Killer7

That was a weird turn on its head for an assassin-based story.

So some people get kind of weird about that, but for some reason, some people are weird about Killer7.

I love that, and if you don't know, if you think it sucks, you'd I don't know.

Your aim's probably bad.

And it ends up looking like garbage and silly.

And it's like if it was stylistic, like if it looked like, dude, like a great, the cel-shaded, the Killer 7, that was called? You know what I mean? Like if it looked like that or whatever, like No More Heroes, like something like that.

They could have gotten away with something

like that.

These are... games built primarily out of Mikami's own development studio.

There's Beautiful Joe, there's Dead Phoenix, there's Piano 3, there's Killer 7, and then the biggest name, which would be the new mainline entry in the Resident Evil series, which would become Resident Evil 4.

And frankly, the Capcom 5 was exactly the kind of win that Nintendo needed at the time after losing Rare.

But the whole deal didn't stay that simple.

Exactly the outcome that Mikami had once staked his own head on avoiding.

He later apologized publicly, saying he felt genuinely bad for anyone who bought a GameCube specifically to play it, not realizing that a PlayStation 2 version was coming.

capcom 5 deal also in the end delivered real celebrated games right didn't just deliver on the one thing nintendo needed exact you know didn't just deliver it delivered actual games like good games killer 7 good game beautiful joe good game uh it delivered some solid bangers right

hard eyes for beautiful joe for sure

It's definitely a super interesting game and the closest gaming has ever got to Twin Peaks.

Also worth mentioning that we had you on our show, Dave, for Killer7, which was also another 7 out of 10 game.

So we'll see if we can keep the streak going with a 7 out of 10 discussion today.

Yeah, I think I joked on that show that we only cover the most normal games ever made when we get together.

This is by former Capcom's Hiroyuki Kobayashi.

who worked on, was a programmer for Resident Evil 1 and 2, Dino Crisis 1 and 2, he was a producer on Code Veronica, he was a producer on Resident Evil 4, Killer7, Devil May Cry, Devil May Cry all the way up to 4.

Like, this guy's got some chops with stuff.

So I was like, oh, and this looks like a game that walked out of the early 2000s in a fun way.

these ones are sick as well so we'll add them to the Alex's Capcom 7

Okami was definitely like I think I even at the time kind of mentally inserted that into the mix of them and also that Ademi game but yeah it was Piano 3 Piano 3, Beautiful Joe, Resident Evil 4, Killer7 and Dead Phoenix.

And I don't think Dead Phoenix made it out.

No, it was cancelled in 2003.

Yeah.

Certainly thinking of, like, Killer7 obviously, and then-

Yeah

...

Is on there.

As is Killer7.

I

always wanted to play that.