*NOTES:* 1.) As proof of K&L2’s subversive intent, here’s an interview with Art Director Rasmus Poulson where he mentions the game’s intentional commentary on video game violence: invalidmemory.wordpress.com/2017/09/21/player-two-an-interview-with-rasmus-poulsen/ 2.) I should’ve made it more clear that not all games need to be, like, high art to have merit in my eyes! A thoughtless omission that could’ve been cured with an extra sentence or two, lol. I enjoy games like Dark Sector and Army of Two too, they’re sick. Excuse me while I go play Splatterhouse for a fourth time. 3.) In retrospect, the final line probably should’ve been “And that’s due in at least some small part to Kane and Lynch” instead of the current “and that’s due in no small part to Kane and Lynch.” K&L2 is not, in fact, the most important game ever made. Doesn’t make it any less interesting to talk about, though!
@HopelessRomantic91
10 ай бұрын
I see why they didn't want to make a part 3 😮
@Rad-Dude63andathird
27 күн бұрын
Ayyy, that Splatterhouse reboot is super underrated. Breaks my fucking heart it ended on an unresolved cliffhanger.
@rickimaru915
10 ай бұрын
Say what you want about Army of Two, but the moment when Salem and Rios start discussing their favourite Wu Tang Clan members in the middle of a firefight was hilarious and has stuck with me
@AAllen-br8it
10 ай бұрын
The character writing was the best part of those games.
@diabolicalplan1614
10 ай бұрын
Yeah I’m kinda surprised he mentioned Army of Two since the 40th day is like a huge deconstruction of dude bro shooters at the time and even of itself.
@CypherIsland
10 ай бұрын
hahaha i will literally think of that scene every few months, the dam level, one of my favorites
@WTFisTingispingis
8 ай бұрын
That sounds wonderful.
@CharlieSheensTigerBlood
7 ай бұрын
Army of two kept it until Cartel. Things need to stop being.....cartooned. I think back then people thought with obscenities but were limited on graphics. Nowadays? The rating system? In a blockbuster video store would definitely have meaning.
@Slonitram
10 ай бұрын
I love how interpretations of this game can go two ways: 1) Every part of the game was intentionally crafted this way, even down to the worst parts of it, in a way to portray and criticize the overly gritty and violent nature of video games at the time along with the constant urge and demand for more and more realism in shooters. 2) The game is so fucking garbage that its edgy presentation helped it become an analytical piece on the exact market it was trying so hard to capitalize on. Either way, I have almost 10 hours in this 4 hour game and I don't regret a single second of them.
@Nothingforever192
10 ай бұрын
The game also has among us style of multiplayer
@siddhartino
10 ай бұрын
most likely 2. this video is way too artifact. the game presented itself - just like the first one - as a half homage/half parody of gritty thriller-action/noir movies of the '90s/first '00s. while the first one was inspired by the likes of emblazoned classics like Heat by Michael Mann; the second was meant to be much more in the vein of b-movies and Hong Kong's heroic bloodshed cinema (even the setting is similar). can't see at all everything that has been said in the video, to me it just seems like an extreme way of reading into the lines. also most of the games that are presented as mindless, over the top and plotless games in the video, have pretty solid stories instead (Max Payne 3, Dead Space 3, Gears of War...)
@MerlautJones
10 ай бұрын
I just think it's a decent, run of the mill cover-shooter about two psychotic criminals. I didn't look deeply into it.
@imembridibuddha
10 ай бұрын
The correct interpretation is 1. There was an interview with an ex Kane & Lynch developer a few years ago who revealed that the game was intentionally crafted this way because they were sure the game would flop, and the series as a whole already had an awful reputation because of the famous Gamespot controversy. They went all-in with an "idgaf" mindset.
@Bale4Bond
10 ай бұрын
It's both
@schnozcomplex4137
10 ай бұрын
This dude really woke up and decided to make a bunch of people decide to go play Kane and Lynch 2, the madman
@bigorangewhip5840
10 ай бұрын
He got me. I'm literally downloading it right now
@diabolicalplan1614
10 ай бұрын
@@bigorangewhip5840I’m so sorry 😞
@BrunoSantos-jp1lv
10 ай бұрын
Pyrocynical did it first tho
@UnthinkingHead
10 ай бұрын
literally i pay 10 euros for the game, pls, play it at lower resolution, its more I N M E R S I V E
@tragecezar
9 ай бұрын
@@UnthinkingHeadwow literally
@EspyGee
10 ай бұрын
I love the moment in the game when, upon finding a handful of workers who had been bound and executed by the "bad guys," Lynch comments on the people that did this: "Animals," he says. As if he and Kane HADN'T just crossed half a stage, guns blazing, killing a hundred or more people in the process. Details like that always felt pretty loud and clear to me that the game was genuinely saying something, and wasn't just the stupid run-of-the-mill shooter that everyone took it for back in the day. Great video.
@biguy223
10 ай бұрын
Obviously there is a difference, the bad guys did it out of sheer wickedness, they didn't need to kill those workers. But Kane and Lynch killings, those are self defence, they're trying to survive the ordeal. For most of the game Kane and Lynch all just want to hunker down and not fight but the violence always comes to them. The best example is that restaurant scene, they're just chilling and eating until suddenly a bunch of goons burst in the fuck their shit up and then they have to cause violence. They want peace but the game won't let them
@EspyGee
10 ай бұрын
@@biguy223 Sure, and there's a lot to be said for self defense, in a completely literal situation. But the point of the video is that the game isn't strictly literal. Rather, it's various parts are representative of something. Beyond that individual level, as shown in the video, Kane and Lynch gun down innocent civilians regularly, and don't give a single comment of remorse. Likewise, in the first game, Lynch literally massacres a roomful of innocent civilians with a shotgun because he was off his meds for too long. And to top all that off, the events of the game start because Kane and Lynch killed someone's daughter at the beginning. They're not just a couple of out-of-towners on holiday. However you cut it, the two protagonists are hardly an innocent party in all of this, so my only point was that Lynch calling anyone else an animal because they killed someone sounds like it was meant by the developers to be taken as irony.
@brandawgz
10 ай бұрын
“Ah this is fuckin stupid” has to be one of my favorite lines from this entire game
@ianfullerton1
9 ай бұрын
Kane and Lynch 2 has a lot in common with "Good Time" by the Safdie brothers, where the audience also helplessly follows ill-fated goons through a claustrophobic nightmare of violence and absurd despair.
