Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3

yodasears's Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness - Episode 3 (PC) review

Resplendent Retro Gaming

I picked up PA: OTRSPOD 3 during the Steam Summer Sale, not expecting much more than a few hours of entertaining diversion.

And then I started playing.

The gameplay is very much old skool Final Fantasy style. Deliberately. The Zeboyd Games influence is unmistakable - in that it's that old skool rpg, in a 2012 context. But this is incidental. It is only a small part of why I rate this game.

The humour is great - full disclosure: am a long-term PA fanboy; followed them long before I ever discovered GB (and I followed GB without subscribing almost since it started) - and it is completely in the Penny Arcade vein. It is themed to the game universe's distorted interpretations of Gabe & Tycho et al, but nothing is lost in translation; their sweeping epic stylings retain every ounce of humour that made their site what it is.

Zeboyd's ace up their sleeves is that the mechanics and the humour have a very clever convergence in the form of pins, which allow any character to be assigned up to 2 extra character classes. From a mechanics perspective, this provides a hefty dose of munchkinism. From a Penny Arcade perspective, that munchkinism is flavour, and what an enterprising and diverse flavour it is.

The game itself takes about seven hours to complete and every last one of those hours was a delight.

Other reviews for Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness - Episode 3 (PC)

Classic JRPG stylings with a modern touch 0
Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness - Episode 3(PC) by machinerebel on July 02, 2013
Developed by Zeboyd Games, makers of fine retro-RPGs like Cthulu Saves the World and Breath of Death VII, the third act in the four part Penny Arcade series is a successful tribute to SNES-era Japanese RPGs like Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger while simultaneously improving on the formula and modernizing many of the obnoxious tropes for which the genre is known. Enemies in New Arcadia can be seen and avoided in dungeons, though most of them seem to block crucial pathways or treasure chests, an...
1 out of 1 found this review helpful.

Penny Arcade 3 Review 0
Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness - Episode 3(PC) by cryvalkyrie on July 03, 2012
After a nearly four year wait, Penny Arcade’s On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 has been released and the adventures of our intrepid (hmm…more like reluctant) detectives Gabe and Tycho finally continue. The question is – can Zeboyd Games successfully pick up where Hothead Games left off – instead developing DeathSpank – and continue the series?In short…sort of. After playing and thoroughly enjoying the first two games, I was quite excited to install and start up the third. Penny Arcade 3...
1 out of 1 found this review helpful.