Personally, I absolutely love the new art style with its use of a classical sprite style, but I also acknowledge that one’s appreciation of it is usually based on the age of the beholder. Meanwhile, Episode 3’s visuals also take a dramatic turn from its predecessors, with a graphical depiction and musical score reminiscent of 16-bit RPGs. I’d highly recommend it too, because despite its absurdity I’m a big fan of the story and pacing, which moves at a good, quick pace with little in terms of meaningless exploration.
If anything, there’s so much to absorb at times it’s best to take the game slow and explore every possible artifact that contains text. Whether you’re traversing the periphery (the ‘in-between space’ of realities), infiltrating a hobo town, or taking on aliens on-board a ship one Episode 3 is never guilty of telling a boring tale. It’s probably a good thing, since players are going to have their hands full deciphering the off-beat narrative now familiar in Penny Arcade RPGs. While Episode 3 continues the story of the previous games, familiarity with the rest of the series is thankfully not required in order to enjoy the narrative of this sequel. If you’ve never played a Penny Arcade RPG (and if iOS is your primary platform, you probably haven’t), On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness follows the adventures of ethereal detectives Tycho Brahe and Jonathan Gabriel as they investigate the supernatural happenings of New Arcadia.
While Episode 3 does have a few annoyances, the majority stemming from the move from controller to touch-based inputs, there’s a lot to love and enjoy in this outing. Now that we’ve had a chance to check out Episode 3 ($2.99), it’s obvious that Zeboyd has a winner both in the RPG fundamentals as well as the outrageous tale weaved throughout the game. When we first heard that Zeboyd Games would be bringing the long-awaited third title in Penny Arcade’s RPG series to iOS, suffice to say we were pretty stoked that we’d finally be able to play an episode of On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness on Apple’s touch screen devices.
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