#v: killer7

[akashicpoint]

KILLER7 CAPCOM [2005]

[6ad6ro]

top 5 games from every console -nes- -game boy- -pc engine- 1. ninja gaiden 1. castlevania ii 1. castlevania rb 2. river city ransom 2. zelda la 2. ys book 1 and 2 3. akumajou densetsu 3. wario land 3. lords of thunder 4. mario 3 4. pokemon red 4. r-type 5. zelda 2 5. kirby's dreamland 2 5. galaga '90

-genesis- -snes- -neo geo- 1. streets of rage 2 1. earthbound 1. garou mow 2. castlevania bl 2. zelda lttp 2. windjammers 3. sonic 3ak 3. chrono trigger 3. king of fighters 99 4. contra hard corps 4. super mario world 4. metal slug 5. sonic 2 5. super metroid 5. king of fighters 2001 -sega cd- -ps1- -saturn- 1. snatcher 1. final fantasy vii 1. vampire savior 2. sonic cd 2. castlevania sotn 2. street fighter alpha 3 3. final fight cd 3. resident evil 3 3. virtua fighter 2 4. lunar 4. rival schools 4. virtua cop 2 5. monkey island 5. final fantasy ix 5. castlevania sotn (really) -n64- -dreamcast- -ps2- 1. mario 64 1. jet grind radio 1. silent hill 2 2. mystical ninja 2. shenmue 2. gta vice city 3. zelda oot 3. thps 2 3. smt nocturne 4. banjo kazooie 4. crazy taxi 4. we love katamari 5. mario kart 64 5. ecoo dotf 5. dragon quest viii

-gamecube- -xbox- -gba- 1. resident evil rm 1. jet set radio future 1. castlevania aos 2. f-zero gx 2. shenmue 2 2. castlevania hod 3. zelda tp 3. morrowind 3. metroid fusion 4. killer7 4. fable 4. river city ransom ex 5. mario sunshine 5. guilty gear xx #ac 5. metroid zm -nds- -psp- -xbox 360- 1. castlevania ooe 1. castlevania dxc 1. dead rising 2. castlevania dos 2. gta vcs 2. deadly premonition 3. castlevania por 3. ffvii cc 3. half-life 2 4. tingle's balloon trip of love 4. persona 3p 4. skyrim 5. phoenix wright 5. power stone 5. gta iv -ps3- -wii- -wii u- 1. dead rising 2 1. mario galaxy 1. zelda ww hd 2. sfiii 3s oe 2. no more heroes 2. mario kart 8 3. yakuza 5 3. okami 3. tekken tag 2 4. gta v 4. wii sports 4. zelda botw 5. 3d dot game heroes 5. castlevania rb 5. nintendo land -3ds- -vita- -ps4- 1. smt iv 1. persona 4 golden 1. ff vii rm 2. zelda oot 3d 2. undertale 2. elden ring 3. zelda mm 3d 3. jet set radio hd 3. persona 5 4. star fox 64 3d 4. hotline miami 2 4. resident evil 2 rm 5. river city rs 5. spelunky 5. dragon quest xi -switch- -steam deck/pc- -virtual boy (forgot)- 1. mario odyssey 1. half-life 1. vb wario land 2. sonic mania 2. unreal tournament 2. mario's tennis 3. smash ultimate 3. dead cells castlevania 3. galactic pinball 4. metroid dread 4. lba2 twinsen's odyssey 4. teleroboxer 5. mario wonder 5. bomb rush cyberfunk 5. jack bros

[satoshi-mochida]

Death Come True, the full motion video game from Danganronpa creator Kazutaka Kodaka, will launch for PlayStation 4, Switch, PC, iOS, and Android in June in Japan for 1,900 yen, publisher Izanagi Games announced at presentation event in Tokyo.

Japanese rock band “Kami-sama, I have noticed” will create the theme song for Death Come True.

Here is an overview of the game, via Izanagi Games:

Story

The story takes place in a hotel. The main character, Makoto Karaki (Kanata Hongo) is a wanted serial killer. However, he has lost all of his memories. Under such circumstances, when he dies, he has a mysterious ability to “time leap” and return to the past. As he’s being chased as a criminal, who can he trust? Who should he be wary of? What is his true identity? The man searches to find the truth as he repeats decisions and death.

Cast

Appearing in Death Come True will be Kanata Hongo (as the main character Makoto Karaki), Chiaki Kuriyama (as police investigator Akane Sachimura), Win Morisaki (as police investigator Nozomu Kuji), Yuki Kaji (as the hotel concierge), Chihiro Yamamoto (as psychopath girl Nene Kurushima), and Jiro Sato (as news anchor Kenichi Mino).

