To get the snowglobes you have to free the souls of the pigs and then visit pigman Joe as an Oneirist. All three of them are in his hut

I have watched numerous well known reviewer's takes on this unique RPG & your profile of exceptional details over the games many systems & mechanics is outstanding! Your review was quite enjoyable & informative as I just bought the game & desired some helpful points on the game's dynamics, thank you!

You get the Snowglobes by going to Pigman Joe's shack once as Protector, then as Werewolf, then as Oneirist. They are in his hut in his hideaway. He has to survive chapter 2. And the Pigmen souls must be freed instead of dead.

The game reminds me of the stuff that came out around the mid 2000s. A bit too ambitious and janky but unique in concept and gameplay. Not overproduced, shiny but ultimately soulless AAA trash. We need more games like Weird West again.

Excellent review, I've definitely had massive difficulties with using a controller but I'm also older and don't have the best dexterity these days but I'm agile enough to finish the recent AC games from Ubi and WotR and DOSII so I'll be trying the keyboard because of your suggestion because the milieu dark gothic wild weird west sounds so cooool. May the Al Gore Rhythm bless your passing. Extra helpful that's it's on Game Pass so no upset over not being that best at it.

You are doing a great job man, I trust and enjoy your reviews. That's a big compliment with all the content out there.

There’s a serial killer tearing through the town of Grackle in my game. People keep turning up dead, NPCs repeatedly freak out at finding the bodies (often the same body multiple times, they have short memories) Idk why they can’t catch the fiend doing it. It’s a watering can lying in the floor of the general store. (Yup. Junk lying around can hurt you, and also NPCs, and so far four different people have walked o er this watering can to death)

Great review. I have been waiting for a dark CRPG to really sink my teeth into since DOS2, so I am scooping this little fella up! Stoked.

Thanks for the great review, as always. Backlog is kinda full, but put it on the wishlist. Will remember that companion tip though!

Feels like the "hearing-detecting" problem with the enemy can be fixed by the developers

Hunt:Showdown has a wild west fantasy setting. it has no story and the lore is mostly told in texts that you unlock by playing but I thought I'd mention it anyway. It's a great multiplayer shooter.

There is always a big problem when it come to Stealth and game design : What's the point to stealth when 99% of your abilities deal with killing people and are more fun to use ? It was the same with Dishonored. With old games like Thief 1 & 2, combat was unforgiving, you were encouraged to avoid it and most of your abilities helped you to avoid combat. With more modern design were fun is important, make sure that stealth is FUN too !

I really enjoy your reviews and I hope your channel grows fast :)

Great video as usual, but you neglected to mention one major point. While the normal combat is indeed hectic, the game also has Tactical mode. You hit the TAB button and the combat slows down to a crawl. That allows for a much more tactical approach to combat.

Game looks great. Sounds like a Deadlands inspired setting which is just a great TTRPG setting. Thanks for the review!

Hard West (kind of an xcom like) also had a mixture of occult and western, while WW leans much more into it.

8 months late but at 17:20 , there is another older game that uses that same setting and possibly delves into even darker territories. Its called Grim Dawn but its an isometric ARPG more like Diablo in gameplay. The occult dark wild west is such a badass setting and I'd definitely love to see more games use that.

You really are the fastest reviewer in the West !

love your Videos!!! You explain very well!! Thats very IMPORTANT. ThankYou!!!

It seems like they’ve done some unique things with this, and I’m a huge fan of character driven narrative so the anthology style that focuses on a bunch of smaller single character focused stories with them coming together at the end appeals to me quite a bit.

Excellent news, I am definitely going to get it right away. Thanks for the review 👍

The most effective method of combat for me was taking out as many people as possible with the Sentry Silencer. I would often snipe someone in a relatively easy area for their body to be found. Then I would take out all of the people investigating the body one by one. Sometimes this worked brilliantly and I felt like an assassin, other times it would turn to shit and become a chaotic gun fight.

Definitely picking this up on the PS4 soon. Love immersive sims and an isometric one is unique.

I'm praying for a sequel on this game and some DLC

love your content, didnt have time to probably sit through it tonight, though so im leaving a comment. cheers

very agree with all u said. I am very excited to follow Raphael Colontonio's path to success - he is developing his new game atm, and i hope it will reach this brilliancy level Weird West was so close to

I like this game too but @Mortismal Gaming. This game feels like a cross between Shadowrun and Divinity: OS's first attempts. They weren't great but they were a great start which got WAYYY better in part 2.

There was an older occult Western rpg with occult themes but it was turn based combay titled Hard west came out years ago

Just got the game and I love it. Feels like a board game which is cool. I'd love to see a zombie apocalypse style game structured just like this. Letting you visit different groups and communities. Have slow and fast zombies. Slower zombies could horde up and become a really scary threat.

I love this game. There's an art book too that's fantastic. The art style is very unique.

