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Description
EVIL WEST.
Developed by: Flying Wild Hog.
Published by: Focus Entertainment.
Genre: Third-Person action.
Rated: 18 (Contains material NOT suitable for children).

To give you an idea of how behind I am on my schedule - this should have been up in November 2022… Life's a bitch at the moment. Well, it’s here in A November, so yay?

If you tried to sell me on the idea of Cowboys Vs. Vampires, I’d buy that in a heartbeat. However, Evil West is not exactly how I pictured that combination. This will be a short one because, honestly, there isn’t much to say.

The nicest thing I can say about the story is it's basically “what a fratfucks D&D session looks like” and is quite possibly the most American video game I've ever played outside of Call of Duty. Given the overly dramatic southern accents and cowboy dialect, I was honestly waiting for someone to shout: “WHAT IN TARNATION!??”
The problem I've got with the story is it throws all these concepts at me like cowboys, vampires, Men in Black, the Industrial Revolution and proceeds to make them all Earth shatteringly boring. After a while, I began to zone out and just make up my own one.

The actual plot revolves around the government funded agency called “the Rentier Institute” that hunts vampires, whereas my version of the story is Uncle Sam saw all these “no good, environmental hippie communists stinking up Murca and sent God's man to take care of dem. I tell ye h’what!”

Our main protagonist is Jesse Rentier, who’s basically every single Clint Eastwood cliché under the yellow sun. He talks and squints like Dirty Harry and has enough firearms to make even Arnold Schwarzenegger dry heave. Every other character just feels like background window dressing; they're only there to deliver exposition for Jesse to squint and turn his nose up at.

Even the main baddies feel one note and generic. We begin with Peter D'Abano, before being killed in the first chapter and then replaced by basically a vampiric version of Eveline from Resident Evil 7.

Also, these have to be some of the ugliest and unimaginative vampires I’ve ever seen. I was expecting something along the lines of From Dusk Till Dawn meets Castlevania, yet what I ended up with feels like if Leatherface and Michael Bay’s Transformers had a bastard baby. You’re telling me in a game as ridiculous and overly macho as this and we can't have Jesse staking some sexy burlesque vampires?

Wesker: Poor performance, indeed.

Combat is pretty straightforward albeit a tad clunky. Your main method of attack is to punch these so-called ‘vampires,’ but you gain additional weaponry when you need to attack from a distance. I say that because these assholes will hit you like a mack truck; leaving Jesse to as little more than a red smear on the new frontier.

The thing that bugs me is that, in essentially a cowboy game, guns are NOT your main weapon of destruction. While it can be upgraded through a tiresome skill tree, this six shooter never feels like it’s making a lasting impact or damage on these bullet sponges. You have to repeatedly twat them for like five minutes, whereas in something like Castlevania. whip the head off and shit's done.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s very cathartic to smack around these Lovecraftian rejects with my infinity gauntlet powered by Tesla science, but their sponginess does make it a bit of a drag; especially when they all team up on you and they've got a health bars about as big as Tony Stark’s bank balance. While it is fun to take the fight to the undead, the lack of variety does make the game feel very samey at times. Go to area - fight monsters - rinse and repeat. Some games can take that routine fun and engaging, but Evil West takes awhile to settle into that groove.

The real low point of the game are the boss fights. I say that because they want you to focus on this giant blubbering land mass of bullet sponge hell, while also contending with its various Goons of all shapes and sizes. Unless you are an extreme military strategist with a high IQ, or fucking Megatron, it's difficult to focus on that many things at once and can prove to be quite infuriating.

Oh look! The boss has exposed its weak point and needs to be hit within 15 seconds. Oh wait, you have 17 assholes breathing down your neck as if you shouted “SSSniperwolf is a talentless hack!”

Despite these grumblings, I did have moments of fun with this game. The visuals and colour pallet were very pretty, even though the backgrounds stood out more and were simply jaw dropping.

It’s one of those “turn your mind off” games and does present a challenge on occasion. However, the main thing setting it back are the unusual difficulty spikes and awful boss fights.

(Conclusion).
I find Evil West to be both a cathartic and boring video game. The story is boring and entirely forgettable (to the point I started listening to podcasts while playing), but on the other hand, punching vampires and shooting them now and then was indeed really fun.

If I'm ever in the mood to twat some not-vampires around as a Dirty Harry cowboy, I know just the game to play. It’s not my go-to cathartic game because, well. DOOM (2016) and Transformers: Devastation still exist.

