Posted on: July 9, 2022
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There's nothing fun about this!
And it's (mostly) by design. There isn't much to say about the mechanics - it's almost a rail shooter, and all the developers did was tighten up the gunplay, make shots feel impactful, and get rid of truly tedious levels (e.g. Havana) from the first game. The downside is that it made the experience very short, but I think of it less as a videogame, and more as an interactive movie. A movie that is designed to fill you with bleak nauseating unpleasantness that starts badly and only gets worse, a conga line of pain and humiliation that captures the ugliness of violence in a compact 4 hour package. With this game IO really leaned into what it does best, which is sense of style and atmosphere. If the first game tried to pay homage to movies like Michael Mann's Heat (but mostly failed because of a drawn out and incoherent story and pitiful gunplay), this is a lot more like Mann's Collateral or Cloverfield, with its blurry, shaky, gritty VHS-handycam-style presentation, experimental-industrial dark ambience soundtrack, and raw (but pixelated) gore and violence, all of which create a rather dark and oppressive atmosphere. The title of this review is a quote about one (disparaging) review, and I think the reviewer was absolutely on point when they wrote that. The thing they were wrong about is whether or not this makes Dog Days bad. It is, essentially, a nihilistic journey of pain, a videogame equivalent of misery p0rn, filled with blood, pixelated gore and mutilation, torture, murder, and suffering, all captured through obtrusive neon lights of digital Shanghai by a shaking handheld camera, as if it's a third character following the two protagonists around. In many ways it is most similar to Last of Us Part II in terms of its sickening hideousness, but without any hopeful or redeeming elements. Just bleak, grotesque, bloody ugliness. Not a good GAME per se, but it can be appreciated as a intriguing EXPERIENCE, though it's definitely NOT for everyone.
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