Snatcher

[Kim]

Just beat Snatcher, pretty much all of it in one sitting. Short, but excellent game.

It's a Kojima adventure game, most of it point-and-click, but with some action-ish parts where you shoot enemies. It actually cuts out most of the bullshit in point and clicks by having very little in terms of puzzle, most of it just being examine the same things several times. Kind of irksome, but it works.

The best part about the game is the story. It's very obviously a Kojima story, but with a lot of influence from sci-fi flicks. It's basically a Kojima take on a Body Snatchers alien invasion movie. There are some low points in the game, most of them revolving around Mika and Katrina, but on the whole it's still really good. The game breaks the fourth wall without it ever being groanworthy. I really love the character interaction in this. Every time Gillian is talking to his wife over the video phone it just... works, and this is taking into account the fairly mediocre voice acting. (Though this voice acting was probably excellent for its time)

Also, the music and graphics (taking into account its age) are just... amazing. I was incredibly impressed with it all.

It has some flaws, but it's still one of Kojima's better games. It's really worth playing even though getting it to work on a Sega CD emulator is kind of a bitch.

Anyone who hasn't played it should. Anyone who has played it should post in here so we can be nerds.