Killer is Dead - Nightmare Edition

“Yet, these graphics hurt my eyes, the forms have enough detail to recognize body shapes and world details, but not enough for you to easily understand what is happening on the cutscenes, add to that the extreme contrast of darkness and light, that even with brightness adjustment you can only pick between blindingly reflective black and blindingly eye-hurting white, and half my game enjoyment is gone.”

“You have limited graphic options, lackluster controller support, and a 30fps cap, which is ridiculous, knowing that any UE3 game released on PC can run at double the frame rate and twice the resolution than the console platforms they were originally released on, no excuses.”

“The graphics have aged like sun-baked milk, even worse than when I reviewed the game, and I'd even dare say they weren't that great for their time either.”

“Let’s put aside the game crashing three times in barely 9 minutes of gameplay because it supposedly ran out of video memory on an RX 9070, no less.”

“The gameplay lacks depth and mostly results in button mashing.”

“The gameplay itself is unpolished, the story is convoluted, and it just isn't worth the full price.”

“- An uninspired soundtrack that frequently doesn't match the sequence.”

“Game has a weird audio bug after the first two missions where there is no sound when the characters talk, and you sometimes hear the background music of the levels throughout the game.”

“The music is rather mediocre and not at all something I would like to hear outside the game.”

“I was probably deceived into thinking this was a fun action game and not a mostly unfunny interactive anime with poor graphics.”

“Mika is an extreme force cliché (the same goes for many characters, though) and is not funny.”

“I had several crashes after chapter endings and was forced to run through the boss again; the audio occasionally cuts and sometimes the game freezes.”

“The game is still buggy though; here is the list of bugs I keep encountering.”

“Everything about this game is weird (weird settings and controls, locked at 30fps; you can change it to 60 but it will make the game even more unstable and crash a lot; can't remap the controls). Basically, it's a bad PC port with lots of glitches and bugs (sometimes the game freezes or crashes).”

“Even after getting some fixes to stop memory leak, crashes still happen for seemingly no real reason other than this port being horribly unoptimized, even for my relatively modern PC.”

“It's riddled with random crashes, stuttering and cap on max resolution and framerate, and even following guides for optimization results in a horrible experience.”

“With a GTX 960M and on lowest settings the game stutters so much it's almost unplayable yet I can play games that look 10x better than this, so I'm going to say the problem is poor optimization.”

“It doesn't have any replayability though.”

“Killer is dead doesn't really have gigantic replayability; once you've finished the main story, you only have the gigolo missions and all that stuff, which, to be honest, didn't really interest me.”

“Overall, the game suffers in some departments, in others it is stellar, and in the rest it is kind of meh, but it is enjoyable; not very replayable unless you want all the achievements.”

“Killer is dead is Grasshopper's another stab at the darker atmosphere that we could've found in their older titles like Killer7, although the project was not spearheaded by Suda himself... where do I even start with this game?”

“If you have a gamepad & a really bad PC it may not be that horrible for everyone else - gameplay, story, atmosphere aside - this is the worst console port I ever experienced.”

“The things about 'Killer is Dead' that really stand out from the crowd are the special art style and visuals: not only the setting and the atmosphere, but also the fast fights and some really badass scenes create a nice overall picture and hide the fact that e.g. the textures are pretty much just average.”

“Then, I started grinding for the achievements. The difficulty achievements don't stack, so you need to finish a playthrough on Normal, Hard, and Very Hard for starters. The 'get 100 million' dollars achievement is not cumulative, so you need to hold that amount at one time. In other words, you need to grind money for hours without buying anything.”

“The gigolo missions have their sets of achievements, and the thing is, after the first 3 times you clear them, they are absolutely useless. But you need to keep grinding them to get the achievements, so you must repeat over and over a tedious minigame with unskippable cutscenes (the rest of the game's scenes are skippable) for rewards that are useless at the very least. You also have to grind a ton of money for achievements, complementing the fact that you need to spend money on them and their price goes up every time.”

“After a while, the game gets grindy with tedious minigames, such as turret sections and territory control.”

“The story is also 'meh' and doesn't really have any punch to it or much character development.”

“I don’t think any of this would be a problem, considering I’ve enjoyed a lot of games in the past with barely any story or character development, but the game’s tone dictates that these things are important and the plenty of cutscenes are a constant reminder of how story-driven the game is or was supposed to be.”

“Cutscenes feel huge when compared to how long it took to finish a level, but there’s still not much in terms of character development.”

“Way too many film sequences, boring story, can't recommend it at all.”

“There are 13 episodes in the game that drive the slow paced boring story Killer is Dead has to offer. I was committed to finishing what I had started, but during the beginning of episode 1, after the boring cutscene explaining the situation in Area 151, you have to clear a room full of enemies. Some enemies are on unreachable high elevations and must be killed with the period blood gun, which I had not upgraded because it’s a poor weapon. I preferred to invest in something more useful, so my period blood gun did no damage and I had no way to regain ammunition, making it impossible to finish them off.”

“It's just sad that the PC port is such a low effort cash grab.”

“It's a crappy PC port, a disrespect to PC gamers. I don't recommend spending money on a cash grab like this, bad optimized and not worth it.”