Killer Is Dead: The Man who Chose to make this Review

I dare to say Killer Is Dead is one of the best PlayStation 3 games I´ve ever played, if not, one of my personal favorites. The Hack N Slash genre in videogames never stops to amaze us and this time there is no exception with Killer Is Dead, a videogame brought by Grasshopper Manufacture, the company behind the No More Heroes Franchise.

Killer Is Dead was developed by Grasshopper Manufacture, written by Suda51, the father of the No More Heroes franchise and directed by Hideyuki Shin. In Killer Is Dead, we follow the story of Mondo, which works to some kind of agency where he´s ordered to make executions to all the criminals of the world. The story of this game is kinda confusing even if we pay a lot of attention, that´s why I say it´s kinda hard to explain, but I can say the game takes place on a city where there are considerable technological advances.

If I had to explain how the gameplay works on this game, I´d say is like a No More Heroes with steroids. I want to emphasize that I´m not saying it´s a copy-paste of No More Heroes or something, what I´m trying to say is, Killer Is Dead does everything that did No More Heroes (mechanically speaking) and makes it even better. Our protagonist is called Mondo as I said before.

Mondo will have in his disposal a sword, being this his main weapon. We´ll use our sword with the Square button of the PlayStation 3 controller, we´ll make combos agains´t our enemies, we can also break the defenses of our enemies with the Triangle button, but Mondo does this movement with his punchs and not with his sword.

When we use the sword, if we evade at the exact moment we are going to be hitted, Mondo can slow down the time for a little bit, this way we´ll make a bunch of damage if we do it correctly. We can also parry the enemies attack with the Circle button on the Play Station 3.

The sub weapon of the game is our mechanical left arm with which we can absorb the blood of our enemies, doing this is important since the blood will allow us to use our left arm to do certain things such as shoot our enemies to stun them, hurt them and even paralyze them. We can get more sub weapons on the game through the Gigolo missions, this is an aspect I´ll talk later, I want to focus on other things first like the upgrades.

The enemies on Killer Is Dead are Wires. A Wire is a soldier of Dark Matter in Killer Is Dead. Dark Matter is capable of infecting humans, turning them into Wires and granting them vast physical enhancements, but ultimately robbing them of their humanity and sanity. Wires appear as either mindless corpses with a thirst for destruction or evolved wires, sentient creatures with sociopathic tendencies and delusions of grandeur.

This is a Hack N Slash videogame so what I´ll talk about is pretty normal in this kind of game. This game has upgrades we can get to our swords and abilities Mondo can use. These upgrades are done by collecting, Moon Crystal. These Moon Crystal can be obtained through the executions of some enemies through all the game. Worry not, they are not that hard to get. Mondo can level up in Killer Is Dead too, when we level up, our HP and Blood bar are upgraded.

Let´s talk about the Gigolo Missions. As the ¨Gigolo¨ name suggest, we´ll ¨date¨ some women of the game and...let´s say we´ll try to make them to fall in love by looking at their faces and private part, also by giving her presents of course. If we success on the Gigolo Mission, we´ll get a new sub weapon which we can use on our left arm, we can switch of sub weapon by pressing the L2 and R2 on the PlayStation 3. These missions are available when we search through the scenaries of the game itself.

Killer Is Dead uses the Cell Shading technique and I gotta say it looks amazing and more for its time. Graphically, the game has aged very well and it´s really nice to watch at. I´ve nothing to say on this aspect, it just looks really nice and beautiful.