As you mentioned, the adventure aspects of the product have been the strong points, with lots of laughter, interesting characters and stunning worlds to explore. We actually spent a lot of time early on looking at the gameplay as a major focus for The Baconing.
Are those elements you’ve adjusted or overhauled this time around, or were you happy with their functionality in the earlier games? Many gamers loved the humor in the first DeathSpank, but hoped for a more robust gameplay system for battles, inventory, and leveling. In addition to the action, The Baconing also delivers puzzles to challenge the gamer helping to change up the pacing of the game throughout the experience. Players will equip different weapons, items and potions and face a variety of enemies in vibrant worlds populated with useful objects that can affect the battles.
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The original inspiration for the series is Monkey Island meets Diablo and the core of that vision has been retained, refined and much improved in The Baconing. The gameplay is a very engaging action-oriented RPG experience. Now, DeathSpank travels the lands to find a sizzling solution to vanquish the AntiSpank and bring about peace once again to Spanktopia.Īgain, for readers who may not have played the first game, how would you describe the gameplay in The Baconing? Balance can only be restored to the world by entering the Fires of Bacon and destroying five of the thongs. Much to his surprise, the result had nothing to do with chafing or wedgies, but rather the summoning of an evil incarnation of himself, the AntiSpank. Unaware of the myth of The Baconing, DeathSpank, on this one boring day in Spanktopia, decides to try on all of the six Thongs of Virtue at once. In The Baconing, DeathSpank has already conquered all the challenges he has faced and the foes encountered on his path for Justice.
A well rounded warrior, DeathSpank is the poster boy for heroes.
He is quite handy with any real weapon, especially Weapons of Justice and can easily over power hordes of enemies in battle situations. It is obvious that DeathSpank’s personality is sometimes bigger than the battles that he faces but at the end of the day, he is someone you can count on to help out in any situation and because of that, people tend to look past his flaws. He is always seeking out quests to complete in his everlasting crusade of trying to vanquish as much evil as he possibly can. Well we should start off with DeathSpank, our Hero to the Downtrodden. We spoke with producer Mike Inglehart about the upcoming game, which is set to release in the coming weeks.įor readers new to the DeathSpank universe, what is the storyline of The Baconing? Who is DeathSpank? What situation does he find himself in as the game begins? Where does the story head from there? The Baconing abandons the naming convention of including the hero's name in the title, but it definitely is the next step in the franchise. The team at Hothead is hard at work on a new installment of the series.
The first games presented a classic action/RPG framework but twisted it by parodying the very game types it was aping. DeathSpank is back, and we spoke with the new game's producer about the big changes in store for the goofy but lovable hero.ĭeathSpank was one of the more unusual and exciting new additions to the downloadable scene in 2010.
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