The Gamer's Quarter

seryogin · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:43 am Post subject: SNATCHER!

Does anyone have any fond memories of Kojima's early work?

The MGS series' importance as literature can be debated, though I don't think that anyone can really deny the skill of Snatcher's story.

Suda51 may work on a Snatcher sequel for the Wii with Kojima.
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sediment · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:30 am Post subject:

Snatcher's very high on my list of priorities as far as "games to play" goes.

How likely is this potential sequel? Suda and Kojima are both pretty strange guys, I imagine we might end up with something bizarre like a hard-light hologram encased in real living tissue or something as a new model snatcher.
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seryogin · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:36 am Post subject:

I think it's unlikely. Suda51 wrote a radio drama that follows Snatcher and he wants to revive the world of the game. Both are pretty busy guys, so this probably won't happen.
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Snatcher is great except for the lightgun sequences. The last one is just ridiculous.

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I would actually be very willing to replay this game, but my Sega CD is locked up in storage.

Snatcher was the game that made me realise that I don't actually like the MGS games for their settings and characters, as much as for what Kojima does with them. The game has an excellent story arc with enough elements thrown into it to keep the pace and setting interserting. Too serious for too long? throw in some humor. Too many humans, throw in a robot. Too happy, prepare to embrace Armageddon.

Some of the "adventure game" parts of it are irritating, but easy to get over, and honestly no where near as bad as some games that have been put out recently. Overall Snatcher is probably one of the best games made, and defiantly at the top of Kojima's stack of work.

fish · . Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Posts: 113 Location: montreal

i once almost won snatcher for cheap on ebay.
then it stopped being cheap.

i was really excited about playing it.
someday.... someday.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

FYI: Home of the Underdogs has Snatcher.
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Really? That's weird. I don't know, I remember it being spastic at times, but it wasn't all that hard.
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-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Man, that thing murderized me. I must have tried it three dozen times over several sittings. Just couldn't do it. I even know where they were going to be coming from.

parkbench · . Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 145

How perfected is SegaCD emu then? Because I'll definitely give this a go.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Oh, you can play Sega CD games without a hitch. The only issue I've found, and maybe that's just me being dumb, is that it doesn't automatically repeat a music track for a level and sometimes the sound effects phase out.
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