Blood West Review – A Bloody Good Time

Blood West Review

In the beginning glimpse, Blood West harkens back to traditional first-person shooters with its self-described low-res, low-poly 3D visual. The video game’s focus on stealth aligns it finest with some traditional first-person stealth titles. Blood West takes modern mechanics, sets them with the spirit of timeless stealth titles, and paints it with a brush of eldritch scary.

Blood West sets gamers in the function of the Undead Gunslinger after a preliminary cutscene portraying an Indigenous shaman dragging a remains to a cliffside, preparing the body, and appearing to carry out a routine. Now resuscitated in the barren lands, gamers are entrusted with purging their curse and releasing their soul. While the story is typically pleasurable and normally presses the gameplay forward, it still lets the gameplay do the majority of the talking.

A Focus On Stealth

As one may anticipate with any stealth video game, the core gameplay loop is a familiar one. You discover a brand-new location, scout stated location, and clear the location of opponents without being captured. It is an old formula that still works well here, though dumping the stealth element is a bit more feasible down the line. Include NPCs, side missions, non-linear maps, resource management, advantages, abilities, and the capability to technique circumstances nevertheless you like, and you have a modern first-person stealth title in Blood West. At its core, the gameplay loop is a great deal of enjoyable, and advancing through the video game’s 3 areas/scenarios just gets a growing number of pleasurable.

While the video game is satisfying, stealth gameplay frequently needs a great deal of persistence. With Blood West, this perseverance is likewise needed merely in regards to beginning the video game. The trouble curve with Blood West is reasonably high, with very little materials, experience, and abilities offered at the start. When you start to comprehend the systems in location, that’s when Blood West gets rolling. As a PC title, it must likewise be kept in mind that a mouse and keyboard is the very best method to play this video game. As a player usually with a choice for utilizing a controller, I discovered the total responsiveness and speed of the mouse and keyboard mix to be unequaled for this video game.

Simply put, Blood West is a video game that improves in time as gamers get utilized to the gameplay, mechanics, and numerous systems the video game has in location. As an indie stealth FPS title, Blood West sets out to do precisely what it meant by supplying a difficult however gratifying title that presses gamers to check out more of the fascinating world set out in front of them.

Low-Res, High-Quality

While the world is undoubtedly its self-described low-res, low-poly self, it works very well with the environment and category of the video game. While the itemization within the video game might be enhanced in regards to determining products that can be gotten, the remainder of the visuals work well to identify distinctions in between opponents, environments, and other visual hints. That stated, my preferred element of the video game’s visuals was simply seeing all the various weapons through a little bit of a classic lens.

If you are a fan of timeless stealth FPS video games, timeless FPS video games, and even Western video games in basic, Blood West will be right up your street. And if you’re not, Blood West might still deserve your time if you have any interest in it based upon a few of its other elements such as the eldritch scary, resource management, and even tough gameplay. As somebody who hasn’t had as much experience with stealth FPS video games, it did take a little bit of time to get accustomed to its operations, once I struck my stride, I discovered it tough to put the video game down.

** An evaluation code was offered by the publisher **