@danielfishburn7042
2 ай бұрын
I agree 100% they also create a situation where you get close to the characters and are almost at war with yourself for rooting for them but in the world they are in you don’t really know anyone else
@treetheoak8313
10 ай бұрын
Always thought of it as K&L dead men was about a man denying his scumbag nature. Kane is just as psychopathic as lynch but still holds on to the idea that he's a better person than lynch. Lynch in kane in lynch 2 is a monster that wants to change. But doesn't know how. He's calmer at the start and besides his girlfriend. Has no other friends or colleagues that he could trust other than Kane. And thats saying something.
@theblobconsumes4859
10 ай бұрын
I agree with you fully. Lynch is a very tragic character, because I do think he has more chance of recovering; Not after the events of this game, but still, the isolation and loneliness he feels is tragic, and it's a shame that the continued down the very path that would close his opportunity to become better. Meanwhile, Kane, I feel he does have some semblance of care in there; But it is twisted and, unlike Lynch, irrecoverable.
@ElSagardangas
10 ай бұрын
Nice essay my guy! It reminds me of a similar essay Jacob Geller made a while back called Ugly Games. It's interesting to think about videogames not necesarilly needing to be "Fun" or "mechanically engaging" to be thought provoking. Most of the time it seems like the opposite illicits those same feelings, stripping down the essence of what makes a "game" to it's barest bones and using the space that's left to tell something meaningful. We need more gaming discourse where these things are discussed, so thanks a lot for the vid, my dude.
@alexjackson2553
10 ай бұрын
Not sure if you're aware, but Jacob Geller actually does a multi-episode deep dive into this game on his podcast "Something Rotten" with Blake Hester. Give it a listen if you're interested!
@ElSagardangas
10 ай бұрын
I had no idea! Thanks for the heads up.@@alexjackson2553
@diamondhamster4320
10 ай бұрын
I mean this game perfectly captures rCombatFootage from any modern warzone by showing that war indeed is not bright, cool and pretty unlike games like CoD and Battelfield.
@_o99
7 ай бұрын
Kane & Lynch as a franchise to me basically plays how i imagine John wick's life was like before he "got out". Like everyone loves John wick because he went on a killing spree to avenge his dog; but everyone forgets that before his dog and his wife died, the dude was a mob enforcer. I feel like if we saw the old john wick in action, he'd be about as ugly and unlikable as kane & lynch. And that's why i love these games, because it reminds us that the main character of a story isn't necessarily the hero.
@evandaymon8303
3 ай бұрын
Not just that but they are also tragic characters. Both of them fuck up a lot in both games. Kane pushing all of those away from him as he asked for their help for example because he is selfish and only focused on saving his family from himself but not realizing he is hurting more then he is helping and his family isn't forgiving of him. Especially his daughter who really doesn't want him in her life or his help she would rather die or have him be killed for his abandonment he did and all the fuck up shit he had done. Second game all he wanted was one big score and that's it get money and get the fuck out live life peacefully away from crime but unfortunately he agreed to work with lynch and despite knowing lynch is a pyschopath who tends to fuck shit up and make every situation worse due to his lack of critical skills is what brought him to the troubles in china with lynch. Hell at any point of ether games he could just left lynch to die or suffer by hands of their enemies but he didn't not because he cared about lynch or likes him as a friend but because he needs lynch to do the job and save their lives so they can go on their separate ways for good not having to work with another. For lynch as mentioned fucked up in the head may had killed his wife but that's vaguely unclear doesnt understand any reason why kane is pissed at him for the shit he did that make things worse. His luck is terrible and he is terrible at remaining calm and collective. Like kane could left kane to die at any point in ether games. Like he could told the 7 that kane was going to betray them or doesn't have the money earlier to theorically save his own ass but of course that was lie. Even in second game could left kane to die at any point and try to save his girlfriend and get out of china with her but he needs kane as much as he is needed by kane. In the end the game story is simply about two criminals who fuck each other's shit up for no good reason aren't as cooperative as we think they are and keep digging their own graves faster and faster then they are trying to get themselves out of that grave. They aren't protagonists nor antagonists nor a antihero. They are just simply monsters who keep killing for their own survival not caring who gets in their crossfire and not caring if anyone innocent gets killed. Remember that one scene where they called someone a animal for seeing something fucked up that doesn't involve any of them doing it? That's irony yea that situation they saw is fucked but they aren't saints ether. They are as fucked as those animals are. Sorry for this being long just simply my observation from watching both walkthroughs of the games and trying to connect pieces of these two men and their fucked lives they live
@NeatNat
10 ай бұрын
this is the most pretentious video you have ever made. absolutely loved it.
@greenheadblackvoodochild2487
10 ай бұрын
It is Pretentious lol
@hunters.dicicco1410
10 ай бұрын
i don't think it's pretentious. everything in this video's script supports the thesis... it's not lofty or sophisticated for no reason...
@greenheadblackvoodochild2487
10 ай бұрын
@@hunters.dicicco1410 kane and lynch is not a parody or satirical think piece on anything and am sure of this cos in this video not once did he site any of the creators intent or words to support this i think kane and lynch is a cool idea with some bad executions i am intrigued by it if i ever make movies i definitely would like to use its ideas at least, but come off it i love his videos but even jacob geller has some very pretentious takes no one is perfect lol.
@trevorkuntze6268
10 ай бұрын
@@greenheadblackvoodochild2487does an interpretation of a piece of art completely depend on the words of the author? Isn’t it possible that our own ideas and emotions that come from our individual interpretations are just as important?
@greenheadblackvoodochild2487
10 ай бұрын
@@trevorkuntze6268 you know that's not what i mean this a sign of cognitive dissonance, just because his interpretation of the blue curtain in that one movie is of sadness n loneliness when in reality the creator of said art said "yeah we found it in the basement n thats all we had" does not mean its Pretentious i love video essays i have so many to know eventually youtubers like this get into their heads n try make everything seem deep sometimes its interesting sometimes its ridiculous like this one kane n lynch is a cool idea that wasn't executed better it could have been a classic, the camera in the beginning is just cool n gritty that's its not fucking meta.
@HOTD108_
10 ай бұрын
The fact it's taken so long for something so specifically and uniquely stylised to be recognised as such really speaks to how young video games as a medium were at the time, and honestly still are. They simply hadn't been around long enough for people to start thinking meaningfully about them beyond whether or not they were fun.
@evandaymon8303
3 ай бұрын
Although they still need to be fun. Yes you can make really good ultra realistic graphical game. If gameplay isn't good then why bother playing through a good looking game with terrible gameplay. Point i am making is graphics should matter but gameplay is what matters most to everyone and enjoyment. If there's no joy only a pretty looking game with terrible mechanics then what's the point of playing it?
