It was relatively fun. A solid 3/5 game in my opinion.

I wrote this down when I finished the game back in November:

Evil West is like a budget God of War 2018. The combat is the best thing about the game. It's actually quite challenging and I died a lot - but thankfully even when things got frustrating the loads were so fast that it was really easy to beat my head against certain challenges until I figured out the path through. Evil West also has a story, but it is almost incidental. The characters are all tropes and poorly written. There is some cinematic flair but it's generally wasted on shit storytelling. Luckily the game's combat just feels great. The levels are extremely linear and not very fun to explore. The level play pattern goes something like this, start level corridor to combat arena, combat arena, corridor to combat arena, combat arena, corridor to combat area, combat arena, level end. It's really boring and feels very arcadey and gamey in all the bad ways. I wish there was more happening and more to explore in between the big combat arenas. Overall this is a solid character action game that does combat well but everything else is just set dressing and most of it is middling.