Wednesday, August 16, 2017

News:: Review: Serial Cleaner

The Cleaner who bears Serial Cleaner's namesake is not very good at his job. Throughout 20 levels (and 10 more bonus contracts), he'll seem perfectly adept. The 20 individual successes that are necessary for a consistent narrative paint him as a consummate professional -- always making bodies and evidence disappear right under the noses of patrolling policemen.

But, consider this: Shouldn't a murder-cover-upper get there before the cops? Take a quick look to other mediums. John Wick's cleaning crew? There before the cops. Pulp Fiction's Winston Wolf? There before the cops. Maybe the guy who hired the Cleaner should've let him know earlier; then again, maybe the Cleaner should stop taking such risky jobs.

It feels a bit over-serious to put Serial Cleaner this far under the microscope. After all, it's a very-not-serious slapstick stealth puzzler about vacuuming up blood and throwing corpses off cliffs. But, this game's inconsistencies pile up and create a dissonance that all the Formula 409 in the world couldn't clean up.

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