@evandaymon8303
3 ай бұрын
For this game it's great because its gameplay is well similar to basic third person stuff you see at the time but it is fun when it is working properly still pretty buggy and glitchy at times but it is worth playing for the enjoyment and story it is telling. It doesn't need to look beautiful or ultra realistic it just needs to have a balance of fun to play and good to look at. Even ugly games like this have their artistical value
@Oxiitocyn
10 ай бұрын
Babe wake up new purposeless rabbit holes just dropped
@JuiceboxCE
10 ай бұрын
Achievement Unlocked: World Peace "PR dropped new video, all is well"
@vicjctanuki7344
10 ай бұрын
Babe wake up Charlie is makein my bones work ⏰️ ⏰️ ⏰️
@thebookclub95
10 ай бұрын
*morning breath kiss* mmmmmmthankksbabe
@jackhughes9811
10 ай бұрын
There is no babe. You're alone watching a video about kane and lynch. Same as the god damn rest of us.
@Bale4Bond
10 ай бұрын
I've never read this comment before
@DCGMatthew1
10 ай бұрын
Replayed both games a few months ago and honestly, I still love both of them.
@thegamingprozone1941
10 ай бұрын
It would be nice be nice if both of em got a remaster
@habadasheryjones
10 ай бұрын
I found the first one to be kind of janky despite enjoying the demo back in the day.
@bensmith2269
10 ай бұрын
A remaster would be great, with a few quality of life improvements. I'd love it if they added an extra, higher difficulty option to both games - especially KL1, which is nowhere near as punishing as the sequel is on 'Extreme'. Tweaks to reduce jank as someone above mentioned. Polish the visuals if possible, absolutely keep the co-op and multiplayer robberies mode, and it would breathe some new life into the franchise, which seems to have become more appreciated over the years (esp. KL2). It probably wouldn't be enough to get a Kane and Lynch 3 in development, but never say never...
@thegamingprozone1941
10 ай бұрын
@bensmith2269 That'd be great, but unfortunately, idk if IO is interested in remastering a dead series, tho
@shawklan27
10 ай бұрын
The game is a total clusterfuck in every sense of the word but I appreciate the sheer balls the devs went to making this cocked up mess of a game and the fact that there's no new AAA game that will even attempt to work on this style is a bit saddening.
@Medicalguy
10 ай бұрын
I hope that since Pyro and now PR have brought it back into the cult classic light people will see this style and be inspired. While not the same thing, the new wave of body cam games that are in development may carry some of the same vibe. CF: "Unrecord"
@TheSkaOreo
10 ай бұрын
The closest is probably Max Payne 3
@shawklan27
10 ай бұрын
@@TheSkaOreo but that one is actually fun and very well made in comparison to whatever the fuck K&L 2 is.
@shawklan27
8 ай бұрын
@@user-ey6vk5gu4o preach the game is a fucking mess with me even getting gang fucked on easy (that level before the airport can go jump off a bridge for all I care) but the personality and presentation totally saved it for me that I couldn't help but press on due to my morbid curiosity and it helps that it's short as fuck. Plus i dunno I found the whole game funny as fuck for some reason. Must be the idea of some camera man having nothing better to do but to follow these two crackheads running around HK commiting mass murder against what is essentially an army lmao.
@BlackAera
10 ай бұрын
Kane & Lynch 2 will forever have a special place in my heart. I played it with my best friend in my 20s and we had the time of our lives. It's so uncomfortably gritty, rough and ugly. I still don't understand the bad reviews. Sure it's nothing special mechanically but the presentation is one of a kind. It's a fever dream of seemingly never ending chaotic violence. There is nothing like it. I still hate that the PC version doesn't have split screen coop. I want to replay this in 4k with my homie for the good old days.
@WTFisTingispingis
10 ай бұрын
This game is like it Lars von Trier made a LiveLeak video, it's kinda amazing how IO is doing a bit with this and we didn't realize.
@sick0spherean
Ай бұрын
Dogme Days
@GregorBarclay
10 ай бұрын
I remember playing this at the time and absolutely loving the blown-out miniDV aesthetic and the burst sound design. The first half hour is legitimately terrific, but it gets mechanically boring real quick, and the plot goes nowhere
@MrRatedbob
10 ай бұрын
God that moment at 8:28 gave words to my memory of the first time i played no Russian in MW2. recalling back i had something similar, the real shock of it came after the first room was cleared and i just froze for a solid minute. the others were halfway up the stairs by the time i processed what had just happened and how thoughtless and routine violence had become at that point.
@IsaacClayborne
9 ай бұрын
The menu screens are absolutely bad ass btw.
@maxwellpaynewell5305
10 ай бұрын
As someone who is entirely infatuated by both Kane and Lynch games, I'm very glad to see it garnering so much more positive attention than it got closer to its release. I think they're both examples of different ways that games have gone about trying to justify themselves as art to people outside the gaming world, the first in imitating successful and influential crime drama films without paying much mind to the actual game you need to play to experience it, and the second in being a much more deliberate work of art that draws from unlikely sources to make a very unlikely game. Where the first one wants to be something you could experience and feel like you've watched a decent film with some buttons attached, the second game is unlike anything I've ever experienced before and since. I greatly respect it on that front, as it becomes harder and harder to find truly unique games outside of the indie market today. I hope we see some more bravery like this in the coming decade. With Remedy back in the spotlight and not leaving it for a while, I feel like that's as good an omen as any.
@cameronratliff305
10 ай бұрын
Excellent video!! I really enjoy how you explored the way Dog Days portrayed violence compared to other games of the time. Personally, I think its much more subtle in how it deromanticizes violence compared to other titles like Spec Ops the Line and particularly The Last of Us 2. I always thought it was rather ahead of its time in how it critiqued violence, especially considering it came out before those two. I also really liked how you touched about the soundtrack being a mix of unsettling Silent Hill-esque dark ambience and the strangely peaceful pop songs; I never considered the interpretation of the latter being the few signs of hope and beauty outside of the hopeless carnage - I always thought it was meant to be a dissonance between its serene tone and the non-stop violence to the point that it felt like it was mocking Kane and Lynch for believing there was something good at the end of all the death and destruction they cause.
