05.22.08
GAME CLEARED: Penny Arcade Episode 1 (360)
At 10:05p, I defeated the final boss of Penny Arcade Adventures: On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness Episode 1 on Xbox Live Arcade. This is the fourteenth game cleared in 2008. The next game that is queued for completion is Beyond Good & Evil (PS2), followed by Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) and Super Robot Taisen OG (GBA). Game was cleared over two days.
Grey said,
05.23.08 at 10:18 am
Well that was quick! Short game, or did you just get very stuck in to it?
John said,
05.23.08 at 11:33 am
Oh, it was very short. Roughly 5-7 hours of gameplay at most. It was riotous, yes, but as has been said it’s nothing that will blow you away.
Ismail Saeed said,
05.23.08 at 8:52 pm
Personally I feel good about it… it feels like the old Sierra and Lucasarts adventure games (at least the point & click variety) and the fact that the narrator IS funny or tries to inject humor reminds me of Space Quest (except that there is a distinct narrator character and that I’m used to it being unvoiced).
However, it also reminds me how VERY VERY VERY long it has been since I played a game of this format that I had not played previously to that and was already familiar with.
I’m not done yet, FYI. I was giving it a first look and decided to save and stop when something terribly involved was about to begin and it was a late hour.
I plan to play it some more this weekend.
It should be noted that this is MEANT as an episodic game, as in a soon-to-come episode 2 picking up where this left off. These are meant to be brief chunks.