Twin-stick combat tends to require a bit more concentration of your surroundings in order to properly know where and when to shoot at your enemies. Just don’t try to move the camera and aim at the same time as it really doesn’t end well if you’re in the middle of combat which is just fun. If you want to look in a particular direction, you just have to move the right stick, if you want to aim, hold L2 and use the right stick. Set between three zoom levels, you’ll be looking at the world in a top down third person isometric view and maneuvering through the use of your two joysticks for some rather slick twin-stick action. Now whether on your first or fifth journey, you’ll be exploring the world and leaving your mark(s) in a similar fashion.

So what was a Bounty Hunter to do? I hunted a few bounties for cash, “borrowing” horses when needed to make it go faster until I could finally buy my own that not only added more storage, but also didn’t run away once I reached my destinations. A lot of this wide open space is pointless to really explore unless you really “want” to, which I did… my OCD kicked in and I needed to know if I could wipe off all of the fog from the map but it takes time especially when traveling by foot. These spaces and towns that you’ll explore are spread across a fairly large map that can take a bit of time to fully uncover but nothing is stopping you from doing this in your first journey.

Ultimately the decision is up to you and the developers know their clientele as they straight up tell you about the quick save features in order to do all of the crazy and simply reload if it doesn’t work out. Finally, you could just be “the” better person and walk away and find other ways of making it big.

In another, you could simply lay waste to everything, not feel bad, and take everything that you want as there will be other locations willing to do business with you. In one way, you could just decide to sneak around town and grab whatever isn’t nailed to the floor. These limitations on how you can go about your journey will lead to some creative problem solving. By immediate contrast, your second journey will see you in the form of a Pigman, a man hacked to pieces and magically sewn into a human-like pig creature and will shoot you before you can even tell them that you’re not mindless and would like to buy some ammo. The more human of the characters, such as the Bounty Hunter, will have no issues walking into town and perusing the local goods as they buy ammo and offload the metric ton of loot from the defeated. Split between the five protagonists, each have their own backgrounds but not all of them are currently human or entirely mundane, allowing them to be able to use supernatural powers. In any of these cases, you’ll see the world change around you, if, and only if, you can even get into town… Let an outlaw go? Cleaned up an abandoned town from outlaws or monsters? Maybe even cleared out a bustling town by having gunned everyone down. As one journey comes to an end, the next starts up chronologically which lets you see some of the ramifications of some of your previous decisions. What I really enjoyed about Weird West is that each individual journey is tied in some fashion to one another. Split between five different protagonists, you’ll be exploring a world filled with some rather weird sights, weirder people and the weirdest creatures? Who ever thought humans were a good idea!? Coming to us from Wolfeye Games and Devolver Digital, Weird West is just the right amount of weird when exploring the “wild west”. I have been on many ‘a journey but some take weirder routes better than others. Weird West by developer Wolfeye Studios and publisher Devolver Digital Games- Sony PlayStation 4 review written by Pierre-Yves with a copy provided by the publisher.

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