@conelybiscuit4985
10 ай бұрын
ironically i feel like the matter-of-fact violence committed by Kane and Lynch does a far better job of disabusing the player of its romance than Last of Us II's much more blunt attempts at doing so. by comparison it's almost absurd the lengths TLoU II goes to to try and remind you that the interchangeable polygons onscreen have families and names, even just directly assaulting you with pregnant women being murdered and flashbacks of attack dogs being cute puppies. death is stylistically portrayed as blunt, but it can't shake the theatrical nature of a story with a clean-cut moral lesson, where every murder is a karmic contrivance in an unfolding tragedy. K&L2 instead places you in the mindset of criminals for whom death is absolutely meaningless, divorced of context, done either on a whim or as a tangential means to some vague end that doesn't last beyond a single loading screen. murder is chaotic, disordered, pereptrated for reasons they can't recall and were never discussed before or since. like the players that make 360 noscope compilations in Last of Us II and teabag gurgling, dismembered corpses, if anybody cried a dead enemy's name in a gunfight or died begging for mama, Kane and Lynch would neither remember nor care. unsurprisingly, their story is therefore an incoherent and nauseating mess, not some big narrative about the evil they're committing. aren't these guys cool? doesn't it feel good to be them, killing the same 10 NPCs over and over for no particular reason?
@cameronratliff305
10 ай бұрын
@@conelybiscuit4985 well-said!
@Ronuk1996
6 ай бұрын
i Actually Find Manhunt 2003 to be really ahead in that regard its not in your face but they do a great job at making the kills feel fucked up Manhunt 2 took that to the next level at got an AO Rating. issue with Last of us 2 is how Fun the combat can be it does take away from makkng it feel fucked up.
@odinonion4619
8 ай бұрын
Just like Spec Ops: The Line, KL2 is not supposed to be fun. Some people will never get it.
@GucciCracka1017
5 ай бұрын
I must be mentally ill because I have so much fun playing it
@Professor_Genki7
3 ай бұрын
Well i enjoyed playing it lmao
@GucciCracka1017
3 ай бұрын
@@Professor_Genki7 gang gang 💯
@hectorbarrios885
10 ай бұрын
This game and dead men manage to do something quite special and i do believe that no other game in modern gaming could do something similar, theres a disregard for the sensibilities of people in this games that is just so refreshing, it is indeed a mature story about people who are killers and those people are usually really bad people in bad situations. i think maybe max payne 3 and hotline miami come kind of close.
@isabellamorris7902
10 ай бұрын
What about Spec Ops: The Line?
@hectorbarrios885
8 ай бұрын
@@isabellamorris7902 yeah i love spec ops too
@Ronuk1996
6 ай бұрын
@@hectorbarrios885Maxpayne 3 is amazing but i would say Manhunt pulls it off better then both.
@buttertool6211
10 ай бұрын
It's great to know that I wasn't the only one stuck on the main menu variations for almost hours lol I miss those days, but they were dog days, right now Kane and Lynch are enjoying the landscape and we should too
@cm8bruh
10 ай бұрын
FINALLY someone talks about the trailers for this game. I watch these all the time they are so fucking cool.
@ajeje1996
2 ай бұрын
I love the shot of Lynch gently caressing his sleeping girlfriend. Especially it's juxtaposition with the unrelenting, deafening violence and chaos that he is seemingly sentenced to be constantly surrounded by, his own circle of Hell. To me, it's almost like the game is lifting the veil to another dimension, showing the person Lynch could have been, had his life turned out differently. A life untouched by the poisonous curse of vice and depravation. It makes what follows all the more tragic.
@diamondhamster4320
10 ай бұрын
KnL 2 always made me wonder why there are so many cr@ppy found footage Horror movies but not found footage Crime Spree/Crime Drama movies filmed from the perspective of the criminals. Like, it is such an un-tapped niche.
@nbabackcourtmedia
10 ай бұрын
Half the time I don’t even know the games that he talks about, it’s just entertaining to hear bro talk
@battlefieldnerd1002
7 ай бұрын
So glad that I've found another documentary about this game It's one of those "bad games and yet you still play it" kind of thing This game and SPEC OPS The Line has been disected over and over And yet I still can't get enough watching those documentaries
@clashcreed2411
9 ай бұрын
8:30 I love how the tone of the video gets pretty dark from here. Realising that this game holds a strong message and tells a truly shocking, disgusting and unapologetic story. This game is truly beautiful in my opinion.
@Mr.Monky420
10 ай бұрын
Beautiful video. I’ll always have a special place in my heart for Kane and Lynch. Probably two of my favorite characters in all of gaming.
@JuiceboxCE
10 ай бұрын
Love seeing you bring light to these legendary old games n such, dude. Can't wait to watch this vid this weekend
@vealchop2490
9 ай бұрын
FINALLY someone said it... this game was years ahead of its time and the themes and aesthetic it produced were genius. The public overwhelmingly missed the point on this one.
@IAmValefree
10 ай бұрын
As someone who's played it from start to finish on the hardest difficulty, it's a complete artistic mess with tons of gameplay and AI issues. For better or for worse. But man, that game's ending LOL Edit: Also, I do feel the ending of your essay comes off a bit...too "and it allll ended well" as we're arguably stuck in a much, MUCH more soulless gaming landscape. Where yes, indies are great and that should be celebrated, but the industry has chosen copy/paste, aggressively monetized, games-as-a-service models. With hyper normalized violence, including executing defenseless combatants as many BR games do. I'd argue the medium has generally gone nowhere in that regard, if not regressed. At least in triple A. but Indies really, really are the future of gaming.
@hectorbarrios885
10 ай бұрын
i agree, i think triple a gaming is dead
@shawklan27
10 ай бұрын
The ending song they chose definitely was an inspired choice. The devs definitely knew what they were doing with that ending.
@gabby3036
10 ай бұрын
You mentioned executing defenseless combatants in battle royale games and hobbit shire, I'm glad to come across someone else who finds that as distasteful as I do. It genuinely gives me the willies, watching the person try and fruitlessly crawl away while another player walks up on them and cruelly finishes them off. I know that's the game but gute laut, it's pretty fuggin' brutal.
@frankkennedy6388
10 ай бұрын
Agreed. He should have had better and more examples than TLOU2 in terms of Triple A gaming.
