Romeo Is a Dead Man is bizarre, bloody, and exactly what makes Grasshopper special
A postmodern surrealist tale of geopolitics. An otaku's hell-bent journey to become the top-ranked assassin. A high school cheerleader who kills zombies with a chainsaw and pompoms, with a story cowritten 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 …