Sunset Riders

February 6, 2021

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of video games sounds like a perfect idea on paper. Have you seen the film? It would not have made a great game in the early 90s. Even now, it would have to rely heavily on its style and cut-scenes to create the sort of tension required to do that title justice. Instead, my younger self had to be satiated by Sunset Riders--the Young Guns of video games. Young Guns was a brief western romp starring the likes of Emilio Estevez and Kiefer Sutherland. It’s an awful movie. It takes itself far too seriously, the action sequences have no real tension, and overall it’s a tedious film. One of it’s saving graces is a drawn out scene where the regulators, Emilio Estevez included, take peyote and yell at some unseeable celestial being at the edge of some cliffs. That being said, it makes an amazing game.