@username1660
10 ай бұрын
*_"as we're arguably stuck in a much, MUCH more soulless gaming landscape. Where yes, indies are great and that should be celebrated, but the industry has chosen copy/paste, aggressively monetized, games-as-a-service models. "_* I Honestly think this take comes from just not being old enough back in the day to be aware that the industry has always been this way, if not immeasurable worse. I mean, the 7th Console Generation ushered in the era of Micro-Transactions what with Horse Armor, Map Packs, Microsoft Points, etc. Hell, the entire western market crashed because of the amount of shovelware that was being put out back in the 80's. It's easy to think previous years or decades were of better quality in terms of games when only the good ones are remembered after nostalgia has filtered out all the bad. At the end of the day, it is a business, a capitalistic endeavor, and that dictates that profit over quality will always be king. This is not a new development, we're just more aware of it as we've become more connected as a SoCiEtY
@bonelesschocolate4288
10 ай бұрын
taking games i've might have seen once in my life and uncovering the masterpiece behind them. bravo, Charlie
@peterfazio9306
8 ай бұрын
I have to confess I've had this game just chillin' on my Xbox hard drive for 2 years completely unplayed. Now that I've seen this, well, I know which game I'm playing next. Thanks for making this! Peace.
@momothe5th
10 ай бұрын
these camera angles are ELITE
@arielshtern4125
3 ай бұрын
I actually had a lot of fun playing this game. Guns in real life are terribly loud, recoil is very strong, shooting automatic guns like that should feel terrible. This game is the only one portraying just how shooting guns feel. There are no games like Kayne and Lynch out there nowadays. No company has the guts to make something like this.
@SleepZedd
10 ай бұрын
Also Also, one more thing. Love the editing style here, dude! The whirring and clicking of the VHS player makes this really unique and rewatchable. It scratches that weird itch of those essays that got... idk, pizazz? Overall just absolute banger vid
@Tommy-5684
10 ай бұрын
its intreating that you mention blood meridian in this retrospective considering much like Kaine and Lynch 2 Cormac McCarthy's Magnum Opus was not well liked on innlitle relies only to find acclaim later on
@gabby3036
10 ай бұрын
That ending song to the video is a bop.
@Ceeed100
10 ай бұрын
Back when they talked about a movie, I always thought it would be cool to have a found footage style movie. Like it starts in the tower of the mafia. The camera is on the desk filming the boss talking to the bodyguards "get em in". Kane and Lynch come through the door, he explains to them they have to kill some other boss for him and that he has a cameraman that will follow them so he can see that they actually do it. Also the cameraman can only speak japanese, so they often scream at him lol Also the end of the movie could be the cameraman be thrown out of a tower :D
@schimmel724
10 ай бұрын
I like this idea.
@C01dEyes
9 ай бұрын
I always had a soft spot for this game. I remember picking up both the original and the sequel for like $5 on a steam sale over 10 years ago. I found a character's endearing for being homicidal maniacs and played through both games from beginning to end. However the second one really stuck with me just for the overall aesthetic and creativity that was on display. The more I think about it I would place it on the same mantle alongside another third person cover shooter that went against the norms of the time, spec ops the line. Both did things completely against the grain of all the other shooters of the time. Doing something different in its method of storytelling and world building while also still following the general design of games like gears of war or army of two. I don't know who owns the IP for this anymore but honestly I wouldn't mind seeing another game.
@powerbelly211
10 ай бұрын
I wish they had pixelated damage in other games. I found it really effective in Kane and lynch 2.
@swagyolo413
8 ай бұрын
The streets are real, diabolical, gritty and disgusting. This is ofc over the top but a gunfight is the LAST place you want to be, what better then to paint it in the most putrid agonizing environment? You aren’t supposed to WANT to keep trudging along, this is what you get when you think about “what type of person could do this?” It’s Kane and Lynch who could and would do this. Sometimes you get scenes like when Lynch is with his girl and you see just how average he looks but after you’re alone with all the bodies he looks like the actual reaper born into this world. This isn’t supposed to be a dream, it’s a brutal living nightmare because of the characters horrible choices and life.
@jacobquinn12
5 ай бұрын
Fantastic Video! Came here for the review left with some incredibly insightful optimism.
@FugginPhil
10 ай бұрын
This was incredible. Came in expecting nothing, left with my mind blown. Love new perspectives on old games that everyone has already made up their minds about!
@moeezS
10 ай бұрын
Arthouse cinema fans will also notice maybe influences from Michael Haneke (Benny's Video, Funny Games) or Nicolas Winding Refn with the critique of voyeurism and relationship to violence. Nice comparison to Blood Meridian! The game is so laser-focused on its artistic intent, even more so than Spec Ops: The Line and Hotline Miami in being anti-glorification of heroes and shooters. The shooting isn't particularly fun or viscerally satisfying, although I got a kick of running around between cover and having Lynch muttering to himself under his breath. Great essay!
@SpiderMan-gf1lc
10 ай бұрын
While it is a fair and quite compelling way to tone down the "fun factor" to make a statement about our cultural's glorification of power, heroes, men with big guns, I do believe Hotline Miami is as deep with its critiques as Kane & Lynch exactly because it makes its violence fun. They both use polar opposite methods to achieve the same thing with a few differing factors, such as Hotline Miami implicating the player a lot more by basically stating: "you enjoyed causing all this havoc", while a player of Kane & Lynch could at least defend himself by saying: "well, I didn't like the gameplay so it means I'm not that much into violence", however, it does present a much more real depiction of violence as absurdly meaningless and gut-wrenching. So it all comes down to what you gain and what you lose by each artistic choice.
@theblobconsumes4859
10 ай бұрын
Hotline Miami is a Lynch and Jodorowsky inspired exploration of violence. Spec Ops The Line takes from Apocalypse Now and Joseph Conrad for its musings on violence. Meanwhile, Kane & Lynch 2 feels as though it takes from Michael Haneke in its critique of violence. It feels quite similar to Benny's Video and Funny Games in its approach and how it treats its players. Edit: Was wrong about the 'Haneke influence' mention, sorry for that! I'll ask the dev myself through email to see if Haneke was an influence though.
@Jetsetlemming
10 ай бұрын
I agree with a lot of this, although it feels weird to me to summarize Kane and Lynch 2 as a "parody". It's definitely a critical meta commentary on the genre and its audience, just like "Funny Games" is to horror movies, but both are so serious and thoughtful with how they unpack what they're commenting on that the word "parody" with its relatively frivolous and mocking tone feels wrong. I would not put Kane and Lynch 2 and Funny Games in the same box as "Scary Movie" for example.
@theblobconsumes4859
10 ай бұрын
Yeah, satire is a better word to describe it than parody.
