Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Kill the Past



Introduction
I’m a man who enjoys the auteur vision in video games. Stream-of-consciousness games can really show you a person’s personality and it makes a game stand out in a pool of games made by a committee. Suda51 is one of those auteur game creators, and perhaps the most auteur game creator. Besides choosing his public persona name after a wifi password, he’s made games under large publishers that make no sense in either gameplay or in plot. To that point, the Kill the Past Games are a series by Suda51 that people are in debate about which games are actually in the series. I wanted to get into these games to see what the fuck that guy is on. The most agreed-upon list of games includes The Silver Case, Flower Sun and the Rain,  Killer 7, The 25th Ward, No More Heroes 1, 2, Travis Strikes Again, and No More Heroes III. The games do not generally carry over characters except for direct sequels, are rarely on the same console, and a few of them released in the U.S. just in the past five years despite being created in the nineties. Somehow, I managed to get my hands on all those games and play every one, except The 25th Ward. To talk about them all and the series as a whole, I’ve decided to do a lightning round. Each game is given one or two paragraphs and a review score. 


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