![]() ![]() A revolver may be your first gun, but you’ll quickly find yourself using a rifle which is much more effective. However, as you progress and level him up, you’ll unlock new weapons, buy new upgrades and find/unlock additional perks. This is especially true considering we’re talking about a game where one level’s miniboss will later appear in duplicate or triplicate, along with other beasts, as you move through latter stages.Īs I wrote above, combat is primarily handled through Jesse’s gauntlet. ![]() However, while the next few levels were noticeably easier, the game was never ‘easy.’ Its penchant for throwing everything but the kitchen sink at you makes for a challenging experience no matter which option you’ve selected. There simply weren’t enough healing options, and I kept getting pummeled by said boss in ways that felt kind of unfair, so I made the change. I played through the majority of Evil West on normal, but one particular boss frustrated me enough to drop down to ‘easy,’ because I wanted to finish the game and call it a night. In no way is it a challenge level befitting those who would just like to experience a story. The same goes for its ‘story’ difficulty, which is supposed to be the easy one. In fact, its normal difficulty seems to have been mislabeled. To say that Evil West pulls no punches would be putting things correctly, because it is not an easy game. You’ll predominantly bash your way through enemies, but must make use of other weapons and abilities if you hope to stand a chance in this challenging world. It’s predominantly handled through a gauntlet, which Jesse wears on his arm and can summon electricity with once it’s upgraded. Don’t even get me started on the wasp-like creatures, or the dragon-style beasts.īeing that it’s - at heart - a third-person character action game, Evil West is full of hard edged combat. The result is a twelve to fifteen hour long story mode, in which one or two players (via available co-op) must bash their way through tons upon tons of different creatures, be they vampires, werewolves, spider monsters or big, hulking beasts. Led by a vampiric monster in little girls’ clothing, it aims to spread its disease throughout the United States, and plans to do so with help from other monsters. Our campaign begins when the proverbial shit begins to hit the fan, and a sect of vampires begins its quest to take over the country. Those bloodthirsty bastards are everywhere! Their focus is killing things that go bump in the night, with the most specific variety being vampires. Headed by his father, it’s an old fashioned monster hunting club which seems to have ties to the United States government. You see, Jesse just so happens to be second in line to the leader of what is known as the Rentier Institute. This is the campy and unrealistic story of Jesse Rentier - a westerner who is different from the ones we’re used to seeing and portraying. I know I played a lot of them during that generation. Evil West does not share this trait, because it’s something new for Flying Wild Hog: a character action game, which is reminiscent of something from the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 era. Most of those games share something in common, with that being the fact that they draw inspiration from old school arcade shooters some of which I grew up playing on an old Pentium 1. It helped that I’d been hearing a lot about the game online, though I admittedly hadn’t followed it closely enough myself.Įvil West comes to us from Poland, through a studio that is known for having developed titles like Hard Reset, Hard Reset Redux, Trek to Yomi and the Shadow Warrior trilogy. ![]() Flying Wild Hog’s dark, bloody and downright violent game looked like it would scratch this itch for me, and also looked like it would be fun in the process, which is why I requested a review code. For this reason, Evil West stood out to me more than it normally would’ve. When I think of the genre, only GUN (which I loved) and Red Dead Revolver come to mind at least, without counting the two aforementioned behemoths. ![]() Sure, two of the most popular releases of all-time happen to be Red Dead Redemption and its sequel, both of which are westerns, but other than them they’re few and far between. Despite its popularity in written fiction, TV and even movies, the Wild West is an underutilized setting when it comes to video games. ![]()
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