@leonhaze-4202
10 ай бұрын
As someone who has recently finished the game on Extreme, i have to say that the best quality of Kane & Lynch gameplay wise is how it wants to make you feel the stress and panic of being in a shootout; the point is that being in a shootout isn't cool or engaging, in Dog Days chinese guns have lots of recoil and is impossible to land a shot in the same place twice, the sound of constant gunfire is oppressive and on later stages the enemies begin to flank your position and use soppressive fire to keep your head down. Enviroments are quite destructable, so much so that oftentimes covers can be shredded by suppressive fire. I played it in split screen co op too and after every game session our eyes were red and our hands were shaking from the overstimulus of out senses. Also despite it's shortness and irregular narrative you emphatise with Kane and Lynch the characters, they aren't evil men but definetly broken man, they just wanted to export guns to africa so they could retire and being with their loved ones, but because of the banality of evil they are forced to mow down even worse men than them. I definetly think Dog Days beats every day of the week the pretentous mess of TLOU 2, as it never tells you what is right or what is wrong, it merely shows the consequence of violence.
@blitzes3177
10 ай бұрын
“They aren’t evil, they just wanted to export guns to Africa so they could retire” is the funniest thing I’ve read in a long while haha.
@leonhaze-4202
10 ай бұрын
@@blitzes3177 The way i see it being "evil" means consciously taking pleasure in harming others, sure smuggling guns to some African Warlord isn't morally sound, K&L are hardened criminals and cold killers but they aren't inherently "evil" people especially if you compare them to their antagonists. K&L are rather broken men trying to reconnect with their humanity by providing for their loved ones the only way they know how; Kane's daughter and Lynch's Girlfriend are the reason both of them decide to embark in the deal.
@blitzes3177
10 ай бұрын
@@leonhaze-4202 Me when I excuse the atrocities people commit because they weren’t having fun whilst committing them.
@leonhaze-4202
10 ай бұрын
@@blitzes3177 Excuse me but that's not what i did, i don't see the point in making excuses for some video game characters, i simply pointed out that the game itself shows clearly the difference in wickedness between our "antiheroes" and their antagonists. Hsing the triad boss who exploits people in sweatshops, shoots snuff films and rapes and skins alive Lynch's girlfriend for fun is more "evil" than K&L will ever be.
@blitzes3177
10 ай бұрын
@@leonhaze-4202 My HEROES Kane and Lynch EFFORTLESSLY mow down INNOCENT CIVILIANS, don’t you DARE say otherwise.
@matteoziegler7632
6 ай бұрын
Something i noticed in a recent playthrough is how unremarkable the enemy reactions are. Even in gritty games like Max Payne 3 you get theese cool stumbling ragdoll effects but in Kane and Lynch 2 they just crumble like a sack of potatoes. I find the fact that the only premade animations are ones of people bleeding out only support the whole "anti game" look. Like the developers saying: what you thought firefights are cool and spectecular?
@joaoluishenzdossantos91
10 ай бұрын
This is an incredible essay! When this game came out, it hit me instantly on how "raw" it was. Everybody else was playing Call of Duty and this was so different and somehow "unique" in style that I got hooked in it. Even played some multiplayer back in the day and it was a lot of fun. Subscribed!
@KouneliSPL
6 ай бұрын
I'm happy that someone else has taken notice of the music made for this game! The Invalid Memory interview with Mona Mur (composer of the ambient/noise score for the game) is also a really interesting read, and I think it shows there's also real substance and maybe even beauty in the primary score you hear throughout.
@oats2001
10 ай бұрын
It feels like a lot of these feel like happy accidents but this is a super interesting video. This definitely changes my mind on a few games
@PurposelessRabbitholes
10 ай бұрын
Yeah tbh I think some of the stuff I picked up on was unintentional. Had a line about that but ended up cutting it, probably should’ve left it in. Either way tho, the game has lots of interesting ideas
@oats2001
10 ай бұрын
@@PurposelessRabbitholes I did really like how the game set out to make some kind of a parody of the 7th generation of action games. I think that point is very strong.
@TheSkaOreo
10 ай бұрын
Most art is happy accidents…but that’s what makes it art.
@oats2001
10 ай бұрын
@@TheSkaOreo yeah I don’t think them being happy accidents means they don’t count. It’s still a good piece of art regardless of if the artist meant to do it
@JamezKelly
10 ай бұрын
I rented this game from a video store when i was in high school. Was always great to try different types of games each and also boost my 360 gamerscore. Didn't like it at the time, especially when there were other options on the shelf. But i bought it for 5 bucks a few years ago. Being stuck on the journey, in one sitting, basically descending through Kane and Lynch's hell till they ascend via plane was one of the most grueling and stressful gaming experiences ever. The kind of game to give you a splitting headache. For me, its the Uncut Gems of video games. The ante never stops, the neon colors burn the eyes, the sweat covers the main characters. Fantastic video honestly, the trailers for kane and lynch 2 were always intriguing. I remember one teaser where security footage shows Lynch walking to an apartment door, and smashing it open with a bowling ball, only to hear cries and gunshots. Amazing stuff. :)
@b1thearchitect401
9 ай бұрын
I like this take! I think whether or not it was entirely intentional, it makes a lot of sense and recontextualizes a lot of the games "flaws" and criticisms as worthwhile commentary.
@deadspace4755
10 ай бұрын
K&L2 is a masterful experience. The devs had a goal and nailed it perfectly. They wanted to show messages, themes to it. Nothing is random(aside from techincal mistakes). The music or the ambience is a prime example of that. The placements and the level design next and so on. If you read the wiki of the game, in the developement section, you will understand their goal. l am sure that even the accuracy of the guns is on purpose. And I actually liked the accuracy of the guns(aside from the snipers who had a techical mistake, their sensitivity). It showed a specific strategy to it, l liked holding on weapons that were accurate; the Desert Eagle for example. I call certain games an "experience", they want to you something and they present very beautiful, not to mention, they are also relatable. They can mention real life lessons with analogy or show life facts(like how grim, lonely shanghai is). Just being in the game, l can feel what the devs wanted to show. They EXPLAIN lot of things without text, just showing and feeling. And this is why this game does it like no other game. l am sadly tired of writing as l wrote about this game before but it is so good. If you want more experience like games, you can go for EDF 4, that game, oh boy, another masterpiece. Though it doesn't show real life like KL2, it does perfectly shows other things the devs wanted to show. Also, Thief 1 and 2 for their immersive dimensions, their sound design is unmatched. This is also probably l loved K&L2, the sound design and the ambience. Really, the sound design explains how the characters feel and the Devs wanted for you to feel like the characters are going through. l loved this so much, even EDF 4 has it, in its mission design and the final 10 missions of Online mode. l made reviews on them in steam, in case anyones want to read. They are so rare cases of such exquisite games that it has been lost because of greed and sinfulness. They can show but not from big companies. It is a hope in which we can use to finally start learning and make our games, if we give up our heavy load of thoughts and bad habits.
