It's Video Game Week on the News. FWIW, there's also a review scheduled for the much-more recently released Dead Space Aftermath, but keeping with the theme meant we used a lot of older titles that we just never got around to reviewing at the time.
One spoiler-y thing that also really irked me about this DTV was that I got the vague sense that they were aiming to put Dante through one of those "redemptive power of suffering" kind of deals. It seemed like they were trying to make him go through a transformative experience so that he ends up redeeming his past acts as a completely colossal rotten bastard (which would also make it more OK for him to be a completely rotten bastard). The problem is that they fail miserably at pushing him through any kind of transformational experience, since he's really the same (cardboard-cutout) character at the beginning of the movie as at the end. The only reason why he even seems to admit that he did some pretty awful things is because Beatrice has become the bride of Lucifer and is kicking the crap out of him with her new Satanic powers (and I haven't read the original since high school, but I'm pretty sure nothing like that happens there). It's not too convincing, and in the end, he just says, "I'm sorry" and she says, "Oh, that's OK," and then they all wander off happily ever hereafter (with the obligatory coda to set up a sequel). I can get behind the idea of forgiveness for your sins, but I also get behind the idea of needing to earn that forgiveness and the idea of requiring genuine contrition for them. Dante does neither and he's forgiven anyway. Pretty unsatisfying.