Music will be done by Masafumi Takada, the composer behind the Danganronpa series, The Evil Within, killer7, and more.

Watch a new teaser trailer and an archive of today’s presentation event below.

Teaser Trailer #3

Presentation Event Archive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G9Fp1o5qLo&feature=emb_title

[jgillon2k19]

Killer 7 As A Postmodern Work

One of the most striking elements of Killer7 as a video game is its subversion of what could be expected of it at face value. One may expect a video game about assassins to be standard affair, a first or third person shooter, something where you kill the final boss and beat the level, but Killer7 ultimately twists this known formula on its head, creating something that certainly takes pieces of other works, but creates something wholly new and original from them. 

As a game, Killer7 mixes genres in a way that no game has successfully done since, taking elements from House of the Dead styled “Rail Shooters” and combining it with classic point and click adventure gameplay. This genre mixing ensures that very few new players will feel familiar with how the game works, forcing players to view the game from a new perspective, using both quick reflexes and precise aiming for combat, as well as thinking through the many puzzles the game presents.

https://youtu.be/kNBdPNxLyvk?t=315

In this gameplay video, the player can clearly be seen slowly learning how the game works, initially attempting to shoot at an invisible enemy, then learning to scan, turning them visible and vulnerable. This approach to gameplay forces players to relearn how to handle basic enemy encounters by punishing the behaviors that many other games would reward, and forcing players to think first to get the best possible outcome. 

Killer7′s visual design can be broadly defined by the term “Cel Shading”, which refers to a technique used in rendering 3D objects with unrealistic lighting systems that use different light levels rather than a smooth transition. This style is most prominently used in games like The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, and Jet Set Radio, which feature bright and colorful worlds that can be seen as very child-friendly. Killer7 adopts this style, but subverts the expectations set by previous cel shaded games by presenting a very mature and adult-oriented experience. 

By far, the most postmodern element of Killer7 is its story, and the extremely unorthodox methods that are used to tell it. For starters, unlike most games, a vast majority of the characters that you speak to and play as in Killer7 are already dead. From the titular Killer7 (with the exception of Garcian and Harman Smith), the recurring characters Travis and Susie (who only appears as a talking severed head), as well as the targets assassinated in previous levels, a vast majority of the cast of this game is either already dead, or will be. The “Ghosts” that the player will encounter throughout the game do not speak normally as other characters do, instead delivering dialogue through subtitles with jumbled, nonsensical speech played over it. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-HAnFt0W1E

The speech of living characters, however, can be just as esoteric as that of the ghosts encountered. The first time the player meets the game’s antagonist, Kun Lan, he attempts to trick Harman Smith, who tells him “Tricks are for kids”, and then proceeds to catch the bullet he is shot at with, flying out the window and landing on top of the space needle.

https://youtu.be/dTZO60PaFTc?t=215

After the game’s ending, a title card appears stating “Shanghai, 100 years later”, in which a nearly identical scene takes place.

https://youtu.be/ArDj_PySA5c?t=522

The overwhelmingly complex and dark plot of killer7 is highlighted by scenes like this, where it seems to acknowledge just how strange a world it has created. While the main plot may focus mostly on a conspiracy by the Japanese government to take control of the United States, and many horrific scenes take place throughout, Killer7 is also a game where you have a series of duels to the death with “The Handsomemen” who are essentially a group of power rangers in Times Square.

https://youtu.be/ZvGR1HhvXB0?t=140

This sequence is followed by several fourth wall breaks, including a character who insists that she knows Garcian’s name because she writes the story before fading from existence, and a fake credits sequence for “Hardboiled Shooting Killer7 Online” with character art that parodies various arcade games. 

The ending of Killer7 is without a doubt the most important piece of this game’s postmodernism. After learning about the Japanese Government’s true secret weapon against the US, a person by the name of Emir Parkreiner, All of the members of the Killer7 except Garcian and Harman are permanently killed. This scene is followed by a series of flashbacks at the Union Hotel, where it is revealed that Garcian had killed all of the members of the Killer7 previously, and had simply been using their weapons throughout the game. Gargian is awakened to his true identity, Emir Parkreiner, and is terrified of what he has done. 

