While it is tempting to take on the game on easier difficulties, the higher the difficulty settings are raised, the more you’re inclined to be creative in how you deal with your aggressors.
You can choose to engage enemies in Weird West through stealth, open combat, or a combination of the two. You have to learn to shoot to kill or you’ll be taking a dirt nap throughout your journey. Weird West takes the isometric RPG formula and infuses real-time combat, so when guns are drawn, there’s no pause in between to roll for initiative. It is quite a feat, and as I progressed through the different perspectives of each character that I’ve played, the world of Weird West got increasingly engaging. Weird West impresses with its storytelling and presentation as the game is able to sustain interest with the subject material, character motivation, and plot progression through sheer writing alone. The same goes for the bounty hunting mini-game, but there are a few story-based investigative quests that break the mold, which is sadly few and far between. This is rampant in both the main story and the side quests and after a while, tasks become repetitive and tedious. You take package/letter/hostage from Point A to Point B and fight anything that prevents you from delivering/retrieving this package. However, the quest design in Weird West could’ve used more work as they follow a basic fetch/delivery formula. Each of these encounters is presented as its own area where you would have to move to the edge of the map to go back to the overworld, becoming a nice surprise for similar games of this type and one of the better mechanics in Weird West. Not all encounters are combat-related, as some of them will put you into contact with merchants, eccentric magicians, and even highwaymen who will want to negotiate for your life before trying to take it. The game is technically an open world where you can discover different parts of the map as you traverse the Badlands, each new encounter or town in Weird West is loaded onto a new area the way old-school RPGs are represented by an overworld and towns scattered across the map with random encounters in between. Weird West gets a little more involved when it comes to combat and to a certain point, the interaction with the world. There’s a bit of a learning curve for these types of games if you aren’t used to them. Weird West gives a grizzled voice-over from a storyteller who sounds like Nick Cave from Bastion and randomized mumbling represented by the voices of the characters in the game, making for a lot of reading as you progress through the game. While it would have been great, don’t expect a fully voiced RPG experience. The Good, The Bad, and The WeirdĪt its core, Weird West is an isometric RPG that introduces you to a number of characters and elements that lets you switch perspectives between them, taking control of different stories and views that ultimately combine a western into a magic-filled combination that somehow works. Just when you think it gets too weird, trust me, it gets even weirder. The deeper you go into the rabbit hole, the weirder the stories get.
The game takes you through an interconnected story told through different characters that live in this hellish world, experiencing these encounters and living to tell their tale once it’s done.
As she delves deeper into the gang behind the crime, she realizes that the humans trafficked are literal cattle to be served to Sirens, a cannibalistic shapeshifting troupe. Weird West starts off like any given Western, with the story of Jane Bell, a retired bounty hunter thrown back into the fray when her son is killed and her husband captured by a human trafficking ring. Weird West is a western horror RPG by Wolfeye Studios and published by Devolver Digital which basically takes all of the fringe encounters you experience when roaming the outskirts of the Red Dead Redemption Badlands and turns it into its own game.
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