Just one note I think is worth mentioning, as I thought it was a neat addition to how immersion in the game world is built up in this title. You can recruit companions also via side and/or main missions, when you save/help NPCs, as they become your "friends for life". In those cases, as far as I could see, you can either recruit those characters as actual companions for free whenever you meet them anywhere in the map at any later moment, or they will randomly appear to help you while you're having a fight, at seemingly unrelated random moments in your story. (Not sure if all of them are recruitable or just some of them. Also not sure how "random" the chosen battle for their random intervention is, if it's based on some factors like specific map locations or story moment or difficulty of the battle or whatever...) Flavor-wise, these helping interventions reminded me a little of the mysterious stranger who comes up in Fallout games, based on your character's luck stats. But in this case they're not limited to a single shot out of nowhere, as they're actually there in the map with you in their full capacity for the full duration of the fight they're helping you with. Thanks for your videos! P.S. Completely unrelated side note, referring to weird and original anthologies set in a Wild West scenario, in entertainment in general: if you guys didn't watch the movie "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs", you're missing out BIG time.

To add to what you said about the dev(s) who worked on Dishonored, i think they're the same ones who worked on Prey(2017) and has also used some of the sound effects from Prey(2017) in Weird West, or at least they might just be too similar. Also, regarding what you said about the control system of holding the right mouse button to aim and left clicking to attack just reminds me of Project Zomboid which i think you should check out if you haven't. Btw, i have binged A LOT of your videos and just want to let you know that i appreciate what you do.

I would love a third person open world Weird West / Hard West. Dark, gritty, brutal, filled with occultism, supernatural, demons being real etc. and also fully packed with choices and consequences. The phantasiesed gunnery etc.

Thanks dude. Game looks interesting and I appreciate your takes.

Love your videos!

It’d be so much better if you could make custom characters and just hire the story characters

For the genre, there isn't a lot out there. The big example is Deadlands, a tabletop RPG from the 90s, and early 2000s that, sadly, has never gotten a lot of attention in PC gaming. Beyond Weird West, there was Hard West, which I think was supposed to have supernatural elements (though I never stuck with it long enough to really see anything on that front.) On the Immersive Sim front, there's also Blood West, which is a first person shooter/RPG, but leans more into the survival horror side of things than the RPG side. (EG: More System Shock 2 than Deus Ex.)

Thanks ... I was wondering about this game ~!

Seems like a great game! Need to try this one out at some point. I hope they'll get around to work out the issues with stealth. I would be curious to hear your thoughts on the game Darkwood.

Haven’t enjoyed a game this much since grim dawn or the ascent. These types of game are the only ones I like so I have little choice. 10 out of 10 for me

Nice. I was thinking of getting this.

Interesting. I've put this on my wishlist and taken it off again 3 separate times. Because I couldn't make up my mind about it. Think I may wait for a sale and snag it.

Great review as always. You need to now add Hard West to your to-dos since the sequel is incoming. Its turn based and knowing you, you could finish it in a day. Def not perfect, as nothing is, but your take here is what I got from it.

I’m going to check this out on Gamepass. I’ve always wanted to love cRPGs but the combat difficult for me to get in to. Seeing that this is a twin stick may be more enjoyable for me. Awesome review!

Combat on the sticks took like an hour to get used to after that it was fine. I don’t game a lot and had almost no issues

Love deadlands and Im craving for game at least close to this setting. Inst buy for me after this review

Good work, nice vid, etc

In other words, if there is an expansion or a sequel it would end a great game.

also damn dude, you finished this quick.

hey mortismal. If you want more of that occult western theme, try hard west. It's an xcom-like and a new installment is coming this year.

The idea of the game looks like the RPG Deadlands which is one of my favorite.

Where does that short intro music come from? It’s great 👍🏻

I have few doubts , please help me out guys. First I could not find one of the stash in the region where there is a mass grave. Is it bugged ? I searched everywhere in the map. Secondly I am doing pigman's journey now, I have excess 9 skills points aka nimp relics. So all my future characters which I will unlock are doomed ?? ( as there might not be adequate nimp relics left ) or excess skill points will be carried over to new character ?? Thirdly I had been collecting nimp heads. Whats the use of it ? How to sell them ?

Do not know if it's been mentioned, not crpg but ttrpg , this reminds me of Deadlands

I'm surprised you didn't mention the AI, i found it to be absolutely dog shit beyond all belief.

well that was fast :D

Does anybody know if the console version runs on 30 or 60 fps?

Can you do a vid on how to uhhh *do* the combat? I’m really hating it even though everything else in the game seems good.

Thanks looks intresting

I like this game but it does have some strange bugs....like one where you have to return something to a person and they are aggressive even though I've done nothing to them....I had to defend myself and thus lose respect for killing a friendly family....like I said a strange bug that does effect your enjoyment.

hmm looked more fun than it sounds, well good show sir =)

Your first impression was like yesterday or something. How are you so damn fast? Its crazy :)

What a machine already finished,how many hours it took you to 100% ? Good review as always.