@Cyannoatic
10 ай бұрын
I'm glad people still acknowledge this game as it is one of my favorites, not for the gameplay - but mostly for it's atmosphere and cruel nature. Each point you made here are the reasons why i love this game, hell - maybe even gave me more reasons to love it, too. It's one of these games that just stand out from one another. Sure, not by gameplay because it's not the best, but it certainly takes a different approach on a lot of things, it doesn't make you feel like a powerhouse and it actually makes you struggle to the point that it is actually frustrating, almost symbolizing Kane and Lynch's struggles throughout each shootout. I just wish there was a third game to see how the franchise would go on, too bad it will never happen.
@__-ni1kz
10 ай бұрын
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days, a.k.a., Kafka’s Manhunt: Army of Two. That Blood Meridian comparison is great, I never made that connection.
@vilewisher8786
7 ай бұрын
This game is high art I dont care what nobody say
@jacobleiser2266
10 ай бұрын
I love this guy's videos, he makes lengthy videos with great points throughout. Idk how he doesn't have more subs to be honest
@Crampsam
10 ай бұрын
This channel may not upload often but when there is a new video? Hoo boy, it’s always a good time
@Delmworks
10 ай бұрын
13:13 Truly the duo are stuck in a Sisyphean torment, except instead of rolling a bolder up a hill they’re shooting their way out of a hole they fell in.
@GizmosHouse
11 күн бұрын
This game is also very similar to the Miami Vice film from 2006. It was one of the first films to be shot digitally which was very controversial at the time but now it’s a very aesthetic look
@Sagadali523
2 ай бұрын
I beat it two games of them twice. Just imagine where the Michael and Trevor inspiration comes from so you can understand it's just this game with such a great intense scene and an epic phenomenal sound affects that's more like it than modern videogames. As if only people played this nowadays, the series itself does certainly deserves it's such a great remaster, but some of you do understand how bad the video game companies are nowadays. Kane & Lynch is something that I feel the vibe of it, if only the company could've made rights on their own instead of losing it so that'll make it go alive, but well, at least, we know that some people disliked this since they called it "ugly" the first time they heard about it, but the culture about this is gaining back in time.
@aldensonofsatan9645
10 ай бұрын
Funny thing to consider, the duo appear on Hitman: Absolution. I don't remember if it was made before or after Dog Days, but you can find Kane in a bar and there's a cutscene where if you set off a nuke it shows Lynch relaxing in the distance
@WesolyArek
Ай бұрын
Dwie godziny temu skończyłem przechodzić tę grę drugi raz, dalej bawi, mimo upływu lat. Dobry materiał, dzięki.
@ItsRawdraft2
10 ай бұрын
I love how they acknowledge the camera man sometimes
@agroed
10 ай бұрын
April Fool's already? Man, I'm really losing track of time. XD Great video my man. It really shows how much this game was shrugged off at the time because violence like this was completely normalized. Reminds me of Paul Verhoeven who tried to have satirical over-the-top violence in his films to shock American movie goers out of their action-hero coma but of course, people just took them at face value and only now do we see the intent behind them.
@ubatzstronz6414
10 ай бұрын
I actually love this game. One of the best hard boiled action shooters ever made. The controlls weren't the best but that didnt matter. Gritty aesthetic loved it!!! Can you imagine if rockstar got hold of sometging like this and really went to town on it. Its such a shame we will probably never ever see another kane & lynch game. 😢
@kruegerpoolthe13th
10 ай бұрын
My favorite kind of KZitemr is the kind that can make me interested in something I had no prior interest in
@necromorph238
10 ай бұрын
This video is amazing and I LOVE the mean spiritedness of Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days. The marketing for this game is some of the best I've ever seen along with Halo 2 & 3.
@lucashernandez922
10 ай бұрын
My favorite game of the 2010s. Thanks for this, this game is so underrated I needed something like this.
@swetzplayz
10 ай бұрын
Glad to see this underrated game get some attention! There was something that I always liked about it but couldn’t quite put my finger on it! I’d like to real hear some first hand accounts from the devs that made it to see if they had actually intended to have this layer of complexity when designing it. That being said. I prefer this shit over the mountains of slop that the industry cranks out more and more every year! Kane & Lynch 2 is a part of the golden age of gaming!🏆🔥💯
@MikeStu
10 ай бұрын
I've been telling people about this game FOR YEARS, ever since release (got it for like 10 bucks brand new on the 360 in a 2011 chinese lunar year sale). There really is nothing quite like it. Glad to see more and more people give it the recognition it deserves (whatever that may be).
@maxwellczerniawski4776
10 ай бұрын
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days aka the thinking man's Last of Us Part II.
@MrLucidjake
6 ай бұрын
This was a GREAT video! I've been trying to convince people how brilliant this game is for years. Nothing has come close in times of atmosphere. I do think there is actually a lot of emotion in the game; fear, isolation, guilt, denial, albeit buried under the explosion of desperate gunfire. Desperate, actually, may be the key word in the game, for me. There's a real sense of scrambling to survive, and you almost feel sorry for the protagonists at points. I really wish they'd made a sequel but you can't have everything.
@Dibious
10 ай бұрын
Great to have you back king👑
@Turboviikinki
10 ай бұрын
People have been giving me shit for years when I say that this is one of my favorite games of all time. I love the renaissance that this game has had in the recent year or two.
@danielpratt3794
10 ай бұрын
damn thought pyrocynical talked about everything there is in this game and yet you had some fun things to talk about as well!
@agrubohub4009
10 ай бұрын
This is better than Pyrocynical video to be honest. That one is filled with too many jokes that just don't land
@Heffy_Boi
8 ай бұрын
I don't think I've ever truly been as baffled to see a sequel get announced quite like when K&L2 was first revealed. It just felt like the most unlikeliest of sequels of its era and yet, it's a game that stuck with me, I never truly forgot it. It's great that IO got a chance to redeem the reputation that the first game had created, that being a soulless, valueless game with no real message to offer. This is a sendoff to a franchise that we hardly ever see and I'm glad they didn't squander it.
@Scullex
10 ай бұрын
this is fuckin awesome, thanks for looking back on this game, don't think most people really care enough to actually look back and see what meaning is there in these sorts of forgotten games.
