If you had to hold Rustler and watch the list of ingredients mandated by the FDA, here's what you would find: a large amount of Grand Theft Auto (the old school, descending GTA), some Monty Python filtered and the Holy Grail, a big spoonful of parody and a lot of spicy language and situations.
This kickstarted game stew simmer on fire in Early Access since February and is about to be served on PC and consoles at the end of August.
The developer Jutsu Games transposes the wild anarchy and the irreverent tone of Grand Theft Auto to the Middle Ages, an absolutely ripe historical period for cultural anachronisms and humor ranging from intelligent to ridiculously silly. Rustler has never met a joke with which it has not been comfortable, so we have bards playing lute that engages in rap battles instead of GTA radio stations, areas Without horses, knights more stupid than noble, hunts with witches and, of course, stables. where you can pimper your horse. Just for it to be clear, we want to deceive it with cosmetic improvements. And just so that we are clear _encore, _ we want to say better stools and flanges and everything.
At least in the current Early Access version, there is a pretty compact main campaign in which the main character, well named The Guy, seeks to find the love of his life by winning a tournament, as well as a large number of secondary quests. And shorter. missions that have nothing to do with the plot. Most of them involve chaos or anarchy of some kind or another, often ending with a wild struggle.
Although the open world of Rustler is relatively small, in the classic way of GTA, it is full of possibilities and creative fun. Almost every pixel is filled with a joke, anachronism, a cultural reference or a sense of debauchery. Of course, the sense of humor is as personal as a fingerprint, but Rustler plays on chances and supposes everyone will find something to laugh. It's a very good bet.
As Rustler went through his early access months, he regularly improved significantly, such as the controller's management, driving ... uh, riding, fighting with remote weapons and melee and the scope of activities and quests. The developers have promised interesting features specific to the Dualsense controller and a regular and regular flow of DLC after the output. At its launch, Rustler will be a strictly solo game.
Rustler is a game up down isometric and although it is not a graphic barn burner, it looks colorful and detailed with an architecture suggesting about the medieval period, located in a variety rustic environments. One of the strengths of the game is a bard that can be hired to travel with Guy and improve his quests through parodic songs. In general, the characters speak a subtitled charabia language that seems to combine equal portions of SIM language and intestinal distress. It becomes a little repetitive, but it is certainly economically more feasible than to make thousands of dialogue lines heard in many different languages.
To transpose modern cultural references to older historical periods has nothing new in entertainment (or even in video games), but the fusion of rustler of the old-old GTA mechanics with a medieval setting seems sufficiently different for Be engaging. It's dense with humor and about a dozen hours, Rustler is quite short enough for vanity and jokes do not go beyond their welcome. Thanks to an open world that encourages its pulses for chaos and a variety of missions, Rustler plays as a more substantial game than the unique gag premise suggests. It is also an open world that could easily be extended or franchised if the game found a niche.
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