The Procession to Calvary is a Point-and-Click adventure game by Joe Richardson, it is a Spiritual Successor to Four Last Things. 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 Sociopathic Soldier on a quest to assassinate a political leader.
Tropes:
- Adventure Game: Gameplay consists of old school point and click adventuring.
- And Your Reward Is Clothes: A tailor couple will give you a dress if you help them out, subverted because the dress is necessary for one of the plotlines.
- Anachronism Stew: 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.
- Chain of Deals: Two of the three possible endings require you essentially doing one favor after another, trading your way to your next goal.
- Crapsack World: The setting is filled with war, torture, and all manner of exploitation and nobody seems to have any issue with it.
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Designated Hero: The player character is violent and utterly amoral, the whole reason she goes on her quest is an excuse to murder more people. - Depraved Dwarf: The Metrognome is a dwarf musician whose music tell torturers how fast to turn a torture device.
- Elegant Classical Musician: Most of the musicians are very well dressed.
- Even Evil Has Standards: The player character may be a bloodthirsty war criminal, but there are several NPCs she will refuse to kill for various reasons.
- Genre Throwback: To the aforementioned Adventure Game genre.
- Hollywood Satanism: A Satanic altar with a sacrifice on it appears in one area.
- Hero of Another Story: 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.
- Lady of War: The player character is a blackly comical deconstruction.
- No Historical Figures Were Harmed: The Magician looks exactly like Jesus and several of his magic tricks allude to Jesus' miracles.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The Magician's tricks are rather ambiguous
- Our Demons Are Different: They have animal heads, similar to many demons found in Western demonology.
- Pedophile Priest: Two Cardinals request "a boy with rosey cheeks and a pert butt" as a bribe.
- Samus Is a Girl: Subverted, the player's sex is stated early on but two of the three endings reveal her breasts.
- Serial Killer: One possible playthrough involves murdering quest giver NPCs instead of doing tasks for them.
- Smelly Skunk: It is possible to befriend one and use it to clear out a room of people.
- Talent Contest: The player must enter one to win a quest item, her talent is singing
- Token Minority: A black guard posted at an infirmary is the only nonwhite character to appear.
- Torture Technician: A pair of these can be found turning a victim on a spit over an open fire.
- The Warlord: Immortal John, and his rival Heavenly Peter.
- World of Chaos: The crapsack elements paired with the mishmash of incompatible art styles lead to a world that makes no real sense.
- World Gone Mad: Its implied that the world has become this from the recent war.
