Mar 20, 2023 - Day 78 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 85

Game: Evil West
Platform: Steam PC
Release Date: Nov 22, 2022
Library Date: Mar 20, 2023
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 34m

Evil West is third-person rails shooter (for want of a better term?), set in the USA's old west. This old west, however, is full of supernatural monsters that you have to kill in increasingly bloody ways.

This is not (at least so far) a game that will test your brain with complicated puzzles, and deep ethical questions.

See Jesse. See monster. See Jesse punch monster with gauntlet, or shoot monster. Rinse and repeat.

What the combat does test, however, is your coordination, and this was where I found myself struggling. I currently have it on Normal difficulty, but I'm stuck on one fight, and just can't get my timing right to beat all of the mobs.

Running around punching monsters into a mess of gore isn't usually my kind of game, but when I spent the weekend knowing there were Nazis running and transphobes saying the vilest things about trans folks just because we have the temerity to exist, sometimes punching a few monsters into piles of goop hits the spot.

The old west atmosphere and landscape is well done, and the game comes together very nicely.

Evil West is:

4: Good

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