I've been sitting here just honestly trying to figure out how best to put words to this game after finally finishing it with my girlfriend. There's just nothing like Killer7. Even the few things I've played Suda was involved with post Killer7 aren't like Killer7. Killer7 is Killer7.
Killer7 has dug its way deep into my core and deeply affected me. Like taking some mishmashes of Resident Evil and older adventure games to create something so wild to tell a story this all over and about shit like the US war machine and its consequences with our allied nations (especially Japan), the CIA and government in general doing shady shit and selling people "the American Dream" ad nauseum while committing another warcrime atrocity at a country not too far away that has a resource that shithead fascists want, the way that art speaks to reality which speaks back into art with a cyclical kind of neverending spiral.
It's crazy, it's bombastic, it's fuckin special. Everything about this game, aesthetically, emotionally, textually just fuckin meshes together so perfectly. Every aspect of this was just going so absolutely perfectly. The sound design, the music, the aesthetics, the gameplay is so considered fuck.
The personalities and quirks of the titular 7 shine so spectacularly as a result. Everything about this game oozes charm, pizazz, style and depth that outside of the context of a video game just wouldn't work the same way at all. Even apparently unfinished it still strikes as hard and as strongly at all of its aspirations that it is trying to.
It leaves so much for you to take in, interpret and sit with and I absolutely adore that for it. I didn't get everything within Killer7. The second playthrough I end up doing for a video will probably help some things I missed better click into place. But even with the things I didn't fully get or understand, so much of it clicked to such a perfect degree. This game just settles in the brain as a true fuckin standout, a once in a lifetime experience. It may not be for everybody but to me I will always see it as an absolute achievement that this team constructed together.
I wish I could play this for the first time again. This is fuckin kino.
Killer7 has dug its way deep into my core and deeply affected me. Like taking some mishmashes of Resident Evil and older adventure games to create something so wild to tell a story this all over and about shit like the US war machine and its consequences with our allied nations (especially Japan), the CIA and government in general doing shady shit and selling people "the American Dream" ad nauseum while committing another warcrime atrocity at a country not too far away that has a resource that shithead fascists want, the way that art speaks to reality which speaks back into art with a cyclical kind of neverending spiral.
It's crazy, it's bombastic, it's fuckin special. Everything about this game, aesthetically, emotionally, textually just fuckin meshes together so perfectly. Every aspect of this was just going so absolutely perfectly. The sound design, the music, the aesthetics, the gameplay is so considered fuck.
The personalities and quirks of the titular 7 shine so spectacularly as a result. Everything about this game oozes charm, pizazz, style and depth that outside of the context of a video game just wouldn't work the same way at all. Even apparently unfinished it still strikes as hard and as strongly at all of its aspirations that it is trying to.
It leaves so much for you to take in, interpret and sit with and I absolutely adore that for it. I didn't get everything within Killer7. The second playthrough I end up doing for a video will probably help some things I missed better click into place. But even with the things I didn't fully get or understand, so much of it clicked to such a perfect degree. This game just settles in the brain as a true fuckin standout, a once in a lifetime experience. It may not be for everybody but to me I will always see it as an absolute achievement that this team constructed together.
I wish I could play this for the first time again. This is fuckin kino.