Snatcher & Policenauts & Kojima's Writing Style | A12B02 

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Cant wait until you discover Ghost in the Shell. Whoo boy

Fun fact! In the japanese version of the game Katrina is like 14, she was turned 18 in the localization.

Dude, did you really just call blade runner ost wispy 80s synth garbage? I mean... to each his own, but... DAMN, dude,

Its nice to have someone that has a deeper understanding of person x that is mainly viewed positively in the general sense of the word from the semi public... still like kojima though...

Listening to blade runner blues in the rain is something else

You are a master in Konami lore and Kojima's brain circuit. You should make Silent Hills.

One of your best video easily, damn it made me want to see you do the same for Nomura, it'd be the craziest shit man

Thor,I'm glad to see that in this age of quarantines and quarantinis,that your creativity hasn't slowed at all.Brilliant work as always. ☺👍

"Explain everything cuz i thought of everything".... Right on the money and possibly Kojima's most irritating habit. Definitely a deal breaker for me.

Policenauts and Snatcher are two of my fav VNs. Both really delve deep into very cynical tones (Snatcher - trust nobody, Policenauts - future ain't gonna be bright cuz we will bring our problems to the final frontier) and end on a very optimistic note (Snatcher - we gotta fight for our trust, Policenauts - we gotta fight for our future).

You like Snake's behind a lot, don't you.

This vid made my day, thanks bro Also I really love how increasingly dense and baroque (imo, and in the best way) your editing and visuals are getting.

throughout my middle school years all i had was a ps3 and mgs 2, 3, 4 and peacewalker. each i played more than 3 times at least. suffice to say kojima has burned a hole through my brain and halted my mental development during those years. there is no purpose in bringing that up, but i just want to say that i appreciate how thor gives a broader perspective on many of the quirks of the games he talks about that most people would just write off.

eyy new video! I love how anytime you mention Kojima you put that Raiden Mirror clip from MGS2, it's tradition by now

Already putting them Deadly Premonition sound effects to work, eh? Also, I still can't believe Kojima coined the term VR CP in 1994. What a fucking visionary...

I've been binge watching everything on your channel and I can honestly say I've loved every second. Thank you sir!!!

The Akira manga started the same year as Blade Runner came out. Paralel evolution!

All pervy staff in his games are hilarous to me

i live for you edit style

Thank you for this. As a total _Kojima virgin_ (which is the most unpleasant thing I've probably ever typed) who was suddenly exposed to Death Stranding last year, the experience of that game's story was comparable progressing through the five stages of grief over the span of 50 hours. At first I couldn't believe what I was hearing, then once I realized that this was the actual game's writing and not a joke I got rather angry and decided Kojima was a stupid little bitch. From there I attempted to rationalize by finding people on the internet who agreed that Kojima was a little bitch, but instead I just found a bunch of dudes going "Hah, classic Kojimbo. I can't believe we'd thought he'd gone to shit!", which just made me feel like a crazy person and I became sad. Ever since that point I have basically been on a quest to somehow reconcile _my_ experience of Kojimmy with that of his fans, and this video was a major breakthrough in translating the overall smell of hot garbage into a bouquet of constituent stank-elements that could be processed and grappled with on a rational level. This probably wasn't the intended purpose of the video, but thanks anyway for accidentally throwing a bone to my weirdly specific demographic.

i really love your style and videos - way to go my friend !

your narration and videos is so chill to listen to while i unwind

hey congrats on over 50k subs. Hope that super eye patch wolf shout out brought some new eyeballs to your channel! keep up the good work!

Out of all the talking heads on youtube. I think you have the best series covering Kojima. And the "big dick energy" is probably the funniest and real shit I heard describing him. I used to think slapping Kojima's name on the box was gimmick but now, after playing MGS5 and watching konami do itself in. I realized, I was never a metal gear solid fan. I was a kojima fan.

One thing Kojima is a bit wrong about is the ease of getting nukes, uranium and capable scientists.

My dude with another banger ^_^ Always love hearing your insights.

Love your videos Thor. Keep at it buddy

22:22 Snow-9 seems directly inspired by Ice-9 from Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle.

Snow-9 is a reference to "ICE-9" in Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. Basically the same thing, a weapon that can freeze all water in the world.

Great video as always. Thanks for the escape during all this pandemic stuff. Disaster Report 4 is coming to switch in a couple weeks. I plan on playing it up based on your recommendation of the series. Stay safe and keep well Thor.

I'm forcing all my buddy's to watch your stuff and it's going pretty good lil boi

Man... Gotta double check my fan translations before playing them.

Kojima's nickname being "Ojama" is weirdly fitting for a yugioh archetype. In Yu-gi-oh, the Ojama archetype are all extremely weak monsters that barely do anything on their own, but they have access to some of the strongest support cards in the entire game. They also have been associated with supporting 2 other groups: 1 is a group of dragons that level up over time, and the other is a group of Machine monsters that come together to become even bigger machine monsters. I guess we can call XYZ-Dragon Cannon XYZ-Metal Gear.

