rütal Legend was something I did not expect I would enjoy as much as I did. Don't get me wrong a guitar toting hack and slasher? Hell yeah. But when you get suckerpunched by 'Alice in Wonderchains meets an 80s heavy metal album cover brought to you by Jack Black himself' you can't help but think to yourself. "Wow, this is fucking amazing. Why have I not played this until now!?". This is what I experienced in the opening sequence as you die in 5 minutes, steal a your demon patron's axe from cultists and escape in a hot rod you build in five seconds Lego style. Fleeing as the sky opens up in front of you revealing warp storms in the sky and meteors rain down around you. The game does a good job introducing its protagonist Eddie (Black) the roadie who will unite the Brutal Land by bringing together the band and hitting the highway to hell, vanquishing all corporate sellouts, emo punks and demons as you go. The Metal truly will not die. The cast is fantastic, with Ozzy Osbourne aka the Guardian of Metal dishing out your metal abilities and upgrades to your hot rod as the definitive highlight. To say the OST is extensive is an understatement. Possibly the largest OST I've ever seen in a game. The relationship between Eddie and Ophelia aka Jennifer Hale aka Commander Shepard, felt like a guilty pleasure. That's possibly the best way to describe this game, from the head banging army to the guitar solo effigy "made of rock" to the triumvirate of villains; a self-centered glam rocker, a goth rocker full of 'black tears' and the ultimate cunning demon to rule them all. The game is just a pure ode to heavy metal legends. And if as it seems, this game was just a tribute, they did a double fine job!
My god. How could I forget! The intro and main menu is one of the best I have ever seen in a video game. Schafer and Black delivered an unexpected intro for an entirely unexpected game.
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