History VideoGame / RockOfAges

* AscendedMeme: Winning your first online battle wins you a rock with a [[{{Troll}} Trollface]] on it.

* JokeWeapon: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJauMsDzMgg&t=31m11s The Block of Ages can wear armor.]] This isn't a joke unless you factor in the fact that the Block is already invincible and can't be broken, thus making the armor pointless.

* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler: Gandalf]]

* LethalJokeCharacter: The Block of Ages is slow-moving and unwieldy, but it destroys a gate in two hits instead of three and is completley indestructible, 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.
* IncrediblyLamePun: '''Lou'''is XIV's intro has him [[ToiletHumor using]] the '''loo''' in his throne.
** Which, incidentally, [[ShownTheirWork did happen]]. That's where the term "throne" as slang for the toilet comes from.

* OnlySaneMan: Creator/LeonardoDaVinci.

* UpperClassTwit: Marie Antoinette

This is the story behind ''Rock of Ages'', a game developed by Ace Team (the minds behind the also-very-bizarre ''ZenoClash''). The objective is to roll your boulder into your opponent's castle gate, while preventing him from destroying your gate by setting up towers, catapults, elephants and other traps to slow him down.

This game has nothing to do with the DefLeppard song or [[Theatre/RockOfAges the musical]].

* ChristianityIsCatholic
* CloudCuckooland
* CaligulasHorse: the He-goat of the woods, after eating the wig of the previous president.

* EverythingsBetterWithCows

* Full Frontal Assault: While Sisyphus and Co arn't exactly doing the assaulting, nether he nor Bacchus put any clothing on throughout the game.

* GenreBusting: The game is a bizarre blend of bowling, platforming, tower defence, and racing.

* LethalJokeCharacter: The Block of Ages is slow-moving and unwieldy, but it destroys a gate in two hits instead of three and is completley indestructable, 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.

* OnlySaneMan: LeonardoDaVinci

* NewMediaAreEvil: LeonardoDaVinci sure thinks so.

* RewardingVandalism: Driving your boulder into opponent's structures generates gold, which you can use to bolster your defenses between turns.

** LeonardoDaVinci explains the fourth wall to Sisyphus while reenacting The Architect scene from Film/TheMatrix.

* [[spoiler: ShaggyDogStory: Sysiphis gets crushed by Saturn just after killing him.]]

* {{Yandere}}: Marie Antoinette

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

* ThePope: Julius II, AKA "War Pope."

** In the Middle Ages, there is a cutscene that serves as a ''{{VideoGame/Castlevania}}'' homage, before revealing that the castle is [[MythologyGag instead inhabited]] by [[UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler Vlad Tepes.]]

* XMeetsY: Contains the ball-rolling, maze-traversing action of ''Marble Madness'' and ''SuperMonkeyBall'', as well as the defense-building gameplay of the Midway arcade game ''Rampart''.
** [[Creator/TheCynicalBrit TotalBiscuit]] calls it "''KatamariDamacy'' crossed with Bowling crossed with ''SuperMonkeyBall'' crossed with ''Creator/MontyPython''."

** In the Middle Ages, a copy of the Franchise/{{Castlevania}} is [[MythologyGag instead inhabited]] by [[UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler Vlad Tepes.]]

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.

* {{Dracula}}: Vlad Tepes.

** In the Middle Ages, a copy of the Franchise/{{Castlevania}} is instead inhabited by [[MythologyGag Vlad Tepes.]]

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

-->'''Rock beats everything.'''
-->--game tagline

* MythologyGag: In this game, VideoGame/{{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 VideoGame/{{Castlevania}} is instead inhabited by [[MythologyGag Vlad Tepes.]]

** FireandBrimstoneHell.

* * See YouShallNotPass and PunctuatedForEmphasis

* Caligula'sHorse: the He-goat of the woods, after eating the wig of the previous president.

* GroinAttack: [[Spoiler: How you take down the David. OUCH.]]

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

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

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

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

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

* [[Caligula's Horse]]: the He-goat of the woods, after eating the wig of the previous president.

* Caligula'sHorse: the He-goat of the woods, after eating the wig of the previous president.