Weird West is about making plans that inevitably tumble out of control. Nods to the nature of Weird West's world (hint: it's weird) and not only my character's place in it, but my place as the player, upended a lot of my assumptions about how it'd frame a well-trodden sort of fiction.

A recurring character who takes the form of a young, dead girl referred to my character as 'the passenger' almost as if that name was for me, the player. Not everyone I bumped into had a story to tell or a quest to give.

His portraits are raw like Disco Elysium's cast, but not quite as surreal. I didn't remember their names, but I remembered their faces thanks to Cedric Peyravernay’s art, which previously defined the gloomy Dishonored series. As I led my veteran bounty hunter through Weird West's tangled world, I spent a lot of time speaking with the people, something that happens rarely in Deathloop.

Weird West yanks the camera back from the first-person view established by Ultima Underworld and System Shock to a bird's eye view, turning the characters into board game pieces.

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