Penny Arcade Adventures: Precipice of Darkness for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By ARhere

  Very Unique and Funny

  This game is certainly worth playing, as I became addicted right away and immediatly purchaced the second version. It is a turn-by-turn game with an odd sense of humor, complete with buffs, healing, and support characters. In order to do extra damage with special moves you have to hit a series of buttons in proper order. This brings a bit more stratigy that is missing in most turn-by-turn games. What is also nice is the lack of "grinding" nessesary to advace. The enemies are placed in key areas and give enough "parts" and experience to advance without repeating the same fight. The only negatives are the special moves are too easy in episode 1 (fixed in episode 2) and episode 3 and 4 are not available. -AR

  
  
• By Tilo C.

  Great atmosphere, poor humor

  The artwork and sound are extremely atmospheric and one gets completely immersed. Also looked great on a huge display (27" Windows). I played through both episodes during 2 all-nighters. The game does require some reflexes (i.e. is not entirely turn-based) but I could handle the "Normal" difficulty setting. The part that made me unhappy were the dialogues and the humor. Sometimes they are very childish, sometimes they confuse gratuitious use of the F-word with being funny, and sometimes it is sickening. There is a mission to kill all the homeless people in a city, called "Hobocide". I would not consider it witty or a "nerdgasm" as some other reviewers have.

  
  
• By Paint-a-holic

  Hmmmmmmm....

  I do like the game, but it is very obvious, and easy-to-follow game. It is not very scarry, not really a horror game, I am starting to wonder why the company put it as mature when the only bad thing in it is 'mild language'. The action is mostly luck, the mysteries are easy, and their is just mild language, that sums it all up overall If I could I would give this 4.8 stars, but since I can not, I say 5. And mostly you do not have to like the comedy to like the game, mostly yes, but If you are under 17 then you would just mostly like the action (like my cousins) but the comedy is not that amusing, but a funny part usually comes up once and awile.

  
  
• By Shaolin Dave

  broken and unfinished

  The game crashes on boot. You can't play it anymore. The game was great when it did work, but the developers apparently didn't care for it, or their fanbase. First, they abandoned the remaining two episodes (another developer picked it up later, but it's a completely different style and only episode 3 was released for Windows). When glitches prevented the game from working on Steam, they removed it from the store rather than fixing the issues, pretty much giving the middle finger to all Windows users who'd already paid.

  
  

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