Picking up where that left off, in “Saw 2” you play the role of Tapp’s son, Michael, who is a somewhat crooked reporter investigating the nature and cause of his father’s demise.
To avoid spoilers, I’ll just say that “something” fatal happens to Tapp at the conclusion of the first game-a rather depressing ending, which is befitting. In “Saw 1” you play Detective Tapp (apparently, a character from the films, which I’ve never seen, not interested). The uninspired narrative is not one of those elements, though. I suppose I agree with that overall “meh” assessment, but there are some outstanding elements to this game that keep me coming back for some damn, masochistic reason. Nah, it’s just par, or a little below par, but nothing to get excited over-unless you are a torture porn fanboy (and there are plenty who are already praying for “Saw III”). It’s not an unknown game, and it’s not a spectacularly awful game that must be experienced to be believed. The standing Metacritic score of 47 sort of says it all. Rather than being labeled a “bottom barrel” game by critics, “Saw 2” actually suffers the worse fate of simply being considered “average” by most reviewers-and, perhaps worse still, only slightly below that of its also-average predecessor. Yes, “Saw 2” does outstay its welcome and gets irksome, but so do my relatives when they visit, and I manage to muddle through regardless. And “Saw II” is actually worth playing…if only it were a few hours shorter, and if some of the death-puzzles didn’t require as many as 25 retakes (the repetition ultimately does create the negative effect of yanking you out of the thin storyline that is present). Oh, of course all of this academic and has no bearing on whether or not a game is worth playing. Hope springs eternal? Nah, just a touch of Alzheimer’s. And that has nothing to do with the fact that I just celebrated my 47th birthday, while innocently telling everyone I was turning 46. Case in point: Has anyone noticed that Naughty Dog’s announced zombiefest “The Last of Us” is decidedly being called a “survival action” game? Not survival horror. Eh, maybe the real problem is that the genre term “survival horror” itself is slowly becoming irrelevant in this day and age.
But then again, in those older games, the puzzles are rather minor aspects (e.g., to open a door), whereas in the “Saw” games the puzzles are front and center (actually, even the combat in “Saw II” is a context-sensitive button-mashing minigame, so…). So, maybe the “Saw” games do belong in this genre. And anyway, many survival horror games of yore had some kind of puzzling in them.
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Frankly, these games are closer cousins to puzzle games full of context-sensitive button pressing and timed minigames…but all this puzzling does occur in a horror context. The problem is that neither “Saw” title to date really resembles a survival horror game, strictly speaking, when considering the gameplay itself. And anyway, many reviewers and fans automatically call it a survival horror game. Is “Saw II” a survival horror game? It’s published by survival horror kingpins Konami, so sure, why not. Or is it a puzzle game? What do I call it? A first-person puzzler, I guess? Anyway, “Saw II” presents the same kind of dilemma (a dilemma that only idle gamers would bother pondering). For example, I’ve wondered for a long time whether “Portal” is a first-person shooter. This hack-movie-tie-in title by Zombie Studios (their second) seems an unlikely game to inspire the same kinds of lofty questions that a starchild like “Portal” might. In addition to having to take a double dose of blood pressure medicine, when I finished “Saw II,” I had a few genre-related questions buzzing around my (crushed) brainpan. Be prepared to spend a lot of time looking at your headless corpse on the floor-oh, and the loading screen. While I know there are games which are notoriously more difficult than this, “Saw II: Flesh and Blood,” like its predecessor, is all about repeatedly slogging through the same sections 20 to 25 times in a row until you do it perfectly-and the reward is you get to live to face the next seemingly impossible decapitation puzzle. That’s what these games are about-blindly persevering through multiple, multiple, multiple deaths. Kiss me.” (Some of that would probably have to go on the back.) I’m seriously thinking about getting T-shirts made: “I finished the Saw games on normal difficulty without punching a hole in my wall.
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