>>1599432Yeah, the game wasn't so much a marriage between western and steampunk as it was simply inspired by western films during the steam engine revolution.
And yes, the western influence so much deeper than just the Leone-style spaghetti western music. It's especially prevalent in the pubs and the way the bartenders and prostitutes are dressed.
Then there's Shadow. His theme song isn't so out of place when you consider his past as Clyde:
* Barum is known in Japan as Biri, which is also Japan's name for Billy the Kid.
* Barum/Biri and Clyde is a probable reference to Bonnie and Clyde.
* Barum and Clyde are train robbers, a classic western archetype.
* Clyde's getup and Shadow's personality resemble that of The Man with No Name (pic related).
It's also worth noting that The Man with No Name was inspired by the ronin Sanjuro in the Japanese film Yojimbo. There's an enemy in the final dungeon called Yojimbo (Retainer in the SNES version) who is a ninja/assassin type character just like Shadow. So it appears that Clyde/Shadow is a mashup between two cultures interpretation of the same classic character, as well as other American Western and feudal Japanese archetypes, which is pretty cool.
