It's bad
This game was a fucking blast. It has some of the cleverest game and quest design I've seen in an RPG. It has quests that will blow your mind and make you cackle with how off-kilter and surprising the connections are. I could go on for hours about the individual quests and how awesome they are but there are just too many. It is short and sweet, but you could play this game for 100 hours and still have more to see. The combat does suck tho.
Going from KoL to this is like seeing a kid grow up to be an adult with poor trigger discipline
An RPG that is full of humour. Ultimately, the sheer amount of dialogue and side-quests goes against it here, as it becomes hard to track what you were doing over multiple play-sessions.
It would be unfair to mark down an RPG for being too in-depth and I do remember my time with this game vividly and quite fondly, but I don't want to have to keep notes of the game I'm playing so I am marking it down anyway.
Recommended, just maybe come prepared with a notepad.
It would be unfair to mark down an RPG for being too in-depth and I do remember my time with this game vividly and quite fondly, but I don't want to have to keep notes of the game I'm playing so I am marking it down anyway.
Recommended, just maybe come prepared with a notepad.
red dead redemption if it was good
可能是惟一一款看主角走路都能让人笑抽的游戏。
Funny game, shame about the dev
This is one of my favorite games, mainly because it's not anything that complex. It's an RPG with silly stickfigure characters, gameplay that's good enough to keep you engaged, and most importantly, AMAZING (and I mean this, AMAZING) writing.
I've beaten this game a few times since I first played it in 2017, including getting The Really Hard Way, and it's nice to play every once in a while. There's tons of shit to discover with every subsequent playthrough: the map is much, MUCH more vast than you'd think.
Worth your money!
I've beaten this game a few times since I first played it in 2017, including getting The Really Hard Way, and it's nice to play every once in a while. There's tons of shit to discover with every subsequent playthrough: the map is much, MUCH more vast than you'd think.
Worth your money!
Silly stick figure game with an even goofier story that I love to bits! :)
Got myself stuck playing hard mode where I had no way to continue.
Will probably replay it someday because I really enjoyed what I played.
Will probably replay it someday because I really enjoyed what I played.
howdy
A short RPG about stick figures in a comedy western. Not a lot to say about it honestly but it’s a pretty good game despite how it looks, the writing and humor goes a long way in making it memorable and it’s only a few hours so didn’t feel like it was starting to drag on. The turn based combat was easy and nothing special though, but fine for what it was
Thinking back, I don't know if I've ever played a funnier game. The first playthough genuinely made me laugh out loud a good amount. The gameplay is rock solid as well, learning to break the hell out of it is super fun too, watch a speedrun if you haven't
This game is so funny and I kind of enjoyed that it wasn't a super difficult RPG. It's easy to pick up and hard to put down.
Fantastic story, writing, humor, and world. Gameplay is great; it's not the main draw, but it is very streamlined and works perfectly for what kind of game it's trying to be.
Game Finished [Again] In 2024 #15:
In preparation for what's going to be a pretty big undertaking, I wanted to play some shorter games. Shadows Over Loathing, this game's sequel, is on my list for after that undertaking, so I wanted to replay the first game, which I remembered really liking when I played it years ago.
West of Loathing is a singleplayer spinoff to the browser based MMO Kingdom of Loathing, which I played a fair bit of when I was younger, despite my relative lack of understanding it. You don't need to have played it to understand this game in the slightest, and you could probably get away with not even knowing it exists, but it's fun background info. The Loathing series, as I suppose it counts as one now, is characterized by an extremely simplistic art style of monochromatic stick figures and a LOT of jokes.
Many games have tried to be comedic, but West of Loathing is intimately Committed To The Bit in every way imaginable. An NPC will mention things haven't been the same since The Cows Came Home, which is an event that deeply impacts the setting to the point demonic cows are one of your primary types of random encounter. As the jokes are so integral to the game, I regretfully must leave them as unspoiled as possible, but I will make one exception for my absolute favorite joke in any game, the spittoons. Spittoons are, of course, pans that people spit things such as tobacco in. However, in West of Loathing, they contain amazing gear. Every time you investigate one of these, the narration gets increasingly hostile towards you. It starts at telling you how gross it is to be sticking your hand into one, and why you REALLY shouldn't be doing it, and only escalates from there with somehow more disgusting spittoons and more powerful equipment. There's a very noticeable lean on the fourth wall, but the spittoons are one of the few times it gets broken entirely. To call this bit god tier is an understatement. While this is the best one, there are a LOT more jokes. In my roughly eight hours of playing the Joke Per Minute rate was utterly insane.
