The entertainment value also comes in the form of what you need to solve the puzzles like a garter belt for a fan belt in a beat-up police car. Most items are so absurd that you know there’s only one thing you can do with them. Thankfully the areas can be completed in any order so that adventure game quirk is out the door here. Instead of just simple hints, you have to read all the insults the game throws at you which is entertaining. Most of the puzzles are decent, but the hint system is there to help you and insult you. The game even makes fun of Brits themselves with chavs, and overall British terms and inside jokes. What makes the game interesting are Hector’s comments, and the wisecracks and gross jokes thrown between characters. The porn shop needs to be shut down, the clock tower up and running again, and the guy at the park needs money to restore it. The three areas are a park, clock tower, and porn shop which all need to be dealt with as demanded by the terrorist. This is a by-the-books adventure game and doesn’t try anything fancy or new. This is a standard adventure game affair, and there’s nothing different at all. You start by just clicking on everything and seeing what you can take, interact with, and talk to. This leads to the three main areas of the game where you have to solve puzzles. Instead of storming in and dealing with it the right way he does everything the terrorist says. The game is about a deadbeat police investigator who has to deal with a hostage situation. This game may be shallow in gameplay, but it makes up for it with crass British humor that is disgusting and funny at the same time. Most have cutesy colorful graphics, crappy voice acting, and a cheesy story to keep teenagers and unknowing casual gamers interested. Hector is an adventure game for adults, which there aren’t many of. There needs to be more variety in the gameplay and/or quests because a third helping of this would just be way too much. The game is also full of repetitive fetch quests that I didn’t really think about in the first game. Why this wasn’t addressed is beyond me, but it needs to be in the third game or I actually won’t play it. Most enemies that are around your level will kill you almost instantly if you get ganged up on, so running around in circles eating food is just annoying. This made combat drag out and become irritating, which just so happens to be the case here too. This takes forever and sometimes you will fail if enemies have projectile weapons because DeathSpank will stop eating if hit. You can only have 5 health potions at a time so you have to rely on consuming food items. The biggest issues I had with the last game still exist. At least now most of them tell you where the quest giver is so you can go back to them without having to wander around. The last game had poor hints and even the quest descriptions were pretty poor. I actually found the fortune cookie hints to be more useful this time around and rarely needed to use a walkthrough. There’s even an area where you can steer a pirate ship and go to little islands to get quest items as well. There are more characters to talk to which means hours of funny and strange dialog. The level cap is 20 again, but it takes a bit longer to get there this time around. Running around and whacking enemies is the name of the game, but only certain ones can be beaten when you are at a higher level. You can probably finish most of the game in about 15 hours, or 20 if you are slow. There are more areas to explore in this game which means it’s a bit longer. Some chests can only be opened with special keys that have to be fitted b a locksmith though. The same food, potions, and other little tidbits like chests. There are new armor and weapons in this game, but everything else is the same. As you do quests for various people you pick up more powerful armor and weapons along the way. You can warp around the world via outhouses and you will revive at the nearest one if you die. The game is broken up into several areas just like the first game. The story is about DeathSpank trying to retrieve three thongs from three evil bosses, but in between, you can do about 150 side quests. Unfortunately, the game also carries over the same problems from the first game so not a single thing was fixed or changed. The game is exactly the same, but with new content. Thongs of Virtue is the direct sequel but feels more like an expansion. The first DeathSpank gave us some solid RPG action with really funny dialog and wit.
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