Every once in a while someone out there comes up with an ingenious idea. Maybe not quite as revolutionary as cheese on toast, still one worthy of recognition. When they do come out with a new concept and show it to us, the adoring bright eyed bushy tailed public, normally we pick our noses, discover why fluff we have building up in our belly buttons and move back to playing the old games that have loved and kept us safe from the evil monsters all these years.
So when the heavily long-winded titled Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode 1: how many more bits can they add to the title, was brought to my attention some days ago, rather than fear the concept outright and demand that the police lock it up because it touched me a in bad place, I decided as an experiment to see what the fuss was about by buying the full game as opposed to relying on the demo.
Put simply, PAAOTRSPODE1 (I’m not typing the whole title out anymore) is a combination adventure / RPG with Final Fantasy 7 style combating and comic bits in-between sections of the game.
Now being a lazy man by nature, I would be tempted to say if that doesn’t sound appealing right there, then just walk away right now.
Go on.
I’m waiting….