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33. Killer7 (Gamecube, 2005)


This is a difficult game to describe and even want to describe, but I think it can be summed as being greater than the sum of its parts. A FPS/horror/adventure hybrid from the mind of peak Suda51, this is one hell of a trip.

You control a group of assassins, all with unique weapons and abilities like a silent man who uses a knife and can turn invisible and a luchador who wields two grenade launchers and can bust through obstacles, who get assigned targets across the world by the US government. You run around the environment on-rails in third-person solving adventure-game puzzles through objects you find or through character abilities, but whenever you hear unsettling cackle, that means enemies called Heaven Smiles are around. You have to stop, go in first-person view, scan for them, and then use your character's weapon on their weakpoints. Well, you can just blast them with whatever you have on you, but hitting their weakpoints will give you the maxiumum amount of blood, which is the currency you use to upgrade characters. It sounds tedious, and my friends hated when I scanned for enemies as it makes a beeping sound, yet it worked for me. Depending on the situation, things can get pretty intense and startling (especially with a certain boss fight), but the whole situation is also just kind of goofy, so it has this weird comedy-horror vibe at times.

The plot is inscrutible, and the dialogue and characters are as bizarre as can be, but it was all so fascinating to me as a high schooler. I have seldom been as engaged in something that I had little understanding of what was going on. There are some fan theories out there, all of which I have completely ignored. I love just taking it at face value as a totally bonkers spectacle, and I have no desire to read other people's interpretations of it to ruin that image.

Killer7 ultimately had a ton of content cut from the game, which is why some targets seem pointless and why they delved into some playable characters' backgrounds and not others. While it is highly unlikely that we will ever see the full, intended experience, I feel like in a way this was for the best as it being more of a disjointed mess makes it all the more endearing.

I tried to be as general as I could because this, maybe more than any other video game, is one that you should experience as blind as possible. I absolutely cannot guarantee to anyone that they would like it, but it will definitely be memorable.

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