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Kotaku: Penny Arcade Game Impressions

Kotaku writes: " After finishing up playing a bit of Too Human coop yesterday, I noticed a demo station of Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness sitting all by itself, tucked away next to the Ninja Gaiden II stations.

Since the game wasn't getting official demos, I decided to take our 30 minute break between games to sit down with a game and take it for a test drive.

The game starts off by letting you customize your character's look and clothing. The selection isn't as robust as I would have liked to see (no luxuriously long hair guys? I'm hurt) but there's still more than enough to make the character feel like one of your own.

The game itself unwinds slowly through an amalgam of comic panel and full motion cut scenes that are both narrated by a... um... narrator. This voice is actually the only one you'll ever hear in the game. I'm told this is because fans of the web comic have their own and wildly varied ideas of how the characters should sound (For instance my Gabe and Tycho sound like Asterix and Obelix).

I was surprised at how much I enjoying playing what I did of the game. It felt very much like a blending of some of the best bits of different types of games. It has, for instance, a distinct role-playing flavor to it, but there's also a point-and-click adventure and action element to the game."
Marceles - contributor
Published: 53 days 3 hours ago | News | Xbox 360
 
 

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wow4u - 53 days 4 hours ago
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Microsoft is really bringing so many great games to Xbox LIVE Arcade. Classics, board games, casual games -- every week its like getting a christmas suprise.

And, with the comming Community based XNA Community games, its going to finally bring democracy to console development.

I look forward to seeing what the small teams and unique ideas bring to the Xbox 360 in the future. And good for MS helping bring up small studios and help them have a market to bring their product to. For a while, it looked like EA, Activision and others were going to eat up all the small development studios; but Xbox LIVE and Microsoft are helping make sure the barrier-to-entry is kept reasonable for new companies to be born.

This Penny Arcade title looks like *a lot* of fun, and based on Kotaku's (and others) impressions its going to do very well.
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