In an extra chapter you play as Garcian who has fully become Emir Parkreiner, and is now nearly invincible. Emir confronts Kenjiro Matsuoka, who works for the Japanese government, and players are given a choice to either kill him and allow the US to destroy Japan with no consequences, or let him live and allow Japan, which was nuked previously in the story, to launch their own nuclear missiles at America. This is followed by confronting the final member of the Heaven Smile terrorist organization, who is revealed to be Iwazaru, who helped you through the game, whose real identity was Kun Lan, the game’s antagonist.

https://youtu.be/P0GVnbIxhnw?t=217

This ending is as strange as it is ambiguous. It raises far more questions than it could ever answer, and being followed by the aforementioned post-credits scene only makes it that much more bizarre. 

Killer7′s entire existence is a wonder, for something as strange and off-putting to have been made at all is incredible. Despite this, the game has garnered a strong cult following for its extreme use of postmodern ideals to create something that takes the familiar and turns it into something that had never been done before, and likely will never be done again. 

Many of director Suda51′s other projects are similarly postmodern, from clear fourth wall breaking to fast forwarding through a long speech mid cutscene, his work never fails to turn the tried and true into something new and different.

[kunfun]

KONO DIO DA!

[spiritgamer26]

[CP] Nouveau trailer consacré au premier opus de The Silver Case 2425

NIS America dévoile aujourd’hui un nouveau trailer pour The Silver Case 2425, consacré au premier opus. Cette duologie qui comprend les jeux The Silver Case et The 25th Ward: The Silver Case sera disponible sur Nintendo Switch le 9 juillet 2021. Tout droit sorti de l’imagination de SUDA51, plongez dans l’univers sombre du crime à travers deux histoires palpitantes emplies de mystères et de secrets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t-bqGV6l8w&feature=youtu.be A propos de The Silver Case : Tandis que de mystérieux meurtres tourmentent la ville, les inspecteurs de la police criminelle du 24ème arrondissement enquêtent sur un homme en particulier : Kamui Uehara. Il y a de cela 20 ans, ce tueur en série légendaire ôta la vie de nombreux hommes politiques lors de la célèbre affaire nommée « Silver Case ». Cependant, personne ne peut affirmer aujourd’hui qui est réellement Kamui. Est-il vraiment de retour ? Qui est donc ce tristement célèbre tueur en série ? A propos de The 25th Ward: The Silver Case : Cinq années après les évènements de The Silver Case, une femme est retrouvée morte dans d’étranges circonstances. Ce meurtre marque le début d’une série d’évènements apparemment fortuits impliquant différents individus, dont le détective Morishima Tokio. Après avoir rassemblé tous les témoignages, un mode opératoire troublant se dessine… Caractéristiques : - La vérité sera votre seul salut : Découvrez deux jeux d’enquête palpitants, imaginés et pensés par SUDA51. Explorez un monde dystopique aux sombres secrets, afin de faire éclater la vérité au grand jour. - Un chef d’œuvre sensoriel : Plongez au cœur de la région de Kantô au style artistique aussi troublant que renversant, sublimé par les musiques du compositeur de renom Masafumi Takada (killer7, Danganronpa, No More Heroes). - Deux fois plus de crime : Jouez à The Silver Case et The 25th Ward pour la première fois sur Nintendo Switch. Le jeu Silver Case 2425 sur Nintendo Switch™ La bande-son du jeu sur CD Le mini artbook « The artwork of the Silver Case 2425 » Une boîte collector

Informations : - Date de sortie : 9 juillet 2021 - Plateforme(s) : Nintendo Switch™ - Genre : Visual Novel - Joueur(s) : 1 - Texte : Anglais - Voix : N/A - Pegi : 16 - Editeur : NIS America, Inc. - Développeur : Grasshopper Manufacture, Inc. Pour plus d’informations, rendez-vous sur : https://www.nisamerica.com/the-silver-case-2425.

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[sundanceritz]

killer7 tarot

i haven’t read a lot about the tarot so this is kind of a first try/practice...

0 The Fool: Iwazaru / The Jester: Kun Lan

I The Magician: Dan Smith

II The High Priestess: Samantha Smith

III The Empress: Linda Vermillion

IV The Emperor: Curtis Blackburn

V The Hierophant: Yoon-Hyun

VI The Lovers: Susie Sumner

VII The Chariot: Con Smith

VIII Justice: MASK de Smith

IX The Hermit: Garcian Smith

X Wheel of Fortune: Christopher Mills

XI Strength: Kevin Smith

XII The Hanged Man: Travis Bell

XIII Death: AYAME Blackburn

XIV Temperance: Trevor Pearlharbor

XV The Devil: Samantha Sitbon

XVI The Tower: Coyote Smith

XVII The Stars: Kess BloodySunday

XVIII The Moon: KAEDE Smith

XIX The Sun: Andrei Ulmeyda

XX Judgment: Harman Smith

XXI The World: Edo Macalister

[misterjackal]

