Unlike Killer 7, Hitman 2 is the actual seventh installment in its series

Suitcase physics - 10/10

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If killer 7 is so good, why isn't there a killer 14?

“A game I love but not a game I would recommend” is the type of honesty we need in games journalism

I'm with yhatzee in this one, that guy who headbutts bullets sounds like an awesome dude to bring to a party.

A Hitman with no personality vs a hitman with 7

Rocket Launcher Bondage Nuns is an incredible punk band name.

The laugh from the Heavenly smile and killer7 still haunts me to this day

Thankfully, killer7 had a subtitles option. So you could understand what that boss in the burning room was saying. …and it was nothing all that important.

Been playing Killer7 lately and I've been enjoying it so far. While it's classified as an on-rail shooter, Suda51 manages to make the gameplay an experience you wouldn't find anywhere else

Hitman 2 + Killer 7 = Killman 9

"Crisper than the Autumn leaves in Paradise California" Damn, that took me a double take, and I got evacuated in that fire.

Killer 7 and Hitman 2. Is it 2005 again?

Don't know who the hell would be watching this in 2021, but here we are. That said, not only did budget cuts make Killer7 the beautiful mess it is (see 3:50). Capcom elected Killer7 to be Grasshopper's first international release, right in the middle of development, to satisfy the the Capcom Five agreement with Nintendo (those five comprising P.N.03, Viewtiful Joe, Dead Phoenix, Resi 4, and, of course, Killer7). Killer7, until then, was chock full of references to other Grasshopper releases that were not yet available outside of Japan. So, per a localization directive from Capcom, broad swaths of Killer7's story, swaths that might've made the narrative more cohesive and linear, were cut out wholesale right before release--ironically, so as not to confuse a western audience.

So he's finally done killer 7. Now only Fantasy World Dizzy to do

crisper than the autumn leaves in paradise california....good burn.

"A culture that's been nuked more than the recommended healthy number of times" Thank you, Yahtzee. That indeed explains a lot.

I think the thing that surprised me the most about this review is that Yhatzee has watched Evangelion and EoE at least once.

I feel a new kinship with Yahtzee knowing his favorite Killer 7 assassin is Mask De Smith.

This was IOIs first game after leaving Squeenix... they had budget constraints and thus slide show cutscenes

"You're an assassin, who's actually seven assassins, who's actually one assassin different than the first assassin I mentioned..." Good lord, that sentence made me have a minor aneurysm.

To be fair with Hitman 2 IOI didn't just had the budget of all sequels removed by Square Enix, but they also had to buy themselves and still finance the completion of the game. You can tell they had to cut corners.

Don't make me say it again; I'm the cleaner.

I really want a Babylon 5 Birthday party now.

Hitman 2 (the new sequel to the new hitman which is new one)

I get the feeling that the Hitman series is repeating itself..... while playing the second Hitman 2......

I don't count IO Interactive as a AAA developer. I mean, at the moment they only have Hitman. And they've gone from SquareEnix as a publisher to WarnerBrothers as a publisher. IO, I would argue, is borderline Indie with enough pull to have large publishers behind them. Like Life is Strange which is developed by a small company (Dontnod) and published by SquareEnix.

He finally reviewed Killer 7. I can die happy now.

Killer 7 is an amazing game I love that I implore you *do not* under any circumstance play.

Hitman 2 should have been called hitman season 2.

I really admire killer7 for purposefully having a story that introduces plot holes and is more baffling than the thought process of AAA upper suits, I wish more games embraced being completely off the rails because frankly I'm really sick of the modern narrative games follow because I can usually predict the entire story just from the trailers.

The nuke comment literally made me laugh out loud, good job Yahtzee!

To be fair, Hitman (2016) and Hitman 2 (2018) really are the first games to bear those names. The first game was _Hitman: Codename 47._ and the second was _Hitman 2: Silent Assassin._ This isn't like Doom.

For the love of all that is holy, someone teach game studios how game titles work! Rebooting a series and just calling it what you called the first game is bad enough, but doing the exact same thing with the sequel?!

They actually did fix the audio on that scene. If you look at Ghenry's video on the steam port, it's audible now.

I love these things. They are quick and informative ;)

Thank you for talking about Killer 7. I loved that game. Don’t know if I’d want to replay it. I like the way I remember.

Im from California and Im really impressed the Paradise fire was newsworthy enough to get to Australia AND be a part of a gag in your review.

Its the best time of the week again!

So is "Imptholomew" the canon name now?

Suda letting us play this on mouse and keyboard made this game 10/10

I was wondering when Yahtzee was going to review killer7.

Hitman 2: Assassin Boogaloo

Loving the Killing Eve reference! Now there's an assassin with character and depth.

never really got into the first new hitman but this new second hitman ive enjoyed. i like seeing how many boxes i can tick at once without needing to restart

Well, you do get to play the other Hitman game in Hitman 2 if you have the first one. So there's that.

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Babylon 5 was great. 😃

Oh! I'll finally get to try Killer 7! I thought I'll never be able to, since I don't own a console.

Crisper than the autumn leaves in Paradise, California. What does it say about my sick sense of humor that I laughed at that while still oddly hurt by it at the same time? Relative to the fact my mother lost her home in that fire. You don’t know me, or knew that, and I didn’t get knee-jerked into some outcry moment. I laughed with the bitter sweet revelation that the disaster was terrible but the analogy is spot on funny. Thanks Ben. Ya never fail to make me chortle.

1:58 how is that guna slip past the filter :eyes:

Rocket launcher bondage nuns? What religion is that and how do I get involved?

Paradise, CA... he was talking about me. :)

I mean they have been doing this for years ... look at Contracts it's basically a DLC for the first game.