Great review! Got one question tho, is the game voiced? And ifso, how much of it is voiced? Okay 2 questions lol

i just started the game and i killed some folk in the first mission, when i have to look for information about the first character's husband, and now i can't get police off my back, they won't let me search the city, i can't kill them all causa i just starded the game and i can't complete the mission cause they keep chasing me down, so now i'm stuck, how do i lose them?

got it for 20 bucks on playstation store during black friday sale. Was not disappointed

I'll more than likely pick this up on sale in about a year. I am worried that the combat will give me problems...I don't like the sound of holding one mouse button to aim, and then tapping the other one to attack. Makes me wish this game did the standard Diablo style combat with holding shift to stand still/aim and just a click to attack.

On sale 50% off on steam through Oct 3 :)

Just found it on gamepass and loving it (only to my 2nd character journey) - definitely the issues with stealth but other than that just excellent for this size of game. Puts many AAA titles to shame

Does your choice of the characters you pick as your followers affect the story at all, or have interactive dialogue, or are they purely for combat purposes?

The controls are many but by the time you are through the first few stories. You get used to it.

I'll wait for a discount and follow this studio for future releases. Pros : - Top-down shooter + im-sim + RPG - Dark fantasy setting - Original, decent quality, ex-Arkane devs going indie = I want to support that Cons : - Ye olde MMO white-green-blue equipment you need to upgrade by farming materials - Underwhelming stealth and other bits of jankiness - Wild West setting Neutral: - Character-driven narration can be a hit or miss

@Mortismal Gaming . Hello :) Could you please source the fantasy intro music of your video. I checked Juan Andrés Matos site but didn't find it. thanks

Thank the maker for PC Game Pass

This in First Person would have been even more amazing. Yes, theres a mod, but thats not working 100% properly.

I put 50 hours into my first run this game just clicked for me.

This is the first CRPG that has hooked me, any recommendations for similar ones?

Very excellent game, mystic, magic in cowboy world

Is there a camera zoom? First thing that put me off was the very distant view for a top down game.

What happens when you finish the last character? Can you keep playing any of them like Diablo or does the game just exit.

High on my list

The only thing I haven't liked about this game is the level jump. I am playing through the bounty hunter playthrough and am at the place to rescue the husband but all the enemies inside are ridiculously hard, even with a full posse.

If you play on controller grt used to it quickly as ya can and start setting the camera how you see best

Can someone please explain the difference to me between a crpg and an immersive sim?

I actually really like this game (8.5/10 imo) but a pretty big con for me is the melee combat. I don't know if I just suck at the melee but it really just feels clunky, especially when compared to the ranged combat which feels a lot better. Sometimes I think your character does a lunge attack to get into range(not talking about the charge ability), sometimes they just lunge a short distance when you click and sometimes they don't. Plus the fact that the range is so incredibly short maintaining a proper distance to not get hit without using the dodge roll feels very odd. Charge is also a pretty finicky ability to use. I like the freedom of being able to properly time and space the move around so you get an effective aoe but there were so many times that I charge in and they just run past the charge. I love landing the charge, but i would have liked an option where if you're in range you can lock onto an enemy instead and your character follows them so they just don't dodge so easily. I feel like they intended melee to really just be a stealth combat option because when compared to range combat it just feels super clunky and ineffective, especially on the harder difficulties I played in where enemies do a fuckton of damage it just isn't as fun and efficient to go blitzing in with your melee weapon. I kinda understand why that is given the wild west setting, but I still would have loved if they polished the melee the same way they did ranged

I was hoping for a turn based game actually,

Can you please review Hard west?

Let's just wait until it is fully patched and improved. The first DLC may make it an excellent game.

yeeeeah, it looks great, with great concept and story, like, i really want to try it, but the gameplay is a miss, i rather it be more like either wasteland or diablo instead of what we got. it is better for combat to be basic than to be awkward or clunky

I wanted to like this game so bad, if they had grid/turn based combat even as an option I think that'd be amazing

How does this compare to Hard West? Seems like a similarly structured game

well that was fast.

You can upgrade your Pickaxe and Shovel with 30 Gold nuggets and it will become indestructible and the best melee weapon in the game.

13:30 Is this hiding bodies issue solved by now? If yes, I'd like to look into this game. With such imo major bugs I skip it.

The gameplay is ok, but don’t care for the controls and combat does get repetitively after a while.

You can go guns blazing or sneak around...the choice is yours....the game is addictive.

Yeah playing with controller was awful at first. Then I got used to it 🥴

Combat feels a lot like project zomboid

Honestly, this game doesn't quite catch my eye. I don't get why the game is isometric and I generally don't care for anthologies. I also don't really care for the Wild West setting as it tends to be mostly gun heavy, which basically makes it less of an RPG than a shooter since you really cannot customize your character beyond the basic gun/bow ranged shooting with melee just being a pure after thought. Doesn't help that you actually have to aim your melee attacks either. If anything, this is a good candidate for when I have run out of RPGs to play and am fiending back for a fix. Thats a pretty long time since I am up to my eyeballs with games I want to play.

Game is 19.99 rite now, black Friday deals