Good Games Podcast: Episode 204 - Breaking Bread ’n’ Butter

Good Games Podcast: Episode 204 – Breaking Bread ’n’ Butter

http://traffic.libsyn.com/goodgamespodcast/GG_Episode_204_Breaking_Bread_n_Butter.mp3

Frank and Alex talk about 4K growing pains, fend off scummy online players, get a taste of the upcoming remaster for Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner, put their knowledge of Linux terminal commands to good use in Hacknet, and delve back into VR with Beat Saber and The Unspoken. They also cover hackers ruining…

[akashicpoint]

"Is it so bad that we have a purpose in life? We are only serving our gods."

[6ad6ro]

Got tagged by @thequantumranger to do 21 questions. Thanks! I tag... uhhhh nobody... bc i can’t remember who likes doing these things. @yoshis i guess? WAH sorry send me a msg or do it anyways if we’re mutuals and u love this stuff! i’ll try and keep a list next time i’m sorry lol!

Nickname: robert Zodiac: fish Height: 5′10″ Last thing I searched: why google was ruining net with .webm/.webp format lol. also grandia 1 stuff. also pc88 stuff. Favorite bands: yellow magic orchestra, boards of canada, cibo matto, capsule, deerhoof, fatboy slim, boris, denki groove, rammstein, todd rundgren, towa tei, etc... Song stuck in my head: denki groove - mononoke dance If I had a time machine would I go to the past or the future: sometimes i think i would commit horrible acts to be able to go back in time and fix my childhood. i’d wanna fix other more important things but i’d be afraid to screw everything else up. it’s incredibly selfish but... Do I get asks: sometimes! i really love them like please send me asks! Following: hah idk i tend to grab ppl who post old pxel art/anime or who followed me and seem v cool. Rich or famous: neither? though with money i could help people and with fame i could point out places that need help... i guess rich tho i’d be giving most of it away. Amount of sleep: horrible. i have a major sleep issue. recently pills have helped a little tho. Lucky number: 42 (IM SUCH A DORK SRRY I RLY VIBE W HHGTTG), 2099. What am I wearing: just plaid pajama pants bc it’s so HOT. and black and neon yellow (ohh) silk (ahh) boxers (ooo) idk why i’m telling you this lol... Dream job: musician. artist. that whole not working thing is a good idea too? Dream trip: japan. or like? everywhere. i almost never get to travel but i love it... If you were an animal, what would you be: crow. annoying. smart n all but only uses it for dumb things that other ppl find pointless. Favorite food: pizza! fruit (even tho i’m allergic to many). actually my fav ever is just water. i genuinely adore water so much! What are some favorite books/films/shows/games:

Manga: air gear, monster musume, jojos, yuuna and the haunted hot springs, akira, love hina, bnha, goodnight punpun, ghost in the shell, cromartie high school, evangelion, knj, junji ito stuff, rumiko takahashi stuff, JUST A LOT MORE SORRY.

Books: the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, 1984, brave new world, discworld, i’m blanking srry...

Games: final fantasy vii, castlevania sotn, jet set radio future, earthbound, vb wario land, mario64/smw, zelda lttp/64, resident evil 3, mystical ninja, silent hill 2, sonic 3 and knuckles, snatcher, killer7, phoenix wright, hotline miami, undertale, shin megami tensei, etc etc etc etc etc.

Shows: peep show, arrested development, father ted, trailer park boys, curb your enthusiasm/seinfeld, the office (us/uk), star trek, twin peaks, more i’m forgetting. (anime): nichijou, evangelion, fist of the north star, jojos, flcl, kemonozume, azumanga dioh, tenchi muyo, etc etc etc.

Films: blade runner (and 2049), 3-iron, jurassic park, lethal weapon, my name is nobody, scott pilgrim, phoenix wright, toy story. (anime): ghost in the shell, akira, miyazaki stuff, a lot more i’m forgetting...

Play any instruments: piano/kb (not great but trying), guitar (worse), harmonica (who cares tho lol), drums (awful). just a lot of things but i never get good weh. Languages: sadly only english. i’ve tried japanese and german etc but i’m bad at learning em! Aesthetics: anime girl, pixel, techno, neo-futurism, old japanese computers, virtual boy, manga, vaporwavey, vhs, looks normal or even punky or “tough?” irl but goes home to a room covered in cutesy moe anime girl merch.

[diversegaminglists]

Torture Warnings

Discussion of many torture methods, mentions of rape, gang-rape, sexual assault and various other nasty things. I used as broad a definition of what constitutes torture as possible.

