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Review: Killer is Dead | oprainfall

Added: 29.09.2013 6:21 | 6 views | 0 comments

oprainfall writes: "Back in mid-2012, Killer is Dead was announced as Grasshoppers latest high profile title. It was finally revealed via a trailer in early 2013 as being among XSEEDs newest titles to be published in North America. With our current console generation coming slowly to a close, this made it Grasshoppers possible last title of this generation, among many, including: No More Heroes 1 and 2, Shadows of the Damned, Lollipop Chainsaw, and even Fatal Frame 4 (Also known as Zero: Tsukihami no Kamen in Japan) which they co-developed. The footage dazzled the audience, impressing many on account of Killer is Dead running on the (now considered dated) Unreal 3 engine and looking quite beautiful with its creative use of cel-shading and color palette. Anticipation among the hardcore crowd was running high, on account of the genre slowly becoming more and more irrelevant in our current marketplace. While not exactly being a Suda51 game, he was a part of its development, especial...