Most of the characters, particularly the main ones, are working from the same script and have a low, southern drawl that suits the genre. The voice acting is a little spottier, but it’s never less than clear.
#A western drama plus
Plus the music is pure Ennio Morricone, which is a very good thing indeed. You can peel back the layers one by one: the wind, the vultures and wolves in the distance, the footsteps of your character, the swoosh of your trenchcoat, etc. It has an exceptional audio design, with multiple audio layers to make the American West feel immersive. The Spaghetti Western music, the crunch of boots on gravel, the clunks and whirrs of a pistol: there’s so much there to play with, and A Western Drama duly obliges. Outside of possibly a film noir, there is no film or game genre that has such an immediately recognisable audio signature. This is an adventure about being a kickass bounty hunter in the American frontier of the nineteenth century, and there’s no contorting of the plot to excuse the audio-only narrative.Ĭhoosing a Western as a setting feels perfect. As a visually impaired player, that will be a godsend: you wouldn’t want every game you play to be about, or revolve around, blindness. What surprised but impressed us most about A Western Drama is that blindness isn’t factored into the plot.