When I previewed ROMEO IS A DEAD MAN back in January, I had said that it didn’t take very long during the initial trailer to realize it was a Suda 51 game—granted, as a fan of KILLER IS DEAD, the name was certainly a bit of a giveaway. Despite my brief time with it, I could already tell the game was going to be something special, but I don’t think I was fully aware of just how special.
Maybe I just have a soft spot for Goichi Suda, but the man has yet to put his name on a project that wasn’t genuinely good—even ones where he couldn’t fully realize his vision. The more I played ROMEO IS A DEAD MAN, the more I realized that not only was it an interesting game with a lot of ideas and things to say, but it’s also one of the most insanely fun action games I’ve played in a while.
I spoke about it a bit in my preview, but the story of ROMEO IS A DEAD MAN feels at the same time unbelievably crazy and seriously meaningful. It stars the titular Romeo, who is almost... Read more