Ryan's Inferno

I haven't played the game (or finished the video) but wouldn't using the magic help?

Man you really do stink at this game! At least you know :)....also congrats on finally getting there!

1. Jump + BBB
2. Jump + BBB
3. ????
4. Profit

excellent video. this is why I fucking love GIant Bomb. I have always wondered how a reviewer must feel if they can't get past a frustrating part of a game. Now I know.

Woe!!!!! 622 comments; is that a record for la bombe géante

Damn man...

sticking challenge rooms into the main campaign is one of the dumbest ideas I've ever seen.

Even after this, I still want to play it. 
 
I'm weak. However, not until it drops in price significantly - 10 bucks would be necessary for me to get it.

Challenge Fail!!!!!
This video was all that I needed to see to remove Dante's from my Gamefly queue. 

I beat this on the first try. Not to say I'm some master gamer, but just use the combo extended relic and spam the cross, its easy as hell. 

I noticed Ryan wasnt doing any of the counters considering that he actually went the unholy route. He was just spamming the same combo over and over.

I feel your frustration reminds me alot of the challenges from god of war

The "sad, false shell of a man" line took on new meaning with each retry. Ugh, so frustrating.

I actually got the opportunity to test this game before it came out. This was such a bullshit part, it was actually worse when I was playing it. If you got any damage taken, the challenge would be over. We actually went overtime in the testing because of this shit. This game is awesome, but this part was SO FUCKING FRUSTRATING. Ryan you had time, but we had minutes to finish this part.   

" @Rox360 said:

" @Geno said:

" It sucks that they made this part mandatory, but I pretty much know for a fact that none of the GB crew is especially good at games either. Not even like average good, they kind of suck at them. Wasn't Ryan the same person that said Mirror's Edge was trial and error? "

Huh? Mirror's Edge is trial and error. Don't get me wrong, I love the game. I declared it my personal Game of the Year '08. But the first time through the game was just awful! You don't have any memories of trying to jump between drain pipes and falling right through them, over and over and over, until you find the exact angle the game wants you to be facing? Or entering a battle, dying within ten seconds, running the other way, dying within 15  seconds, trying to run past, dying, trying to take cover, dying, trying to go melee, dying, trying to take a weapon, dying again? That's pretty much my entire first playthrough of Mirror's Edge. Failing, failing, failing.  Er, anyway, what was my point...? Oh yeah. You're a sad, false shell of a man! "

For myself and several people that I know, Mirror's Edge was only like that on the first couple of levels. After getting a hang of the controls there is rarely a break in the action. Even when you do die, it's fairly clear what you did wrong. You jumped off that ledge a half second too early and guess what, you fell, because in real life if you're even an inch off then you're off all the way. It made the game much more immersive. Most of the problems he mentioned I never ran into in the game (like rebound jumping - that shit is easy). 
 
He said in this video it took him two weeks to get past this part. There are much harder parts even in the original God of War. It's pretty clear he has some playing issues, with action games anyway. "

#iquotemyselfalot

 All of you who wanted to know what a game tester is doing all day long, 10, 14, 16 hours 6-7 days a week - thats exactly it. 
 
Still want to join the 'video game industry' ?  
 
Great video.    

Way to go Ryan!

oh man 2 weeks? really? well the only thing worse than having to do this a crapload of times is doing it a crapload of times and giving up.

" Darksiders did this, and it was a bit weird from a story perspective, but in terms of teaching the game mechanics it worked really well. I got good at some of the moves I would have ignored otherwise, because of the cheapo challenge rooms near the beginning.  I guess the real trick would be to make it more story driven. "

" @Geno said:

" It sucks that they made this part mandatory, but I pretty much know for a fact that none of the GB crew is especially good at games either. Not even like average good, they kind of suck at them. Wasn't Ryan the same person that said Mirror's Edge was trial and error? "

Huh? Mirror's Edge is trial and error. Don't get me wrong, I love the game. I declared it my personal Game of the Year '08. But the first time through the game was just awful! You don't have any memories of trying to jump between drain pipes and falling right through them, over and over and over, until you find the exact angle the game wants you to be facing? Or entering a battle, dying within ten seconds, running the other way, dying within 15  seconds, trying to run past, dying, trying to take cover, dying, trying to go melee, dying, trying to take a weapon, dying again? That's pretty much my entire first playthrough of Mirror's Edge. Failing, failing, failing.  Er, anyway, what was my point...? Oh yeah. You're a sad, false shell of a man! "

" It sucks that they made this part mandatory, but I pretty much know for a fact that none of the GB crew is especially good at games either. Not even like average good, they kind of suck at them. Wasn't Ryan the same person that said Mirror's Edge was trial and error? "

" Guess I'm not watching anymore GiantBomb vids, I'm not turning off my pop-up blocker. "

The music starts to wear on you, to say the least. 

This was the main complaint other reviews had for the game. The game starts off strong, but gets really generic in the middle and really hard in the final parts of the game. 
 
I was wondering where the review was myself, now I understand.
 
2 out of 5 stars I imagine.
 
Edit: Wow! people talk about how hard Devil May Cry 3 was, but even that game didn't have a part like this before fighting the final boss.

Lol, I hope this doesn't put anyone off from playing the game. For a GOW clone, it really is fun. I went the Holy route first and this Malebolge really wasn't that much of a problem if you just use Righteous Path here and there when enemies get too far away from you.

Thank you for this video, it has pretty much swayed me to not play this game. I've been on the fence for awhile, but this is a level of frustration that I can easily see myself falling into. Thank, Giant Bomb! You da best!

It sucks that they made this part mandatory, but I pretty much know for a fact that none of the GB crew is especially good at games either. Not even like average good, they kind of suck at them. Wasn't Ryan the same person that said Mirror's Edge was trial and error?

Man, if Ryan had put some stuff into the holy tree he probably wouldn't have had that much trouble. I think the last boss is going to drive him slightly batshit.

Man, I feel sort of bad. I stormed this on my fist try. In fact, I think I even got the bonus... 
 
Maxing out the holy path makes the game pathetically easy. Infinite, uninterruptable  AOE cross blasts? Dead enemies bleeding health and mana?  A maxed out heal spell that will get you from 10% health to 100%? 
 
Being good, it seems, has its rewards...

Guess I'm not watching anymore GiantBomb vids, I'm not turning off my pop-up blocker.

ohh man that was pretty intense, i was like "OMG NOOOO" everytime it failed.

Can I get a collective: "yaaawn..."

Props Ryan.  90% of reviewers would have just yelled "F THIS", watched the final boss on youtubes and written the review anyway.

Is this for real? I'm sorry, but it was my friend's first time playing the game (we were at friends house who had the game, his first time ever touching game) and he beat it on his first try.
 
I remember what we told him to do is to just use crosses (my friend leveled that up to where it fires a lot of them) and when the babies spawn just hit them, because they can interrupt your cross ability. I had beaten every challenge up to that point without dying, and I failed twice on this one so I passed the controller to my friend.

" Sections like this are truly terrible to include in a game. It's so lazy. And yet they're all over Darksiders too and nobody really compained in that one. Perhaps because they were spread throughout rather than just dumped into the last 3rd of the game as in DI. "

Fuck yeah, Ryan! 4am though, I would have murdered somebody.

DAVIS! DAVIS! DAVIS!

Game over man... Game over...

Why would they make this mandatory? Any interest I had in this game died with this video.