Brütal Legend impressions

Be adviced; These impressions is by playing the demo, not the full game.

The fact that Jack Black is the voice of the playable character, is actually the thing that made me follow this game a bit intensively quite early.

One of the first things you experience that this game stands out from others is that you can choose wether or not you wanna hear the swearing and a little bit later, if you wan’t to watch the gore, blood and violence. Wich is, in my eyes, pretty funny.

The animations and feeling of the game is fantastic, and I like the atmosphere, and that’s in spite that I’m usually not into these kinda games.

As expected, Jack Blacks voice and way of saying things makes me laugh. That’s why I love this guy so much. Double Fine Productions made a very great choice when they hired Jack Black to do this voiceover – but what else can you expect from Tim Schafer.

This game is in it’s own genre or in multiple genres. Mainly it’s a hack’n'slash game as you defeat enemies with your big axe but you can vary this by using your guitar, named Clementine.
This game isn’t repetetive at all, as you meet new enemies all the time, and the gameplay is varied by driving different vehicles(according to videos, including riding animals), and by using solos to get further in the game, music games (much like guitar hero and rock band) are included as well. The puzzle genre is also included, as you have to figure out to defeat certain enemies, for example, you’re driving a vehicle in some sort of an arena, with a big monster looking snake in the middle, trying to defeat you. It’s tounge is getting stuck on the ground, and to defeat it, you have to jump out of the vehicle and use your axe to chump of the tounges.

One thing that catched my eye, is that it appears your character isn’t loosing any health (no health bar) but I guess that’s just for the demo.

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