A few days ago, Xbox added a lot of new games to the Xbox Game Pass subscription service. Whenever this happens, I will check out what I like. One of the games that caught my attention was Joe Richardson’s point-and-click adventure game, which is a silly and hilarious work full of surreal humor and gimmicks. This game is called “The Procession to Calvary”, which is the spiritual sequel to the 2017 “Four Last Things”. I spent an evening exploring the content it provides, and according to my experience, this can definitely make you happier and spend a few hours Good things for hours.
The storyline lets you play as a knight. With the end of the holy way, the church of the old god is in ruins, and she kills all quarters. However, since this land is now under the rule of the immortal John (he is not truly immortal), our protagonist is restricted and told not to kill anymore, which makes her very frustrated. However, after learning that the tyrant Peter had survived the war and fled to the south, our fearless warrior reached an agreement with John to find Peter and carry out the final fatal blow, which in turn would end the Holy City War. An event.
With this goal, the protagonist embarks on a journey, she must first travel to the south, and then find and kill Peter, while not performing any other fatal blows, in order to fulfill her promise to Immortal John. However, as the land is recovering from a jihad, traveling is not the easiest thing. It is more difficult to communicate with stubborn and unusual people to reach the final destination: where Peter is hiding. This is a point-and-click adventure with the theme of solving puzzles. It usually requires you to interact with the environment and mess up the environment to find items and equipment that can keep you going.
This design style is largely great, and the solutions are simple and relatively straightforward, even if they do require you to break the framework and think outside the normal range many times. However, considering this, one of my experiences in the game is worth mentioning, when I decided to break the oath and kill a character in order to dodge a mystery. However, when you kill a person, the impact is usually not immediate. In fact, many times, you will find that you have no choice but to carry out the desire to kill. In fact, it will force you to fall into a pit that you cannot escape. This is the main reason. The character suggests that you should save first, and then try to convince you not to do any more killings.
As for the actual plot and narrative, this is delivered in a really funny and funny way. Whether through dialogue, character interaction, or even in level setting (the design here looks like a Renaissance painting), “The Procession to Calvary” is a truly interesting game. Moreover, when you just enter the settings menu and mark the option “Trigger the monk to beep when exiting this menu”, this really sets the standard for what kind of humor you can expect, which is exactly the style it advertises. It’s really fun.
Then, it is worth paying attention to the visual effects of the game again, because the animation and interactive drawing design are excellent, and they are good at enhancing the humor and comedy around the game.
It is also worth mentioning that “The Procession to Calvary” is a particularly short game. Assuming you are not trapped in the puzzle, you can walk through the entire storyline in about two hours. I want to watch a longer version of Joe Richardson’s game to see if the developers can really enrich the more in-depth campaign content, maybe their next project “Death of the Reprobate” (currently no release date) can do this.
In any case, “The Procession to Calvary” can definitely show that Richardson has a certain understanding of medieval comedy. This game is silly and fun, and is the perfect way to spend an evening, especially if you like this type of humor. If not, I strongly recommend you to experience this work on Xbox Game Pass, smile, because this is really a golden comedy.
