a review of killer 7 (***1/2)

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[Andonuts]

Spot on.

Although I think I do like the game. I haven't finished it yet, mind you, yet I'm awfully close. And. Well, I feel like it's the sort of videogame I've always wanted, deep down inside.
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[veen]

I would praise the review, yet that would be redundant. I enjoy what you write by default.

a few details are curious. the rare white-flash-pause-gunshot may be unique to the PS2 or japanese version. the air conditioner exists for the possibility that the candles are lit incorrectly, and need to be extinguished. things like that , whatever.

I've also been reminded strongly of Eternal Darkness while playing Killer7, as both games are obsessed with presentation and cleverness, and not terribly interested in complex maps or game systems. the problem with ED is that it isn't that clever, and hasn't anything very interesting to present us with. Killer7 is the opposite, overflowing with truly good ideas, honest about its simplicity of play, and so bold that it really is unpredictable and disturbing.

the story is so close to being comprehensible, and yet... it seems deliberately elusive of logical understanding. I'm a huge Lynch fan, so of course I love it for this.

[Andonuts]

I don't know what this says about me, yet only problem with Killer 7 is that it doesn't get crazy enough, and that it misses too many opportunities to, you know... do things. Given it's presentation and play system, I mean.

Which isn't really a problem.
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[Shattered Fixtures]

Yeah, I was kind of waiting for Killer 7 to do something completely and utterly insane like, "change discs before time runs out or your save data is erased!"

It could've been a little crazier, I agree.

Eternal Darkness is a love letter to H.P. Lovecraft, who's like, my second favorite author of all time. So I uh, like that game quite a bit. Of course, Killer 7 is in many ways a videogame interpretation of Seijun Suzuki's yakuza movies Tokyo Drifter and Branded to Kill.

The banner above the Killer 7 review on IC is wicked cool. Who made that?

Edited for being an idiot.
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[Gilbert Smith]

The end of this sentence is Rock And Roll: "I say it is the future of videogames because it represents a certain kind of game-making spirit that the world has yet seen only so few times as to count on three fingers."

You know, I hadn't even gotten a half a pargraph into this review before I decided to buy this game, and that's what Rock And Roll is!

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[Dark_Steve]

Christ, I'm just gonna have to buy it.
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[Shapermc]

Just because you probably were not given this information: the Heavens Smile are real, as quoted by 51 Suda.

Anyways, after playing the game I can tell in your review that you did not like it. This review seems very different from most of your reviews, yet I can't tell why.

Also reading this review makes me sad for people who had to play the PS2 version of this game.
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[veen]

one wonders why they even bothered porting it to the PS2, with the sales being so bad in Japan anyway. most interested parties in the states got it for the cube also, I'd imagine. oh Japan, ignoring fresh, inspired works also rated highly by famitsu... ahem, vagrant story...

I'm curious about the differences in how the ghost-speak was handled in each language. in the english version the robotic voices are made mostly unintelligible under layers of distortion, and the subtitles are written in a deliberately odd style. I guess the japanese subtitles were also written with not quite normal syntax?

on the topic of how crazy it was. it wasn't trying to do the same kind of blatant "look how far I'll go, aren't you freaked out now" thing as Eternal Darkenss or MGS2. Killer7 is much more finely crafted, more subtle in its subversiveness. that it didn't ever fall into the trap of "postmodern wackiness" makes what it does do infinitely more fascinating.

[Karmakin]

The whole idea of forced inventiveness through less horsepower is an interesting one. Is it the future? Who knows. yet at least for me, some of my favorite experiences in the current Gen have been less than technological wonders. Amplitude, Viewtiful Joe, Katamari and Disgaea.

Personally, I think that in the long run, there's going to be room for both. There's the market for both. So for the next gen, what I'm predicting is that people will either have a 360 or a PS3 AND a Revolution. Nintendo positioning themselves as the "AND" company is very interesting. It gives them a lot of ammo to compete, even on the higher level. Besides, I think that art design trumps mere power any day of the week. Twilight Princess looks better than all of the PS3/360 games I've seen to date.
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[veen]

the main difference is in the loading times, which is sort of a problem considering how frequent they are. you don't really notice a second or two on the cube, yet...

also, jerky framerate in some areas, less complexity in the lighting effects, abridged reload animations, things of that nature. just secondhand information, I haven't played it. nothing big, yet enough little things that might combine to detract from the mood of the game.

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haha. on 'deadly' difficulty the numbers are removed, and the clue is the number of little platters on the shaft of each candleholder. which I guess someone might miss at first. ho ho ho! in the us version at least, you have to use the AC to reset them. serious business.

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[Gilbert Smith]

That's a little disappointing! I imagine that A/C bit would be a lot more fun if it had no purpose whatsoever.

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