5. Gunfright | 1985 | "Rare Replay" Collection | Xbox Series X | 1/29:
Doing this one to mainly progress in unlocking all achievements in Rare Replay. It could take me years to complete the entire collection or I may never complete it, but it's worth a shot to me. Out of the 5-ish games I've completed so far in this collection, this has to be probably the worst so far. It's not that it's aged poorly -- in fact, it's pretty straightforward: find the wanted criminal and beat them in a duel. It's just that: anything and everything will try and kill you. Cactus kills you, tumbleweeds kill you, walking into pedestrians kills you; it's never-ending.
Even after avoiding all obstacles in your path and getting to challenge your bounty to a duel, there's no guarantee you'll be able to kill them after the third level. There is an absurd difficulty spike after about the third level where the wanted target will give you almost no time to react to shooting them in a duel because you will already be shot dead by them. The only way to cheese this system is by using the Rare Replay "rewind" function to have good enough RNG to react in time and shoot them. The bounty can take less than a second to shoot you if you're unlucky or up to two seconds if you are lucky.
The basic premise of the game and its gameplay are both fun, but most of the game will be spent abusing the rewind button in order to complete it. Grade: D+