As with all lists suggestions and corrections encouraged.

Explicit on screen Torture:

The Age of Decadence - Uses crucifixion as a method of execution.

American McGee’s Alice - Multiple instances of on screen torture.

Assassin’s Creed Franchise - Interrogation usually involves punching people until they talk.

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood - Caterina Sforza is captured and beaten by the Borgia so badly that she cannot walk and must be carried to her rescue.

Batman Arkham Series - Dangling interrogation.

Battlefield 4 - Protagonist and partner are electroshocked.

Bayonetta - A key game mechanic, not avoidable.

Beyond Good and Evil - Double HH is rescued from an alien electrical torture machine.

Bioshock Infinite - Multiple scenes involving Elizabeth being tortured.

Bioshock Infinite: Burial at Sea - The protagonist is subjected to an attempted lobotomy as an interrogation technique.

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth - The protagonist is electroshock tortured by the FBI and an early level involves killing a person kept alive by electro torture.

Call of Duty: Black Ops - Electroshock torture, torturing people with glass shards, and Russian Roulette.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 - Torture of a captive and the protagonist has his legs shot off and the wounds stepped on.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare - A character is beaten and executed.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - A warlord is threatened with a toxin grenade and offered a gas mask if he talks.

Clock Tower 3 - In a cutscene a man and his elderly mother are pushed into an acid vat by one of the murderers you fight.

Cold War: On Your Own Behind the Iron Curtain - Protagonist can interrogate people by dangling them over a fatal drop, Batman style.

Curse of Monkey Island - The protagonist gets tarred and feathered (at least once) but as the tar in question isn’t actually hot this is more of embarrassment for comedy that torture, mentioned for completeness’ sale because I’m a pedant.

The Darkness - The protagonist is tortured and forced to watch someone die.

The Darkness 2 - Torture and crucifixion.

Dead Space 2 - Isaac must perform eye surgery on himself, not technically torture but probably still qualifies.

Dragon Age 2 - Hawke can have a miner tortured to death and killed.

Deadly Premonition - Multiple murder victims tortured to death.

Dishonoured - You can use torture against a man in a brothel (who is obviously expecting an S&M session) to extract information.

Dishonoured 2 - A lobotomy is used as a non-lethal alternative to assassination.

Dragon Age: Origins - Multiple scenes, most notable in Arl Howe’s dungeon and the Broodmother backstory section of the Deep Roads.

Dungeon Keeper Franchise - Torture is a game mechanic.

Fallout: New Vegas - Interrogation of a Legion prisoner by the protagonist, you can use speech skills rather than physically hurting him though.

Far Cry 3 - Multiple instances of torture.

Far Cry 4 - The villain tortures a character to death with electro shocks.

Final Fantasy VIII - Squall is electroshocked.

Final Fantasy XIII - Multiple instances of magical torture.

Freedom Planet - The bad-guy electroshocks one of the the protagonists to make another character talk.

Game of Thrones (Telltale) - Ramsey Bolton tortures and kills a character on screen.

God of War Franchise - Multiple torture QTEs performed on enemies as well as non-combatants.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The protagonist ties someone to the hood of his car and goes driving.

Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballard of Gay Tony - Batman style dangling interrogation.

Grand Theft Auto V - The protagonist Trevor tortures someone with the player’s choice of method.

Homefront: The Revolution - The protagonist and two partners are tortured, only the protagonist survives.

Kane and Lynch 2 - Opens with the protagonists being tortured. A female character is disembowelled and implied to have been raped.

killer7 - Russian Roulette

Kingdom Hearts 2 - Goofy is electroshock tortured during one of the Tron levels.

The Last of Us - Joel tortures two men to find Ellie.

Lego Pirates of the Caribbean - Shows characters in stocks/pillories (to replace the scenes of hanged corpses from the original movies).

Heavy Rain - Multiple scenes of sexualised violence, police brutality, and torture. Some is avoidable with the use of a walkthrough.

Mass Effect Franchise - Many Renegade interrupts count as torture.

Mass Effect 2 - Shephard encounters someone being tortured in the Prison ship and can intervene. During Thane’s loyalty mission you can torture someone for information.

Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker - The premise of the DLC is to rescue a character from constant torture.

Max Payne 3 - A man is killed by necklacing (having a tyre put on his neck and set alight).

Metal Gear Solid 1 and 2 - The protagonists are captured and tortured once per game, not skippable. Failing the torture scene (by submitting instead of resisting) in MGS 1 will kill off the character Meryl, resulting in a different ending.

