DeathSpank - first 15 minutes

Published 13 July, 2010 Duration 14:53

Tuck into Ron Gilbert's latest.

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  • Vyggo #1 2 years ago

    Wow, the voice over work is disturbing... not in a good way.

  • Gylfi #2 2 years ago

    o0h my god what the hell is this?

    ok there's lots of humour, great dialogues, AND the usual addictive scheme of Diablo/WoW quests collecting that all require collecting something... farm things, complete tasks, get rewards, pimp your char up, rinse repeat.

    ...

    But where's the fun, where's the challenge??!???

    Where's the thinking, the PUZZLES?

  • taurus82 #3 2 years ago

    Thankyou EG, this looks great, I will definitely buy this on PSN.

  • AOFanboi #4 2 years ago

    <em>Where's the thinking, the PUZZLES?</em>

    Absent from the genre (save for the levers in Torchlight).

    Next you'll want Mass Effect dialogue trees in Call of Duty...

  • Vyggo #5 2 years ago

    AOFanboi, the expectation was set bij previews and the latest interview with Ron Gilbert, where he said it was a fusion of adventure and hack&slash. Like this paragraph from a preview of Deathspank:
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    It sounds like an ideal setting for a comical adventure game, a genre Gilbert practically invented, but in fact DeathSpank's a little more complex. There's certainly adventuring elements in there - dialogue trees to hack through and puzzles to solve - but the shadow of Diablo, of all things, hangs fairly heavily across the land as well.
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    You see, that doesn't make it sound like it's just a simple hack&slasher.