When in Rome
I've had a breakthrough on Viva Caligula. The stated object of the game is to kill as many Roman citizens as you can, which I've been gleefully doing, just like Caligula. But I have a gamer living nearby whose thinking inspired me to take a different tack: to get all 26 weapons so I can unlock the Orgy Room. The most important step in this is using the map to see where I've been and where I need to look. It's a totally different game played that way.
The crossbow was my old love, but the iaculum is three-pronged long distance death coming at my targets in three directions. But the zambogna... oh yes. With the zambogna I can make the citizens fight each other, including those armored soldiers with shields I was killing myself trying to take down previously with other weapons, while I merrily walk past. It's brilliant. With necromancer, you can raise your victims as skeleton warriors to fight for you! (But for necromancer you need the space and time to cast the spell. People will attack you as you're casting.) When you flash people with your manhood to stun them, the game makes rooster sounds. Classic.
I got all 26 weapons and made it into the Orgy Room, which was somewhat disappointing but very funny. 70s disco music, with breathy female moans and whistle sounds. Men and women with bouncy pixelated bits. And Caligula runs around happily exposed. When you walk past the couples you get points and a message of "You have scored!" Oh, game. I expected more people and more stuff, though.
The crossbow was my old love, but the iaculum is three-pronged long distance death coming at my targets in three directions. But the zambogna... oh yes. With the zambogna I can make the citizens fight each other, including those armored soldiers with shields I was killing myself trying to take down previously with other weapons, while I merrily walk past. It's brilliant. With necromancer, you can raise your victims as skeleton warriors to fight for you! (But for necromancer you need the space and time to cast the spell. People will attack you as you're casting.) When you flash people with your manhood to stun them, the game makes rooster sounds. Classic.
I got all 26 weapons and made it into the Orgy Room, which was somewhat disappointing but very funny. 70s disco music, with breathy female moans and whistle sounds. Men and women with bouncy pixelated bits. And Caligula runs around happily exposed. When you walk past the couples you get points and a message of "You have scored!" Oh, game. I expected more people and more stuff, though.