Metal Gear Solis 3: Snake Eater - Multiple instances of torture towards NPCs and once towards the protagonist, but the torture scenes in this game are always skippable cutscenes.

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots - The B&B Corps are all victims of horrible torture.

Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops: Peace Walker - Big Boss is tortured.

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain - The protagonist tortures Huey Emmerich and builds his army via kidnapping and indoctrination.

Metro: Last Light - The protagonist is interrogated, threatened, and dosed with truth serum.

Mortal Kombat - Some of the infamous fatality moves can be considered torture.

Outlast - Some of the protagonist’s fingers are cut off. Unskippable.

Outlast: Whistleblower - The protagonist watches another character be tortured and castrated before being murdered. After which they are also tied up and almost castrated themselves by a spinning blade before being rescued.

PAYDAY: The Heist - A character must be interrogated by various methods to give up access codes.

Phantasmagoria - A character is force fed until she dies.

Psychonauts - On screen lobotomies, though they are cartoonish and involves sneezing out the brain, still pretty nightmarish.

The Punisher - A gameplay mechanic enables the character to torture any of the bad guys for information.

Ratchet and Clank Franchise - Multiple instances of electroshock torture.

Red Dead Redemption - The lasso can be used to drag people on the ground from a horse.

Red Steel 2 - The game opens with the main character being dragged from a motorbike.

Return to Castle Wolfenstein - A character is tortured to death.

Saints Row 2 - After one of their lieutenants is dragged to death the protagonist tortures a character as part of revenge. Johnny Gat buries someone alive as part of his own revenge.

Sam & Max: Freelance Police - Police brutality by Flint Paper.

Shadow Hearts - Alice is threatened by electroshock torture, can be avoided by the right dialogue options.

Shadow Hearts: Covenant - Electroshock torture.

Sid Mier’s Alpha Centauri - When you seize the final base of your last enemy you see their leader being electroshocked, also happens to your own character if you lose the game.

Silent Hill 4: The Room - Multiple deaths by torture.

Silent Hill: Homecoming - Multiple torture sequences/QTE.

The Sims Medieval - Stocks/a pillory are used as a punishment. The Interrogation chair also counts.

Sleeping Dogs - The protagonist is tortured after one of his friends is tortured to death.

The Sopranos - Torture is a game mechanic but has penalties.

Spec Ops: The Line - Multiple instances of torture.

Spiderman - Dangling interrogation.

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory - Multiple instances of torture.

Splinter Cell: Conviction - Protagonist interrogates people.

Splinter Cell: Blacklist - A character has their fingers and eventually their entire hand cut off during torture.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - The protagonist and two party members are captured and tortured. The protagonist can try to protect themselves or their love interest by giving up information but they will be tortured afterwards regardless. One character is left behind when the others escape and they are tortured until they break and fall to the dark side. Not skippable.

Star Wars: The Old Republic - Many imperial faction and Sith class quests feature torture in some way.

Stronghold Franchise - Criminals are punished with torture by the player.

Tales of Destiny - The party are forced to comply by electroshock collars during a portion of the game.

Thief: The Dark Project & Thief Gold - The protagonist has his eye ripped out in a cutscene.

TimeSplitters: Future Perfect - The player can kill restrained mutants with a robotic torture device. Avoidable.

Welcome to the Game - The purpose of the game is to find a video of someone being tortured to death on the “deep web”.

Wet - The protagonist is electroshocked.

The White Chamber - The protagonist is electroshocked.

Wolfenstein: Old Blood - The protagonist is captured and tortured with electric shocks and railroad spikes.

Wolfenstein: The New Order - A Nazi Officer is threatened with and then killed with a chainsaw.

World of Warcraft - Death Knight quests involve torturing people to death.

Xenosaga Episode 1: Der Wille zur Macht - An android who looks like a 12 year-old girl is “mind raped” in front of the rest of the party.

Xenosaga Episode 3: Also Sprach Zarathustra - Shion is tortured.

Not explicitly on screen/Text or sound only/Implied Torture:

Ace Attorney Franchise - Franziska whips a lot of people as a punishment, played for comedy as she is a teenage girl.

American McGee’s Alice - Many children NPCs who have clearly been lobotomised or otherwise experimented on.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent - Audio logs of torture.

Baldur’s Gate 2: Shadows of Amn - The game opens with the protagonist and their party being captured and tortured, which not everyone survives. There are also several torture chambers in dungeons and hidden in a serial killer’s home. Played for comedy in the Thieves’ Guild.

Bioshock 1 - Torture audio log.

