8/1/2023 0 Comments Devil daggers loreThese projectiles – which are supposedly daggers, though the visual doesn’t quite communicate this - come in two variations: a shotgun-style burst or an endless stream. The fingertips inexplicably glow a baleful orange and can rapidly launch projectiles towards enemies. “Devil Daggers” pits players against waves of hellish skeletal creatures in a small, square arena. The “Diablo” series (1996 – 2014) has famously charged players with descending into Hell to kill the titular Diablo (read: Satan) and the “Doom” series (1993 – present) puts the player in control of a demon-slaying space marine in a testosterone-soaked embodiment of 90s metal.Ģ016’s “Devil Daggers,” an independently developed title recently released on Steam, draws on this infernal legacy, channeling the influence of 90s shooters like “Doom” (1993) and “Quake” (1996) into an astonishingly well-realized first-person arena shooter. Other games have borrowed less extensively (and far more successfully) from Dante. In 2010, EA Redwood Shores regrettably attempted a ham-fisted “adaptation” of “Inferno,” the first third of Dante’s Divine Comedy, that cast Dante as a scythe-wielding crusader hewing his way through Hell’s denizens to save his (inexplicably scantily-clad) lover Beatrice. And just as visual art and literature have borrowed from Dante’s vision of damnation, so too have video games. Ever since Dante Alighieri found himself lost in a dark wood, the image of Hell as a blasted subterranean realm dedicated to the eternal torment of sinners has proven to be a mainstay of Western art.
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