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Essays 22 June 2020, 02:32

author: Darius Matusiak

Beautiful, Unusual Games with Unique Graphics

"Playability matters, not graphics" is often the justification for poor visuals. Graphics, however, can be much more than beautiful or ugly. It can also be ingenious, intriguing, and unusual, and these are the examples of the most unique games.

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The Procession to Calvary

  1. Release year: 2020
  2. Developer: Joe Richardson
  3. Genre: point & click adventure

And now for something completely different - an adventure game! Yes, another one of many already proposed, but this one really is different! All right, it's not exactly different as it's almost the same as Four Last Things – Joe Richardson's previous production. However, in the background of the various ideas for animated characters and colour palette presented here, it seems quite original. Its artwork was made from well-known and lesser-known Renaissance paintings. Of course, slightly reworked, sometimes cleverly edited and with the addition of highly absurd dialogues, which immediately brings to mind animations from Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Even if we delve into the story of the search for a certain tyrant, the Heavenly Peter, and the fate of our hero, the images that make up the story will always come to the fore... picture of the game. On the one hand, the author presents the story he invented, but right next to it we have the original version, that is, what the painters of the time wanted to present. We absorb the details of the paintings and, by the way, Richardson's humour, while listening to all this classical music! The Procession to Calvary is an adventure game as complex as an expedition to both peaks of Kilimanjaro.

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Darius Matusiak

Darius Matusiak

Graduate of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Journalism. He started writing about games in 2013 on his blog on gameplay.pl, from where he quickly moved to the Reviews and Editorials department of Gamepressure. Sometimes he also writes about movies and technology. A gamer since the heyday of Amiga. Always a fan of races, realistic simulators and military shooters, as well as games with an engaging plot or exceptional artistic style. In his free time, he teaches how to fly in modern combat fighter simulators on his own page called Szkola Latania. A huge fan of arranging his workstation in the "minimal desk setup" style, hardware novelties and cats.

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