Warning: Spoilers for both Die Hard With A Vengeance and Die Hard With A Vengeance ahead.
One day, you just live your life, and then bangsome dickhead has to come in and ruin everything.
For the main character Death of the Revocation – a an indie point-and-click game that's one big collage of wacky Renaissance pictures – it's a messenger getting wheels in on the bad boy's barrel, breaking beautiful execution orders to tell him that his father, John Immortal, dying.
For John McClane, in Die hard with a vengeanceit's an unknown baddie blowing up a department store, then calling up the NYPD to take him to the hanging detective that Professor Snape let out of a window near the ceiling the Nakatomi Plaza.
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For both, it's a bit of a bummer. Driven by a desire to get into a nice tradition in one case, and because life on the line is more important than a hangover in the other, the pair go off to take care to their calls.
The two must meet men they hate, but who have power over them, in the form of Walter Cobb and John Immortal, in meeting rooms filled with the various torments of these two figures. After that, the work begins. For the main character of Death of Revocation, he is going to do seven good deeds for the townspeople, to prove that you are nothing but a selfish, ungodly person. For McClane, he wants to go to Harlem with a sign designed to kill him, with the threat from the mysterious Simon that more destruction will be done if the instructions are not followed.
It's a crappy situation, but you gotta do what you gotta do. And the good news is, both men are expected to find a companion with divine connections to guide them through the difficult tasks ahead.
For the main character of DOTR, he is a literal man like the lord himself, hanging on little signs showing who needs to do them a favor from a small fishing rod. McClane, meanwhile, has his life saved by Samuel L Jackson's Zeus Carver, named after the Greek god of thunder, and has since been cursed to follow the divorced cop on his painful pilgrimage to various locations throughout the city.
A number of different challenges await these poor idiots as they travel from point to point in the surreal nightmare that is the urban jungle of New York, and the comparatively fictional city of almost entirely constructed from landscapes, drawings, and other doodles of artists such as John Everett Millais, Willem Koekkoek, and David Teniers the Younger.
Some, such as McClane's trip to Harlem, and Immortal John's heir's quest to find clothes that allow some men to engage in gentle low-fisting out in the country air without disturbing people instead, including clothing. Some, like the water jug puzzle McClane and Zeus have to do to prevent a bomb from going off in a park and the piece of monkey dice roll guessing the main character of DOTR when he visits the hotel, including the kind of math you hated. school
Some involve children, like the house full of screaming, crying, and a hungry token yelling 'Feed me!' that the main character of DOTR must find a way to calm down, or a bomb so Simon says he is placed in a school that leads Cobb and Co on a search across the city. Some, like the train bomb that is just about to go off before it enters a crowded station, are designed to be impossible to achieve by conventional means, which is why He seems to wish he could get a magic flute from a goat king, like the main character of DOTR.
Getting through it all – including solving the puzzles given by Simon in one case and some strange people blocking the entrance to a forest in the other – about thinking outside the box, doing the unexpected, or the obvious in a couple of cases. issues. It's mental gymnastics, until it all goes wrong.
In McClane's case, he begins to find out what Simon – real name Peter Gruber – is up to. He's not just out to scare everyone and take revenge on his brother, he's also here to steal a ton of money, kind of like the main guy of DOTR. After almost drowning twice – once inside a dam, and then when Gruber drowned him and Zeus aboard a slag-filled ship – McClane is perhaps less of a fan of things on fill them with water than the woman who asks you to turn in a well. hot tub in DOTR.
With all this over, our main characters seem to have run around town with nothing. The poor guy at DOTR has to listen as the wise Uncle Vladimir turns his good deeds into sins by giving them to those who are about to kick the bucket John the Immortal, and as a result he was denied that precious inheritance. As McClane and Zeus are taken ashore, Gruber and his gang escape with the stolen money.
But it's not over. McClane discovers the location of his enemy passing through a bottle of aspirin thrown to him by Gruber, in one of the greatest 'I'm literally shouting at my TV' moments ever never in a bad boy. At John the Immortal's funeral, the real god himself intervenes, refusing to let the game end like this.
And so begins a mad chase, both to a truck stop north of the US border and to start an apocalypse on the painted world. Birds are killed, swarms of locusts are released, choppers are scrapped, and eventually both McClane and DOTR's main users face their own demons, but as underdogs. Being heroes, even though they are flawed, they get away.
But their stories don't end there. For McClane, there is an awkward phone call to make to Holly Gennaro. For the protagonist of DOTR, there is a kind of eternal damnation.
Because it's not the end of the minute the camera stops moving things for these characters. They just live their lives in the documentary version of that weird armpit of the year between Christmas and the turn of the calendar.
