I love me some Terry Gilliam, seriously, Yes, crude, and irreverent humor among the eclectic arts of the old. Especially when I get to play as a callous monarch, who is forced by god's will to help people as much as possible. Disregarding how ridiculous things will get.
Very cheeky, absurd set of characters, nonsensical world of figures moving in a painting, and dear god, these people love each other's butts so much. Blasphemous, yet become self-aware of itself, Death of the Reprobate is an educational trip to the madness of the renaissance era. Unless you're a pronatalist, which this game responds to saying, "suck it baby boomers 2.0".
A simple, yet confusing short trek of assisting people of their plights, even if the devil gets involved outside of god. The gameplay is just a point and click adventure, there's no handholding unless you count a Persian with clairvoyance to tell me exactly what to do.
A spoiled child of a prior monarch who has retired due to ailments has taken over as king. Cruelly judging and sentencing his subjects for terrible things like not paying taxes despite not finding a job, pooping on the streets and having the guard step on them, and oh god, sheep bothering.
Ugh! You know what, I'll go carte blanche on the last one, was even given the option of injecting beef fat into his pituitary gland. But while punishing people seems fun, his obligation to his lineage, his father, calls for him to travel to his village, where what seems to be inspired by this painting is depicted. Where father and son get along, comparing their own atrocities.
But divinity has other plans for him, despite him being a lousy ruler, he has a chance to redeem himself before his father and the lord himself. He must help a couple of strangers in their rather, very peculiar and sordid ordeals. Requiring "unorthodox" solutions as well.
Yeah, do note the quotation marks there. Because holy mackerel, it goes further to the loony bin, the majority of these lots are miserable, uncouth savages with very little rizz game. If it was upto me, I'd slap their sense daily, and then pull a backwards somersault much as I want. Actually, doing both are possible, but dire more important tasks to be done at that moment.
To first start with, is this scenario where a bunch of grifters throwing rocks, and a fisherman with an obvious indication sign from the holiest one on the right. Simple, he needs to capture fish and make his family proud of him. Why? He buys fish and lies about catching them, so the simplest way to remedy this is to visit that meditating sage I mentioned earlier. He has a worm on the drawer. Next stop was an art house full of monkeys. They were also drawing the aristocrat on the left.
Confused? No worries, it gets better. See, all the art in there are based on the characters here, whom are based on real life paintings. What I simply told them to do was change the bag of rocks to pigeons. Now they throw pigeons, the waters are cleared for fish to be around.
Simply with the bait I acquired, I helped the fisherman find success in life, despite not changing his children's relations strongly enough. But hey, he gave me the keys to the cabin over there. Where I found a herd of sheep, a lion sleeping, and ah, oh god, two guys seemingly interconnected through a bear hug? Yeah, no, I ain't transcribing this part. The absolute sacrilege in display.
I did say it gets better, and it keeps getting better. I have seen weird impromptus happen, where a bunch of guys snickering from the ceiling of an art house, roof window yammering about foods and scraps, before confessing to us players that they're really there for the nudes in paints.
Much weirder, out of the blue, some people started endorsing someone's butt, including the guy whose butt is on the portrait. Look humor is subjective, but this is going balls to the walls everytime I go somewhere, I can't make heads or tails, or is doing that counter-intuitive in this bizarre experimentation of one's wacked out mind.
Unfortunately, this isn't much a 'choose your adventure' type game. It's very linear, requires me to interact and find out to progress the plot. Like, it's dumb fun for those who has mushroom clouded brains and poke fun of all the contemporary arts of the past 600 years. If you're into it, you're going to have a perfect time. Just, ah, expect the absolute crudest.
It's also short, like really short. If you followed the sage exactly as he instructed, and got over it, it is over much quicker. You have choices over how you get what you need and proceed to the next person. Kind of like a fun social experiment of sorts.
