West of Loathing Nintendo Switch Review
198West of Loathing Nintendo Switch Review-Is this game worth your hard earned cash? Find out in both our written review https://switchwatch.co.uk/west-of-loathing-nintendo-switch-review-wild-west/ and our video review.
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GAME DESCRIPTION
Description
West of Loathing is a single-player slapstick comedy adventure role-playing game set in the wild west of the Kingdom of Loathing universe. Its gameplay is a hybrid of point-and-click adventure and open-world RPG. The stick-figure characters advance through branching narratives and engage in tactical turn-based combat. Graphically, it transforms KoL's hand-drawn art style into a 3D diorama (think Paper Mario) replete with animation, sound, and music.
Leave your family farm and head West to find your fortune! Traverse snake-infested gulches, punch skeletons wearing cowboy hats, grapple with demon cows, and investigate a wide variety of disgusting spittoons. Charm your way out of trouble as a silver-tongued Snake Oiler, plumb the refried mysteries of the cosmos as a wise and subtle Beanslinger, or let your fists do the talking as a fierce Cow Puncher. Explore a vast open world and encounter a "colorful" cast of characters, some of whom are good, many of whom are bad, and a few of whom are ugly.
History
In 2003, Asymmetric released The Kingdom of Loathing, a browser-based MMORPG that quickly built up a dedicated community and slowly evolved into a cult classic with over a million players worldwide. KoL has been continually updated since release, and has remained popular and profitable for nearly a decade and a half.
While design started in late 2014, work on West of Loathing began in earnest in June of 2015. The first year was devoted primarily to building an extremely flexible, content-driven game engine. Using Unity as a framework, this custom engine provides the possibility of bringing WoL to additional platforms and opens the door for a wide variety of future projects.
West of Loathing was officially announced in May of 2016. It breezed through Steam Greenlight in nine days and was released on August 10th, 2017 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The Nintendo Switch version launched on May 31st, 2018. iOS and other console versions will follow as soon as the development team is able, and some DLC is also in the works.
Features
A sprawling open world
Quests, puzzles, and mysteries galore
Dozens of NPCs and hundreds of enemies
Nearly 100 unique locations to explore
Thousands of jokes, gags, and goofs
Liberal use of the Oxford comma
Lush hand-drawn black and white graphics
Crunchy turn-based combat (but only if you want it)
Over 60 hats
Disreputable saloons
Several gulches
A drunken horse
Have you got the game? What are your thoughts? Pop us a comment and let us know! Game code provided by Bandai Namco. Jordan and Lachlan helped with parts of this review and bought the game themselves.
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