Deathspank thongs of virtue review4/9/2023 ![]() ![]() The first section of the game has the gritty realism of a brown and grey palette with dark green plants and lots of dark red blood. The enemies return from the original with some changes mainly in their equipment and clothing as it now incorporates machineguns, flamethrowers and gas masks etc. Graphically it is the same as the original with there being the same pop-up book style backgrounds with painted floors. After wondering around town talking to other people you will come across a General who tasks you with some more primary quest which lead to the final push for the war against an aggressor who lives in the North Pole. You have to reunite the six Thongs of Virtue so that they can be destroyed but you are only tasked with finding three of them: the Thong of Compassion, the Thong of Cuisine and the Thong of Generosity. Upon reaching the town you will find the red haired woman who fills you in on your new quest. After taking part in a few quests in preparation for the daring escape our hero finds himself fleeing through a military camp full of Orques equipped with modern weapons such as guns and flamethrowers as well as the usual melee enemies.įollowing your daring escape you find yourself in a battlefield which you must fight across to reach the first town in the game. Fed up with peeling potatoes in a Vietnamese looking prison camp DeathSpank works with fellow inmates to escape. Starting from where the original finished, DeathSpank finds himself in a WW2 style war-torn battlefield where he is attacked and captured by Orques. The reasons behind it being released so quickly after the first is that they were intended to be one game but the size would have been too big for the distribution platforms so it was split into two games with a convenient natural break. Monkey Islands’ Ron Gilbert and Hothead Games bring this new part to the series just a few short months after the first. It also elevates the game above any peers it might have (I’m not sure it does) and almost (for me, at least) totally eliminates the negatives of the aforementioned repetition.ĭeathspank: Thongs of Virtue is rated T for Teen and is available on Xbox Live Arcade (1200 points) and PlayStation Network ($14.99).DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue is the second game in the DeathSpank Series and is a sequel to the first game, continuing from where the first game left off. In fact, I’d wager that the folks at Hothead Games know comedy better than anyone else in the industry. And, thankfully, it’s something we can never get enough of. The single best aspect of the game, the humor, is back in full force. I know it sounds like I’ve been beating up on the game a bit, but here’s where it truly redeems any flaws. These, as with the first game, came in just a few flavors: find something, kill something, collect something, discover something.Īgain, I feel like I need to point out that this isn’t in and of itself a bad thing, but the repetition can get … well, repetitive. In between murdering orques and robots and interrogator chickens, we have our quests. It isn’t bad, but it is essentially hack & slash - and the hack & slash gets tiring after a while. You move with the left thumbstick, and hammer the face buttons to fire different weapons which will (hopefully) kill the baddies before they have a chance to kill you. Though there are guns to be used and abused (and grenades and rocket launchers, too - this is the second main difference between titles), the combat is still basically the same. And while this is one of the game’s strengths, it is also one of its weaknesses. The simple gameplay from the first game is primarily intact. It’s still very impressive visually, and frankly, striking in its bizarre beauty. This time around, we see planes and tanks and vast battlefields and robots and even aliens. The first Deathspank featured a strictly- fairy tale land. This is one of two main differences between the games. The 2-D popup-book world from the first game is back, but modernized. In another insane adventure from the mind of Ron Gilbert, our goofball hero Deathspank (fresh from his victory over Lord Von Prong) is dispatched to recover the Thongs of Virtue - which entails a silly Lord of the Rings-ish backstory - so that they may be destroyed (since they corrupt all wearers, except, it seems, Deathspank). ![]()
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