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Recordkeeping: West of Loathing COMPLETE
Aug. 17th, 2019 09:42 amWest of Loathing is a stick-figure explore-em-up RPG from the people who bring you Kingdom of Loathing, which means it's packed full of comedy and items and meatcrafting.
It's weird, but this is the first PC game in a long time that I think actually tries to be funny and pulls it off. Not in a Lucasarts kind of way, but directly letting you the player help out with the jokes and all. Letting you decide if you want to lean into the punchlines or deliberately blow a joke on purpose, etc.
Sometimes you're the straightman and sometimes you're the funnyman but you always get a shot at being both.
Character-building was a bit tricky for me but I got there with buffs and such eventually.
Good game. Really good. I did not finish most of it. I hit the ending and won, but there's stuff remaining.
It's weird, but this is the first PC game in a long time that I think actually tries to be funny and pulls it off. Not in a Lucasarts kind of way, but directly letting you the player help out with the jokes and all. Letting you decide if you want to lean into the punchlines or deliberately blow a joke on purpose, etc.
Sometimes you're the straightman and sometimes you're the funnyman but you always get a shot at being both.
Character-building was a bit tricky for me but I got there with buffs and such eventually.
Good game. Really good. I did not finish most of it. I hit the ending and won, but there's stuff remaining.
