Weird West (PS4) REVIEW Blood and Rust
Video games can find it challenging to understand the Western genre. The Red Dead Redemption series is a big hit with fans of rusty guns and jingling spurs, but theraren’t’t many major games set in this part of the Wild West. The Call of Juarez series, whose latest entry was launched in 2013, and the Desperados sim titles (real-time tactics/save-scumming sim titles) are two highlights. For those who long for six-shooters or a trusted horseit’s’s hard to find a job. Weird West is like ClinEastwood’s character. He has landed in a town desperate for a hero. How does this stranger compare?
The Weird West aesthetic is evident from the start. This paranormal take on the American West is where land developers and cannibalistic werewolves are armed. The character art captures the creepy solemnity of this setting and the comic-book-y thrill.
The gameplay is influenced by CRPGs such as the original Fallout and Divinity. Your character moves from narrow corridors to open spaces, using weapons and abilities to defeat enemies and navigate environments. You can solve some situations by using dialogue or careful infiltration. To win their support, you can pay other shooters or complete side missions to recruit them. Random acts of kindness in the world, such as saving someone from a bank robbery, will make your allies. Gunning down gang leaders and leaving others alive could lead them to form a vendetta against you and attack you when you least expect it. Weird West is ambitious and makes a strong impression for the complex, endlessly changing clockwork world it offers.
You see a man tied to a chair in Weird West. Five portraits are hanging from the walls. You will be able to jump into the body of a former bounty hunter who has had a violent past and is now forced to retireIt’s‘s a strong start. I killed the invading thugs, buried them (an optional touch that the videdidn’t’t move me into, but it felt respectful), and stormed off ready to take revenge on the wronged shooters of Western films.
Throughout my adventure, I returned from the beginning to the strange room before jumping to control a new character in that world: a Native American tracker hunting mythical beasts and then a mutilated Pigman. Importantly, I found that the characters I had previously lived in still existed in my world even after I finished with them. This was an exciting twist on the body-swapping concept. It seems they lost their personalities when I stopped controlling them. The bounty hunter, who joined forces with the pigman, was no different from any other helper character you can invite along on your travels. She even used the exact stock phrases during battle as the generic posse members.
You will be trekking across these places to experience different cultures and lifestyles. These locations offer a lot of variety at first. Although the maps are very colorful and distinctive, the repetitive patterns will soon show up. Worse, there will be very few new places to visitYou’llll find the” “n”w” areas blended with your previous experiences.
