Those guys at Hothead Games sure are a fantastic group of people. They made an amazing game, are releasing a second game within mere months of the first installment (9/21 for PSN and 9/22 for XBL!), and top it all off with being super nice and friendly. GamingAngel Manda and I got to steal some of their time at PAX to ask them about this non-DLC.

The Good News:

• Playtime will clock in at “about 50% longer than the first game”. For all you math-phobes, that’s around 15 hours worth of gameplay.
• That teaser of an ending to DeathSpank was kind of weird, wasn’t it? For Thongs of Virtue: “You’ve been captured as a prisoner of war; you need to fight your way out of there. As soon as you break out of the POW camp you’re exactly back where the first game ends”.
• More of that ambiguous redhead.
• Sparkles has been replace by a ninja named Steve! While the new sidekick isn’t more robust (I asked), Steve rides a unicorn, has a Scorpion-style attack, summons rainbows, and even has a button for singing his own name.
• Wow.
• Levels start back at one. The reasoning? DeathSpank was already a full hero in the first game where you started at one, so bringing people back to the same level playing field for the second game seemed to work.