Legendary tier editing

I played Policenauts recently for the first time, and although I knew I didn't have to grope everything that moved in order to progress, and was going to turn Jonathan's pervert life around for the better and concentrate on investigating the case at hand, I kept doing it. And every time I was ashamed of myself.

Don’t like Blade Runner? “Wake up! Time to die!”

The whole biovestites/sexism thing reminds me of something in "About writing" by Stephen King. King writes about how he got accused of being racist when a character in one of his books was a racist, and thus some chapters were written from the POV of this racist person. King insists that it's important to stay true to the character you're writing, and if that happens to be a racist, well, so be it, but it doesn't have to mean that the author agrees with what his character may be thinking. That being said, indeed I wouldn't get angry at Stephen King if one of his characters said or thought something racist or sexist. However with Kojima, I feel like so many things that his main characters say are just extensions of what he himself thinks. He's so self-referential and has so many self insertions and the fourth wall is so nonexistent in his games that he, in my opinion, can't get away with having a character saying something controversial. So I understand why people would be angry at Kojima for some of the things that his characters say.

I just noticed yr lyric reference to "She is Beyond Good and Evil". The Pop Group is literally why I became a musician. Specifically that song, Rob a Bank, and Thief of Fire. You, sir, are a man of cuLtUrE...

Aaah I'm so glad I'm subscribed to you, D-Boy.

Good vid! I'd love to hear you talk more about the people around Kojima, and the localisation. I wonder about the impact Blaustein had on MGS, and the new localiser for MGS2/3(?). But if you feel you've done enough Kojima for a while that's cool.

This is a really good video.

I read that PS1 Policenauts translation as him stating disappointment over peoples feelings over the bioengineered strip joint, with the description of it being infamous and ending with the line with unfortunately. He never seemed the kind of guy to discriminate anyway, he'd grab any ass no matter what it originally was.

The Death Stranding vid from the morning lead me down the playlist. I didn't expect to learn this much about MGS or Kojima.

Kojima is a westaboo

This a great essay

I really like your videos.

Watching BR is a better late than never situation, glad you have seen it finally Now Blade runner 2045 (cuz that it's great too uwu)

i have wanted you to cover snatcher for so long

28:53 I know I'm late to the party, but a more accurate translation than the official one is more along the lines of: "It's a show pub for women who have undergone complete sex reassignment surgery. I went there on business once. Bio-hermaphrodites, genetically engineered for a complete sex change. A specialty of the city." It's worth noting that the term "hermaphrodite" doesn't have the same negative connotation as it does in the US, as it's been interchangeably used for both transgender people and people with genetic transsexual traits as a generic catch-all term.

Needed this

Props on amazing use of that black star track

Damn, just as I started playing Snatcher, this video comes out

Given that everyone in the world right now has free time to burn, I can highly recommend you spend three hours with Blade Runner 2049. It's like the first film . . . but has a plot!

You're great, dude

Yo thor of the high heels man, what are the songs for the intro and at 15:39? Shits mucho fuego caliente. Great taste in music my dude

Thorhighheels kept me waiting for this video... Heh

It's incredible that you managed to predict Death Stranding 2 being about boats and the ocean here

Love your videos! Also that's sting from dune lol

NO FUCKING WAY YOU WERE THE ONE FROM WOOLIES DEATH LP???? I LOVE YOU EVEN MORE

“What about it, fuckboy?” Lmaoooo perfection

I'm a bigger fan of ThorHighHeels than i am of blade runner.

8:26 finally some sweet thor asmr

Snow-9 seems like a reference to Ice-9 from Cat’s Cradle. Nice to see Kojima is a Vonnegut fan, though it’s not surprising.

Those core tenets are spot on

I had to stop the video at 4:47 and walk away for like 2 to 3 hours. My boy thorhughheels is he really saying these things, am I hearing this heresy. So I made some coffee and thought about some more and now in the bath I revisitthe video and realise he's teasing me and I can continue to binge watch so I've been playing while washing my gooch. Much love fuck boys

ვა, რა მაგარი არხია.. შეჩემა... Which means, Wow... this channel is amazing!

This is the good stuff

Disaster Report 4 just dropped today. Seeing it made me think of this youtube channel 😁

You're slowly becoming my favourite content creator on this website. The tone, the editing, the topics, everything you do hits the right notes of my heart. Keep up the good work man, I love you.

Yo thor u ever play earthbounf/mother series?

Ok man you made it im gonna play the satur version of Policenauts, and to be honest i was surprise how important the book and the movie blade runner was for so many multimedia stuff, you can clearly see it everywhere, and if havent watched it, you miss a lot stuff

13:02 "Abundant natural resources"? Totally not a sexual reference, I'm sure. LOL

I didn't know that there was a 3D Blade Runner game in the late 90's. 24:47- Kojima wasn't intending to answer the questions in MGS2. He was to leave it up to the Players' imaginations. 26:29- Final Fantasy IX in PS1 Resolution?

