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Grezzo 2 (also rendered in Italian Grezzo Due) is a 2012 total conversion "joke WAD" for the 1993 first-person shooter Doom by id Software, developed by Nicola "Nic" Piro, a member of the metal rock band "Karashow".[1] The game's plot revolves around a pagan farmer named Piro, who goes on a sacrilegious rampage and slaughters everyone and everything, even God and Jesus themselves.

Plot[edit]

Embittered over the rise of Christianity, Piro embarks on a spree killing, with his first target being the church hosting his grandparents' silver wedding anniversary. Piro massacres the event's reception, and dies shortly thereafter; he then falls into the afterlife to be judged by God, who is depicted as a short-tempered, foul-mouthed man adorned with cultist robes. Depending on the player's actions, Piro can either fight and kill God, or avoid the fight and escape the afterlife.[2]

After returning to Earth and killing countless others, Piro initiates a plan to kill baby Jesus, thus averting the inception of Christianity. Piro then infiltrates the womb of the Virgin Mary and slays the gestating Jesus within. Piro then impregnates Mary, from whom a reborn Piro emerges, killing her. The reborn Piro pulls out a banjo and plays a song for the Three Wise Men who stood at the Virgin Mary's side.[3]

What's the fuss about it?[edit]

While the game's mechanics are largely inherited from the base Doom game (shoot enemies, stroll your way through the exit, rinse and repeat...), save for added sequences such as a motorcycle segment among others, arguably the game's main draw is with its gratuitously blasphemous portrayal of not only local Italian celebrities and authority figures but most prominently Christianity itself, particularly Roman Catholicism whose home base is in the Vatican.[note 1] The game's level of violence and graphic sexual content gained it so much notoriety that it was banned on the streaming service Twitch on obscenity grounds. Among those religious figures parodied in the WAD is Padre PioWikipedia (born Francesco Forgione), a Capuchin friar and mystic who gained notoriety for his alleged stigmata and is widely venerated especially in his native Italy.

In a scholarly analysis by TV Tropes, Grezzo 2 can be interpreted as an irreverent yet relatively serious commentary on Italian culture and the people, organisations and phenomena that's holding it back. The Roman Catholic Church for one is mocked, aped and desecrated at in every possible way in the game, depicting it as an evil, omnipresent and corrupt organisation bent at world domination. The blasphemous portrayal is reflective of the gradual breaking of social taboos in the Italian Republic, where more progressive groups have started criticising long-standing institutions such as the Catholic Church for its stranglehold on Italian politics and culture, namely its opposition towards divorce, same-sex marriage and hushing up of sexual abuse cases commited by its clergy, as well as its asservice control over the country's politics, urging the faithful to vote for the Christian Democracy party and has (historically) excommunicated those with Communist ties through the Decree against CommunismWikipedia.[4]

Blasphemy aside, Grezzo 2 also gained polarising reception from within the Doom community for its extensive use of copyrighted content cribbed from both retail games and even mods from various other Doom modders.

Notes[edit]

  1. The Vatican is a politically separate enclave from Italy but is situated right within the heart of Rome in Italy.

References[edit]

  1. "Nic Piro – Databáze-her.cz". 
  2. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named vice
  3. Grezzo Due: Una Magica Avventura (Nicola Piro, 2012)
  4. Analysis of Grezzo 2