Evil Avatar writes: "Penny Arcade's first episode of their entrance into the videogaming world has finally come out! Now Tycho and Gabe (Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik) can face all the developers and reviewers out there that they have torn apart on their own site for making bad games and writing bad reviews. So, with that bit of enticement out of the way, I'm here to tell you that if you're a fan of the webcomic, as I have been since almost the start of it, you should enjoy your roughly 6 hours with On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One (last time I'll type that out until the end of the review…whew!). For those who have not read the webcomic, all I can say is good luck getting all the in-jokes and be prepared for a lot of swear words to be thrown about along with blood spewing and robots pissing(?). This is not a game to play with your children in the room, that's for sure!"
The Good
+ The characters have the feel of Mike Krahulik (Gabe)'s drawing style down pat
+ The Gabe and Tycho characters are spot on, even when moved to the 1920s
+ Characters from the webcomic making an appearance, sometimes in major roles
+ The jokes are fantastic, but if you haven't read PA before you'll be lost
+ The story is well done…who else can combine Fruit Fuckers, mimes, Cthulu and a Urine Professor?
The Bad
- The game is short on gameplay
- It is a bit too easy
- A bit of reading
- If you've never read PA you won't get many jokes
The Ugly
- So many things, so little time to explain them…
Hardcore Gamer: Paying anything over $1 gets you a Steam key for DeathSpank, DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue, and Penny Arcade's On the Rain Slick Precipice of Darkness Episode One. Paying $6 or more gets you Episode Two and The Baconing. OSTs are DeathSpank and Episode One are included with every purchase.
The following is a list of PC games released for the week of June 2nd, 2013.
PSU.com had the opportunity to speak to Jeff Kalles from Penny Arcade -- who is also acting as Producer on PA's new game -- about Penny Arcade’s On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 coming to PS3/PSN.
As far as consoles go, the game is currently penned as exclusive to the Xbox 360. However, it seems that the game is all but confirmed for the PlayStation 3.
