It's going to be irresistible come the sale.DeathSpank EA Play FIFA 23 F1™ 22 Madden NFL 23 Apex Legends Battlefield™ 2042 The Sims 4 There are some clever, and occasionally oh-too-obvious, jokes locked away in there, and they somehow, just about, make it all worthwhile.ĭeathSpank is a decent little loot basher for a tenner. The adventure and RPG elements amount to a couple of puzzles and some conversation trees that seem to generally land you in the same place whatever you might do. There is little to do aside from blast through the (generally easy) quests, and there is little penalty for dying. Ultimately DeathSpank just feels a bit lightweight. This, given the Lady Rossignol's obsession with Diablo-like games, could prove to be DeathSpank's most important feature. Fortunately, if you do have a 360 pad you can put it to work turning this into a co-op game, with a wizard chum joining up with DeathSpank on his adventures. Left click is one weapon, while right click is another - useful for being equipped to take on ranged enemies. WASD doesn't work as you'd expect for up/down/left/right, strafing you about instead, meaning that you are best off just using the mouse for everything. The mouse/keyboard controls felt a bit odd, too. A neat idea, except that you almost always end up using it by accident, and not really making the most of it.
Also he powers up his "justice" thinger the whole time, allowing you to let off special moves on particular weapons. For example, while DeathSpank can be equipped with four weapons at any one time, often with different effects of their own, you quickly gravitate towards using the best melee weapon you have and ignoring everything else. The jokes are unlikely to prompt a big league laugh from the balloon of your gut, but they still kept me chuckling and propped up in a state of mild amusement that meant I was happy to keep on playing even after I realised the game mechanisms were basically a bit rubbish. You might think someone was pretentious and sophisticated as an RPS editor might not find all this nether-humour particularly funny but actually it is pretty funny. There's a pervasive theme of poo and underwear, and when DeathSpank dies he is respawns from a "scented latrine", which also acts as a save point. He haughtily marches about, making quips and performing quests for "non-descript citizens" and other NPCs, all the while gathering weapons, potions and armour. It's the main character, the macho, condescending DeathSpank, who makes all this work. It also bolts on some conversation trees and adventure-game puzzles. It's beautifully presented in a cartoonish world that curves neatly over an exaggerated horizon, making everything look rather cute. Actually the hitting and collecting is pretty much as you'd expect from any game that also contained magic axes and inventory systems, and consequently not all that funny, but it's swathed in toilet humour, comedy characters, and lovely, silly enemies, from cardboard skeletons, to dragons, to swarms of vicious chickens. Many games are about that, of course, but this one is about doing that in a funny way. But what does that mean for our game collections or our wallets? I descended into the binary bowel of my digitally downloaded Steam version of the game to find out.ĭeathSpank is all about hitting stuff and collecting the loot.
DEATHSPANK WIZARD LOCATION PC
A comedy loot-collect goblin basher from Mr Ron Gilbert seemed like a logical member of the PC club, and it has now put its name on the dotted line.
But then last month - lo! - it was finally confirmed for PC.
What was going on? It looked like we were never going to get DeathSpank. Finally, we stood around in Castle Shotgun, shrugging and looking puzzled. Did anyone know? We asked the developers. Was it coming out on PC, or not? We didn't know. We spent quite some time expecting DeathSpank to come to PC, posting trailers, talking about it, and so on.
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