History VideoGame / RockOfAges

** [[PaintingTheForuthWall the [[spoiler: Dragon]] even flinches when his weak point is pointed at.]]

** [[BFG Giant cannon: huge siege weapon.]]

* BossArenaIdiocy: Every boss except for [[spoilers: the dragon.]] Why are their CANNONS in hevean?!

* AxCrazy

* LethalJokeCharacter: The Block of Ages is slow-moving and unwieldy, but it destroys a gate in two hits instead of three, making it a viable option if the player has a good defensive strategy, and is even more dangerous on a map like L'aquilia, which doesn't have any turns or major obstacles. There's even an achievement for winning a multiplayer match with it.

* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Bacchus and Michaelangelo's David.

** See YouShallNotPass and PunctuatedForEmphasis

* Series/{{Angel}}: Michael.

* {{Angel}}: Michael.

* MythologyGag: In this game, {{Castlevania}}'s {{Dracula}} and real life inspiration for the original {{Dracula}}, Vlad "The Impaler" Tepes, are one in the same.

** In the Middle Ages, a copy of the {{Castlevania}} is instead inhabited by [[MythologyGag Vlad Tepes.]]
** LeonardoDaVinci explains the fourth wall to Sisyphus while reenacting The Architect scene from TheMatrix.

* [[spoiler:GainaxEnding: At the end of his struggle Sisyphus is crushed by the falling Cronus during his victory dance. After the credits the Rock hops into a random hole and discovers its master dancing with the rest of the characters in what seems to be Hell.]]
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: The hand that replaces the Rock whenever it falls off the track is never explained. It's styled after medieval portrayals of the hand of God, however.
** [[MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife DON'T STAND THERE GAWPING LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN THE HAND O' GOD BEFORE!]]

* ShoutOut:
** The art is a tremendous love letter to ''MontyPython''.

* TheManBehindTheCurtain: Most of the characters become this during the level.
* TheUnfought: The major boss battles end when the boss is defeated and the characters introduced in those levels apparently escape being squished.

** TotalBiscuit calls it "''KatamariDamacy'' crossed with Bowling crossed with ''SuperMonkeyBall'' crossed with ''MontyPython''."

* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Your opponent does this when you break down their fortress' door.

** See YouShallNotPass and ThisIsSparta

* ThisIsSparta: Performed by none other by Leonidas.

** The art is a tremendous love letter to ''MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''.

This game has nothing to do with the DefLeppard song or the musical.

* IncrediblyLamePun: '''Lou'''is XIV's intro has him [[ToiletHumor using]] the '''loo''' in his throne.

Sisyphus...the king who was cursed to spend the rest of his days push a giant boulder up a hill, only to have it roll back to the bottom, forcing him to start over again. After many hours of frustration, he gets fed up and decides to rebel against Zeus by rolling his boulder into Zeus' castle in order to escape from Hades and to freedom. From there, Sisyphus and the angry boulder go on a journey throughout the ages of art (from Ancient Greece to Medieval times, all the way up to the Romantic era), meeting powerful historical figures and smashing their defenses to pieces.

* IHaveManyNames: [[spoiler:Cronus A.K.A. Saturn. That's ''exactly'' what his BossSubtitle says.]]

** Ancient Greece recreates the pit scene from ''[[Film/ThreeHundred 300]]'', but it doesn't work out so well for Leonidas.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: The hand that replaces the Rock whenever it falls off the track or is destroyed is never explained. It's styled after medieval portrayals of the hand of God, however.

* ArtShift: Each era takes images from artwork from the era.

* IncrediblyLamePun: '''Lou'''is XIV's intro has him [[ToiletHumor using the '''loo''' in his throne]].

** In the Middle Ages, a copy of the {{Castlevania}} is instead inhabited by Vlad Tepes.