Maybe I just needed Stubbs to get me interested.Īnyway, you’ve also got a partner who joins you in Boring Springs! Each of them has a preferred enemy type, and defeating that enemy will help make them stronger. I don’t know if it was just me not finding the right Westerns or my love of science fiction from an early age, but cowboys were never my cup of tea as a kid. I think? I’ll be honest, Western movies never really appealed to me growing up. You know, just like the cowboys of old used to do. In fact, he was able to use a snake as a whip to poison enemies, deploy a snake of varying age on his side of the field, and use snake parts you’ve accumulated from your dealings with the local wildlife to poison or burn them accordingly. Fortunately, Stubbs could make plenty use of the snakes as a Snake Oiler. You’ll have to deal with demonic cows, skeletons wearing various hats, necromancers, bandits, and plenty of snakes. Your main goal is just to reach Frisco on the coast, but there’s a lot going on between Dirtwater where you start off and Frisco. There’s so much to do and see, and you’ll find a lot of it just from talking to folks or wandering around. After you leave, you’re officially headed out West! And the West proper is pretty darn big…and wild. A few sidequests that you can resolve pretty quickly if you’re so inclined, but that’s about it. Once you leaving Boring Springs, you can’t go back, so make sure that you’ve got everything done that you want to do before leaving, though there isn’t all that much. She was my best friend from start to finish. All I remember was I got a spooky ghost horse and named her Misty. I don’t honestly remember much from this part, I took a long break between the first two hours I played West of Loathing and when I came back to it. Stubbs began his adventure in the small town of Boring Springs, where he decided one evening to make his way out West to find fortune, adventure, or at least a town that wasn’t named Boring Springs. As such, let me talk to you about the adventures of Stubbs Witherton, professional Snake Oiler. Each has a preferred method of attack (melee, magic, and guns respectively), and each has their own nonviolent method of resolving conflicts as well as how they craft items (intimidation/leatherworkery, outfoxin’/master cookery, and hornswogglin’/potionology respectively), so it makes each class feel different enough that playing one makes me wonder how the others play by comparison. These are: Cow Puncher, Beanslinger, and Snake Oiler. Now since this is an RPG, it’s important to note that you have three different classes you can choose from when making your character. Ideally this should take you right to the timestamp in question. Up to this point I’d only seen the image I used for the featured image on this article, a little bit of the trailer on the Steam page, and a few clips from Proton Jon’s streams where he used the Stupid Walk perk to its fullest. I remember not wanting to be up late at night terrified that someone was going to track me through my phone, so I went for the silliest game I could think of and that turned out to be West of Loathing. Sadly I didn’t actually start playing it until I started working on Welcome to the Game for this blog. It may have been the late TotalBiscuit now that I think about it (may he rest in peace), but when they mentioned stick figure cowboys and the fact that it was a comedy RPG, I was interested. It’s not because of a lack of interest, in fact I picked it up at the recommendation of one of the Co-Optional podcast hosts. This is another one of those games that sat in my library untouched for a while. Every one of those targets does something. Stubbs will go down in history for his legendary protagonizin’.
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