You know what's awesome? Jack Black. What else I hear is awesome? Heavy Metal. What's really awesome? Lord of the Rings!...wait, what? Well, if you put all these in a blender, you'd end up with Brutal Legend.
Brutal Legend tells the story of Eddie Riggs, the worlds greatest roadie, voiced by Black. One day at a concert, Riggs is injured and gets blood on his magic belt buckle and is transported to the magical land of...Namenotmentioned. He discovers that this land is based entirley around heavy metal, and a simple instrument is now a powerful weapon. He also learns that the heroic and good willed metalheads are under the iron grip of Lord Doviculous, voiced awesomley by Tim Curry, and his army of SNM wearing demons. He teams up with a band of rebels lead by Lars Halford (Zach Hank), along with his sister Lita (Kath Soucie), and action girl Ophelia (Jeniffer Hale)to put togethor Ironheade, the worlds greatest band, er, army, and take down Doviculous once and for all.
This game is awesome! The voice acting is great, the style and world grip you by the shirt, and it's just an awesome experience! But as this is the new segment, Crappy Things about Good Stuff, I have to bring up some stuff that irritates me.
1. The story is the best part of Brutal Legend. The characters, the world, the story telling, I never wanetd it to end. Unfortunatley when it did end, it ended WAY too early. The game could've easily gone on twice as long. The story gets derailed by the sudden appearance of The Drowning Doom, wheras I'd have liked to continue onto Doviculus's palace. Though admittedly the story goes well, it just ends too quickly.
2. Like I just said, the game is heavy on a fantastic story. Unfortunatley, it's not one of those games that's heavy on dialogue. You'll find yourself hearing 'We're on Patrol!' and 'Let's Team up again, you and me' over and over until your mind bursts out of it's fleshy prison, manifesting as an entity of pure irritation which consumes you from the inside and commits suicide by bashing itself in the head with the controller! Okay, maybe not that much, but you catch my drift. They had the awesomeness to include Kyle Gass (Black's partner from Tenacious D. PARTNER not Sidekick) in the game as Kyle the Cannioneer, and he's great in his part, but I just wish he'd end conversations with something other than 'Yes, I thought you'd never ask.'
3. This one really irritates me. You have Jack Black, the Tenacious D singer, and two of his songs, The Metal, and Master Exploder...And you don't incorporate them into the story! By what I've gathered, the game was created out of the basis that Jack Black wanted to be in a game. How would they go about this? Let me think. Doviculus has sent a Bleeding Death (a temporary near invincible unit)to destroy Ironheade before they can leave a certain settlement. In order to defeat it, they need to find the warrior known as The Metal to vanquish it. They find him and he's actually a giant monster who alligns itself with Ironheade and helps defeat the Bleeding Death and helps the fight later on. Not only is that simple, that would have been AWESOME! The Metal could have been his theme song, Riggs could see it as really awesome and serenade it with the song. Dammit! You people thought of everything but what would be purley awesome!
4.Not enough Lord Doviculus.
He's awesome.
5. Okay, this isn't actually a complaint, but who was the hunter from the Overkill missions? I can probably look him up, but I don't care enough to that. Yet I don't not care enough not to ask. Better put a complaint in here...Why are the Overkill missions so damn hard? It would be perfectly simple, but the animals you need to kill disappear when you start the mission. It took me two days to find six Tollusks. The rarest animal in the game, the Hextadon, was done in ONE F*CKING hour!
6. Where the hell did Mangus come from?
7. The placement of the camera makes Eddie, a large an intimidating man, look small and feeble. Obviously they want to get across the epic landscape, but Eddie could be The Hulk's stunt double, I want to feel like it! plus, that'd make everything else look even bigger!
However, I will give some credit where credit is due. Jennifer Hale is magnificent as Ophelia, but when she turns evil, she fails to cast an intimidating shadow of evil. Especially next to Curry's Doviculus. But I will thank Double Fine for keeping her dialogue clean. I remember her from Totally Spies and it would be mildly upsetting to see the friendly and smart one become a violent cussbox. Thank you.
And yes, I watched Totally Spies.
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