The weapons and armor riff on the kind of equipment sets you find in other RPGs, and they are dispensed at a decent pace. The game isn’t about particularly deep and complex combat, it is about bashing your way through a colorful variety of strange and interesting monsters so you can get to the next joke. There are no special skills, no attributes, and nothing beyond a strictly linear progression of armor and weapons. So if the humor has its moments and the game world is charming, what about the combat? As far as hack-and-slash games go, it is somewhat shallow. Unfortunately, the camera angle means that some enemies can shoot at you without the player being able to target them back, but this doesn’t last long. The game’s art style is quite charming foliage and buildings appear as cardboard cutouts, the enemies are varied and fit the environments nicely, and the world rolls along as you walk, similar to the giant planetoids from Super Mario Galaxy. However, they at least serve the purpose of leading you through the colorful world of DeathSpank. Fittingly, the section for side-quests in the quest log is titled “Unimportant stuff I need to do.” While most of them have their own distinct and unhinged personality (with the exception of the occasional Guy Who Got Robbed or what have you), the quests they offer are unfortunately lacking the quests almost always come in the form of delivery, fetch, or kill-and-fetch quests.
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The game world is dotted with a variety of colorful and interesting characters that parody RPG staples. Humor is an incredibly personal thing so your mileage may vary, but most people will eventually find something to chuckle at.
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While a good portion of the jokes fall flat, it tries something new with nearly every passing moment. Enter DeathSpank, Ron Gilbert’s Diablo-lite game just ported to the PC, and the titular bumbling hero who can be described as the fantasy RPG version of The Tick.įrom the very name of the title and protagonist onwards, DeathSpank strives to bring humor to a genre not generally known for it. When you boil many role-playing games down, the main hero (no matter what his destiny) is little more than a good-looking errand boy with a ridiculously large sword.