Snatcher, a game that most people seem to like but I absolutely loathe (a list idea in itself).

I know going into this that I’m not already much of a Kojima fan, but I must be taking crazy pills because I do not know why this game is so well regarded and I never will. Even if you aren’t a fan of Kojima’s worst storytelling tendencies, a metal gear solid game will at least have a fun, cool boss fight or a far-out idea to ponder in the middle of one of the hour-long monologues. There’s none of that here. Self-important, long-winded, up-its-own-ass writing as usual, for quasi-action/point and click gameplay that doesn’t work and “we have blade runner at home.”

From my review: “Not only does the game’s aesthetic come from its blatant influences, but so does anything the game actually has to say. Ransom says nothing about being human vs a robot that you can’t get better from actual Blade Runner, let alone the worst Philip K. Dick novel, let alone maybe one of the good ones too. There’s nothing about the snatchers’ plot to take over the world as more-evolved versions of mankind that isn’t done better in the terminator series, in the Deus Ex games, in any sci-fi novel that has to do with robots, or fuck, probably in mega man now that I’m really thinking about it. There is barely the skeleton of a noir mystery ruined with a tone that swings back and forth from shocking and grisly to “Steve from Blue’s Clues asking if you know where in the room the dog is hiding.” All leading up to an extremely relatable and not at all ridiculous main antagonist who decided to wipe out half the world’s population and replace them with robots because that’s what no pussy do to a mf.”

https://www.backloggd.com/u/Gare/review/377122/