Penny Arcade Adventures

It’s hard to comment on this without repeating what every other game review site has said: if you like the Penny Arcade comics you’ll definitely like the game. Since I like their shit – I also enjoyed the game.

That’s not to say it’s a great game – it’s a good game, but doesn’t do anything spectacular for the industry, except to let you live the comic. And that’s why the way it’s impacts you is strongly based on how you feel about the comic.

The greatest parts about it are its visuals (it has great cartoons shaders, bring comic books to life), its story telling, with great lines that you would expect from Tycho and Gabriel (like “What.The.Fuck.) and attention to detail. You get to customize you character, although there aren’t that many choices. Then you enter a steampunk world with shit happening in it. The story is told through static comics – the bad part is that there’s no voice for the dialogs; the great part is that your customized character appears in the frames, which means they did drawing for every combination possible.

The game is an adventure/quest/RPG, with combat somewhere in the way of old Final Fantasy games – you have some skills that load in time, and when a character has a certain skill ready you can use it, restarting the process, or you can wait for something more powerful to load. The combat is more fun than it sound, especially after you gain a few levels and don’t feel like some fights are two though.

Since the game is designed to be episodic, it’s kind of short (I finished it in about 6 hours, without doing all the quests and getting every achievement) – and that’s not necessarily a bad thing, as it end about the time it start being not so interesting.

For the twenty bucks I spent on it, I can say the game is worth it. The guys at PA said they make some changes in the future episodes, based on what people liked and didn’t like. If you're not sure if you should get it or not, you could check the demo.

Too bad that Looking For Group comic doesn’t do their own game (although they said something about a Flash game, but I’m not too thrilled about that).

-MasterX
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