Romeo is a Dead Man is bizarre, bloody, and exactly what makes Grasshopper special

A postmodern surrealist tale of geopolitics. An otaku’s hellbent journey to become the top-ranked assassin. A high school cheerleader who kills zombies with a chainsaw and pompoms, with a story co-written by James Gunn. Every project under the Grasshopper Manufacture umbrella sounds like an unlikely anecdote.

The Japanese video game studio founded in 1998 by Goichi “Suda51” Suda proudly carries a B-movie spirit, blending absurd concepts, complex characters, and cascades of pixelated blood on screen. Over the years, the developer’s work has often received a mixed critical reception, and the founder doesn’t think there’s a game in Grasshopper …

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