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I just spent a half-hour playing through the Penny Arcade Adventures: On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode One demo today. Yeah, I’m not too happy with the game’s title, either.

PAAOTRSPODEO is an adventure/role playing game based on the characters from the Penny Arcade webcomic. Their website is pretty funny, and I read it from time to time, but it’s not a deciding factor for me and this game. I do like the fact that it’s an RPG on XBLA, something that doesn’t happen often, and it has a good 6 hours of gameplay to it.

There are three things keeping me from immediately buying this game: 1) It costs $20.00, 2) the in-game graphics are not very good (see above), although it is an XBLA game so I have to cut it some slack, and 3) aside from the initial narrator, there isn’t any voice acting, which I think is a wasted opportunity.

At this point, I don’t plan on buying the game, but I do recommend you give the free trial a shot and make your own judgement.