7/5/2023 0 Comments When does weird west come out![]() ![]() I pick it up, hoping to shed some light on the situation, but I miss-click, and suddenly my avatar hurls the lamp against the wall. Resting next to me on the bedside table is an old oil lamp. I apologize.ĭisclaimer: I was given a review code for Weird West on Steam, but the opinions expressed in this article are my own.I wake from my bed in the middle of the night, startled by noises outside. This meat has gotten a little discolored in places, and I think someone dipped it in that dirty bathwater too, but it still tastes pretty decent if you cook out the maggots first. But that, of course, is a matter of taste. With that said, I think Weird West is one of the best games to come out this year so far. I adore this game world, even though the malleability of its game systems keeps distracting me from actually accomplishing anything in it. I’m tempted to say that Weird West isn’t for everyone, but it’s certainly for me. I was still testing and discovering new things when I was 20 hours deep into the game a lot of other folks would probably be tired of experimenting by that point. Personally, I like to monkey around with game systems and see what sort of gameplay emerges from those experiments. If you decide to settle into a combat style, perhaps you really like popping off dudes from afar with your rifle, then it can start to feel a bit repetitive. If you keep asking “What happens if I…?” the answers will keep surprising you. I think a person’s interest in Weird West will persist so long as they approach it with curiosity. Oh, and if you wipe out an entire town, it might become a ghost town, with packs of monsters moving in. ![]() This made me want to start a new file and hunt down Cross before the rescue mission to see if I can keep my new friend alive (I haven’t attempted this yet). When I started the second character, I found a newspaper clipping that talked about how Cross had murdered one of the NPCs I’d befriended in that first story. I completed the first Journey by rescuing the character’s husband, but I didn’t hunt down the person who captured him (Shelby Cross). The game is split into five “Journies,” and each one of these puts you in the shoes of a new character. If that friendly NPC dies, though, they’re gone for good and they will no longer rush to your aid. If you make friends with NPCs, they might show up to help you out in a particularly difficult firefight. You could be in the middle of a battle with Sirens (the overpowered human-eating monster things), and suddenly you’ve got a gang of human enemies popping shots at you from behind a boulder.īut this works in the opposite direction as well. I did, however, see a lot of the game’s Vendetta feature, where killing one NPC that another NPC is friends with will often cause them to round up a posse and come after you when it’s least convenient for you. There’s a lot of ugly in this game, but it’s a cartoon ugly rather than an ugly ugly. It’s seedy and unforgiving, but all of it is presented with a cel-shaded look that rounds off some of the rough edges visually. This is a world of cannibals and occult rituals and people whose brains have been Frankensteined into pig parts. Weird West is off-putting and captivating at the same time. When the narrator starts rambling in that Sam Elliot-esqe drawl and a low synth tone underscores everything, you kind of just settle into the game’s world, like you’re slowly lowering yourself into a warm bath - only that bath is filled with dirt and grime and puss from the last dozen scoundrels who washed themselves here. This is immediately clear from the hyper-stylized menu screen and the gunshot sound effects that accompany menu actions. Weird West is absolutely dripping with atmosphere. While that gets to the core of what this game is, that doesn’t say anything about how it feels. It’s basically a top-down RPG in the style of, say, Wasteland 3, only taking place in an occult-infused Wild West setting. ![]()
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