out a"F*** YES" yell at the 33:44 mark when "success" popped up on the screen?
 
Ryan, mad props for sticking it out. I know as an avid gamer, this is no more shame than having to hand a controller over to your friend to beat it for you. . .and I'm glad you didn't have to do that.

That was insane. Way to go Ryan, I'd have thrown the controller across the room days ago.

So I'm noticing three things while I'm watching this:
 
1) The knockback animation is long and can be chained into more knockback animations
2)  The dodge/dash/roll thing that most third person brawlers use to help the player chain combos together is long, sudden, and has a pause at the end of it.
3) There are way too many exclamation points in that "CHALLENGE FAILED!!!!!!!!!!!" message.
 
These three things seem like fatal flaws in completing this challenge.

This seems like it would've been easy had he kept using the crosses or spells or something but it's still terrible design. This definitely shouldn't be in the game, not because it's hard, but because it's stupid.

This is what makes GiantBomb better than every other videogame site. 
I enjoyed watching this video so much. I went through a vast array of emotions. confusion, anger, sympathy, regret... and in the end.. We all got to share in your triumph.. 
 
Nicely done gents
Thanks for this video.. it was extremely entertaining.

I'm going to play Dante's Inferno now for sure.  What's wrong with me?

no no no no FUCK