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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The player character may be a bloodthirsty war criminal, but there are several NPCs she will refuse to kill for various reasons.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The player character may be a bloodthirsty war criminal, but there are several NPCs [=NPCs=] she will refuse to kill for various reasons.



* SerialKiller: One possible playthrough involves murdering quest giver NPCs instead of doing tasks for them.

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* SerialKiller: One possible playthrough involves murdering quest giver NPCs [=NPCs=] instead of doing tasks for them.
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* ElegantClassicalMusician: Most of the musicians are very well dressed.


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* SerialKiller: One possible playthrough involves murdering quest giver NPCs instead of doing tasks for them.


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* TheWarlord: Immortal John, and his rival Heavenly Peter.

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* MagiciansAssistant: You can help the Magician on three different quests.

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* MagiciansAssistant: You can help the Magician on three different quests.MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The Magician's tricks are rather ambiguous



* WorldOfChaos: The crapsack elements paired with the mishmash of incompatible art styles lead to a world that makes no real sense.

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* WorldOfChaos: The crapsack elements paired with the mishmash of incompatible art styles lead to a world that makes no real sense.sense.
* WorldGoneMad: Its implied that the world has become this from the recent war.

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* AdventureGame: Gameplay consists of old school point and click adventuring.
* AndYourRewardIsClothes: A tailor couple will give you a dress if you help them out, subverted because the dress is necessary for one of the plotlines.



* ChainOfDeals: Two of the three possible endings require you essentially doing one favor after another, trading your way to your next goal.
* CrapsackWorld: The setting is filled with war, torture, and all manner of exploitation and nobody seems to have any issue with it.



* DepravedDwarf: The Metrognome is a dwarf musician whose music tell torturers how fast to turn a torture device.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The player character may be a bloodthirsty war criminal, but there are several NPCs she will refuse to kill for various reasons.
* GenreThrowback: To the aforementioned AdventureGame genre.



* PedophilePriest: Two Cardinals request

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* MagiciansAssistant: You can help the Magician on three different quests.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: They have animal heads, similar to many demons found in Western demonology.
* PedophilePriest: Two Cardinals request "a boy with rosey cheeks and a pert butt" as a bribe.



* SmellySkunk: It is possible to befriend one and use it to clear out a room of people.

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* SmellySkunk: It is possible to befriend one and use it to clear out a room of people.people.
* TalentContest: The player must enter one to win a quest item, her talent is singing
* TokenMinority: A black guard posted at an infirmary is the only nonwhite character to appear.
* TortureTechnician: A pair of these can be found turning a victim on a spit over an open fire.
* WorldOfChaos: The crapsack elements paired with the mishmash of incompatible art styles lead to a world that makes no real sense.
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''The Procession to Calvary'' is a PointAndClick adventure game by Creator/JoeRichardson, it is a SpiritualSuccessor to ''VideoGame/FourLastThings''. Like its predecessor it is made by made from Renaissance-era paintings and public domain recordings of classical music. The game was released in 2021. The player takes control of a SociopathicSoldier on a quest to assassinate a political leader.
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* AnachronismStew: The game's eclectic art is a hodgepodge of Medieval to Romantic era art, with the soundtrack consisting of songs as old as Greensleeves and as new as Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever.
* DesignatedHero: The player character is violent and utterly amoral, the whole reason she goes on her quest is an excuse to murder more people.
* HollywoodSatanism: A Satanic altar with a sacrifice on it appears in one area.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Immortal John was the protagonist of Four Last Thing appears as a self appointed dictator. He sets the plot in motion when he abolishes killing; this infuriates the player character so he compromises her and sends her on a mission to assassinate his rival, Heavenly Peter.
* LadyOfWar: The player character is a blackly comical deconstruction.
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: The Magician looks exactly like Jesus and several of his magic tricks allude to Jesus' miracles.
* PedophilePriest: Two Cardinals request
* SamusIsAGirl: Subverted, the player's sex is stated early on but two of the three endings reveal her breasts.
* SmellySkunk: It is possible to befriend one and use it to clear out a room of people.

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