The game itself is a combination of both style and substance that resonates well with my own morbid taste of cinematic cultures. There’s even a shocking milkshake moment dragged straight out of Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood, all of which are loosely recreated into tiny pixelated squares of vibrant color. The idle chit-chat between bad guys reflects the Charlie Brown scene in Kill Bill, while callbacks to the scrambled mystery and ultra-violence of movies like Oldboy and American Psycho is heavily sewn throughout the plot. I saw moments of John Woo classics such as The Killer and Bullet In The Head bleed out across the screen in a sort of 16-bit era fashion. The inspiration for the game’s dark, often abstract tones is clear. The end result is a tight, albeit simple control system that leads into a trailblaze of satisfying swordsmanship. The only method of defense is a swift dodge roll that holds a few frames of invincibility when penetrating through the ball bearing shrapnel of a shotgun blast.
This bullet-time mechanic is the main side effect of the drug which enables him to repel slugs back into the gut of his enemies. Our sedated protagonist – who’s juiced up to the gills on a mysterious drug called Chronos – possesses the ability to slow down time itself as he chops his way towards eight directions of attack across twelve chapters of murder. Every hit you take results in instant death, but while the numbers are against you, your blade is as sharp as a razor to even out the score.
KATANA ZERO METACRITIC FULL
Slice down a room full of foes in one take using nothing but a katana sword and whatever props you can find. Set in a dystopian neo-noir alternate reality, this pixel-perfect cut-throat tale has the player tearing through action scene after action scene, infusing world cinema martial arts with Quentin Tarantino small talk. Six years in the making, Katana ZERO is the passion project coined by the mind of Askiisoft programmer Justin Stander. You always have the option to rewind and try it again, and again, and again. Don’t worry if you can’t get it right the first time. When it turns a blood red and piping hot in the middle, cleanly slice and serve fresh with a drizzle of John Wick and a nice cup of herbal tea. Once settled, violently slam the mixture into your VCR until the tracking jilts uncontrollably. First, mix the ingredients together and prepare you CRT television to channel AV. To make a kick-ass Katana pie you will need a cluster of pixels, a bathrobe, a freshly sharpened samurai sword, a shot of Chronos, two spoonfuls of Hotline Miami, one tablespoon of Super Meat Boy and a pinch of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch.
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