For Suda51, punk in games isn’t dead. It’s reloading.
Romeo is a Dead Man wastes no time. In the game’s first 30 minutes, the protagonist, Romeo Stargazer, has been brutally disfigured by a zombie and rescued from the brink of death, ironically, by being stabbed in the eye with a life support device. He’s then recruited by the FBI and dispatched to slice through hordes of undead, travel across space-time in a motorbike, enter another dimension through a TV and fight a towering boss named Every Day is Like Monday.It’s all par for the course in the latest game by Goichi Suda, the self-described “punk game designer” better known as Suda51 (in Japanese, “go” and “ichi” are homonyms for the numbers 5 and 1).
