Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness saga is finally coming to an end with Episode 4, having changed developer hands once along the way, and going off on many wonderfully ridiculous tangents at regular intervals. What hasn't changed throughout, however, is the focus on quality storytelling, and hilarious storytelling at that.
Apocalyptics expert Tycho and devil-fighter Gabe are back for their series' epic conclusion in Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 4. This fourth and final entry into the duo's retro-RPG shenanigans will take place in the Underhell, where the party has been sent after the epic final battle of Rain-Slick 3.
It wasn't so long ago that the folks at Penny Arcade announced they wouldn't be pursuing a third game in the Adventures series, due to lackluster sales and then-developer Hothead Games being occupied with working on DeathSpank. But life found a way, and here we are with Episode 3. It may seem like quite the departure at first, but it maintains all of what made the first two games so great.
Like most of the internet - or at the very least, the nerdier half of the web - I've spent the last decade enamoured with Penny Arcade. Arguably the most celebrated webcomic of all time, the adventures of Gabe and Tycho have given me plenty of reasons to chuckle over the years. So when they started an episodic RPG series based on the franchise back in 2008, I was tickled pink. But the series has been slow going, and after two episodes, was scrapped entirely. But as it turns out, you can't keep a good franchise down.