![]() ![]() ![]() The story begins with the titular hero stuck in a prison, spending his days carving potatoes. ![]() Meet Deathspank, a powerful “hero” with violent tendencies whose general incompetence and lack of mental capacity draw more comparisons with The Tick than Batman I half expected Deathspank to shout “KEEN!” OR “SPOON!” at any given moment. ![]() Maybe I’m over-analyzing things, but if this is truly the commentary Deathspank: Thongs of Virtue hopes to make, I daresay it went a bit too far. The second entry in as many months (!?), it almost seems as if the release itself is a commentary on how the game industry is so fond of milking its franchises dry. Hothead games, responsible for the Penny Arcade Adventure games (before the series’ tragic and undignified demise), is at the helm of Deathspank: Thongs of Virtue, a game whose very essence is based on such humor. I don’t mean the “oh the main female lead has such humongous breasts that bounce all around I wish I had such ginormous titties but I don’t because I am a loli” type of humor that’s so prevalent in games nowadays, but rather the satirical, tongue-in-cheek humor that pokes fun at the tropes and cliches of gaming that we have all come to accept. 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.Rare is the game centering around humor. 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. ![]()
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