It’s a nifty way for the game to play around with timelines and dynamically change parts of the level in front of the player’s eyes, but too often seems to fall back on pretty mundane things like “and then I saw a ladder that would help me reach the next piece of the level.Ĭontrary to Bastion where the player’s action (to some extent) guided the narration, Gunslinger storytelling always drives the player’s activities.
Progress is rewound and real events (at least, according to Greaves) unfold. Once Garrett gets a dose of your trusty six-shot, Greaves steps in to say the day hasn’t gone like this at all. That’s unfortunate, as the superior mouse and keyboard aim control is what you’ll want to use the rest of the time.īut anyway, let’s get back to how storytelling changes the level structure. Focusing control in particular is a bit slower with the mouse than with a controller, and the whole process feels more natural on twin sticks. The mouse (or the right joystick) controls a “focus” reticle that you must keep over your target, while the A and D keys (or the left joystick) move your hand around the sweet spot of your target. The minigame is clearly designed for a controller, because (aside from post-draw aiming) it’s pretty awkward with the mouse and keys. They’re a lot less tense in story mode as death simply means a quick reboot when the duel opens. This paves the way for an introduction to Gunslinger Quick-draw dueling mini-game, which concludes several of the missions (and appears as another standalone game mode alongside Arcade, in which the player has five attempts to take on fifteen nefarious gunmen in a row.) Duel Challenge is nervous business, as repeated failures mean having to cash in your score and start from square one. When the audience steps in or when Greaves remembers a new detail, the mission changes shape accordingly.įor example, on the first level, one of Greaves’ enthusiastic young fans exclaims that he surely had to face lawyer Pat Garrett.
Gradually he will tell the room how he was involved in the lives of Western icons like Billy the Kid, Jesse James and John Wesley Hardin, and these events will form the basis of the level.
In story mode, each mission is presented as an additional part of bounty hunter Silas Greaves’ bar tale to a group of attentive listeners. This guy is so tough he’s named after a Bob Dylan album.
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