Bioshock Infinite - If Slate survives he will be later found lobotomised and can be mercy killed.

Blackguards - The protagonist is tortured near the beginning of the game while nothing explicit is shown on screen, you can hear the voice actor crying out in pain.

Borderlands 2 - Multiple audio logs of torture and happens to Mordecai’s pet Bloodwing off screen.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Off screen torture, you only see the aftermath.

Clive Barker’s Undying - A torture chamber hidden next to someone’s bedroom.

The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena - Implied torture used as punishment called “going to visit the Dentist”.

The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion - Features a secret torture chamber where a character tortures Argonians to death.

The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim - Many torture chambers in dungeons and prisons.

Higurashi: When They Cry - Fingernail ripping punishment.

Homeworld - An enemy is captured after a genocide and does not survive interrogation.

Liberal Crime Squad - A game mechanic in this freeware text game.

Life is Strange - Implied fate of a murder victim.

Mass Effect 1 - A colonist Shepard may encounter Talitha who has been tortured as well as enslaved since she was a child.

Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes - Audio Tapes of torture scenes including gang rape.

Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge - one puzzle involves you and a companion being dangled over acid, take too long to escape and the game fades to black before giving you another chance.

NeverWinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer - A hidden torture chamber in the Red Wizard Academy.

Psychonauts -  The existence of the old geodesic psycho-isolation chambers imping solitary confinement for “troubled” psychic kids.

Red Faction: Guerrilla - A character is tortured for information and revenge while the protagonist drives, so can be heard as audio only.

Resident Evil 2 - A hidden torture chamber used by the Police Chief.

Sid Mier’s Alpha Centauri - Constructions like the Punishment Sphere and actions like Nerve Stapling in the game.

Spycraft: the Great Game - Torture can be used on a female spy in this text adventure.

Thief Gold - A torture chamber can be found with written logs about it use.

Thief 2: The Metal Age - A homeless person is reduced to rust by the villain’s invention during a meeting you overhear through a door. A torture chamber can also be found hidden in a mansion.

Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines: A serial killer tortures people to death, but you only deal with aftermath, rescuing one of his victims after killing him. The blood bank also gets its blood from kidnapped victims.

The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt - Triss is tortured by having her fingernails ripped out in the room next to Geralt, you don’t see it happening but you hear her screaming and see her bloody hands afterwards.

X-COM UFO Defence and XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Torture of the alien enemies takes place off screen.

Yandere Simulator - The protagonist can torture people in her basement but nothing is actually show in detail.

Torture as Backstory:

American McGee’s Alice - In the manual Alice attacks two orderlies after they force feed her.

Bioshock Franchise - The Big Daddies and Little Sisters backstory.

Dragon Age 2 - Fenris’ backstory.

Dragon Age: Inquisition - Dorian’s father attempts what amounts to “gay conversion therapy” via blood magic.

F.E.A.R Franchise - Alma’s backstory.

Mass Effect 2 - Subject Zero/Jack’s back story.

Overwatch - Widowmaker’s backstory involves torture as part of her indoctrination, but does not appear in game.

Skullgirls - Painwheel and Peacock’s backstories involve torture.

Star Wars: Knights of Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords - Atton Rand’s backstory.

Yandere Simulator - The protagonist was conceived via Stockholm Syndrome after her mother kidnapped her father.

Unsorted - Needs More Research:

The Cat Lady

Crusader Kings Franchise

Dangan Ronpa

Emperor: Battle for Dune

Fate/Stay Night

Grand Theft Auto III

Hatoful Boyfriend

Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors

Shenmue Franchise

Tyranny

Virtue’s Last Reward

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SUDA STRIKES AGAIN! An Interview with Suda51

PAX West was a few weeks back, so I apologize for how long it's taken to get this interview up. Aside from playing a bunch of awesome games and seeing old friends, I had the chance to interview one of my favorite people in games, Grasshopper Manufacture's Suda51, and... things went off the rails pretty quickly.

  Let's start with the most obvious new thing: Travis Touchdown is back! What made you want to come back and revisit this crazy man's adventures?

    It's not the most interesting answer, but it's just that the timing naturally happened to match up. I'd been working on Let it Die, and that had been a major focus, but once that had started to cool down I started thinking about what we were going to do next. So the Switch--well, it wasn't even called the Switch then, it was still the NX--and it caught my eye and decided that this was the direction we were going to go.

  Your games always have a very distinctive, individual sense of action. Lollipop Chainsaw was grindhouse and brutal, but silly, and Killer is Dead had very cool, sleek action. What kind of attitude will we see in the action of Travis Strikes Again?

