Editor’s Note: This is footnmouthtard’s first trip to the front page. Adapted from his user blog.

Like many of you, I was outraged by the price of the Penny Arcade game. But I bought it anyway. Here’s what I’ve experienced thus far with Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness.

I started out by customizing my character, looks very cartoonie. There seem to be more customization options for male than female. I eventually made my likeness cheese’d out with a beret.

First impressions

If you are not a fan of old-fashioned adventure games (point and click) or the Penny Arcade brand, then this game may not be for you. Stop reading. Seriously.

I like the old art style, and the graphics are very stylized. At the outset I am introduced to nice narrator, and story segments told through comic panels. I am tasked with finding a rake and sprucing up my lawn.

As the Game progresses my character is given choices like “I am frightened“, or “Okay disembodied voice.”

Most every object can be inspected. Some yield items while others offer only comic relief.

The combat is active turn-based, meaning you earn experience points, and sometimes items.

I guess you could call this game an Adventure-Comic-RPG.

The combat is simple; a tap of the X to lock on – then A to attack.

If I want block the Air humping robot’s urine attack, I hit LT in a timely fashion.

The NPC’s dialog is heavily recycled .

So far I have created a fat pot head, been pissed on by robots, and seduced a cat by meowing and purring.

Editor’s Note: Not a bad way to spend a day.

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