Wish you good health man

Love this game man

Great taste.

You had me at Black Star lmao

22:12 Snow 9, ¿¿huh?? ¿Isn't that an indirect reference to Kurt Vonnegut's Water 6, also referenced in 999?

An eye-opening rundown. Blade Runner truly was... an inspirational videos game

Brother when the Respiration beat kicked in.....whew

One thing you might want to dig a bit into is kojima fleecing ideas, themes, and concepts from Kazuo Koike's Crying Freeman, and Goku The Midnight Eye.

Hey I'm new around here, are you ever going to go back to Final Fantasy Type 0?

Good vid. 👍

Just wanted to say it was really nice to see someone who appreciates Kojimas work who also is willing to criticize the sexism and frankly kinda rapey themes sometimes. Also as a trans woman i really can't stress enough how much it meant to me that you actually addressed the "bio-vestites" part. It meant a lot to me as an audience member that you were willing to address that scene for both its nuances and very valid criticisms. Keep up the amazing work!!!

Yesssssss goooooooooooooood

Hey Thor, can I recommend a weird ps2 game for you to check out and possibly review? It's called Evergrace, and I think it's one of the first games the staff that became Fromsoft worked on? There's also Chaos Legion which from what I've heard sounds like your favourite kind of ps2 jank.

Okay I grew up listening to Mexican music and I know that song that starts at 0:40 but I don't know what it's called anyone know it?

So concerning the whole controversy with tattoos, the age of women, and even the whole "asexual" article from Death Stranding, or critique of sexuality in general, is that in many parts of asia (especially Japan) the culture is much more conservative and "old school" in certain aspects. Even Europeans consider the USA to be lacking in "progressive liberal" beliefs compared to them, which is not a false statement. In Japan and many parts of Asia even today, tattoos are considered taboo and you are restricted from certain public activities just for having one. For example public bath houses and hot-springs will not allow people with tattoos, because people wouldn't really get one unless they were in a gang or involved with shady or unclean business of some kind. Japan is also struggling with relationships in general, both romantic and friendships, as people commonly are living lives without developing intimate connections with other people and only have time for work. Their birth rates are actually declining. Instead of just pointing fingers at a man its important to take into consideration the culture of their environment and what the norms and struggles are where they are located. I'm sure once you've traveled to the other side of the world you really will see it's a whole different world you're living in. Also how quickly people forget that the Quinceanera (15th) is a birthday specifically to celebrate a girl becoming a WOMAN, so I'm kinda calling out the hypocrisy in that since the western world still celebrates it today. Each prefecture in Japan has it's own age of consent as well, its not a unanimous thing across the whole country.

Wondering about this channel and then saw this was uploaded 3 minutes ago. I now officially have psychic powers. Also, probably should have rung that bell, maybe I would have been notified immediately, I actually have no idea what that shit does.

The fuckboy is the guy who says Blade Runner. The CHAD is the guy who says Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

just got a eboot for my good and old psp of policenauts ahah it was very funny to see you talking about it again, i draw so im very interested in the visual side of the game, i didnt know that the game had such a big focus on the sex appel stuff haha i dont bother, i mean, nobody has to play it or even like it, so naturally its not for everyone, but im totally trying it out

People often use Stanley Kubrick as the film anaolgy of Kojima but I'd say he's more David Cronenberg as in he's brillant and can put out works of genius so long as he's protected from his own ambition. As long as someone like a Jeremy Blaustein or Tomokazu Fukushima is their to reel him in like *woooooah there buddy...let's uhhh let's slow down just a smidge* and keep him on a bit of a creative leash and filter some of the insanity of his ideas into eccentricity. Otherwise his id takes over and he goes FULL Cronenberg...and you never go full Cronenberg(2022 Crimes of the Future).

Last time I was this early, not even the teachers had arrived.

that snow 9 seems like a reference to vonneguts ice-9 innit

27:00 That line is totally in tune with who Jonathan is, its not a statement about the future society but his oldschool interpretation of the futures society he is living in. Over the course of the game Jonathan shows multiple times how out of touch he is with the world around him. Seems pretty fitting from a writing standpoint. I also think Policenauts is so old by now that it kinda turns into hauntology, a vision of the future that never came to be, a lost future. I play through this game at least once a year on an old crt setup with an old ps1 controller in hand. I gotta say it feels super meta, playing a game of the past that depicts a vision of the future, run on a technology of yesterday in the year 20XX *mind blown* When we 90s kids put in the Policenauts disc into our Sega Saturn or Playstation 1 from back in the days we are just like Jonathan, relying on old technology and knowledge of the past trying to understand the present, in a way we become Jonathan and so many themes in this game are still relevant todays society and humanities future.

"Well what about it fuckboy?" New favorite comeback.

15:30 oh my God one of my favorite for fun Yu-Gi-Oh decks is a kojima reference wtf.

"Liquid Sky" reference cool

so wait. are you working on the next installment?