Ryan's Inferno

@themaniacsgnome: Yeah, how timely for this to show up today.

Its kind of funny seeing the discourse around games hasn't really changed in 10+ years.

This is still one of my fav GB vids. Ryan was a legend.

Still miss Ryan in 2021

Pouring one out

This is ten years old today and just as good!!! <3 Ryan

RIP Ryan <>

9 years ago. ♥ Ryan

Hell is Repetition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XZ6FC7hXs0

670 ahem

Everything about this is terrible design. The gameplay itself looks solid enough, but putting a challenge like this gating the end of the game? Strict failstates? Constant mocking from the game? Nineteen exclamation points on the failure card?

This would have been okay as a challenge room or something, but not here like this.

@owack6: nice

668?

I still remember watching this years ago and deciding that I never want to play it ever.

616

I have never played this game.

666

Just completed this game and this part is a bit tricky but not too difficult. Overall though I enjoyed the game and I don't think it deserved some of the middling reviews it received.

Also 665.

I feel it is my moral duty to add to these numbers.

664

663.

This video game frustration is the worst. Repetitive fails arrgh

I've never seen this.

Huh. This has taken on a pretty morbid context.

660 comments? Will it get to the magical number? Just 5 more to go!

Wow, he really sucks at this game. I mean it's not even that hard.

You forget how to dodge or something, bro?

Breaking Brad would be proud of this

Wow, so many things wrong with this game just from this brief look at it. Mandatory challenges that make no sense in the context of a modern videogame story is just lazy to no end.

And as a graphic designer, putting all those exclamation marks on the "failed" part is obscenely tacky. You would only find that in some badly localized JRPG, it has no place here.

Plus, all the destruction of art and the advertising of this game really makes it something that no one should have ever bought. I couldn't believe some of the stories of what EA did to promote this garbage, they should have been sued to the ground.

I beat this on my first try a couple hours ago. It wasn't that hard, you just have to use your cross and dodge correctly. Ryan was too passive, he could of got more hits before he dodged. Also there is a relic, like everyone else has mentioned, that helps create a wider window.

I feel I should mention the relic. Has anyone else mentioned the relic? I bet I'm the first to mention the relic and ignore the issue of the player not knowing they might need a "relic" to progress hours later when making upgrade choices might be really bad game design.

I'm damn glad I watched this video when I was still about 1/4 of the way into Dante's Inferno. I switched over to Holy path and leveled up the relic that helps with the combo counter (which I wouldn't have cared about otherwise). Ended up finishing this on normal difficulty on the first try.

Decent game that I probably would have spent way too many extra hours trying to finish if not for being warned about this part. (The last boss is about 20 min after this part ) Thanks.

Jeff:  You should try not to get hit

I see he's being reading Gary Whitta's Guide To Video Games

I just finished Dante's Inferno and I was reminded of this video.  Luckily with the right relics and maxed out cross attacks this trial was a breeze for me.

Classic video. I'm trying to struggle through Tron Evolution and I remembered what a pain this game was for Ryan. I feel for him.

@Ryan: Thank you for posting this man. I was about to pick this game up on the cheap due to a sale however I came here to double check the reviews and opinions of it. While I'm kind of fine with it being a knock off I thought it would be a fun lil romp through Hell

well, this trial is actually pretty easy IF you equip the relic which pads the time for the combos. with a lvl3-relic you'll get 3(!) seconds more between each hit to make it count for the combo. :)

I like how many exclamation points there are after the challenge failed message.

RYAN SAID THE F WORD OMG! 
 
  and it was so awesome. 
 
p.s As a poetry fan, I hate how they just take such a wonderful work and screw it over. Ahh, rich people. Damn you with your culture ruining ways.

" hahaha, i'm sorry ryan. i did this in like 20 secs on my first try. crosses is where its at man. "

This is the same kind of shit I'm having with the later combat challenges in Arkham Asylum, and I completely agree with Jeff that there is no good single reason why they should exist. Predator challenges are fine though...

Reason enough to not buy the game. 

God, I'de have given up long ago.

Bless Ryan for keeping up with it! There's no way I could have made it past that point.

hahaha,
i'm sorry ryan.
i did this in like 20 secs on my first try.
crosses is where its at man.

this was not that hard. only had to retry this challenge twice. Ryan forgot to use the other magic in his arsenal to keep up the combo. he made it harder for himself.

This part right here is what makes me glad i stuck to the holy path for stronger cross attacks

Man, this is way easier on the Holy spec. :/

While I hated the mandatory challenges, and I agree that they are a big design flaw, that hit counter one was extremely easy on the normal difficulty. I completed that one on my first attempt. Staying in the air for 8 seconds took me about 9 attempts though.

wtf giantbomb  you forgo spoilers damn IT Thanks for spoiling it 
 
@deathshead1974     
LOL HAlo is for kids

if that happned to my my 360 would be thrown clean out the window within the first hour of trying