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Premature Evaluation: Pit People

Every Monday we send Brendan on a cartoonish quest to kill or capture an early access game and force it to battle in the fighting pits. This week, the comic antics of Pit People [official site].

Oh thank god, it s funny. Having missed Castle Crashers and BattleBlock Theater, previous games from The Behemoth, I didn t know what kind of comedy to expect. When I heard the South Parky voice of this game s antagonistic narrator (the same voice actor from their previous game), I feared the worst second-hand dick jokes, gateway satire, walking talking poops. I was relieved to feel my first lol, the result of a character s quick, unexpected death and the narrator’s flamboyant disregard. It s also a decent strategy game, which isn t a genre I d usually associate with giant purple bears bleeding onto the surface of the earth. But there you go.

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