LINDA VERMILION, nuff said. The most badass looking chick in the entire game. Even if Dan Smith were in drag...
Vermilion would still out badass him, because she's actually a younger Meiko Kaji in disguise, heh.
Note: Ah man, my lack of understanding in Japan's politics at the time
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Dec 2005)
I made my first post in this thread is astoundingly embarrassing.
I think Mills too, he was a cool character that died in a clichèd way.
I laughed at how retarded & cliche his death was. I was like damn for a game that's so original couldn't they have came up with something more original than that?
Yeah, but it's exactly what he wanted.
I laughed even harder when I realized that Mill's death was meant to be a joke. After seeing him talking about how he always wanted to die being pumped full of holes like in the movies.
That was just pure genius.
Coyote Smith and Mask De Smith and Harman all kick ass IMO.
I wish Coyote had a couple of cutscenes just so I can hear him speak Japanese with a Yakuza dialect.
(In Hik 7 it's reported that he speaks Japanese with a Kansai accent.)
Coyote is one hardcore ass gangsta.
I agree that Kun Lan needed more love in the game. I mean Harman has three different forms!
Harman has three forms because unlike Kun Lan.
It's unknown who Harman Smith was in the first place.
The Harman's in Killer 7 represent Karma imo.
If you played through Suda 51's earlier games you'd notice that Harman Smith is most likely a reference to the silver eye phenomenon.
(Silver eye's are said to grant immortality, but in reality all they actually do is transmigrate your consciousness to several different seeds, & stock bodies.
Which is why we see more than one Harman Smith.
All the Harman Smith's originated from the same karma/aura of the real/original Harman Smith.)
Go to the cast page in this website to get an idea of the broader world that Killer 7 is loosely related to.
http://www.killer7.3dactionplanet.gamespy.com/silver/index.htm
Go here to gain more clarity behind the logic of Harman Smith's Karma/Consciousness
http://www.members.tripod.com/tathagata2000/enlightenment_what_is_karma.htm
http://www.members.tripod.com/tathagata2000/cherry.htm
(Those two links contain the same thought process & beliefs that I believe Suda 51 used when creating the stories for Silver Case,FSR & Killer 7.)
Kun Lan as I said many times before is a manifestation from the mind.
Much like Toriko Kusabi from Flower, Sun & Rain.
http://www.tulpa.com/explain/tulpaexplain.html
It's officially established (HIK7) that Kun Lan is god, but I don't believe that he was ever meant to represent GOD as recorded in Western doctrine.
Like I said earlier Kun Lan is more of a physical manifestation of the mind.
A voice from inside your head.
The more correct term would be "Tulpa"
The belief of the manifestation of Tulpas are Tibetan in origin, and Kun Lan himself is of Tibetan extraction.
Which further perpetuates my belief that Kun Lan is a manifestation from our sub consciousness.
Kun Lan himself is more or less an indirect incarnation of "Uehara Kamui" from the game "Silver Case".
At least that's the impression I get when I read from HIK 7 that Kun Lan
(The real physical/mortal Kun Lan, & not the celestial entity.)
is actually hidden deep underground by the United States government.
This coincides with the la-*test*-('") incarnation of Uehara Kamui being detained in a correctional facility who later breaks out & is shot to death at the top of
Sundance's FSO establishment.
http://www.killer7.3dactionplanet.gamespy.com/silver/silverkamuiuehara.swf
Kun Lan is also the opposite of Harman Smith, in the sense that Kun Lan represents Souls with no Karma. (Casualty)
I don't feel like writing it all over again though so I'll refer to this thread.
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I do like Julia, but her role in the game is very one sided, aside from everyone else's 100 sided characteristics. She was hot, a bad ass with twin guns, and had an awesome death.
Nah, Julia pretty much played the part that she was written for.
(I wouldn't want to see Kisugi become verbal enough to the point that she becomes another melodramatic The Boss or Sniper Wolf.)
She hated her life because she's nothing more than a tool (Hired gun) of the government.
Kisugi's only purpose was to serve as the vehicle who enforces the will of the politicians or gangsters that she is contracted to.
The Killer 7 killed her (& then she blew herself up.)
& granted her freedom. (From Life.)
Also I think that Julia was meant to be an incarnation of Sayaka Baian.
I'll just quote what I said from the File 7 thread.
http://www.killer7.3dactionplanet.gamespy.com/silver/silvercast.htm
Scroll down to see Sayaka Baian & her incarnations.
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3. Sayaka Baian
She was originally a popular idol in Japan who committed suicide due to her increased anxiety that was cause by her lack of privacy.
I made a Silver Case video showcasing all the cutscenes of this chick that led her to commit suicide.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noT7pXOw2mg
These 3 entities constantly reincarnate through out the entirety of Suda 51's "Kill the Past" universe
In Killer 7, it's quite possible that Julia Kisugi
was supposed to be an incarnation of Sayaka Baian.
All incarnations of Sayaka Baian seem to manifest as young attractive women who secretly wish for their death due to seemingly minour inconveniences in their life.
For Sayaka it was the annoyance of constantly being monitored & filmed.
Solitude became an imaginary construct to her, because it doesn't exist in her world.
For Julia she secretly wished to die, because her life became nothing more than a commodity.
Being bought & sold to the highest contractor who wished to ultilize her assassin skills for political purposes.