Dadhunter
2020
TBD
2005
This review contains spoilers
This game is cool.
Mondo cool.
The thing is, it takes it's time to set it. It shows you how it puts the leather jacket, the sunglasses and hops on the motorcicle, talking to you about how the goverments' full of shitheads while punching the cellphone off your hand.
And then it pops the collar of the jacket, kickstarts the bike and blows your fucking head.
A very complicated game to talk about, with multiple layers of meaning and ways to present them to you.
An analysis of the world post-9/11 with a refreshing outlook on the tropes of nationalism and East vs West, Killer7 gives you the task of bringing forth an "Utopia" by terminating in covert opperations everyone who opposes the Brave New World, Japan in this case. In response to this, the country develops a document that instructs how to build the perfect nation, itself imbued with magical powers that bring fortune to whoever utilizes it. The stakes are high and losing can result in annihilation.
All of this is also intertwined with the story of your own group, the Killer7, and the secrets the mastermind Harman, a senile man with multiple personalities, holds. Little by little you uncover what this entrails for each persona inside of him and what unites them aside from their line of work.
And yet there is another layer of surrealism permeating everything. Suda51, the director of the proyect, certainly decided to Stop Making Sense and embrace the ridiculouness of a world with no internet, no wars and interconintental highways made in an effort to stop terrorism (a complete and abject failure).
Finally the " Kill the Past" in this particular work certainly feel pessimistic. After all you and your characters try to do to perseverate, the game closes reminding you that "[...]the world won't change. All it does is turn"...and after all I played through, I have to say that's fine by me. The world may never truly change, but you yourself can try to.
Now, let's dance
Mondo cool.
The thing is, it takes it's time to set it. It shows you how it puts the leather jacket, the sunglasses and hops on the motorcicle, talking to you about how the goverments' full of shitheads while punching the cellphone off your hand.
And then it pops the collar of the jacket, kickstarts the bike and blows your fucking head.
A very complicated game to talk about, with multiple layers of meaning and ways to present them to you.
An analysis of the world post-9/11 with a refreshing outlook on the tropes of nationalism and East vs West, Killer7 gives you the task of bringing forth an "Utopia" by terminating in covert opperations everyone who opposes the Brave New World, Japan in this case. In response to this, the country develops a document that instructs how to build the perfect nation, itself imbued with magical powers that bring fortune to whoever utilizes it. The stakes are high and losing can result in annihilation.
All of this is also intertwined with the story of your own group, the Killer7, and the secrets the mastermind Harman, a senile man with multiple personalities, holds. Little by little you uncover what this entrails for each persona inside of him and what unites them aside from their line of work.
And yet there is another layer of surrealism permeating everything. Suda51, the director of the proyect, certainly decided to Stop Making Sense and embrace the ridiculouness of a world with no internet, no wars and interconintental highways made in an effort to stop terrorism (a complete and abject failure).
Finally the " Kill the Past" in this particular work certainly feel pessimistic. After all you and your characters try to do to perseverate, the game closes reminding you that "[...]the world won't change. All it does is turn"...and after all I played through, I have to say that's fine by me. The world may never truly change, but you yourself can try to.
Now, let's dance
2021
2021
2001
I think I have never seen a game make the previous entry look so bad like this one. Every single thing Re7 felt short this game surpasses it, from gameplay to the horror parts.
But what we are left with...still doesn't quite get to me. Despite all the improvements, the first person perspective falls short for me, trying to scare you by torturing Ethan's hand and not much else. The one thing this game does worse than 7 is constantly robbing control out of you to point you at interesting or scary stuff. Nothing compares to the insanity of the garage fight with Jack in this game.
The story is just worthless and the game recognizes this, constantly making fun of itself for leaving a lot of stuff for the last second, but still makes you watch the cinematics and endings of what you're playing (Kinda like Doom 2016 opens up with you punching a computer infodumping you...just to infodump you on the first elevator you take). And while the gunplay is a HUGE improvement, it's more than anything just adding animation to the enemies you play with barely any stuff new to it
But overall it's pretty good. It just takes itself WAY too seriously while presenting the absolute bare minimum for a videogame story
But what we are left with...still doesn't quite get to me. Despite all the improvements, the first person perspective falls short for me, trying to scare you by torturing Ethan's hand and not much else. The one thing this game does worse than 7 is constantly robbing control out of you to point you at interesting or scary stuff. Nothing compares to the insanity of the garage fight with Jack in this game.
The story is just worthless and the game recognizes this, constantly making fun of itself for leaving a lot of stuff for the last second, but still makes you watch the cinematics and endings of what you're playing (Kinda like Doom 2016 opens up with you punching a computer infodumping you...just to infodump you on the first elevator you take). And while the gunplay is a HUGE improvement, it's more than anything just adding animation to the enemies you play with barely any stuff new to it
But overall it's pretty good. It just takes itself WAY too seriously while presenting the absolute bare minimum for a videogame story
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