    Anyone who's familiar with No More Heroes can tell you that Travis is a gamer, he's always been a gamer. We want to expand on that with the way Travis fights--yes, he's an assassin, but we want to put the gamer side of him at the forefront this time around. This isn't something he's going to do in the background as he's doing other stuff, this is going to inform how Travis fights and how the player helps Travis grow stronger. There will be several games within Travis Strikes Back so it's less a "No More Heroes" game and more a "Travis Touchdown" game.

  Okay, so my next question is less about Travis Strikes Again, but more about all the different titles you've worked on over the years. Your boss fights are always memorable and clever--out of all the ones you've made, what are the ones that are nearest and dearest to your heart?

[He takes time to think, and decides on three of his favorites.] Okay! First off, in Killer7, there's the boss fight with Kurahashi and Akiba, the two old men who take you on at the same time, and you have to fight them... and their brains. The other... definitely has to be Holly Summers in the original No More Heroes. [I spend a little time gushing about how Holly Summers is my favorite fight in NMH too.]

    This is the third game we've spent with Travis--fourth if you count Heroes' Paradise (an updated port of the first game). Of the games you've made--the SudaVerse, I guess--which ones would you like to return to?

  So Juliet (from Lollipop Chainsaw) is actually owned by Kadokawa, but if I had the time or opportunity I'd love to work more with her and her world. Even now, people are doing cosplay of her, there are even game shows in Europe with cosplay of her! She's such a beloved character by fans, so I'd love to do another Lollipop Chainsaw.

    We're seeing a lot of famous actors and creators working in games--you see Hideo Kojima working with Kiefer Sutherland, Mads Mikkelsen, Norman Reedus--if you could work with anyone, who would you work with for a game?

  [He grapples with this question a bit.] I feel that Kojima-san is much more of a video game celebrity than I am, so he gets the chance to work with these famous people. I feel like I'm an indie developer, so I'm probably not in the position to be working with such famous creators, buuuuuut if I had the chance, my top three are:

    Kyle MacLachlan,

    Harry Dean Stanton (RIP),

    and David Lynch. [We start talking about the new Twin Peaks here, and he was a bit behind--partially due to travel and the fact that episodes aired later in Japan. I didn't spoil anything for Suda, don't worry.]

  You tend to work with original properties and create your own worlds. If you were to make a dream project game based on an anime or manga, what's your first pick?

    Oh that's easy--Gundam: Hathaway's Flash! It only exists as a novel, but I would love to make a game based on it. Also, Tekkaman, Voltes V, and... Fujiko Fujio's Perman. And, let's see... y'know what would be cool, Esper Mami! There's a manga called Ai ga Yuku, it's not very well-known in the US, but that could be very cool as a game, it's an awesome manga. And finally, Violence Jack! That would be so cool! [We go off the rails again talking about Go Nagai and how he's the f**king man and how we're both excited for Devilman Crybaby.]

  LIGHTNING ROUND! These are a bunch of quick questions I'd like you to answer off the top of your head. First off, what game(s) are you playing right now?

    I've been playing Breath of the Wild--just last week, I managed to get all 900 Korok seeds.

  What's a game you love that you can't seem to get anyone else into?

    It's very hard to get Japanese players to try out Hotline Miami!

  What's your all-time favorite manga?

    Violence Jack, easy. My number two is probably... Susano Oh, also by Go Nagai.

  What's the coolest thing you've seen so far at PAX West?

    Ape Out, at the Devolver booth!

  What's your favorite restaurant here in Seattle?

  There's a Japanese restaurant on Capitol Hill, it's called Suika! [After this, Suda's translator tells me that he had a lot of fun with this interview, especially the last part. Now, he has some questions for me, which I'll share here!]

  Suika has a wall of Famicom cartridges

  What's your favorite restaurant here in Seattle, Nate-san?

    An Irish restaurant and bar by Pike Place Market, it's called Kells!

  You're really familiar with old anime and manga--what are your favorites?

    Probably Dragonball--my all-time favorite is Rurouni Kenshin and that's technically pretty old now. But for anything from the early '80s, definitely GoLion, Dragonball, Saint Seiya, and Fist of the North Star.

  We ended up talking a little longer about Twin Peaks and Violence Jack, and how we're both hyped for Devilman Crybaby (again), and how it was so awesome in Amon: Apocalypse of Devilman when Amon saved that little demon girl and then devoured her like a burrito. What about you? Would you be down for a Suda51 Violence Jack game? Are you looking forward to Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes? Sound off in the comments and let us know!

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