![]() I've also been told that the developers have added in more adventure game-style quests, but this is one area I plan to reserve judgment on until I get more than 30 minutes with the game. For example, in a time-based quest DeathSpank had to carry a lit stick of dynamite over to an enemy's communication tower to blow it up, and another involved carrying extremely explosive nitroglycerin through a field of enemies without attacking anything. Although I was only able to see a couple of the quests available in Thongs of Justice, it does seem like the HotHead team has made an effort to tweak the quest formula. Any RPG is going to have fetch quests, but with the exception of a few adventure-puzzler type quests, that was all you were doing. My biggest complaint about DeathSpank was how tedious a lot of the quests felt. New to your arsenal consists of guns – ranging from handguns to machine guns to an awesome alien ray gun – bazookas, grenades, a flamethrower and a chainsaw borrowed from the downloadable game Shank and dubbed "Shank's Bloody Murder Saw." Of course, oldie-but-goodie weapons from the last game are around as well, so your murdering techniques can be a lot more varied this time around. That has been changed considerably with the addition of firepower. The first game's combat system was slightly unbalanced - there was only a crossbow for ranged fighting, so most attack combos consisted of melee-focused weaponry. The gun says, It was here in this camp that I saw one of the biggest additions to the game: guns. It turns out that it's a World War II scenario, and DeathSpank has been captured in a POW camp, obliviously fighting for survival. There was a crashed plane nearby, but it was no episode of Lost instead, the environment was more reminiscent of a war zone. And there’s more! DeathSpank does not fight alone but with the amazingly cool Ninja Steve Greedy (a Ninja named Steve, I know, I know! Don’t we ever stop?) letting your real-life flesh friends play alongside you in two-player local co-op as DeathSpank quests for the six Thongs of Virtue! DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue is the high quality, low priced romp for XBLA/PSN that’s less filling than the other brands, and tastes great.Created by Ron Gilbert, the legendary mind behind Monkey Island, DeathSpank is the rarest of the rare: an honestly funny, fun video game.Starring a purple-thong wearing hero with the same name, the end of DeathSpank left off in an area much different from the rest of the game world. The action is easily accessible for short bursts of unsupervised fun, but the story is revealed over ten to fifteen hours of gameplay. What the hell is wrong with you people? Don’t JUDGE HIM!ĭeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue is filled to bursting with hundreds of weapons, armor sets, witty dialog, improbable scenarios, unexpected villains, and challenging bosses. It’s like, he’s a well rounded character not content with just smashing and stabbing things, he needs to think too, you know? He has feelings. With all the hacking and the slashing, DeathSpank makes some time on the side to explore his puzzle solving hobby. We say this along with other, less printable things, of course, but the jist is there. Internally we say it’s what would happen if you put those two games in a sack with a Mad Magazine joke collection and let them fight it out Thunderdome-style. In press releases we say DeathSpank is Monkey Island meets Diablo, a hack and slash action RPG set on a massive, dangerous, world shaped like an Edison Gramaphone Cylinder. ![]() But then again, we like to think a lot of things. ![]() We like to think DeathSpank is jam-packed of what is missing in video games - story, solid gameplay, and (intentional) humor. Now that the palate is cleansed, let’s consider DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue, created by Ron Gilbert, the legendary mind behind Monkey Island. Once in a lifetime a piece of entertainment can transcend its medium and reach out to the world in new and exciting ways making people stop, think and expand their definition of art. ![]() Everything You Need to Know About DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue ![]()
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