Random Monday : Learning Your A.B.Cs with Viva Caligula
While there are many ways to learn your A.B.Cs, this must be one of the more unconventional and possibly the bloodiest method of learning the English alphabet.
Clearly inspired by Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, better known as Caligula, Emperor of ancient Rome and allegedly an insane tyrant. His supposedly depraved character was the subject of the shocking 1979 film and now in this (literally) bloody Flash game from adult swim.
Over in Viva Caligula, you control the mad tyrant himself as he cooks up some half-baked excuse that his fellow Romans have rebelled against his rule and then goes on a massacre of both defenseless civilians and heavily armed legionnaires alike, simply because he can.
Armed initially with a lowly dagger, Caligula sets forth to collect 25 other weapons hidden in 7 different districts split into 97 zones (yes, I counted). The name of each weapon starts with a different letter of the alphabet which means that this cunningly-disguised educational tool actually helps you refresh your A.B.Cs since you need to press that key to activate that weapon (admittedly, most of the words are non-English or absolutely useless in real life like the word “Xyston“). On top of that, it also helps you remember where all the letters are found on the keyboard 
Weapons range from those commonly found in the Greek or Roman armory to incredibly bizarre stuff like … you’ll have to play the game to find out since that’s one of the highlights of this mad little game.
After collecting all 26 weapons, you get to enter his palace and if you have seen the film before, you already know what perversity lies in wait inside those walls.
We’re about to enter his palace. Minors not allowed
Definitely not for kids or for those disturbed by excessive blood, unnecessary violence and pixelated nudity in their entertainment. You have been warned!
Play Viva Caligula or read Play This Thing!’s review. Many thanks to Gnome for pointing out the excellent Play This Thing! site to ignorant gamers like me
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Uhhh… a fantastic little game innit? And all those lovely pointless weapons…
I won’t say it’s a very good game but its production values are pretty good and gameplay is reasonably fun (if you count stabbing innocent people with long pointy things fun)
The politically-incorrectness of it all probably turns most people off I think. But at least it’s more tasteful than the film
I’m having trouble with the controls and can’t make any progress because of it.
every time I go to stab someone it misses, no matter how it always either goes behind or in front of them. Is it just my aim or is there something I’m not getting???
Hmm, I never did have any issues with the controls.
I think the default dagger ‘D’ I believe, has a very short range. Maybe you need to go nearer …