I thought this was a meme game but no. Take Deus Ex and hitman and those stock market assassination side quests from GTA 5 and throw some postal 2 in there. But where hitman makes you feel like a slow and methodical killer hiding in plain sight, in this one i feel more like John Wick if john wick had holes in calves that shot out gunk that boosted him upward. Super fast time to kill, you die easily. But the levels are short and targets are automatically highlighted so repeat attempts shouldn't be too frustrating. This game is so crazy. The art style looks ugly at a glance but everything is so painstakingly grotesque and it all works together so well that it actually looks great and it fits with the theme, a garbage world where there is literally no hope, even the doors and walls feel oppressing. Also love the worldbuilding and little details, like one of the SMGs becoming popular because of its use in some anime and the speed glands replacing all your organs with "lightweight commercial variants" thus the speed boost and armor loss. The augmentation system is awesome and some of the implants are super cool. There was this grappendix (grappling hook appendix) that CHANGED THE GAME and made some parts pretty easy, but to be fair it's extremely expensive and I got lucky with some of my organ and fish investments in the stock market. I shouldn't be able to say these things about a videogame. This game shouldn't exist. But I'm glad it exists because it singlehandedly restored my hope for the future of video games. If more like this is made then our medium is secured. Now all I need is a VR version so I can set the world record for longest consecutive hours spent vomiting

and how cool is it the two best games of 2021 are about hitmen?