Now, listen to me before you light the torch for my lukewarm take. I am extremely right about this.
Killer7 was made to scale up with HD technology, this is the way it works, it's written in the bible. Pop this little guy in an emulator, activate the widescreen hack, crank it up to 4K, even sprinkle some SSAA if you so wish and see the results.
WOAH ! It looks even better than that because I couldn't prevent the screen being compressed. But you can enjoy even better screens taken by me, albeit in 1080p this time
Naturally you are already amazed at the quality of the game even in the year of our lord 2018. But keep in mind the original looks like this ! It's still sexual, but it can be much better !
It would also add various QoL features like an inverted camera, an updated control scheme. A refreshed UI and also speed up the loading time when changing areas and changing characters.
But let's stop with the big guns for a second, this game still is beautiful, but the best thing is that it still holds up. In fact, Killer7 would be even better today than it would be 13 years ago. It's a fact. Look up the bible, it's there.
Killer7 is absurdity made playable that thrives even more in the context of our world. And let me tell you, folks, this world is more absurd than it was during its release. Killer7 is political as fuck. It doesn't care about your opinion, it doesn't even care about its own opinion. It's just there, you can laugh it off, you can say "haha this is very funny, what a prankster this suda51 fellow is, a crazy japanese man haha", but it will never leave this game.
This is the thing with avant-garde games, there comes a moment where it stops pushing the boundaries of what can be done and becomes a part of the language that we use to talk about games. We cannot look at Killer7 and says it's just a funny game with funny ideas, we can now see it for the highly-political and opinionated work of Goichi Suda (The Silver Case, No More Heroes) and Shinji Mikami (Resident Evil) when it comes to world politics and specifically the role of the US and its relation with Japan. Today the discourse can less be about "haha funny japanese men doing funny things" and more about "I CANNOT HOLD THESE TRUTH BOMBS, I NEED A DOCTOR"
And even then, it's just a fucking good game. It's fun, it's clever. You roam the environment to solve puzzles and kill enemies like in a classic Resident Evil. It's like taking the best elements of what made the games of the brilliant minds of Suda and Mikami and apply them to a game that doesn't even care about you. It just cares about what it is. Who the fuck are you ? No one. Killer7, though, is immortal. It's waiting for a person who is singing nonsense in the shower for 15 hours and come out of the bathroom as if it's natural to them. You don't play Killer7, it plays you. You think Killer7 is kidding ? It's an art house game released for the mass market, that's how much fucks it gives about this world.
PLAY KILLER7
But before that, would you like to join me in a game of russian roulette ?
Killer7 was made to scale up with HD technology, this is the way it works, it's written in the bible. Pop this little guy in an emulator, activate the widescreen hack, crank it up to 4K, even sprinkle some SSAA if you so wish and see the results.
WOAH ! It looks even better than that because I couldn't prevent the screen being compressed. But you can enjoy even better screens taken by me, albeit in 1080p this time
Naturally you are already amazed at the quality of the game even in the year of our lord 2018. But keep in mind the original looks like this ! It's still sexual, but it can be much better !
It would also add various QoL features like an inverted camera, an updated control scheme. A refreshed UI and also speed up the loading time when changing areas and changing characters.
But let's stop with the big guns for a second, this game still is beautiful, but the best thing is that it still holds up. In fact, Killer7 would be even better today than it would be 13 years ago. It's a fact. Look up the bible, it's there.
Killer7 is absurdity made playable that thrives even more in the context of our world. And let me tell you, folks, this world is more absurd than it was during its release. Killer7 is political as fuck. It doesn't care about your opinion, it doesn't even care about its own opinion. It's just there, you can laugh it off, you can say "haha this is very funny, what a prankster this suda51 fellow is, a crazy japanese man haha", but it will never leave this game.
This is the thing with avant-garde games, there comes a moment where it stops pushing the boundaries of what can be done and becomes a part of the language that we use to talk about games. We cannot look at Killer7 and says it's just a funny game with funny ideas, we can now see it for the highly-political and opinionated work of Goichi Suda (The Silver Case, No More Heroes) and Shinji Mikami (Resident Evil) when it comes to world politics and specifically the role of the US and its relation with Japan. Today the discourse can less be about "haha funny japanese men doing funny things" and more about "I CANNOT HOLD THESE TRUTH BOMBS, I NEED A DOCTOR"
And even then, it's just a fucking good game. It's fun, it's clever. You roam the environment to solve puzzles and kill enemies like in a classic Resident Evil. It's like taking the best elements of what made the games of the brilliant minds of Suda and Mikami and apply them to a game that doesn't even care about you. It just cares about what it is. Who the fuck are you ? No one. Killer7, though, is immortal. It's waiting for a person who is singing nonsense in the shower for 15 hours and come out of the bathroom as if it's natural to them. You don't play Killer7, it plays you. You think Killer7 is kidding ? It's an art house game released for the mass market, that's how much fucks it gives about this world.
PLAY KILLER7
But before that, would you like to join me in a game of russian roulette ?
