Comments on: Review: Brutal Legend

By: Gaming Angels Holiday Guide | GamingAngels

Gaming Angels Holiday Guide | GamingAngels — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:50:59 +0000

[...] Rating: M for Mature Developer: EA Price: $44.00 Release Date: October 13th, 2009 GA Amazon Link See RachelZoe’s review here! Brutal Legend is a fun game with a great soundtrack for all the metal heads out there. The [...]

By: stealthyslyth

stealthyslyth — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:54:25 +0000

As a metal fan, this game had myself and my boyfriend laughing at many points with references and vocal cameos. (For those in the know, in one of the cemeteries, there’s a little stone henge arch a la Spinal Tap!)

And I have to say kudos to making the review respectful even though you have no interest in the music. Also sorry for the very late comment lol

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Review: Brutal Legend | GamingAngels — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:06:42 +0000

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By: RachelZoe

RachelZoe — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:32:50 +0000

Well considering I don’t like a lot of the aspects of what make up Brutal Legend, the reason I played it was because of Schafer. Thanks for the kind words. Like I said, I’m probably overly critical of a very good game because I hold it to astronomical standards.

By: JermEx

JermEx — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:18:22 +0000

So the Reviewer Hates metal, Hates RTS, Likes Tim Shafer. All In all I think you respected the game very well. It is a very ambitious game you must admit. For all of its accomplishments I also believe the game is a success. In refinement, however, the game could use some major tweaking,

By: SkittleRock

SkittleRock — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:27:53 +0000

I just pressed the A button to skip it. You should be able to use A, B, Start or Back but as far as I can tell you have to press the button as soon as the video starts up. The first time I tried I waited a bit and I got the spinning axe loading symbol but the video still played. The second time I tried I pressed A right as Jack Black said “Okay” and it skipped the video. I guess you just need to be quick on the draw.

By: RachelZoe

RachelZoe — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:28:42 +0000

Which button skips the beginning video? The boyfriend and I pushed every button with no success. Or at least we thought we did.

I was also a bit frustrated with the Deuce, because it doesn’t control intuitively. It also doesn’t turn as fast as I would like. Riding that antelope-type creature is much faster.

By: SkittleRock

SkittleRock — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:34:11 +0000

There is a way to skip the opening video at least for the 360 version, my husband does it all the time although I’m not sure what button he presses. I’m pretty sure I skipped the opening video as well the first time I played but can’t remember what button I pressed.

I can totally understand how someone who isn’t a fan of the metal genre would find this game hard to endure. Luckily both me and my husband are big metal heads so I found the mythos and general feeling of the Brutal world fantastic and completely enveloping.

The one thing I had trouble with in this game was the Duece, I found it really hard to control and opted to do a lot of walking when I could. I was also missing the jump button but like my husband pointed out there wasn’t a button left to put a jump on and double mapping buttons usually just leads to frustration.