Killer Is Dead

SUDA51’s Killer is Dead is an experience. It might not offer an epic saga or a tome the size of War and Peace, but it offers an original tale that is anything but boilerplate.

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In the end, you’re left with a slightly quirky Japanese action game that felt like it could have come from any number of developers. The action isn’t truly technical but it works, and the cast and narrative don’t have that Suda quality charm, but they’re interesting enough to compel you to keep playing. If you’re a pure action fan, this is just another game to eat up — for everyone else, there’s n...

Killer Is Dead is unashamedly stupid. Executive producer Goichi Suda – better known by his nickname Suda51 – has made a living out of his bonkers plots and premises, but the latest product to drop off Grasshopper Manufacture’s production line takes the nonsense of No More Heroes and kits it out in a straitjacket. This is a release that barely blinks when you’re ordered to assassinate an extraterre...

When compared to combat in games like DmC and Metal Gear Rising, Killer is Dead comes out feeling uninspired and underwhelming. The past few years have supplied us with more competent action games, more fully realized and stylish worlds, and much more interesting forays into marrying video games with mature sexual themes. Killer is Dead contains a handful of good ideas that are sadly marred by a w...

Who would have thought that Suda51 could ever make a boring game? His name is generally synonymous with some of the odder curios in gaming, from Killer7 to No More Heroes and Lollipop Chainsaw, all of which have a unique sense of style and purpose. So a game about a hitman with a curious posse and hyper twisted opponents should be an easy mark. Instead we seem to have been given a title that fails...

So besides that you’ll also have some sub-missions and a challenge mode to play around with. Sub-missions are short missions that have a solid amount of variety such as having to ride a motorcycle through a city to run over enemies while dodging spike traps or cars and another where you have to light all the lanterns before your health depletes so that you can remove the curse from a Japanese doll...

The ultimate goal in these missions are to, well give them so many presents that they eventually well, want to get Intimate with you. Doing so will give you certain weapons for your mechanical arm, and other various items. Sure, these items don’t seem necessary, but they will make your play through much, much easier. So whether you like fan service, or are just outright against it, it would be ben...