Saves can be made anywhere and anytime (other than during combat) when starting up again, the player begins exactly where the game left off. However, for every decision I disliked, there were many good design choices made. Often while playing, I found myself lamenting aspects that I missed from the first two games – creating my own character to play alongside Gabe and Tycho, real time combat with special and combined power attacks, walking around smashing objects to find loot, modern (albeit stylized) graphics, the ability to play full-screen and still read text, non chip-tuned sound, the voice of the narrator, and lastly – an ending (but more on that later). My impressions were altered by a truly inspired (but utterly spoilerific) sequence mid-game. The new 16-bit pixelated style and old-school turn based RPG menu-driven combat was jarring at first, but I quickly became used to the new style and, despite my best efforts, enjoyed the graphics by the end of the game. The player controls Gabe and Tycho’s journeys around town (and various dimensions) and eventually some other characters (Jim the Skull!) join and/or leave the party.
There are many in-jokes (Pelican Bay!) to both the past games and the comic strip, so it is definitely beneficial to play the prior games they are excellent. For new players to the series, there are two statues that give wholly insufficient descriptions of the two prior installments. Penny Arcade 3 is set in 1920s New Arcadia and opens in the Startling Developments Detective Agency merely one week after the events of the second episode.
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After playing and thoroughly enjoying the first two games, I was quite excited to install and start up the third. The question is – can Zeboyd Games successfully pick up where Hothead Games left off – instead developing DeathSpank – and continue the series? After a nearly four year wait, Penny Arcade’s On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 has been released and the adventures of our intrepid (hmm…more like reluctant) detectives Gabe and Tycho finally continue.
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