#suda51

#suda51

From parodying the banality of open-world games with 2007's No More Heroes to collaborating with James Gunn for 2012's pulpy Lollipop Chainsaw, his games often offer a welcome reprieve from soulless, half-a-billion-dollar-budget gaming blockbusters. It was with considerable excitement that I fired up Suda's first new game in 10 years. The game kicks off with a slick cartoon that shows our hero, Romeo Stargazer, being eaten by a zombie.

There has been no shortage of unique games this year, but one of the strangest has definitely been Hotel Barcelona, the latest project from Suda51 and Swery, which puts a new spin on "grindhouse" horror. The 2.5D side-scrolling roguelike tasks players with surviving in a hotel full of serial killers inspired by '80s slasher flicks. It's a wild premise befitting the legacies of its creators,