May 23rd, 2008
Slick With Rain
Yesterday episode one of Penny Arcade Adventures game, On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, came out along with a demo of which I promptly downloaded. As a big fan of Penny Arcade I was curious as to what kind of mad cap world they had crafted.
Game starts off with the character creation screen, there are limited customization options (which become apparent why when I actually got into the game play).
Having attired myself in a gentlemanly fashion it was time to step into the world they had created.
It wasn’t long before my humble abode had been devastated by a huge robot with an unholy fetish for oranges.
I really liked the comic like feel of the screens layout, little comic book speech bubbles and text boxes for communication between the characters and navigation. The cut scenes are a mix between Gabe’s artwork and the rendered game (which explains why the character choices are limited otherwise Gabe would still be drawing the artwork for it).
Fights are turn based with rather strange attacks against the “Fruit Fuckers”, and strange attacks against you.
Characters gain experience and level up which grants new attacks and what not.
And of course you eventually meet up with the heroes Tycho and Gabe.
The game is punctuated with the typical humor that the Penny Arcade comic is famous (infamous?) for. Citizens run around with their hands flailing in the air screaming about the giant robot, lazy cats and of course the “Fruit Fuckers” who will get all Barry White on an orange if you throw one at them.
So yes, the demo was fun and I am seriously considering purchasing the full game when there is a little more coin in my wallet.