I very often have a difficult time choosing what game to play. As someone who loves to spelunk the treasures of old game libraries, I'm daily encountering new games I want to play and complete. I have a list of over 2000 games that I use a random number generator on once per month, to describe it as a backlog would be to misinterpret it entirely. Raw Danger has sat atop of the "games I want to play soon" list, but now I've finally gotten around to it.
Raw Danger has been a game that's been at the forefront of my mind ever since I first heard about it. Raw Danger is by all accounts, a janky, Japanese made PS2 game with a fountain of unique ideas and genuine surprises. The love put into Raw Danger is evident from it's confidence in itself. Despite being the sequel to Disaster Report, which didn't exactly set the world on fire in the west, Raw Danger's developers decided to double down on what they wanted to do with the first game, retitled it overseas and released what can only be described as an intensely different game. It has all the ingredients of what I want to play in a game. Lovingly detailed, far too ambitious and filled to the brim with more video game than one can possibly think of stuffing into a PS2 game. The geniuses at Irem devised six stories, all interesting in their own unique ways, with so many diverging paths that they are bound to be unforgettable.
Raw Danger's scenarios give the player absolute freedom. Want to snitch on a criminal? Want to take a hat from a chef dangling from a ledge? Want to leave a taxi passenger to die because she wasn't going to pay you anyway? You can do all that, and so much more. There's so much of the game I didn't see on my first playthrough, and that excites me so much for my future playthroughs.
I would love to write a lot more in detail about Raw Danger, and I plan to in the future, but I want to experience absolutely everything it has to offer. It's non-conventional gameplay systems interwoven with it's interesting scenarios allow it to stand mountains above any game ever released. It's immediately entered the pantheon of my all time favourites.
Raw Danger has been a game that's been at the forefront of my mind ever since I first heard about it. Raw Danger is by all accounts, a janky, Japanese made PS2 game with a fountain of unique ideas and genuine surprises. The love put into Raw Danger is evident from it's confidence in itself. Despite being the sequel to Disaster Report, which didn't exactly set the world on fire in the west, Raw Danger's developers decided to double down on what they wanted to do with the first game, retitled it overseas and released what can only be described as an intensely different game. It has all the ingredients of what I want to play in a game. Lovingly detailed, far too ambitious and filled to the brim with more video game than one can possibly think of stuffing into a PS2 game. The geniuses at Irem devised six stories, all interesting in their own unique ways, with so many diverging paths that they are bound to be unforgettable.
Raw Danger's scenarios give the player absolute freedom. Want to snitch on a criminal? Want to take a hat from a chef dangling from a ledge? Want to leave a taxi passenger to die because she wasn't going to pay you anyway? You can do all that, and so much more. There's so much of the game I didn't see on my first playthrough, and that excites me so much for my future playthroughs.
I would love to write a lot more in detail about Raw Danger, and I plan to in the future, but I want to experience absolutely everything it has to offer. It's non-conventional gameplay systems interwoven with it's interesting scenarios allow it to stand mountains above any game ever released. It's immediately entered the pantheon of my all time favourites.