Apparently, Visceral Games is a tad tired of the new found Dante’s Inferno fans jumping on the bandwagon of hate for the developers upcoming title. Not only has the company received complaints that its title isn’t a true rendition of The Divine Comedy itself, but some critics feel that Visceral is leaving integral parts of poem out entirely. According to Visceral, however, true Dante Inferno fans are “over the moon” about the title and couldn’t be more excited to get their hands on the game.

Speaking with VideoGamer.com, executive producer, Jonathan Knight discussed Dante’s Inferno and hit back at the game’s critics.

“I think they are. Generally those critics are often people who weren’t fans of the poem and weren’t that familiar with it until they heard we were doing this. What we’re finding is, a few people anyway, quite clearly didn’t know it well, and now have gone off and read it and they’re looking for ways to go, oh you’re taking liberties here, or you didn’t do this, or whatever.

“But the reality is that true Dante fans, people who actually have spent time with the literature and care about it are over the moon with the game project.”

Furthermore, Knight says that people are taking the poem itself a bit too literal. He insists that The Divine Comedy is nothing more than fantasy.

“But the one thing it definitely is, is fantasy. That’s without question. If people throughout the centuries came to believe in Dante’s vision of hell, it’s equivalent to people believing in Middle Earth. I’m not saying you shouldn’t believe in heaven or hell. It’s just that his particular vision of it quite clearly is a crazy fantasy. That’s what we focus on for the game.”

Of course, Knight had more to say than just the above, but these two excerpts seemed to get the point across the quickest. Do you guys think that Visceral Games isn’t doing Dante’s Inferno true justice?

Feel free to check out Dante’s Inferno’s trailer here and to read the whole “interview-like” interview, click the source below.

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