You also get dialog trees, which are one of the strongest points of the game. And maybe there are uses for the junk in your inventory (which has more space than your separate weapon inventory), but I ended up with a lot of stuff I had no idea what to do with. There are one or two places where you’re supposed to combine some of your inventory items to accomplish your task. These monsters are Orques.īorrowing from the good old adventure games, DeathSpank has also some puzzles and your hero has an inventory, but the most fun you get out of it is from the item descriptions. DeathSpank is happy when things are this simple and easy. In Discworld fashion, you’re the really stereotypical hero who needs to vanquish the evil. For example, one of the biggest revelations in the game is that Eubrick, the retired hero, knows the Secret of Monkey Island. The game also makes fun and references other games and pop culture in general. And yes, there’s a side quest where you’re expected to collect unicorn poop. You have odd characters, crazy weapons and a general sense of oddness fills everything. The game’s world resembles a bit of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. It does not bring that much new to genre, other than being really fun - especially if you are a fan of Gilbert’s previous games 3. In short, the game has everything your run-of-the-mill role-playing game should have. Even then, Fire is pretty effective against everything except for demons, who, naturally, are quite easy with an ice weapon. However, I did not really utilize this aspect of game at first, but then I realized that certain enemies are quite easy once you use the right element weapon against them. The game also has elements, like Fire, Undeath, Nature and Ice. The game has stores where you can buy additional gear 2, but most of the stuff drops from enemies and barrels anyway so I didn’t end up shopping at all. You don’t really know what you’re supposed to do with all the junk and you have very limited storage options and yet you accumulate all kinds of crap quite quickly. Like Torchlight, DeathSpank has a bit of a problem with the inventory. The second game continues exactly from where the first game ended, even though the first game is set in the medieval world of dragons and castles and the second one starts from the Second World War.
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Then it turned into a one full game and finally was released as a two-parter, DeathSpank and DeathSpank: The Thong of Virtue. A couple of years ago Clayton Kauzlaric and I start doing the short-lived (mostly because we’re lazy) Grumpy Gamer comics and created the DeathSpank character and I thought, hey, he’s a lot more fun than the main character I had before, so we started messing around with story ideas and fleshing him and his world out.Īt first, DeathSpank: The Game was supposed to be an episodic game.
I started working on this game four years ago and was turned down by just about everyone that had a business card with “publisher” printed on it.
1 However, this throwaway character had much more potential. This wallpaper was released in 2008.ĭeathSpank first appeared on Ron Gilbert’s blog as one of his comics, Grumpy Gamer Comics #8. It’s what these days called an action-RPG, like all games these days, but I think a better description is that it’s a bit like the various Diablo II followers, Torchlight and Titan Quest - with a bit of Monkey Island in there. One of my planned acquisitions from last year’s Steam Christmas sales was DeathSpank.
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