History VideoGame / PennyArcadeAdventures

* HeroesWantRedheads: [[spoiler:Tycho with his ex-wife Moira. Although how "heroic" Tycho is, well... that's up for debate.]]

* AwesomeButImpractical: In ''Episode 3'', Gabe's strongest attack is a defense-piercing physical attack that costs 9 mana to use. Properly buffed, Gabe can deal 45,000 damage in a single hit. You will get to use this spell twice on a good round, and that requires devoting your entire party to buffing Gabe so he can execute the attack. That said, if you can last enough rounds to pull this off, you've basically won every single boss battle save the FinalBoss and the BonusBoss, who have prohibitively large amounts of health.

* BonusBoss: [[spoiler:Molly the were-zompire is the final boss of the Colosseum in ''Episode 3''. She's easily stronger than the final boss, but beating her earns an InfinityPlusOneSword for Gabe.]]
** ''Episode 4'' has several: [[spoiler:Cthulhu, the Dark versions of the characters guarding the last piece of the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Knife Shoes]], and Dr. Missingno (a glitched out version of Dr. Blood).]]

* InfinityPlusOneSword: In ''Episode 3'', Gabe can get one from the BonusBoss. There's also the Seamstress pin from the BonusDungeon, which gives +100 to all stats. ''Episode 4'' has the Knife Shoes, obtained by gathering three different parts scattered around the world.

** There are a number of callbacks in ''Episode 3'' to Zeboyd's other games: "[X] forced herself into your party!" (Anne-Claire, in this case) was a RunningGag in ''Videogame/BreathOfDeathVII'', and BonusBoss [[spoiler:Molly the Were-Zompire]] is from their second game. In ''Episode 4'', [[spoiler:Cthulhu, Umi, and Paws from ''VideoGame/CthulhuSavesTheWorld'' are a BonusBoss encounter, and Cthulhu joins your party if you win.]]

* OneHitKill: The Reaper BonusBoss in ''Episode 4'' has this as his schtick. It's literally his only attack, and it will never fail to kill who it hits (barring auto-revive abilities).

That seemed like the end of it until the Penny Arcade team contracted with Zeboyd Games, the developer behind ''VideoGame/BreathOfDeathVII'' and ''VideoGame/CthulhuSavesTheWorld'', to produce Episode 3 as a [[{{Retraux}} 16-bit-styled]] RPG. This game was released on June 25, 2012 on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} and June 29, 2012 for [[UsefulNotes/XboxLiveArcade Xbox Live Indie Games]]. Ports for the Mac, iOS, and Android were released on October 25, 2012. With them came the ''Lair of the Seamstress'' [[DownloadableContent DLC]], a [[BrutalBonusLevel challenging dungeon for overachievers]] that unlocks once the player has maxed out their Class Pins in the main game. The second DLC, ''The Beginning of the End'', was released on December 21, 2012, and elaborates on the fate of "Rake Guy" (the player character from the first two games). The fourth and final episode of ''Precipice'' was released on June 7, 2013.

* HelloInsertNameHere: In the UsefulNotes/Xbox360 version, the player character's default name is the same as your gamertag. Looks especially [[{{Narm}} narm-ish]] if you use a lot of numbers and/or improbable capitalization in your tag (though, you can change his/her name anyway). In the other versions, it's either Carl or Carla.

** The "Slacker" class, which is {{Exactly What It Says On The|Tin}} [[JustForPun Pin]], is largely pointless at first glance. Its main attack, "Tool Around", does nothing, and the class gains new abilities very slowly. As the class gains levels, though, Tool Around will start accumulating random effects that can occur when it's used, such as fully healing the party, dealing damage to all enemies, or just hitting an enemy weakly. The class eventually gets a couple of decent skills, but not until it approaches the point of "mastery", level 40.

* JustForPun: Many items found in the games, e.g. "''Heal''ium Gas" to restore health.

* LongTitle: ''Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness -- Episode X''

->''Four Gods wait on the windowsill''
->''Where once eight Gods did war and will,''
->''And if the gods themselves may die,''
->''What does that say for you and I?''

* DownloadableContent: ''Episode 3'' had two, released for free. The first is the ''Lair of the Seamstress'', a BrutalBonusLevel which appears if you get every Class Pin to level 40. The second will reveal the fate of the player character from the first two games.

* ForegoneConclusion: The ending of the Zeboyd game adaption of ''Episode 3'' is no surprise.]]