It helps as well that the game itself is really good at what it sets out to do. The gameplay is secondary to the writing and jokes for sure, but there is still very clear effort being put in. You choose one of three classes, western spins on the fighter/mage/thief dynamic, and explore the west, getting into turn based battles along the way. If you are RUSHING the main story, the basic quest can be done extremely quickly, but a lot of the joy comes in finding new places, which will give you new stuff and new jokes. The stat and skill system deserves special attention, too, as with the right stats and skills you can solve encounters in ways other than combat. This game lets you skip the final boss with the right item. There are also a lot of puzzle based encounters. The Gun Manor DLC is a great example of this, having you explore a manor full of ghosts that you can choose to either settle peacefully by solving their puzzle or violently. Some puzzles made me break out a guide, but there are very few truly bad puzzles.
I didn't have the words for it when I first played, but this game is a genuine CRPG, and a great one at that. The main game is short enough to allow you to replay it multiple times, and there are four different companions to facilitate this. It's a really excellent little package, and absolutely worth playing, as it seems to have become a bit of a hidden gem. I greatly look forward to Shadows over Loathing.
In preparation for what's going to be a pretty big undertaking, I wanted to play some shorter games. Shadows Over Loathing, this game's sequel, is on my list for after that undertaking, so I wanted to replay the first game, which I remembered really liking when I played it years ago.
West of Loathing is a singleplayer spinoff to the browser based MMO Kingdom of Loathing, which I played a fair bit of when I was younger, despite my relative lack of understanding it. You don't need to have played it to understand this game in the slightest, and you could probably get away with not even knowing it exists, but it's fun background info. The Loathing series, as I suppose it counts as one now, is characterized by an extremely simplistic art style of monochromatic stick figures and a LOT of jokes.
Many games have tried to be comedic, but West of Loathing is intimately Committed To The Bit in every way imaginable. An NPC will mention things haven't been the same since The Cows Came Home, which is an event that deeply impacts the setting to the point demonic cows are one of your primary types of random encounter. As the jokes are so integral to the game, I regretfully must leave them as unspoiled as possible, but I will make one exception for my absolute favorite joke in any game, the spittoons. Spittoons are, of course, pans that people spit things such as tobacco in. However, in West of Loathing, they contain amazing gear. Every time you investigate one of these, the narration gets increasingly hostile towards you. It starts at telling you how gross it is to be sticking your hand into one, and why you REALLY shouldn't be doing it, and only escalates from there with somehow more disgusting spittoons and more powerful equipment. There's a very noticeable lean on the fourth wall, but the spittoons are one of the few times it gets broken entirely. To call this bit god tier is an understatement. While this is the best one, there are a LOT more jokes. In my roughly eight hours of playing the Joke Per Minute rate was utterly insane.
It helps as well that the game itself is really good at what it sets out to do. The gameplay is secondary to the writing and jokes for sure, but there is still very clear effort being put in. You choose one of three classes, western spins on the fighter/mage/thief dynamic, and explore the west, getting into turn based battles along the way. If you are RUSHING the main story, the basic quest can be done extremely quickly, but a lot of the joy comes in finding new places, which will give you new stuff and new jokes. The stat and skill system deserves special attention, too, as with the right stats and skills you can solve encounters in ways other than combat. This game lets you skip the final boss with the right item. There are also a lot of puzzle based encounters. The Gun Manor DLC is a great example of this, having you explore a manor full of ghosts that you can choose to either settle peacefully by solving their puzzle or violently. Some puzzles made me break out a guide, but there are very few truly bad puzzles.
I didn't have the words for it when I first played, but this game is a genuine CRPG, and a great one at that. The main game is short enough to allow you to replay it multiple times, and there are four different companions to facilitate this. It's a really excellent little package, and absolutely worth playing, as it seems to have become a bit of a hidden gem. I greatly look forward to Shadows over Loathing.