Review: Wanted: Dead
destructoid.comThe sequence comes around an hour into the story and lasts approximately 95 seconds. Lieutenant Hannah Stone, freshly showered from another terrible, violent day on the job, walks into the cafeteria of her headquarters for dinner. At the counter, she is handed fish soup, Bratwurst curry with potatoes, a blackcurrant jelly, and a steaming cup of coffee. Well earned.
Taking a seat at an empty table, Hannah stares at the bowl. Atop her soup is a severed fish head. It stares at her. Hannah looks it in the eye, which peers back into her soul. Hollow. Unblinking. Accusing. Hannah discards the soup to one side, where even a hungry cat decides not to partake in the free meal. Picking up her fork, Hannah stabs it into the bratwurst, or at least attempts to, as the cutlery fails to even pierce the sausage’s skin. Moving to the potatoes yields similar results, with the tots merely pinging violently off of the plate.
The jelly? Well, it scoops cleanly enough. Too cleanly, in fact, as it remains steadfastly glued to Hannah’s spoon, refusing to budge, and looking far blacker than it now than did in the dish. All that is left to rescue this sad meal is the coffee. And so, in the deafening silence of the hollow cafeteria, Hannah picks up the cup… Is that a literal skull she spies in the steam of the drink?
Hannah’s dinner is ruined. The meal has been a disaster.
The preceding sequence has no bearing on the plot, the characters, or the narrative themes of Wanted: Dead whatsoever. But, with that depressing culinary disappointment, the game had captured my heart.
Wanted: Dead (PS5 [reviewed] PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PC)Developer: Soliel Ltd.Publisher: 110 IndustriesReleased: February 14, 2023MSRP: $59.99
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