Posted by MjStrwy on May 31, 2008 twenty past two pm
*There are some vague spoilers below*
I just finished the game and, while I have a few complaints, for $20 I enjoyed the hell out of it. The writing was pretty funny, especially once I started taking the time to read all the descriptions tagged everywhere. I frickin' loved that the game came in OSX and Linux flavors as well as Windows. I'm on the road a lot and, besides my DS, my Macbook is my main gaming machine. Not having to boot into Windows to play the game was actually a huge factor in my deciding to gamble $20 on downloading it, and having the demo available to see how it ran on my crappy integrated video card sealed the deal for me.
I wasn't a fan of the combat system early on (since the Fruit Fuckers were so fast that I barely had time to make an attack), but I liked it once I got the hang of it. However, the combat is a little simple and the game isn't very challenging overall (the final boss had 45,000 hp, but still only took one try to beat!). Knowing that Ron was helping design the puzzles, my biggest complaint is that there was nothing I consider an actual puzzle in the game! The closest thing to puzzles were the quests the Fortune Telling Machine handed out, but those were little more than fetch quests. I know that this is only the first episode, and so a lot of time was probably spent just getting the core game mechanics working. Since those are hopefully taken care of now, I hope that the developers were able to spend more time developing more complex battles and puzzles for subsequent chapters. I know the inventory system isn't built for using items to solve puzzles in the way I would like, but I'm really looking forward to finding out what the hell the lint and the monkey card get used for :-).
Anyway, thanks to the guys (and gals) at Penny Arcade and Hothead for making a enjoyable game. I'll definitely give the next episode a shot and, if it's as good as this one (and hopefully at least a little better) you can consider me hooked.
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Posted by MjStrwy on May 31, 2008 twenty past two pm
I just finished the game and, while I have a few complaints, for $20 I enjoyed the hell out of it. The writing was pretty funny, especially once I started taking the time to read all the descriptions tagged everywhere. I frickin' loved that the game came in OSX and Linux flavors as well as Windows. I'm on the road a lot and, besides my DS, my Macbook is my main gaming machine. Not having to boot into Windows to play the game was actually a huge factor in my deciding to gamble $20 on downloading it, and having the demo available to see how it ran on my crappy integrated video card sealed the deal for me.
I wasn't a fan of the combat system early on (since the Fruit Fuckers were so fast that I barely had time to make an attack), but I liked it once I got the hang of it. However, the combat is a little simple and the game isn't very challenging overall (the final boss had 45,000 hp, but still only took one try to beat!). Knowing that Ron was helping design the puzzles, my biggest complaint is that there was nothing I consider an actual puzzle in the game! The closest thing to puzzles were the quests the Fortune Telling Machine handed out, but those were little more than fetch quests. I know that this is only the first episode, and so a lot of time was probably spent just getting the core game mechanics working. Since those are hopefully taken care of now, I hope that the developers were able to spend more time developing more complex battles and puzzles for subsequent chapters. I know the inventory system isn't built for using items to solve puzzles in the way I would like, but I'm really looking forward to finding out what the hell the lint and the monkey card get used for :-).
Anyway, thanks to the guys (and gals) at Penny Arcade and Hothead for making a enjoyable game. I'll definitely give the next episode a shot and, if it's as good as this one (and hopefully at least a little better) you can consider me hooked.