Evil West Review (Cyrus [SK])
WARNING FOR ALL THAT PLAN TO BUY IT AND PLAY CO OP WITH A FRIEND
We got another one.....
How this garbage makes it to gold status and set loose on the world?
Wait I know how. Another stellar example of a game with some great, fun ideas, but some suits shitheads giving them unrealistic deadlines and this is the result.
LET THEM AT LEAST PATCH IT YOU FUCKS!
This really needs a few more months in the oven....
It is so raw, there isn't enough FUCKING RAW clips of Gordon Ramsay to describe it to full justice.
It's really sad because the gameplay at it's core (when it actually works) is fun as hell. BUT IT FUCKING DOESN'T WORK !!!!!
I'm baffled by the amount of positive reviews, and only thing that comes to mind is, it maybe works when you're playing solo. I honestly don't know. Never tried it solo.
I bought it with a friend to have some fun in co op, but holy shit we didn't have any idea what can of worms we've just opened. I did read forums and knew that there was some bugs, but this ?
Steam says I've played for 15 hours, at least half of that is trying to fuck with the game and make it actually work. By that I don't mean crashes or anything like that. Ooooh nooo. To be honest there was a good amount of that too, but that's for later.
Imagine you're playing in a arena, you've killed a few mobs and then a boss spawned, spongebob is his second name btw, but that's ok, or it would be ok if the fucker didn't either magically de-spawn, get launched at the speed of light to cosmos, or teleport to the location where you came from, where you can't get to anymore because of the game's dumb mechanic that prevents you from backtracking there and while any of these happened you can't continue, because the game thinks you're still fighting in that arena and prevents you to move outside in any direction.
This also happens a few times with a regular mob that he was the last one, magically get stuck behind a wall, or a barrel, or somewhere where you can't shoot it.
The best thing about this ? There is no reload the checkpoint option in co op. None, you have to quit to main menu, remake the lobby and your friend needs to rejoin and then you can hope the save wasn't far away....
Another one that blocked our progress was at the entrance of the cave where you fight that Markus Corvinus wannabe for the first time. There is a gate that you need to pass through together, but somehow it let my friend go and blocked me from moving, so he had to fight alone and of course get downed, while I was stuck at the other side unable to help him. https://streamable.com/jgfag6
https://streamable.com/hq8y5m
Hit detection is mental also, I was host, that's the important thing to remember, but it felt like I was playing with a friend that's hosting and living on a Pluto. Enemy will attack with AOE, you successfully dodge (at least the game shows that you do) being in a new location, far away from the enemy for a good amount of time before his attack lands, you can clearly see his attack lands on the ground and the AOE effect is far, far away from any direction that you're now. But it just hits you. Feels like I'm playing Gears ranked against Mexicans. Like this:
https://streamable.com/2ina4p
https://streamable.com/fvrmbv
https://streamable.com/zh945q
The animations are totally off, or non-present, walking on the edge near a cliff, climbing on a rope or a chain, slipping thru some thin pass between walls all of this and many other that I don't remember, it either shows the co op partner just slides there, don't grab the chains or just teleport there. FUCKING RAW!
https://streamable.com/sf7pfn
BTW to clarify, we have no potatoes and our connection is fiber based, never saw shit like that when playing with anybody from the same country. Hell I don't remember seeing problems like this when it was with people from other continent in any of the other games I played....
2 or 3 times we were downed and fall under the map. https://streamable.com/yk8bq6
Few times after down I could normally attack them. It looked like I was downed, the game changed color and the sound changed like it would normally do during that, but I could still fight and be immortal...... https://streamable.com/q1ipgo
Later in the game, you open upgrades menu, perks and shit, guess what ? When you stay too long in that, the sound gets cranky, then it cuts off and then after a minute or two the whole game crash. And by too long I mean less than a minute. The game will crash even if you close it, but if it starts with the sound errors, you just might reboot it anyway, because it will crash.
Crossbow shoots totally off sometimes https://streamable.com/8qpzug
I'm only sorry that I don't have more videos, but the number of facepalms, couldn't sometimes even press the record shotcut.
We didn't even finish this, we're right before the last boss, but we just had enough of this hot garbage.
All that's left to say is, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD8doiIZLks