![]() Clothes Make the Superman: The plot centers around the Thongs of Power, granted to six individuals who have all gone corrupt from their power save for the possessor of the Thong of Justice.In Thongs of Virtue, Deathspank and other characters occasionally call out their character types.DeathSpank will beg the player to "Block, you fool, BLOCK!" if he takes too many hits without blocking.Big Bad: Lord Von Prong in the first game.Bag of Spilling: Thongs of Virtue starts with DeathSpank being captured and put in a P.O.W.Bad Santa: Santa is one of the villains of Thongs of Virtue.Ax-Crazy: Sandy becomes delusional towards the second game, obsessed with killing all the Thong bearers for a good cause she never follows through if she wins.Automatic Crossbow: Your main ranged weapon.You can submit to her, but The Baconing reveals that DeathSpank killed her instead and took all 6 Thongs for himself. Her grandfather was the forger of the Thongs, and her plan was to have DeathSpank retrieve them all so she could destroy them, and ultimately kill him as well. Cuisine, worn by Wortten Wandelranger ◊.Compassion, worn by The Nun ◊ (she has a name, but it's absurdly long). ![]() There were supposed to be 9 of them, but only 6 were made due to executive meddling. Artifact of Doom: The Thongs Of Virtue.Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: "A tale of blood, and steel, and bacon.".Thongs of Virtue however moves onto a somewhat more modern setting. Anachronism Stew: And how! One of the quests has you buying a cellphone for a particularly insufferable Orphan and when talking about movies with some Punch Clock Villains DeathSpank decides to just BitTorrent the film on his own time.Deathspank is officially declared the God of Orphans. A more benevolent version occurs in The Baconing. ![]() Like the first entry in the series, the game will sell for $14.99 (1,200 Microsoft points).If you've ever played a Hack and Slash, you'll know how to play this game. Thongs of Virtue will launch on the PlayStation Network September 21 and arrive on Xbox Live Arcade the next day. "DeathSpank is a creation not just of Ron but a collection of people, and Hothead is a huge part of that," Millar said. Screens and art for the game show more modern and sci-fi trappings, with DeathSpank wielding a bazooka, machine guns, and rifles to fend off enemies from giant ants to ray-gun-wielding aliens.Īs for whether Gilbert's departure meant Thongs of Virtue would be the character's last hurrah, that shouldn't be assumed. We just wanted to blow people's expectations out of the water as far as what kind of weapons DeathSpank can have, what worlds he can travel to, and what sort of creatures and characters and enemies he can face." "For the second game-and this is a reason it was a separate product, too-we just wanted to redefine what that could be. "DeathSpank 1 was an introduction to the universe for people and it was very much a fantasy action role-playing game," Millar said. "But what we did do is take a bit of a guess at what we thought was going to come out of the releases."Īs a result, Thongs of Virtue will sport more variety in the types of quests given to players, more bosses, a new cooperative play character in addition to Sparkles the Wizard, and a wealth of new environments. "By doing two games back to back, we didn't get the opportunity to listen to everybody's feedback and try and incorporate that," Millar said. In fact, development on Thongs of Virtue was finished before the first DeathSpank game launched, which works well for those anticipating a sequel, but came with its own drawbacks. While Gilbert left Hothead Games in April, Thongs of Virtue producer Hamish Millar told GameSpot the Secret of Monkey Island creator had just as much influence on this game as he had on the first game. The episodic tag may as well have been left on the project, as Hothead today announced a second game in the series, DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue, set to debut next month. Ron Gilbert's DeathSpank was originally announced as an episodic series but was released last month as a stand-alone downloadable title for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
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