Four Last Things is a point-and-click adventure game made from Renaissance-era paintings and public domain recordings of classical music. It is about sin, and the Four Last Things – Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell – and strives to be intelligent and ridiculous in equal measures.
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👾 Four Last Things (🇬🇧 2017)
Genius point and click adventure heavily influenced by Monty Python. Clever use of copyright free material to introduce us in a wacky renaissance world. Only negative thing is that it’s very short.
🎮 Played on Steam Deck
Rating: 🍎🍎🍎🍎▫️
Genius point and click adventure heavily influenced by Monty Python. Clever use of copyright free material to introduce us in a wacky renaissance world. Only negative thing is that it’s very short.
🎮 Played on Steam Deck
Rating: 🍎🍎🍎🍎▫️
A point-and-click adventure with an extremely unique sense of style. The game brings baroque paintings to life - it's just wonderful to look at.
Mechanically, it's nothing to write home about, combing rather easy puzzles with humour that's rather hit-or-miss. Personally, I wasn't that amused by it but Four Last Things still felt oddly charming.
The experience itself is rather short but I think it's worth it for the art style alone.
Mechanically, it's nothing to write home about, combing rather easy puzzles with humour that's rather hit-or-miss. Personally, I wasn't that amused by it but Four Last Things still felt oddly charming.
The experience itself is rather short but I think it's worth it for the art style alone.
What a creative game. You literally walk through paintings from the baroque/renaissance period and solve some pretty tricky puzzles. The humor is fantastic and you can say really great blasphemous things, I love it^^
Una locura de aventura gráfica que pareciera sacada de los Monty Python y animada por el propio Terry Gilliam.
Todo lo que sucede es muy disparatado, y cada escenario es un cuadro reconocido. Me divertí mucho jugando éste juego.
Todo lo que sucede es muy disparatado, y cada escenario es un cuadro reconocido. Me divertí mucho jugando éste juego.
Diversión point and click clásica en un tiempo decente, con puzzles racionales y un humor increíble. Lo que más destaco del juego es la capacidad del desarrollador para crear algo nuevo a partir de algo viejo. Me encanta cómo remixea obras artísticas en un juego tan irreverente.
Sights & Sounds
- The game looks outstanding. It really builds upon the paper cut-out style of The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything (TPAoE) by replacing all the artwork with the works of Flemish, Spanish, Dutch, and other non-Italian artists
- I am admittedly not very knowledgeable about art. I did take an Art History course in college ages ago, so I could identify some of the more famous masters, at least (Goya, Bruegel, van Eyck, Bosch). More well-versed players will likely be able to identify more
- All of the music appears to be taken from the same period as the game's artwork, which is an appreciated choice
Story & Vibes
- Without giving too much away, you play as a man who has a bad dream and decides he needs to repent for his sins. Unfortunately, the church won't help you since all your evil deeds were committed in a different diocese. You'll have to commit the 7 Deadly Sins all over again to get their help
- As you probably gathered from that brief synopsis, the overall tone is very silly
Playability & Replayability
- It's a point-and-click adventure game, and it doesn't deviate from that basic formula
- That said, the puzzles are decent and usually have pretty amusing outcomes (the Wrath puzzle in particular was pretty good). Nothing mind-blowing, though
- Once you've gotten all the achievements, there's not much to motivate a replay
Overall Impressions & Performance
- I've played one of the devs other games, and this one was a noticeable improvement in terms of writing. TPAoE was too self-reflective and meta to really allow the humor to shine, but Four Last Things really minimizes that kind of joke (to its credit)
- The game played well with the trackpads on the Steam Deck, but I think it would have been more comfortable with a mouse
- It's very simple to 100% the game in less time than it takes to watch a Marvel film, so consider that when setting your price point
Final Verdict
- 7/10. A really nice step forward for the dev in terms of writing and visual design. A humorous and visually appealing way to spend an hour or two
- The game looks outstanding. It really builds upon the paper cut-out style of The Preposterous Awesomeness of Everything (TPAoE) by replacing all the artwork with the works of Flemish, Spanish, Dutch, and other non-Italian artists
- I am admittedly not very knowledgeable about art. I did take an Art History course in college ages ago, so I could identify some of the more famous masters, at least (Goya, Bruegel, van Eyck, Bosch). More well-versed players will likely be able to identify more
- All of the music appears to be taken from the same period as the game's artwork, which is an appreciated choice
Story & Vibes
- Without giving too much away, you play as a man who has a bad dream and decides he needs to repent for his sins. Unfortunately, the church won't help you since all your evil deeds were committed in a different diocese. You'll have to commit the 7 Deadly Sins all over again to get their help
- As you probably gathered from that brief synopsis, the overall tone is very silly
Playability & Replayability
- It's a point-and-click adventure game, and it doesn't deviate from that basic formula
- That said, the puzzles are decent and usually have pretty amusing outcomes (the Wrath puzzle in particular was pretty good). Nothing mind-blowing, though
- Once you've gotten all the achievements, there's not much to motivate a replay
Overall Impressions & Performance
- I've played one of the devs other games, and this one was a noticeable improvement in terms of writing. TPAoE was too self-reflective and meta to really allow the humor to shine, but Four Last Things really minimizes that kind of joke (to its credit)
- The game played well with the trackpads on the Steam Deck, but I think it would have been more comfortable with a mouse
- It's very simple to 100% the game in less time than it takes to watch a Marvel film, so consider that when setting your price point
Final Verdict
- 7/10. A really nice step forward for the dev in terms of writing and visual design. A humorous and visually appealing way to spend an hour or two