With Lollipop Chainsaw: RePop just having been released and Shadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered getting released soon, I remembered there was a third Suda51 console action game from the same time period: Killer is Dead. I bought the PC version like a decade ago and never got around to playing it. I think it’s supposed to be more of a Platinum Games character action game as opposed to Shadows of the Damned which was just wacky Resident Evil 4 and Lollipop Chainsaw which was an arcadey beat-em-up/hack-n-slash game

Looking at the screenshots on Steam I can already tell it hasn’t aged too well visually, having a really blotchy and ugly cel-shaded Unreal Engine 3 thing going on where all the characters look like they’ve been dipped in oil. Speaking of things that haven’t aged too well, the most talked about feature of the game at the time of its release were its Gigolo Missions where you have to seduce the game’s various waifus by ogling them while avoiding getting slapped

I used to love the outrageous and over the top Japanese games that were coming out in the 2010s like Deadly Premonition, Asura’s Wrath, Shadows of the Damned or most Platinum Games titles so I guess I’ll see how this one goes down. Did anyone else play this? I think the consensus was that it was pretty janky and mid