Killer is Dead - Nightmare Edition
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
The player cuts down human and monstrous enemies with a katana and a transforming gun-arm, with frequent blood spray and cinematic finishing slashes throughout.
Combat has Mondo cutting down human and monstrous enemies with a katana, with frequent blood spray and cinematic killing blows.
The story turns on assassination, corruption by a malign energy, memory alteration and death, and named characters are killed on screen.
Optional 'Gigolo' dating missions have the player court women and build toward implied off-screen intimacy, and sexual activity is referenced in dialogue.
The dating missions show women in revealing lingerie and underwear, including a mechanic for viewing them so, without full exposure.
Enemies are grotesque supernatural creatures and some scenes use dark, surreal, unsettling imagery, but the game is not built to frighten the player.
The story depicts crimes including kidnapping, and the player character carries out contract killings framed as legal executions.
Dialogue contains mild profanity.
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What it is
Killer Is Dead is a stylish hack-and-slash action game in which you play Mondo Zappa, a suave executioner in a near-future world who hunts targets corrupted by a malign energy called Dark Matter. Combat is fast and bloody: Mondo cuts down human and monstrous enemies with a katana and a transforming gun-arm, with frequent blood spray and cinematic killing blows. Between story missions, optional 'Gigolo' dating missions have Mondo seduce women through eye contact, gifts and lingerie, with suggestive framing and references to sexual activity, though no sex act is shown and women appear in revealing attire rather than nude. The story is surreal and dark, dealing with assassination, corruption and memory manipulation, and its enemies are grotesque monsters. Dialogue carries mild profanity. The game is single-player with no online features and no in-app purchases.
How it's framed
The game frames its violence as slick, stylised spectacle built around an unflappable professional killer, and its optional dating missions as playful seduction in which the player is rewarded for ogling and courting women. Killing is presented as the protagonist's sanctioned duty against the corrupted rather than as criminal, and the overall tone is surreal and detached rather than realistic.
Details
- Developer
- KADOKAWA GAMES / GRASSHOPPER MANUFACTURE
- Publisher
- Deep Silver
- Released
- May 23, 2014
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