@Sam-uk4mb
Ай бұрын
I love your analysis of the game as a satirical take on the gritty, third person ultraviolence of the 7th Gen, one that's self aware of the absurdity of the genre's tropes. hough it likely didn't singlehandedly sound the death knell for that genre of games, it was definitely released at an interesting crossroads for the industry as a whole; the standout games of 2011 included the likes of Portal 2 and LA Noire, so as you say the industry certainly took the right road there! Great video, thanks
The music part is what makes me think of what if Kane and Lynch series had a universe of its own. Sure, it is in connection with Hitman universe but I would like to know more. I would like to know if the singers who sing Little Mei, Millions, Foreign Songs and my first love of this ost, Singapore Nights are doing. I don't know if I worded it properly but I would like to see what and who they are.
@usario
10 ай бұрын
Personally, I think it's a much more general criticism of our voyeuristic fascination of violence. Most of the esthetic and stylings of the game come from livelike type videos. And how they're usually recorded on s***** phones or cheap cameras.
@magnodoros7735
10 ай бұрын
I love your videos bro. Me and my mate played kane and lynch 2 and were devestated games like these dont exist anymore
@Ye_B0i
10 ай бұрын
Kane & Lynch 2 walked so that Spec Ops The Line could run
@hexlart8481
10 ай бұрын
If I have one guilty pleasure, that is Kane and Lynch 2 video essays. Hit me.
@Bizzarovid
10 ай бұрын
I genuinely like this game. Unlike the first game which plays badly and comes across as the worst kind of edgy the boring non shocking kind. This one is so obscenely violent that it loops back around to being good fun to just slaughter hordes and hordes of police and gangsters.
@kirbeeez6131
10 ай бұрын
Banger video
@ricksondavi4571
10 ай бұрын
Many people say that this game is rubbish and such, but I believe that it still has its value, mainly due to its brutal and raw story. The scene where they are tortured still remains in my mind after many years.
@ObaREX
10 ай бұрын
Charlie never disappoints
@dylangutierrez7482
10 ай бұрын
This such a nostalgic game for me , I loved it
@ragingfurball5419
2 ай бұрын
I fucking loved the Kane & Lynch games. I always found it a shame that they weren't more popular, but I understand why. They aren't heroes, anti-heroes, pre-destined saviors, or ordinary joe's rising to occasion. These are bad people, doing bad things. They have serious issues, and the world fucking HATES them. They have to constantly fight tooth and nail just to survive to the next meal. Nothing good is allowed to happen in their lives, nothing is allowed to go right. They realize this, they're tired of it, but they have no choice. And in their perpetual life-or-death struggle just to make it to the end of the god-damned hallway, I end up rooting for them. Hoping they finally make it to a place where it all stops; where they can finally rest. Because, as Lynch says, "This is bullshit."
@benji8108
10 ай бұрын
glad to see you still post very underrated channel
@glassjawboxer
10 ай бұрын
I've always considered both Kane and Lynch games high art. A nightmarish violent journey with two irredeemable despicable characters who are losers and failures to everyone and everything around them. They're only good at killing and surviving just to exist in a hell of never-ending misery. You feel it in its narrative it's mechanics and it's stellar performances of Brian Bloom and Jarion Monroe.
@harrisonfackrell
10 ай бұрын
I don't actually feel like the narrative of K&L 2 is paper-thing. Especially after playing K&L 1, I really feel for Lynch--he's trying, so hard, to manage his psychosis, but his refusal/inability to get professional help and stay withib the bounds of legitimate society brings him too close to the fire. I've felt like that before, like there's no place for me. K&L made me feel less alone.
@GenericProtagonist118
10 ай бұрын
I always had an idea for a game with this kind of premise but with the addition of *acknowledging the kind of person you play as.* Oh and I'm not talking morality wise with how you usually play as a mindless killing machine who doesn't care about the people you gun down, that's been done too in the same narratives. But also the fact that you are an *unstoppable* killing machine. Think about it, in these games you play as someone who can just... walk off being shot. You play as someone who can kill people in impractical ways with your bare hands and destroy unimaginable amounts of property by yourself. There are points where you - by yourself - can reduce an area into looking like a post-apocolyptic wasteland. It's sometimes even possible to fight with a fully armed, well trained soldier who's wearing kevlar and still be able to beat them to death while only wearing a couple dirt stains and a pair of slacks. Think about Far Cry and how you can play as a (supposedly) regular schmuck who can fight off swathes of wild animals and soldiers by themselves who are so hardcore that they literally rip the bullets out of their own body and keep on pushing. *Doesn't anybody realize how terrifying that is?* To so many NPCs you shouldn't be perceived or treated like "some guy" or like an action hero pulling a John McClane. *You play as a f**king slasher villain like Jason Voorhees who requires having a lead blood transfusion and being reduced to hamburger to even be taken down* Yet the stories of these kinds of games never acknowledge or touch on that at all. It's that joke about how you can survive being shot in gameplay but be mortally wounded in a cutscene. I just feel there's a way to make an interesting story exploring that concept. Asking if you really are human, wether your a normal person or something else entirely. How would you be seen after doing the most impossible things a human can do? I also feel like this idea it would only work in settings that are more grounded, where the dissonance between the realistic world clash with your night superhuman protagonist.
@irpsicologiayeducaciongrup8251
10 ай бұрын
FarCry 2 actually does that. Unless you are straight up bugging the game to do a pacifist run, your character starts to become know for being a one man army, a killing machine, *Death* itself taking a stroll through the area. It even reaches a point where you can enter certain "neutral zones" with your guns out- because who the fuck is going to tell the guy who's literally tering a red streak through fucking Africa what to do? It even affects enemy chatter. At the start you are a non-item, barelly ever mentioned- and generally in rude terms. By the end of it? People, your fellow mercenaries, wonder if you eat babies for breakfast or something.
@GenericProtagonist118
10 ай бұрын
@@irpsicologiayeducaciongrup8251 That's awesome! I wish the future games kept doing that.
@TheMultiTasker3
10 ай бұрын
In a way, Furi does something like this. You play as someone who starts the game locked up in some sort of containment. You get broken out with the help of some stranger. Every fight in the game is a full on boss fight, and there's very little gameplay in between. Just Boss Fight after Boss Fight. Each boss is effectively a warden. Their only goal is to stop *you* from getting out. As the game goes on, you even learn that the "prison" you're in; was built explicitly for you, and only you. It's sole purpose is to keep *_you_* locked up. Because if you get out, You'll destroy the planet that they call home. They don't really explore what the protagonist is thinking, or their backstory or anything. They don't even talk. But every warden has their own personalities. Their own reasons for being there. And their own methods to try and keep *you* under control. The setting is very Sci-Fi though. So maybe it won't feel as "grounded" as you're hoping.
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