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And now, all the game developers will throw down and stamp their baseball caps they got free at GDC and cry, 'He's officially impossible to please!' Sorry. I mean, I suspected as much I do masturbate to a heroic degree, but it's nice to see it confirmed.'Įvery enemy dies in one hit, and you can dodge and deflect bullets, so on a successful run, you sweep through all resistance like a red-hot knife through a knife-hotness inspection, and it generally kicks arse just a shame there's so much plot in the way. I've often thought games with slow-motion could use something like this doing something in slow-motion isn't that impressive because I can see how the game has slowed down and extended the wheelchair ramp to let my masturbation-addled thinking keep up, but when the game then shows you how what you just did looks from an outside perspective, you can go, 'Oh, OK, I'm a fucking badass. Your precognition means that your failed attempts are all framed as possible futures and also gives you a slow-motion power, so at the end of the level, you see a replay of your successful run as the timeline that actually happens for realsies, and all the slow-motion stuff plays at normal speed. It's the kind of plot where you're a small piece of a larger intrigue, and none of your manipulators ever tell you anything it might take more than one playthrough to fully grasp it, so it's just as well that the gameplay kicks arse. But does it have any ideas of its own? Well, in Katana Zero, you play a complete loser with a Japanese sword, as referenced by the title you spend your days hacking up assassination targets given to you by your psychiatrist, because I guess punching a pillow wasn't doing it for you anymore, and you keep taking a magic drug that gives you the power to see the future, but which is probably also turning your brain into blancmange.

So to put it bluntly, Katana Zero is side-on platforming Hotline Miami, but there's also a bit of Gunpoint in there, and a bit of Mother Russia Bleeds, if only because that, too, is another strong contender for ' Devolver Digital: The Game'.

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Somewhat obscure plot full of hallucinatory moments strongly implying that the main character is on enough drugs to fill out one of Michael Jackson's average weekly prescriptions, Cinnamon Chex with sausage on the side! High-speed gameplay where you can reload and try again before your death rattle has even gotten six inches past your tonsils, check.

A colorful retro aesthetic particularly themed around retro forms of media in a way that would give Quentin Tarantino an even bigger priapism than the one he gets from his morning bowl of discontinued breakfast cereal, check.

That's the given that's the bloodstained arugula forming the base of the 'Horrible Devolver Digital' salad. In fact, I was thinking about listing the features of Katana Zero as part of a hilarious 'Games Published by Devolver Digital' bingo card, until I realized I was just writing down features from Hotline Miami. Finally, I settled on Katana Zero, a 2D pixel art twist on hideous psychedelic violence also, it's published by Devolver Digital, obviously, because the phrase '2D pixel art hideous psychedelic violence' is to Devolver Digital what the word 'Walkies!' is to an under-stimulated dog with poor bladder control. Then I tried out Dark Devotion, another 2D pixel art twist on Dark Souls to add to the pile, which discovered that once you take the majestic scenery and sturdy level design out of Dark Souls, all you have left is a game moodily blatting you in the face with a rake for eight hours. So it's mostly been a pixel art jamboree this week first, I tried out Forager, a 2D pixel art twist on the survival crafting grind-'em-up genre that presently occupies the bed of gaming like a giant farting horse that won't stop hogging the blanket, which I played until I realized that being in a small environment smashing rocks is what you do when you're in a prison, but without the possibility of forbidden romance. Man, it was great growing up upper-middle-class! But every now and again, amidst the turds, I'd find a real treasure, like a used condom the sperm bank would pay a whole 50p for one of those, once I'd finished chewing it. I do enjoy spending the week trying out new indie games on Steam brings back nostalgic memories of my childhood when I used to dive into the part of the canal near the sewage runoff pipes, and then have to spend the afternoon combing turds out of my hair.