Description
EVIL WEST.
Developed by: Flying Wild Hog.
Published by: Focus Entertainment.
Genre: Third-Person action.
Rated: 18 (Contains material NOT suitable for children).

To give you an idea of how behind I am on my schedule - this should have been up in November 2022… Life's a bitch at the moment. Well, it’s here in A November, so yay?

If you tried to sell me on the idea of Cowboys Vs. Vampires, I’d buy that in a heartbeat. However, Evil West is not exactly how I pictured that combination. This will be a short one because, honestly, there isn’t much to say.

The nicest thing I can say about the story is it's basically “what a fratfucks D&D session looks like” and is quite possibly the most American video game I've ever played outside of Call of Duty. Given the overly dramatic southern accents and cowboy dialect, I was honestly waiting for someone to shout: “WHAT IN TARNATION!??”
The problem I've got with the story is it throws all these concepts at me like cowboys, vampires, Men in Black, the Industrial Revolution and proceeds to make them all Earth shatteringly boring. After a while, I began to zone out and just make up my own one.

The actual plot revolves around the government funded agency called “the Rentier Institute” that hunts vampires, whereas my version of the story is Uncle Sam saw all these “no good, environmental hippie communists stinking up Murca and sent God's man to take care of dem. I tell ye h’what!”

Our main protagonist is Jesse Rentier, who’s basically every single Clint Eastwood cliché under the yellow sun. He talks and squints like Dirty Harry and has enough firearms to make even Arnold Schwarzenegger dry heave. Every other character just feels like background window dressing; they're only there to deliver exposition for Jesse to squint and turn his nose up at.

Even the main baddies feel one note and generic. We begin with Peter D'Abano, before being killed in the first chapter and then replaced by basically a vampiric version of Eveline from Resident Evil 7.

Also, these have to be some of the ugliest and unimaginative vampires I’ve ever seen. I was expecting something along the lines of From Dusk Till Dawn meets Castlevania, yet what I ended up with feels like if Leatherface and Michael Bay’s Transformers had a bastard baby. You’re telling me in a game as ridiculous and overly macho as this and we can't have Jesse staking some sexy burlesque vampires?

Wesker: Poor performance, indeed.

Combat is pretty straightforward albeit a tad clunky. Your main method of attack is to punch these so-called ‘vampires,’ but you gain additional weaponry when you need to attack from a distance. I say that because these assholes will hit you like a mack truck; leaving Jesse to as little more than a red smear on the new frontier.

The thing that bugs me is that, in essentially a cowboy game, guns are NOT your main weapon of destruction. While it can be upgraded through a tiresome skill tree, this six shooter never feels like it’s making a lasting impact or damage on these bullet sponges. You have to repeatedly twat them for like five minutes, whereas in something like Castlevania. whip the head off and shit's done.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s very cathartic to smack around these Lovecraftian rejects with my infinity gauntlet powered by Tesla science, but their sponginess does make it a bit of a drag; especially when they all team up on you and they've got a health bars about as big as Tony Stark’s bank balance. While it is fun to take the fight to the undead, the lack of variety does make the game feel very samey at times. Go to area - fight monsters - rinse and repeat. Some games can take that routine fun and engaging, but Evil West takes awhile to settle into that groove.

The real low point of the game are the boss fights. I say that because they want you to focus on this giant blubbering land mass of bullet sponge hell, while also contending with its various Goons of all shapes and sizes. Unless you are an extreme military strategist with a high IQ, or fucking Megatron, it's difficult to focus on that many things at once and can prove to be quite infuriating.

Oh look! The boss has exposed its weak point and needs to be hit within 15 seconds. Oh wait, you have 17 assholes breathing down your neck as if you shouted “SSSniperwolf is a talentless hack!”

Despite these grumblings, I did have moments of fun with this game. The visuals and colour pallet were very pretty, even though the backgrounds stood out more and were simply jaw dropping.

It’s one of those “turn your mind off” games and does present a challenge on occasion. However, the main thing setting it back are the unusual difficulty spikes and awful boss fights.

(Conclusion).
I find Evil West to be both a cathartic and boring video game. The story is boring and entirely forgettable (to the point I started listening to podcasts while playing), but on the other hand, punching vampires and shooting them now and then was indeed really fun.

If I'm ever in the mood to twat some not-vampires around as a Dirty Harry cowboy, I know just the game to play. It’s not my go-to cathartic game because, well. DOOM (2016) and Transformers: Devastation still exist.