The lights are on
I have to preface all my praise for this game by admitting that I grew up reading Louis L'Amour westerns almost religiously. I had read all of his Sackett books by the time I was a teenager, including books outside the main Sackett series about peripheral characters like Milo Talon, most of the rest of his stand alone westerns, short story collections, and even his modern books like Last of the Breed and Haunted Mesa, that still honored that frontier tradition. I've long felt that I was born "100 years too late" and held fantasies of exploring the country and living off the land. Of making my own way like my childhood hero Tell Sackett.
As far as story line goes, Brütal Legend is amazing. I grew up in the 80s/90s listening to many of the bands featured on the soundtrack, but as the music became more Kabbage Boy, less Motorhead (and as I took off my blinders and broadened my musical horizons), I found myself dragging out those old metal and hard rock albums less and less, until finally the Death Angel cassettes and Faster Pussycat LPs were all exorcised from my collection, left behind in various moves and supplanted by stuff like the Flaming Lips, Morphine, and Medeski, Martin & Wood.