Brutal Legend
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
Melee combat with a broad axe and magic against demons and monstrous foes, with on-screen blood, gore, and beheading of large creatures during boss fights.
Frequent strong profanity throughout the crude, comedic dialogue.
Partial nudity via skimpy, revealing outfits on several human and demon characters.
Alcohol is a running theme: characters drink beer and liquor, and drinking is part of the metalhead world's tone.
The plot centers on demonic overlords enslaving humanity, giving the world a bleak, oppressive backdrop despite its comedic bent.
Suggestive humor and innuendo tied to the heavy-metal setting, including scantily clad demon characters.
Demonic monsters and menacing, dark fantasy imagery create occasional spooky moments without sustained dread.
Metal-inspired demonic and dark ritual imagery, including summoning of demons and pentagram-style motifs.
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What it is
Brütal Legend is a comedic action-adventure with real-time strategy battles, set in a fantasy world built from heavy-metal album-cover imagery. You play Eddie Riggs, a roadie who wields a battle axe, a magic guitar, and a custom hot rod to lead oppressed humans against demonic overlords. Combat is bloody and gory, with axe strikes, magic attacks, and creature beheadings. The game carries frequent strong language and crude, raunchy humor, scantily clad demon characters with partial nudity, and alcohol and hard-partying imagery drawn from metal culture. Its dark fantasy uses demonic and occult-flavored visuals, and the story deals with enslavement and some bleak, emotional turns.
How it's framed
The game frames its violence and crude humor as over-the-top parody of heavy-metal culture, casting the player as a heroic underdog freeing humanity from demonic tyranny; the mature content is played for comedy and spectacle rather than realism.
Details
- Developer
- Double Fine Productions
- Publisher
- Double Fine Productions
- Released
- Feb 26, 2013
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