I know you don’t need me to tell you that Suda 51 makes weird games, it’s a fact, like how giraffes fight by becoming mediaeval flails. His studio, Grasshopper Manufacture, is known for their punk rock hack-and-shoot-’em-ups No More Heroes and Killer7, as well as the contributions they’ve made in the general direction of horror, with Shadows of the Damned, Lollipop Chainsaw and the Japan-exclusive Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse.
Suda 51’s upcoming free-to-play asynchronous multiplayer brawler Let it Die seems to borrow from all of these titles, with its gladiatorial combat that blends Manhunt and Mortal Kombat with zany arenas featuring fire-spewing Tyrannosaurs, because that’s how you make a seven ton mass of muscle and teeth cool and terrifying.
After a lengthy hiatus that left me wondering if we were going to have to let Let it Die die, its publisher, GungHo Online Entertainment, confirmed the PS4 exclusive is still aiming for a release later this year, with a playable demo that’ll be at PAX East next week.
