This was a LOT to swallow honestly, but I do think I really liked this game
we'll circle back around to that after i get most of what I say out in the open
So i've already played killer7 and no more heroes 1 by this point and youd think that would already be enough under my belt to prepare me for the shit that happens in this game, but you would be wrong! and i would be wrong!
And im glad i am! because it just shows again that suda really does just go off with making shit he wants to
thats why all his shit is so Special to the point where even if there's connecting themes and such, each one of these shits has a different feel,vibe and end goal progression while still maintaining this 'Kill The Past' mantle
The music and sound design are so fucking good and the way the UI pops out like computer programs is so tantalizing to my retinas. This game boasts 2d art, 3d ps1 cgi and FMVs of whole ass real people and locations to convey this unique flavor I dont think ive seen done before. On top of this I also really like the dialogue it can be so immensely funny, sometimes it feels on accident with how humorous some things can be in this game because i was overall having that more than a serious gritty story i was sinking my teeth into.. lots of mysteries yeah! but.. ill get to that..
It's just im tapering myself off because for as much as im singing praises right now
I REALLY REALLY wish I could dicksuck this game, I REALLY REALLY DO but.. there's some problems i have
For starters, Im already not too fond of visual novels as a medium for my games
I like when there's interactivity involved.. maybe a puzzle here or there or using the bulk of the dialogue to it's advantage
I feel ALMOST none of that here with this game, it mostly just felt like I was reading an interactive web graphic novel which is so cool but also..
It was on occassion more than once where I was like "do i Really wanna keep playing this game though... do i Really like this that much" and then something interesting happens in the story or a revelation or something that makes me think about it a bit more and what could happen and im snapped out of it.
Though more often than not there's so many moments in this game where I feel like i wouldve benefited from keeping a log
or some kind of journal to quick look and brush up on things thatve happened previously, its a remaster of a PS1 visual novel so its not really like i expected the world of it with quality of life things thatre commonplace now
it's just also I put off writing this review because ive been scrambling to fill in the gaps of my knowledge and bits where i was confused getting cleared up lolol. Which is STRANGE because I feel like I was more palpably confused about THIS than killer7, which by all intents and purposes doesnt make any fucking sense because this has 10 times the dialogue killer7 even has. I think its the fact that my theorizing and such amounted to next to nothing with this game and that knocked the wind out of my sails about it, silly as it sounds. Like I won't really go into spoilers here but there's numerous occassions where i've put two and two together because im insane Or because of my prior expectations from killer7
and then all of a sudden the game just kind of walks stark ass naked in my face with my theory proven right like halfway through the game or even earlier than that
So then im sitting there like.. the fuck? then where is this gonna go? And then in the final couple cases it felt like i was getting the plot dumping of the century like the game had taco tuesday and laxatives ala mode stuffed up it's brain and i was seeing it all bounce forth
This was a double edged sword feeling to me because while I do think the narrative of this game is really good i think its absolutely fair to say that retaining certain things that may or may not be relevant later on to the story is something that not everyone is gonna be able to do, shit i was barely able to but maybe thats because this game didnt hit a very specific stimulant in my brain
And thats not necessarily it's fault in particular
What is its fault is that I think that this doesnt really feel like an adventure game or a puzzle game like the genres slapped onto it imply and its just feels like a cool, stylized visual novel
The puzzles I just could not care about whatsoever and I think its actually kind of funny in retrospect that just tapping a button solves them if you really just only care about the story, which ADMITTEDLY i started to only care about the story!
This is all why I said i think I like The Silver Case rather than I think i LOVE the silver case or that i LOVE the silver case, I think characters like Tokio, Sumio, Kusabi, Morikawa and Hachisuka are interesting characters but I think i walked away from this game with specifically Tokio and Kusabi as favorites overall. i think there's something that just wasnt.. igniting in me like i wanted to happen with this game and my expectations were loud while this is very much an inside voice game so to speak, in the fact of the matter that it's gameplay is subtle.. its nuance with its writing.. is subtle
It's very open and upfront about the thinkpieces on crime, cops, and how changing shit from the inside doesnt work out and how often times government will manufacture something to keep higher power regardless of the intent..
but, yeah. btw I was so confused at some points infact that Im embarrassed to admit I didnt connect two and two that Tokio in Transmitter and Tokio in Placebo were the same guy. like. probably my dumbest moment ever when i realized that by Parade LMFAO
final thoughts: if youre keen on visual novels as one of your favorite mediums of games then you have absolutely no reason to skip out on this but if youre lukewarm or neutral on the genre this may not hit the same as some of suda's other stuff. i fully understand why this was one of his breakout magnum opus, but go into this expecting a nearly completely narratively driven experience and Please
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!!!! REMEMBER YOU CAN SCROLL UP AND DOWN WITH YOUR MOUSE, THERE WAS SO MANY TIMES WHEN I WAS WALKING UP AND AROUND AND I FORGOT YOU COULD DO THAT IN THE GAME AAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
we'll circle back around to that after i get most of what I say out in the open
So i've already played killer7 and no more heroes 1 by this point and youd think that would already be enough under my belt to prepare me for the shit that happens in this game, but you would be wrong! and i would be wrong!
