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Occupying an uneasy midpoint between Desperados III’s meticulously choreographed violence and the button-spamming carnage of Diablo, a satisfying heft and variety of tactical approaches paint a positive first impression.

#MARVEL WEIRD WEIRD WEST SERIES#

In a premise strongly reminiscent of legendary 1989 RPG Curse of the Azure Bonds, each of your charges embarks on their adventure after discovering a series of glowing marks on their necks, and coming to an unsettling realisation: their thoughts and actions are now controlled by someone else.įor a couple of chapters it remains a fascinating enigma, elevated by WolfEye’s atmospheric transformation of the American West into a haunted wasteland where a hag encountered in the middle of a bog will spout cryptic clues about your previous lives, and shipments of human captives are carted across the plains to be consumed by a cannibalistic sect.įor all of its memorable sights and personalities however, combat remains the primary mode of engagement with Weird West’s world, and its flaws are, accordingly, woven into the fabric of the overall experience.

Taking the role of five different characters, including a bounty-hunter, a werewolf, and a cultist, you can pursue their individual agendas through a series of vintage genre locations (the local despot’s hacienda the weather-beaten mountain quarry the ghost town) while unravelling the mystery that unites them.

The drastic perspective shifts of its episodic structure and the quality of the prose that fleshes out its unwilling protagonists’ back stories – as well as the overarching narrative that links them in a single, apocalyptic destiny – help retain interest for a while.

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