Death of the Reprobate

Absolutely high-larious content! (as should in Immortal John's trilogy) I played the first two games, so I said "Why not complete the set?" and finished this one as well. Absolutely adore the consistent renaissance art and the silly animations, and even the 4th wall breaks done so in-character, it gave me a few chuckles. I love the meta internet humor and the 21st century speak of these characters that starkly contrast their era. Definitely a fun playthrough for anybody seeking a silly casual game.

fun little game

Have you ever wanted to play a Monty Python game? Well, this is as close as you might get. Ever since Pentiment was released, there appear to be many games set in the Renaissance era. Death of the Reprobate takes political satire of the time and turns it into a slapstick goof fest of violence, sex, and issues from the era. The entire game is made up of "clip art" of early oil paintings from this era. The game's title is from a painting of the same name and is also its plot. We follow a sinner who is the son of a dying royal king and desires to become the heir to the kingdom. His father says he must do 7 great deeds and report back before his death. Just like classic point-and-click adventures, you need to click around and talk to people and look at things. The satire just oozes from every corner of the game all the way to button commands. Your character will do a backflip with the right mouse button. It's a dedicated backflip button. The animations are what sell the humor. While the writing is tight and clever, the goofy cutouts from many historical paintings are superimposed onto backdrops and into silly positions. For example, when you find a shrine to pray at, the camera will pan upwards to something really goofy like two men looking at "porn" at the top of an art gallery and make silly comments about it. The game's visuals are so nice that words fail to capture its goofiness. Every scene you walk into has a musical score playing, usually a classical piece, but there's something off-kilter about it. It's slightly out of tune or key but still sounds fantastic. It keeps things from being too quiet and adds joy to the game. This is an adventure game that doesn't really have puzzles, but there is a lot of backtracking. You need to find 10 birds for one quest to help a hunter spot them. Then there's a surprise twist at the end of the quest, and it's usually left field. There's always something completely nonsensical going on, and the resolution of these quests usually ends up bad or poor to completely insane. This is one of those games that you want to completely explore. Click on everything, try every action, and see what happens. It's just a basket full of treats with silly animations, reactions, and lines of dialogue that will make you chuckle or raise your eyebrows. Each quest involves fetching an item, and obtaining that item unlocks another quest. For instance, you must retrieve the blankets lost in a bet to calm a group of crying babies. In the tavern some con men are playing a rigged game of dice. You need to find a way to win the game, but the solution is simply to call out its nonsensical nature, and the con men will agree. It's pretty funny and goes against the tropes of complicated games in adventure titles that most people would rather not learn. You then need to feed another crying baby, and the task requires crushing up some fruit. To achieve this, you make a cow eat the fruit, which then produces mush in a bucket that you feed to the baby. It's super wild and hilarious, and every single outcome is not what's normally expected. My only frustration occurred at the end of the game. The game features a slow-motion chase sequence that lacks quality. I had to restart this half a dozen times because I didn't know where to go on the last screen, and it caused me to get caught. The game is also incredibly short, running at maybe three hours. While it's short, it's very dense and packed full of great art (or manipulated art) and tons of things to look at and see. I didn't want it to end, but sadly everything comes to an end at some point.

Not quite as good as the previous two games in the series, but Death of the Reprobate makes up for it with a hell of an ending

Whoever designed this game is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ GENIUS

Buenísimo XD Aunque un poco corto...

Si te gustaron los anteriores este va un paso mas en su locura.

molto bello , divertente ed artistico

Just as good as the others, no better or worse. I'm glad Joe seems to be interested in doing something different though, as I don't think I could do another one of these tbh.

Deliciously stupid. And thank you for that pristine French localization!