Travis Strikes Again is basically The Avengers for the kind of ultra-dork who owns the physical Silver Case PC collector's edition, still has the Lollipop Chainsaw pre-order bonus installed, and watched subtitled playthroughs of Twilight Syndrome on YouTube before playing any other Kill The Past games (me. it's me). I feel absolutely nothing when Sephiroth or Persona 5 kid is announced for Smash Bros but when Kusabi appears for a <2-minute unnamed cameo I start hooting and hollering like a drunk cowboy. The worst thing about this game is that it doesn't end with Badman asking Travis to lend him 50,000 yen.

Before playing TSA, I tried machine-translating the prequel novella named Killer Is Dead (no relation), and while it mostly came out as gibberish, it did give me a peak Suda-ism that I would like to immortalize in this review:

"Harley Quinn is the best philosophy. It's the Bible of our time."

Love ya, Grasshopper Manufacture.

Reviewed on Aug 25, 2021


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