11/26/2022 0 Comments Zero punctuation gone home![]() You play as five different protagonists as part of an overarching plot concerning a mysterious scheme by ineffable cosmic forces and the random individuals caught up in their machinations. At least I hope you do, these last fifteen years will have seemed like a bit of a roller coaster otherwise. They couldn’t get the character customisation to work, so they figured if they just gave you five random protagonists at least one of them will be marginally more Mr. In all there are five story campaigns played in linear order, so I think I get what happened. Bean? But then my bounty hunter rescued her husband a suspiciously short way into the game and we switched to a completely different protagonist somewhere else in the world experiencing a completely different plot. I mean, how am I supposed to play the way I want to play if my protagonist isn’t the closest possible facsimile of Mr. Now, one thing that did strike me as odd for an immersive choices matter RPG was the complete lack of character customisation. Why couldn’t you have retired to run a bowling alley or a middling capacity convention space.Īnyway, some baddies come and kidnap your husband so you have to go back to your bounty hunter ways to get him back, because of course you do, you fucking hack. Look around, asshole, everyone’s building farms. Anyway, our adventure begins with us taking the role of a bounty hunter who tried to escape from their violent past by setting up home in the middle of ground zero for a major interfactional occult conflict, yeah, that was gonna work. It drew me in because with the mashup of Lovecraft and western I could enjoy both a bit of gribbly horror fun and getting to hear my actions being narrated by a very throaty-voiced man with a Southern drawl every now and again and feel like I’m in the Dukes of Hazzard. So as well as cowboys and indians and outlaws and bounty hunters there are several factions of bizarre fantasy races like witches, werewolves, zombies, sirens and Chinese people. With a jolly interesting setting – it’s a Western but in an alternative world where the wild west was basically the way Lovecraft thought it was like while he was living on the east coast and refusing to leave his house in case the Irish immigrant family next door implanted him with chestbursting parasites. So in the end it was Weird West that caught my eye, an indie Fallout-esque isometric action RPG that came out around the time Ghostwire and Tiny Tina were hogging the limelight. And last I checked I wasn’t Alec Guinness’ dad and Lego Star Wars isn’t Metal Gear Solid. Feels like going to a nativity play at this point nobody actually wants to go to nativity plays unless their own kid’s in it or there’s decent odds of someone pissing themselves and crying in an amusing manner. I mean, how many fucking times have I gone through these events in one film, game or Robot Chicken parody after another? I don’t even like Star Wars much. Then I tried that new Lego Star Wars ‘cos I heard it was an all new open world take on the Lego Star Wars thing, got about ten minutes into the plot of A New Hope and then became overcome with depression. Tried a few things this week had a go on that Rune Factory 5 ‘cos some people said I might like it if I like Stardew Valley style games, and from that concluded that unless I find myself in urgent need of a T-shirt that would provoke awkward conversations at family events I should probably stop paying attention to weebs. Well, it’s week two of Catching Up on New Trending Indie Titles While Triple-A’s Not Kicking Off season, or CUNTITWANK for short. We have a merch store as well! Visit the store for brand new ZP merch. Want to watch Zero Punctuation ad-free? Sign-up for The Escapist + today and support your favorite content creators! This week in Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviews Weird West.įor more major games Yahtz has reviewed lately, check out Tunic, Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, Ghostwire: Tokyo, Babylon’s Fall, and Elden Ring. ![]()
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