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Sunday, March 18, 2018 6:10:17 PM

Super Army of Tentacles 3: The Search for Army of Tentacles 2 Review (Wintery)

The good: Excellent sense of humor, clever characters, great writing. The game's "battles" are done through arguments and once you figure out the pattern they're not too challenging, and therein lies the fun. You feel so awesome and clever when you figure it out and get through fights flawlessly. There are tons of pop culture references, which are very good at inducing the "oh, I got that!" feeling of superior cultural awareness that a good episode of Mystery Science Theater 2k was so adept at creating.
The bad: You will be retreading the same screens over and over as you move from one place to another, "fetch quests" are never very exciting but a menu-based-movement game laden with them introduces some measure of tedium.
The ugly: There's a LOT of DLC, though the Black Goat edition fixes this problem, it's approaching Crusader Kings levels here. Unlike CK2 though, the DLC is very reasonably priced and I view many of them more as a way to tip a few bucks to the dev than essential upgrades. The sheer memetic and humor density treads a fine line that some people will no doubt find overly dense, though I personally find it charming. The sort of parodic rapid-fire of jokes where if you don't get or find one funny, another one is right behind, much like parodies like Police Squad (and some people felt Police Squad fell flat for just that reason, too many jokes in too little time)
NOTE: there used to be some bugs, but the developer shows an impressive level of dedication to support and polish, supporting the game over a time span that should shame AAA developers that claim product support is "too expensive" over the long term and leave their games unpolished.
What I'd pay: I buy every Stegalosaurus game on release, and never regret the money. If you're on the fence discouts are often enough that you can pick it up cheap, and the modular DLC approach with an impressively cheap base game let you try before you really invest, ample DLC means if you find it to your liking you can extend the experience.