Viva Caligula!I played this with Marilyn Manson's "Anti-Christ Superstar" | Submitted by the99th on Sat, 09/22/2007 - 03:52. |
Viva Caligula is Latin, or Italian or Spanish maybe, for "Live Caligula" -- if you're the founder of Penthouse this means making a movie with lots of nudity and depravity; if you're Cartoon Network and a (regrettably) anonymous contracted developer this means making a game with lots of violence and depravity. (Ed.: maybe not credited, but this is by Pop & Co., who also created Bible Fight.)
5 Days a Stranger is the first in a series of freeware, horror adventure games created by Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw. If that name sounds familiar to you, it probably is; he recently achieved internet-stardom via his wildly popular series of Zero Punctuation video reviews. He had been creating adventure games for years before this, however.
5DaS, while not his first game, was certainly a turning point. Before this, most of his games weren’t bad, per se, they were just...unpolished. That’s not to say that 5DaS itself is polished, however. The graphics aren’t the greatest, the interface is clunky, and the music is ripped straight out of RPG Maker.
So then, how does the game manage to be so fantastic?