I'm guessing the numbered wine they were drinking was '19 Crimes'.

0:57 rocket launch bondage nuns.... That was my favorite part of Hitman Absolution.

That end of evangelion reference

4:25 You can hear Yahtzee's voice slightly break after the California fire joke

Definitely been meaning to try Killer7 after the collaboration event on Let It Die

Yhatzee, I just want to say im wearing your tshirt right now, its brilliant. thnx so much

Oh... you still make videos? Good for you man! Keep it up!

I'm just glad there are people out there who still talk about Babylon 5

"Crispier than autumn leaves in Paradise, Ca."

I was in a Museum in Australia and you were in it

Some clever fucking jokes here yahtz, the density of good jokes is unmatched. I rewind 10 times a video sometimes just to catch every joke. Insane that you aren't working for a TV show, when a show like family guy can't make more then 3 good jokes an episode with a team of writers.

that paradise leaf joke was pristine.

Speccy McCuntflap is my favorite anime villain.

I grew up in Paradise California, and several weeks ago people did not believe me that it was a real place.

Crisper than the autumn leaves of sunny paradise california XD i'm glad i live in the southern part.

"I truly needed you." Gendo Ikari BAM! It's done. The community had already figured that out.

1:20 I disagree (not always but often), like with DUSK and DooM. I don't care at all about why DUSK-Guy or DooM-Guy is killing everybody, I just enjoy the act.

Ok but a Hitman level in an amusement park with the modern crowd engines sounds wild

I'm proud of whoever whipped up that Cockup Cascade image 😂

I still get freaked out at the sound of a kIller smile's laughter

A Babylon 5 themed birthday party WOULD be cool.

"A New Life" Is A Hitman Blood Money Mission That Alot Of Fans Loved, Well Till This Day, And "Another Life" Is In The Newest Installment Of Hitman Witch IO Expected That People Would Love It, Since They Loved The Blood Money Version, And To Be Honest I Really Enjoyed that Mission, And People Say Hitman Is Repeating Itself Because They Just Added A Very Similar Mission. Its Only Just One Mission That IO Tryed To Make Their Fans Happy, There Are Loads Of Neat Little Easter Eggs Around Hitman(2016 and 2018) Where It Referances The Older Games, Besides The Mission Takes Place In A Diffrent Suburban Place, It Also Has 2 Targets Unlike Hitman Blood Money Where "The New Life" Had Only 1. Hell I Was Expecting A Remake Of The "Traditions Of The Trade" Mission, And I Would Gladly Accept It And So Will The Fans

I thought i remember a guy in the comments being annoyed you couldnt kill innocent people in this game but cant find that now

Fun fact: Gendos line being muted was actually an accidental audio error and the creator thought it sounded cooler with it being muted so they left it there. Its commonly agreed that he says "I needed you" or something similar to that. The creator said that you can figure out what he says if you connect the dots.

Hey, Yahtz, over the past couple months, two games came out that hyped, more than any other game mechanic, XCOM-style combat. Maybe you could do a double review for them? They're Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden and Phantom Doctrine.

Hooray for metaphors!

Killer 7 was hard but fun. In the Game cube version the tutorial's starting and ending enemy is the hardest things to kill in the entire game. In the PlayStation 2 version the third from the last boss and the sixth mini boss are the hardest enemies in the game. Every time you beat the game you unlock an easier difficulty until you have psychedelic random colors one hit kill by touching a random button easy. You had to cheat or have less than a 20% accuracy to unlock the hardest difficulty which is surprisingly similar to the starting difficulty just when you die, you start the game from the beginning with no save points. Be glad this game was not made when achievements or trophies started up to today. Also thank god they didn't not make multiplayer for the game because that was the biggest complaint when it came out.

From Chico, CA. Yazee, you are a cad sir.

Babylon 5 namedrop, my heart skipped a beat or two.

Yahtzee really needs to play a bad game soon; we've gotten quite a lot of candidates for the mediocrity awards but not nearly enough contenders for the "Ajit Pai" trophy.

Babylon 5 themed birthday party sounds amazing

Finally a killer7 review!

Woah woah woah, that another life a new life point. They intentionally did that with the names. And it was certainly a callback: the fans were asking for that kinda stuff. All the favorite hitman levels were from blood money, and hitman has had a tendency before that to focus on exotic locations. So all the fans are saying we love blood money and its maps like the neighborhood, the Vegas casino/hotel, the white house; with the neighborhood being the obvious fan favorite, and to me at least, someone who is a grown adult but grew up playing hitman, being a massive fan and getting the silent assassin rankings, to me it's like a love letter to the fan favorite level. And it is a damn good level too. I think it's alot of people's favorites. Other than that cool video x o x o

This one is pretty spot on. Better early impression for sure.

That was a great dodge of the whole Battlefield V debacle... good on you :)

Crisper than the autumn leaves in paradise california, goddam

I appreciate the joke about my home town burning down Yahtz. I actually spat out my drink across the hotel room.

Tramford Rovers 3 Gonna go play Hitman 2: Silent Assassin and have some real fun. That soundtrack was beautiful.

Nice ball shot

Anyone know why the video gallery for ZP on the escapist website stopped updating after Yahtzee Spiderman review? Did they just go full youtube for this or is it something else?

Hell yeah! I love me some killer7

“OCD patient in a Rubiks cube warehouse” I’m going to use that perfect Description

IO interactive actually split with Square Enix and managed to purchase the rights to Hitman, so they're independent. They had to cut a lot of staff to stay afloat. I wouldn't say Hitman 2 is greed, they literally don't have the money to rebuild the engine every game.

Always make sure to watch these videos in 1080p

"You will be more confused then a blind dog in a small room with associated buttholes" This is the quote of the week.