The follow-up to last summer’s award-winning, chart-topping action RPG, DeathSpank: T.O.V. (NASDAQ: ERTS) and Hothead Games TM announced that DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue (T.O.V.) is available for download in Europe on PlayStation ®Network today for £9.99 and on Xbox LIVE ® Arcade for 1200 Microsoft Points. Step Into the Mighty Boots of the World’s Funniest Downloadable Super Hero Again in an all New Adventure on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade Still, I completed every mission (both side and main) in around eight hours, so there are plenty of tasks to finish. Quest givers can hand out task after task, which can get extremely tedious. Granted, this is what most RPG's deliver, but I was expecting a bit more given the developer's background. However a vast majority of the "Unimportant Things" followed the same formula as the main missions - fetching ingredients and items or happily slaying monsters on behalf of other people. Because Monkey Island is known for its puzzles as well as its humor, I was expecting more puzzle-centric quests. Dubbed "Unimportant Things I Need to Do," they seemed appropriately named. Still, I was slightly letdown by the side missions. It's fun to choose bizarre dialogue paths and see where they go in this game. The dialogue menu is similar to Monkey Island – your list of conversation options shows up on the bottom half of the screen and you pick what your hero will say. If you've ever wondered whether or not chickens have lips or what occupation a retired World of Warcraft character would have, then look no further. Humor is definitely DeathSpank's crown jewel. When I was done marveling at the visuals, the dialogue took center stage as it is extremely amusing. IGN is impressed with the PC version of Deathspank, awarding a score of 8.5/10 in their review: The jokes are unlikely to prompt a big league laugh from the balloon of your gut, but they still kept me chuckling and propped up in a state of mild amusement that meant I was happy to keep on playing even after I realised the game mechanisms were basically a bit rubbish. You might think someone was pretentious and sophisticated as an RPS editor might not find all this nether-humour particularly funny but actually it is pretty funny. There’s a pervasive theme of poo and underwear, and when DeathSpank dies he is respawns from a “scented latrine”, which also acts as a save point. He haughtily marches about, making quips and performing quests for “non-descript citizens” and other NPCs, all the while gathering weapons, potions and armour. It’s the main character, the macho, condescending DeathSpank, who makes all this work. Jim Rossignol seems to think it's ultimately worth the price - though perhaps only just: Rock, Paper, Shotgun serves up some impressions of the PC version of Deathspank.
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