And im glad i am! because it just shows again that suda really does just go off with making shit he wants to
thats why all his shit is so Special to the point where even if there's connecting themes and such, each one of these shits has a different feel,vibe and end goal progression while still maintaining this 'Kill The Past' mantle
The music and sound design are so fucking good and the way the UI pops out like computer programs is so tantalizing to my retinas. This game boasts 2d art, 3d ps1 cgi and FMVs of whole ass real people and locations to convey this unique flavor I dont think ive seen done before. On top of this I also really like the dialogue it can be so immensely funny, sometimes it feels on accident with how humorous some things can be in this game because i was overall having that more than a serious gritty story i was sinking my teeth into.. lots of mysteries yeah! but.. ill get to that..
It's just im tapering myself off because for as much as im singing praises right now
I REALLY REALLY wish I could dicksuck this game, I REALLY REALLY DO but.. there's some problems i have
For starters, Im already not too fond of visual novels as a medium for my games
I like when there's interactivity involved.. maybe a puzzle here or there or using the bulk of the dialogue to it's advantage
I feel ALMOST none of that here with this game, it mostly just felt like I was reading an interactive web graphic novel which is so cool but also..
It was on occassion more than once where I was like "do i Really wanna keep playing this game though... do i Really like this that much" and then something interesting happens in the story or a revelation or something that makes me think about it a bit more and what could happen and im snapped out of it.
Though more often than not there's so many moments in this game where I feel like i wouldve benefited from keeping a log
or some kind of journal to quick look and brush up on things thatve happened previously, its a remaster of a PS1 visual novel so its not really like i expected the world of it with quality of life things thatre commonplace now
it's just also I put off writing this review because ive been scrambling to fill in the gaps of my knowledge and bits where i was confused getting cleared up lolol. Which is STRANGE because I feel like I was more palpably confused about THIS than killer7, which by all intents and purposes doesnt make any fucking sense because this has 10 times the dialogue killer7 even has. I think its the fact that my theorizing and such amounted to next to nothing with this game and that knocked the wind out of my sails about it, silly as it sounds. Like I won't really go into spoilers here but there's numerous occassions where i've put two and two together because im insane Or because of my prior expectations from killer7
and then all of a sudden the game just kind of walks stark ass naked in my face with my theory proven right like halfway through the game or even earlier than that
So then im sitting there like.. the fuck? then where is this gonna go? And then in the final couple cases it felt like i was getting the plot dumping of the century like the game had taco tuesday and laxatives ala mode stuffed up it's brain and i was seeing it all bounce forth
This was a double edged sword feeling to me because while I do think the narrative of this game is really good i think its absolutely fair to say that retaining certain things that may or may not be relevant later on to the story is something that not everyone is gonna be able to do, shit i was barely able to but maybe thats because this game didnt hit a very specific stimulant in my brain
And thats not necessarily it's fault in particular
What is its fault is that I think that this doesnt really feel like an adventure game or a puzzle game like the genres slapped onto it imply and its just feels like a cool, stylized visual novel
The puzzles I just could not care about whatsoever and I think its actually kind of funny in retrospect that just tapping a button solves them if you really just only care about the story, which ADMITTEDLY i started to only care about the story!
This is all why I said i think I like The Silver Case rather than I think i LOVE the silver case or that i LOVE the silver case, I think characters like Tokio, Sumio, Kusabi, Morikawa and Hachisuka are interesting characters but I think i walked away from this game with specifically Tokio and Kusabi as favorites overall. i think there's something that just wasnt.. igniting in me like i wanted to happen with this game and my expectations were loud while this is very much an inside voice game so to speak, in the fact of the matter that it's gameplay is subtle.. its nuance with its writing.. is subtle
It's very open and upfront about the thinkpieces on crime, cops, and how changing shit from the inside doesnt work out and how often times government will manufacture something to keep higher power regardless of the intent..
but, yeah. btw I was so confused at some points infact that Im embarrassed to admit I didnt connect two and two that Tokio in Transmitter and Tokio in Placebo were the same guy. like. probably my dumbest moment ever when i realized that by Parade LMFAO
final thoughts: if youre keen on visual novels as one of your favorite mediums of games then you have absolutely no reason to skip out on this but if youre lukewarm or neutral on the genre this may not hit the same as some of suda's other stuff. i fully understand why this was one of his breakout magnum opus, but go into this expecting a nearly completely narratively driven experience and Please
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!!!! REMEMBER YOU CAN SCROLL UP AND DOWN WITH YOUR MOUSE, THERE WAS SO MANY TIMES WHEN I WAS WALKING UP AND AROUND AND I FORGOT YOU COULD DO THAT IN THE GAME AAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!