Sunday, October 10, 2021

POETIC VIDEO GAME REVIEWS #18: SHADOWRUN SNES (1993)


closest we got

to a proper point-and-click adventure/mystery 

on Super Nintendo 

in the North American market 


amnesia

conspiracy

shamanic magic

spirit dogs 

cyborg technology 

project your consciousness out of your body

and into computer networks 

Dr. Strange by way of Neuromancer 

of course it's all orchestrated by a greedy red dragon

tabletop kitbash of Tolkien, Gygax, and Gibson

orcs with mini-guns

vampire lord gentrifiers 

yuppiefied combat mages

you got to talk with every damn NPC

to hunt down all the relevant keywords 


think on that

you start out as a trenchcoated gunman

but if you wish to prevail

against the bloody dragon of capitalism 

and get the sexy kitsune fox woman to pay you any mind

ye must use your words

my dog

use

your

words

-January-October 2021