Playing with a friend makes Ron Gilbert’s particular brand of lols all the more lolable. This is ameliorated by the $US15/$AU19.80 price tag.ĭeathSpank is a title well worth the asking price if you enjoy a light-hearted RPG romp through colourful locales littered with fragile enemies to dispatch with wild abandon. Length: The game is only 6-8 hours long, depending on your patience for side quests. Steer clear if story and character development are an important factor in your purchase. Some non-item based magical ability would be welcome. Most ranged weapons are woefully underpowered compared to level-appropriate melee weapons and all other abilities are provided through rare one-shot items. Luckily, all conversation can be skipped through liberal use of the B button.Ībilities: Despite the sheer number of items available throughout the game, most players will find themselves sticking with melee attacks.
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Voice Acting: As welcome as full voice acting is, it can become wearisome, especially in the case of DeathSpank himself. I suspect this is also an attempt to limit the amount of terrain displayed at any one time for the sake of performance. The entire area is presented with an exaggerated curvature to give the impression of distance. Locales: The world of DeathSpank is a colourful 3D environment populated by numerous quest givers, monsters, treasure chests and 2D pseudo-sprite features. Armour sets, weapons, potions, limited one-shot powers and even a poop hammer are at your disposal. Phat Loots: There are a huge number of items available to DeathSpank throughout the world. A one-choice character select screen implies that further co-op characters will be available in the future via DLC. Sparkles is equipped with a stock set of unchangeable abilities which level up with DeathSpank including a magic bolt, heal spell, exploding clones and flamethrower-like attacks. Melee attacks are supported by some ranged damage via the use of crossbows and magical abilities provided by Justice Attacks.Ĭo-op: Drop-in/drop-out co-operative play is supported through the use of DeathSpank’s sidekick Sparkles the Mage.
Every character DeathSpank meets along his journey is full to bursting with one-liners and innuendo.Īction: DeathSpank’s penchant for meting out painful Justice upon pretty much everything in his path provides many opportunities to hit X enemy with Y weapon. Voice Acting: The game is entirely voice acted. Fans of Monkey Island will welcome the familiar tone. Everything from item and quest descriptions, monsters and regularly respawning/teleporting via a system of outhouses exude a Gilbert-esque charm. Our hero, the titular DeathSpank, dispenses Justice through the use of magic, crazy weapons and utter heroic stupidity.
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It doesn’t really deserve to be reposted here, but I’m pretty pleased about it and it’s my blog, so there.įrom the mind Ron Gilbert of Monkey Island fame, DeathSpank is a RPG-lite title in the vein of the Diablo series, utilising a controller instead of a mouse and keyboard (until it arrives on PC and PSN anyway). I’m not sure what else to say about it, other than to paste it here holus-bolus. Evidently it passed muster and was posted to the main feed. I wrote a Reader Review for Kotaku Australia.
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