In most modern action games, you’re encouraged to pull off incredible dodges and parries, and look as cool as possible while doing so. That’s not what Stupid Never Dies wants — it wants you to survive a knock-down, drag-out brawl with every little ability you have, soaking up attacks like a sponge while Davy the zombie punches the living hell out of everything. One part roguelike, one part RPG, and one part brawler, Stupid Never Dies doesn’t fit neatly into one genre or category. But boy is it fun.
Stupid Never Dies is the first game from the new Japanese studio GPTRACK50 Inc, and there’s quite the pedigree behind the developers working on it. Eichiro Sasaki is the director, who previously worked at Capcom for years, as director of both Resident Evil Outbreak games as well as Resident Evil 6. Studio head and founder is Hiroyuki Kobayashi, who spent three decades at Capcom on Devil May Cry, Resident Evil, Dino Crisis and more. The two brought along other talent that worked at... Read more