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Re: ODST - Rookie's Inferno? *spoilers*
Posted By: HorseMachine <rob.solsticefilms@googlemail.com>Date: 9/26/09 4:38 a.m.

In Response To: ODST - Rookie's Inferno? *spoilers* (Black Asgard)


: Hello Halo Community. It's been a long time since I posted here. I never seem
: to have anything new to add. I'm pretty sure this hasn't been covered yet,
: though, and while I don't claim to have definitive proof of anything, I
: come with food for thought.

: While playing the newly released Halo 3: ODST, I paid close attention to the
: story and design with the scrutiny of a writer. What I believe I've
: discovered is that ODST pays abundant homage to the first book of the
: Divine Comedy, Dante Aligeri's 'Inferno'.

: Listen: The Inferno, as I recall it (having read it about 2 years ago after
: enjoying 'La Vida Nuova'), begins with Dante wandering lost and alone, in
: a 'dark wood'. It is night when you awaken in New Mombasa. The city towers
: above you not like a frightening wood.

: The first helpful hand you encounter is that of Vergil, who guides you to
: supposed safety--Vergil, the Superintendent of New Mombasa, who shares the
: name of the Roman poet who wrote the Aeneid (about the Hero who survived
: the Trojan massacre (perhaps an allusion to Buck and Reach?)). Vergil
: guides the Rookie, like Dante, through 9 levels; the 9 circles of Hell.

: New Mombasa burns, like the common image of hell. It is dark, dangerous,
: horrifying. And Vergil guides you gently, offering help with cryptic
: statements (in game, it is composed of the Bumble-bee-esque conglomeration
: of audio bytes).

: Later, as you encounter the final lost squad mate, you descend to the 9th
: level of the city substructure where it is frozen; that is to say, not
: unlike Satan's frosty chamber. For what seems to be little to nor reason
: (as far as I could tell).

: Food for thought. ;)

: Black Asgard

A way that this theory could possibly be put to test... from what I remember in Inferno, didnt Dante start at a hill, see his exit, only to be met by a Lion and... a wolf or something (going off my memory from school so i'm not 100%) so he had to turn back and go through the depths of hell/woods to reach somewhere that was only a short distance away.

Now does anyone know if the entrance the Rookie uses for the Final Level is exceptionally close to where he crashed? As that could be another thematic link...

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ODST - Rookie's Inferno? *spoilers*Black Asgard 9/25/09 11:40 p.m.
     Good observation NT *NM*ZaneZavin 9/26/09 2:10 a.m.
     Re: ODST - Rookie's Inferno? *spoilers*nova 9/26/09 2:22 a.m.
           Re: ODST - Rookie's Inferno? *SPOILERS*Hedgemony 9/26/09 2:29 a.m.
                 Re: ODST - Rookie's Inferno? *SPOILERS*gunluva 9/26/09 2:44 p.m.
     Re: ODST - Rookie's Inferno? *spoilers*HorseMachine 9/26/09 4:38 a.m.
           Re: ODST - Rookie's Inferno? *spoilers*BlueNinja 9/26/09 4:49 a.m.
                 Re: ODST - Rookie's Inferno? *spoilers*Jillybean 9/26/09 7:58 a.m.
           Re: ODST - Rookie's Inferno? *spoilers*Daz 9/26/09 12:51 p.m.
                 Re: ODST - Rookie's Inferno? *spoilers*Bry 9/26/09 1:08 p.m.
                       Re: ODST - Rookie's Inferno? *spoilers*Daz 9/26/09 3:59 p.m.
                             Re: ODST - Rookie's Inferno? *spoilers*Corinthian 9/28/09 5:41 p.m.
           Re: ODST - Rookie's Inferno? *spoilers*Black Asgard 9/26/09 8:02 p.m.
                 Re: ODST - Rookie's Inferno? *spoilers*Black Asgard 9/26/09 8:24 p.m.
                       Re: ODST - Rookie's Inferno? *spoilers*Apollo Doom 9/28/09 12:40 p.m.
                             Re: ODST - Rookie's Inferno? *spoilers*Louis Wu 9/29/09 11:56 a.m.
     Re: ODST - Rookie's Inferno? *spoilers*EnderXenocide0 9/26/09 1:13 p.m.
           Re: ODST - Rookie's Inferno? *spoilers*Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) 9/26/09 1:24 p.m.
                 As Neo might say... Whoa. *NM*Louis Wu 9/26/09 1:47 p.m.
                       "Feet First Into Hell" indeed... *NM*Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) 9/26/09 1:59 p.m.
                             Oh, I like it! *NM*Jillybean 9/26/09 6:07 p.m.
                       Re: As Neo might say... Whoa.agdtinman 9/26/09 4:04 p.m.
                 Re: ODST - Rookie's Inferno? *spoilers*EnderXenocide0 9/26/09 2:26 p.m.
                       Re: ODST - Rookie's Inferno? *spoilers*Black Asgard 9/26/09 8:26 p.m.
                             Re: ODST - Rookie's Inferno? *spoilers*EnderXenocide0 9/26/09 10:49 p.m.
                                   Re: ODST - Rookie's Inferno? *spoilers*Black Asgard 9/26/09 10:57 p.m.
     Re: ODST - Rookie's Inferno? *spoilers*Seryan 9/27/09 6:39 p.m.
           Re: ODST - Rookie's Inferno? *spoilers*ZaneZavin 9/29/09 2:01 a.m.
     Re: ODST - Rookie's Inferno? *spoilers*sbear 9/28/09 1:13 a.m.



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