Saw: The Game Review - And Its Awful Sequel

Hello, Sonny Jims. I wanna play a game.

You see the second game is actually genius, it forces the player to play a game that makes them suffer, recreating the experience of saw en real life, therefore making it the ultimate saw experience

The ultimate point of the game is to find the one special toilet that you are supposed to search.

Imagine a Saw game in a similar fashion as Heavy Rain. You switch between a character in their test and a detective trying to solve the case. There would be multiple endings, actual consequences for failing puzzles instead of just a game over screen, and real choices to make which change story outcomes. That's how I always envisioned a Saw game. Not the crap we ended up getting.

In a perfect world, TellTale made a Saw game that was episodic and your choices actually mattered.

When a shady publisher releases a title with a release-day review embargo: "Do you wanna play a game?"

that intro was sick, good job gman

My older brother was one of the developers on this game. He worked for Zombie Studios after graduating art school in Seattle, developing this Saw game and another game called Blacklight. I remember he'd come home everyday depressed from work. Not only did he hate working on the game, he said his coworkers and the work environment was extremely toxic. Long hours, garbage pay, and horrible people to work with. After a year working there, my brother luckily moved on to work for Nintendo of America. But he said Zombie Studios was the worst place he's ever worked for and wasn't surprised at all when the company went under a few years later.

If I ever woke up with a Saw trap around my neck and they were like "Yeah, the key is underneath your eyeball. Here's a scalpel. Get the key before time runs out or else the mask will activate and crush your skull like a watermelon" I would just wait out the time, maybe read a bit or something. No way in Hell am I gonna be cutting near my eye to acquire the key. Nope nope nope.

What irked me is Konami hyped the game to be almost a Silent Hill spin off.

“You are perfectly healthy, sane...” I mean he IS Aussie so...one of those is questionable

I always loved/hated the sheer implementation of “video game logic” in this game. For example “this door is locked” meanwhile half the door is a broken window 😂

You gotta give it to them they really captivated that saw feeling of being constantly confused and verbally abused

I miss when Resident Evil wasn’t the only survival horror IP. Competition is a good thing and we need it now more than ever.

"I hate saving people from certain death just to have them turn around and be rude to me, good manners cost nothing, SON!" I love this. This sums up working as a nurse really well.

“Your the reason I’m in- UUWEEHH I’m fucking crying.

I actually like how these games tried to put a Batman/Joker spin on Tapp chasing after Jigsaw. On an audio tape in the second game, he even admits that they're "connected". I also think it's interesting how Michael winds up in a Jigsaw game just like his father did. Like it's a Tapp family mission to battle Jigsaw.

The Tapp story kinda makes sense, he had similar progression in movie series, where he is shown to become obsessive about finding Jigsaw, to the point of being self-destructive and not caring who gets hurt in the way as long as he finds and kills Jigsaw and all of his appearances.

18:40 Fun Fact: The actor who played the man who wore that mask in SAW 2's opening, is the same actor who played Aiden Pearce in WATCH_DOGS.

The reason the victims are rude to the detective is because, in the movie, Jigsaw explains that most people are so ungrateful to be alive, which is why they're all put in a life threatening situation. If you succeed in solving his puzzles, you're grateful to be alive.