Dissecting Design — Brutal Legend


Role-playing survival game is willing to take risks

For this week’s Dissecting Design, we take a look back at the last (and possibly final) AAA-collaborated game from Double Fine: Brutal Legend. I talked about how they created a very rich world, but ran into problems with some very polarizing gameplay.

Two notes, I incorrectly said that Dio was in the game which isn’t right. I had to turn off the music as there was no way I could put up a video with licensed metal songs and not get it flagged to death.