
I sold every grenade I grabbed up for money – they weren’t worth the potential pain. Which means you’d have to run back towards the grenade so the enemies go there, then quick turn around and try and escape the blast so enemies and not DeathSpank. The problem is the enemies aren’t going to sit where the aforementioned grenade landed. You then have a certain amount of time to make sure he’s far enough away. When DeathSpank uses one, it plops onto the ground. It’s just that they don’t work the way you’d hope they would. The bazookas aren’t too bad, given you leave enough space between DeathSpank and his enemies, and are great for boss fights. While the guns are quite nice, especially the ray-gun you get from helping an alien, the bazookas and grenades are incredibly hazardous to DeathSpank’s health.

In Thongs of Virtue, you get guns, bazookas and grenades.

In the original DeathSpank, all he got were crossbows.

One of the biggest addition to the games is the inclusion of firearms. Appropriately enough, DeathSpank makes a joke about this after Sandy gives him extra packages to deliver. There are a few more puzzle and combining-item tasks than there were in the original DeathSpank, but players will still spend at least 90% of the game acting as a gofer. I eventually got to the point where I would wait until I’d completed at least ten at a time, before sending DeathSpank through the outhouse network to report results.Īnd yes, most of the DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue quests involving beating someone, more often than not multiple persons, to get items. Everywhere I’d turn, there’d be exclamation points alerting me to another fetch quest yearning for completion. Variety is good and the dialogue is great, but it’d be nice to not have a constant list of at least 10, sometimes even 20 side-quests weighing me down. There’s a larger world to explore, more NPCs to interact with, an assortment of new enemies, more weapons and equipment and an avalanche of quests to complete. The key word for DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue is excess. Since they’re corrupted, thong wearers will do everything possible to kill DeathSpank so they can take his thong and collect the remaining thongs to become a god. This means going around the world in search of corrupted thong wearers, who include a nun with a lot of names, a famous cook named Worton, and Santa Claus. DeathSpank himself wears the thong of justice, and Sandy tasks him with recovering the thongs of compassion, cuisine and generosity, since the thong of peace has been lost in the shuffle. However, something went wrong and they corrupted anyone who wore them.

Years ago, six thongs of virtue were crafted at Bacon Mountain – the thongs of compassion, courage, cuisine, generosity, justice and peace. After DeathSpank defeated the evil Lord Von Prong, he learned from Sandy Bravitor that Von Prong wasn’t responsible for his actions, as he’d been corrupted by the Thong of Courage. Be they stoopid rabbits or troublesome orques, DeathSpank will lead the assault and save the day.ĭeathSpank was only the beginning. The lovable, Tick-like DeathSpank has returned to serve justice by running around and slaughtering anything that moves in DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue.
