Aug. 18th, 2022

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“This guy is a true freak!”

Blurb: You play as the Killer7, a one-vessel assassin team who shoots and murders their way through a suicide-bomber death cult, organ traffickers, a superhero team, and their own creation, accompanied by the ghosts of their victims along the way. Each headmate plays in a different way and has different skills, and waking them up over the course of a level is a key gameplay mechanic. All are needed to switch in at one time or another, from Con the blind speedy punk, to Kevin the spidery silent knife-thrower, to Garcian, the black man you never, EVER want to die.

Why is it worth your time?: This game has a cult following, and its weirdness is both strength and weakness. It has a singular style, a lot of over-the-top cool, and the story is a self-contradictory fever dream. We only get to know a few of the Smiths outside of gameplay, but the little touches of individual body language is charming--they fight, speak, move, and even go up and down stairs differently. (Mask de Smith's goofy gallop downstairs amuses me every time.) It wasn't my thing, but it is SOMEONE'S.

Plural Tags: switching, spirits, introjects, the dead

Content Warnings: contain spoilers; see comments

Access Notes: This game is available on Steam, for Gamecube, and for Playstation2. It has both audio dialogue and subtitles, but unfortunately, never both together. A completionist Let's Play is available. Also, this game has an epilepsy warning for flashing lights, and the high-contrast cel-shading-and-gradients color scheme is a migraine in a jar. It gave me headaches.

Misc Notes: There was a comics adaptation, but it was mediocre and got canceled before finishing its first arc; don't bother.
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"Get back to your room..."

Blurb: An abused young woman tries to escape through her imagination and fails.

Why is it worth your time?: It's free, short, and pretty good. I played it and enjoyed it, despite its depressing tone and disturbing imagery.

Plural Tags: nonswitching, otherworld, introjects, abuse high-focus

Content Warnings: Contain spoilers; see comments

Access Notes: Free to play, text dialogue. A completionist Let's Play with the dialogue read out loud is here, though it's not the best.

Misc Notes: This game is the first in a series, and I am not going to play the other two because the first is about as upsetting as I can take. It is an RPGmaker game inspired by cult hit Yume Nikki, which I'm also working on playing through.

Play it here! (Back-up link here.)

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