Quick Review of Penny Arcade Game

Now that it has been in general circulation for a while, Kotaku has a nice simple review of the good, the bad, and the ugly in the new Penny Arcade game, On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness. "When you've been making fun of the video game industry as long as Penny Arcade's Jerry 'Tycho' Holkins and Mike 'Gabe' Krahulik have been, deciding to create your own game is one ballsy move. You have to know that every review site you've ever trashed and every developer you've viciously sodomized with your barbed wit is watching your every move, desperate to see you stumble so they can get in a few licks."

Comments

The Review

[Jack9]

Decent review. A little harsh on the environments, given the engine. Still nothing about the crappy writing given there was so little of it.

see my review (after finishing the game): http://forum.playgreenhouse.com/jforum/posts/list/424.page#2684

see my previous vapid comment: http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=566489&cid=23577559

//for some reason criticizing PA writing always garners troll mods

Re:The Review

[SanityInAnarchy]

From your review:

Fruit Fuckers are over-represented. Why did they keep coming up after you wiped out the source? I think this was mostly for the collection aspect. Where else are you going to get parts? Not an excuse, just an observation.

As my roommate asked, why is Tycho ALWAYS reading a book? That seems realistic, and part of the humor. Tycho is, in fact, always reading a book.

The toilet humor. Fair enough. I don't think there's disproportionately more in the game than in the comic, though.

Re:The Game is Mediocre (At Best)

[Skrapion]

Let me be the first to say it's not for you.

The game isn't going to rank as one of my favourites, but I enjoyed it. For $20, I find it really difficult to complain about anything. They even managed to make JRPG combat fun for me again, and I've been jaded with JRPGs for years.