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Dante’s Inferno – Anime Trailer

Well ladies and gents here we go again. I think that the marketing geniuses who came up with the Animatrix have an awful lot to answer for these days. No longer are we content to just play a game or watch a series of movies, but now we have to give the Japanese animated film industry a financial boost as well. Every. Goddamn. Time.

Dante’s Inferno is a game coming out for the X-Box 360, PS3 PSP and PC’s. Its based ever so loosely on the 13th Century Poem By Dante Alighieri and details the journey of a knight descending through the 8 circles of hell (or is it 9?  hmmm) to find the soul of his dead lover.  In actual game terms this probably means killing a lot of demons with your ridiculously long scythe jumping on a lot of platforms and beating up some big boss characters before descending to the next level… i mean circle…. ahem. sorry.

As we are now living in the post Animatrix and Gotham Knight era, we can’t let a story be confined to just one medium! Following hot on the heels of Halo Legends we’re telling aspects of the games back-story as a collection of six animated shorts by acclaimed japanese creators.

Again.

I know i’m being deliberately snide about this project but i can’t help but feel that we’ve been down this road before. What was once a brilliant and original marketing move, which added depth and introduced main story elements to an already amazing franchise, has now been turned into a bog standard part of a corporate marketing plan. Dead Space had its animated tie in movie, but it was at least a single story! The Anime anthology should mean more to a story than just being a nice pack-in with the collectors edition of the game!

All that having been said, this actually looks quite impressive and pretty.

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What do you think?  Have i become jaded, bitter and cynical in my old age? Or is this trend rapidly becoming the next version of the dreaded “video game tie-in” which are de-riguer for most major film releases these days? Will we soon be seeing Iron Man 2 the Anime anthology or Sherlock Holmes: a collection of short animated stories? feedback and lt us know!

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David Quinn is a writer, artist, film-maker, performer and general all-round-nice-guy who lives and works out of Launceston, Tasmania. He's lived in Tasmania all of his life but is lucky enough to have been to the UK, France, and South Africa in his younger days. He has written short films, co-authored video games, advised on feature scripts and television shows as well as advertising campaigns. He is also a regular performer on both stage and screen. One day he will make his fortune out of all this malarkey. ONE DAY......

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