The Silver Case Reviews

Lend me 50,000 yen.

Loved it but it's far from Suda's best

hands down, the best story in gaming history i love how it keeps a fine line between everything essential: humor, plot and engaging characters that are easy to love and have intense feelings towards. its political message as well as questions about identity and belonging are timeless. this game holds so well despite its age because of its narrative, impeccable style and fun writing. its probably my favorite game and i envy everyone who still haven't played it

finally went and completed this. yeah it's alright. honestly the reporter sections are a pain in the ass. I accidentally didnt do them alongside the main campaign with big dick and that was probably worse. was slightly confused about some things, but made it up through context, and honestly maybe it worked out better this way? the reporter section has you just constantly checking the computer in 1 room mostly and sometimes you talk to your turtle. not super great, but some of the extra context is nice, I just dont care for tokio. the other section with big dick though does the thing some other suda games do where unrelated stuff pops up for no reason, which is where I bounced off the game the first time years ago, the case with the kid and his dead friend, just did not care. the case after is also unrelated to the whole kamui umehara thing too, but at least there's explosions I guess. overall plot kinda falls apart in the details, but as a general vibe it works I guess. anyway decided to check out flower sun and rain after this, on my nintendo ds, and it kinda sucks (not cause of the ds, that's great, they should have put more on that system), but it's a weird number puzzle game and nothing like this one, tokio's in it though eventually according to the opening credits, not sure how much the context form this matters. I mostly played silver case cause of no more heroes 3 and travis strikes again having kamui make cameos. yeah honestly doesnt make any more sense why he's there lol, also knowing the end of this game, he's also not even in this game technically :) the guy in no more heroes is different and bruh, I dont want to play 25th ward to find out, not worth it lol. I already had this game and flower sun and rain is gonna burn me out from how much it wants to waste my time lol.

Quite an intelligent game. Suda began to cook here. Every story beat and the themes of the game were engaging and all the character interactions felt authentically put together. Tokio and Tetsu are my favourite characters. The bartender calling Red "rather nasty" definitely hurt my feelings too. Unfortunately it was very difficult to follow sometimes with the presentation changes happening between Transmitter and Placebo, also with some chapters within Transmitter. I got confused on who's who with all that going on. I'm sure 5 hours of video essays on the game will bandage that problem together. Should have completed the game sooner. I would pay ¥50,000 in today's money for Flower, Sun and Rain on PC. I am going to turn into a truck now.

On the level of "FLower, sun, and rain" and "killer7"; no, not really same level, but in the same order of artistic quality. Entirely recommended if you look to videogame as a cultural and art medium; and you should play this before "Flower, sun, and rain", and both before "killer7", while you should, definitely, play all 3 of them.

This was a quite captivating experience! I like the retro vibes and unique UI/design of the game. The music is awesome too and I enjoyed the variety of visuals! The plot is very interesting, though I found it rather confusing for the most part and only understood the gist of it towards the end (plus a bunch of the details I had to look up later lol). Despite that I got really invested in the lore and love the creative story regardless. Additionally I enjoyed the funny dialogues and characters. Overall I really loved the heavy, surreal and mysterious atmosphere, the constant uncertainty and vagueness actually made it more uncanny and impactful. Moreover I highly enjoyed all of the concepts and ideas, especially when the story explored diverse topics of psychology, philosophy, politics, etc! I suppose the gameplay is somewhat rough as a whole; it's not difficult and certainly has entertaining elements but often it got simply annoying to repeatedly move around when it could've just immediately skipped to the next cutscene. Also a vast amount of animations (such as the computer in the appartment or introductions of the locations) are simply too long, it was eventually aggravating to be forced to see the same unskippable animations several times within a few minutes and made the gameplay feel incredibly slow at times. Besides that forced slow pace I don't really have any complaints however and found most of the game very enjoyable!