Brutal Legend & Comic Day 10/14/2009.

First off I want to talk about Brutal Legend. I would have talked about it yesterday, but I was too busy rocking out and kicking ass to do so. The game is full of metal greatness in every aspect you can think of. From big name musicians to heavy tracks to the most rockin' imagery to the badass of the badass of characters. As it has been called before by the games creator, Tim Schaffer, it's a love letter to metal. It is as if the covers to your favorite hard hitting metal album covers has come to life. No longer does one have to dream or do the drugs of rockers to see what it would be like if metal was the basis of everything in the world. In Brutal Legend you play as Eddie Riggs, the worlds greatest roadie, who has the misfortune of working for a band that is the result of metal going mainstream. Eddie is transported to the world of metal when after saving a member of said band, a piece of the stage falls on top of him crushing him to death and his blood drips into his belt buckle. This causes the beast, Ormagoden, to be summoned, and all hell breaks loose once it arrives. From there you go about learning of the new world Eddie now finds himself in.

The game is just awesome, even if metal isn't your thing. Anyone that plays it and pays attention will clearly be able to tell that a lot of care went into the creation of it. Brutal Legend is the kind of game that only comes around every so often, it's different from everything else out there, it makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside the way the first time you heard the music you knew you were going to listen to for the rest of your life. I'd like to think that this kind of game could only be made for the metal genre. That metal fans are the most loyal and diehard fans of any music genre and that is why this happened with metal. Of course that's completely biased on my part, but I don't think you'll ever see a country, pop, rap, jazz, rock, blues or any other genre of music fan willing to go to the lengths of devotion that a metal fan will defending their favorite band/musician. Really, you don't tell a metalhead that his/her band sucks without the real chance of them bringing out the physical violence on you in a heartbeat.


OK, I'm going to make the rest of this quick, I want to get back to playing Brutal Legend.

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