#Deathspank the baconing passing drawbridge series#

The Baconing is a very fun game, if your new to the series I'm sure as hell your going to have a brilliant time playing through this game, it's very humorous at times, a very open world environment to explore, it has some nice RPG elements such as character customization and leveling up system. The Baconing is a good game, but a lack of innovation or worthwhile improvements stop it from being a much better one. I'm sure there are plenty of gamers that're willing to watch DeathSpank's story unfold even further, but they'll hopefully have more of a reason to return to the Defender of the Downtrodden's world than the same tired combat and a few witty one-liners. As a DeathSpank game, The Baconing leaves itself in something of a weird place: it seems to want to work as a standalone experience (something hinted at in its 'subtitle-for-a-title' name), but its inconclusive ending does little more than set it up for the next game in the franchise.

#Deathspank the baconing passing drawbridge download#

But with console download services delivering increasingly brilliant games these days, DeathSpank has yet to make the transition from an entertaining diversion to something that's truly essential. The result, as ever, is a fiercely likeable time-waster. This is the only action RPG we've ever played where we end up avoiding combat and talking to every bystander in town, rather than the opposite. In short, what The Baconing lacks in deep RPG systems or kinetic combat, it compensates for with the darkness of the humour. That and the sheer gratuity of humour is enough to make The Baconing an entertaining and enjoyable adventure on the whole, even though it lacks the frenetic moreishness of contemporaries such as Torchlight. The only factor that stops the violence from becoming a chore in the end is the sheer variety of enemies, which ranges from genetically-altered Gummi Bears through to Leprechaun Mafia.

We have another batch of reviews for the latest game in Hothead Games' relatively young DeathSpank franchise, The Baconing, which keeps collecting lukewarm-to-positive critiques from the press.