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Moth's Official List of Reasons You Should Hop on BrĂŒtal Legend
The main character, Eddie Riggs, is voiced by Jack Black. And I mean old school Jack Black who wasn't afraid to cuss and make dick jokes, not family-friendly wishy-washy "Hey let's not be mean to the president that's actively making our lives worse guys that's not cool :(" Jack Black.
Eddie also looks like this. I feel like he appeals to a lot of my audience.
Aside from Jack Black, many other metal icons lend their voices to characters, including Ozzy Osborne (RIP), Lemmy Kilmister (RIP), Lita Ford and Rob Halford.
The soundtrack. Whether you're just starting to get into metal or are a seasoned metalhead, this is the perfect way for you to get a variety of songs from a variety of subgenres (it skews mostly towards classic heavy metal, thrash metal and black metal, with a bit of hair metal, power metal and doom metal for good measure). They also utilize the music in really good ways during missions (Speeding down the highway running over enemies while "Back at the Funny Farm" or "Machine Gun Eddie" plays is an absolutely transcendent experience). I found a lot of new favorites and was delighted to hear old favorites on the soundtrack. Without mentioning spoilers, the final boss includes one of my favorite metal songs of all time, and I physically couldn't stop myself from singing along.
The art direction for the game. Holy shit. Their goal was to make every environment look like it could be the cover art for a real metal album and they DELIVERED. everything from the environments to the characters to the car you drive just OOZES metal charm.
The story is equal parts epic, hilarious and emotional when it needs to be. It's created by Tim Schafer of Psychonauts and Grim Fandango fame, so if those games' writing is your thing you'll love this.
Whole lot of collectibles and missions in an open world environment that doesn't feel like a slog to explore. I'm nearing the endgame and I'm STILL discovering new stuff. Fair warning though, a few of the "fight off enemies" mission sets get pretty same-y. But the game has a good amount of one-off missions and mission sets that make up for it (I personally really enjoyed Fletus' racing missions, it helped me get way better at driving with my jank keyboard controls). The open world has no fast travel but the map isn't super big and the car has decent speed even without upgrades, so as long as you're checking the map you should be able to get where you need to be pretty quickly without much frustration.
A combination of hack and slash and RTS gameplay that can be frustrating at first but feels SO good to pull off. I'm normally not a huge RTS fan but the game was pretty good at explaining it in a way a beginner can understand.
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