Tag: Grasshopper
Random Suda51 Claims to Have Met Mysterious Sales Maestro, Wario64
"I told him, 'Yeah, of course I know about Wario64. Wait a second - are you him?!'"
Eccentric developer Goichi "Suda51" Suda, the founder of Grasshopper Manufacture and creator of No More Heroes, claims to have met the person (or one of the persons) behind the beloved Wario64 X (formerly Twitter) account. If you've been a gamer in the age of social...
News Suda 51 Says 'Everyone Cares Too Much About Metacritic Scores'
Shinji Mikami says "unique games" are being drowned out
Japanese video game industry legends Goichi "Suda 51" Suda and Shinji Mikami (of No More Heroes and Resident Evil fame, respectively) aren't huge fans of critical aggregator Metacritic. The storied developers think that the industry practice has a detrimental effect on creativity, which is...
News Shadows of the Damned Remaster Is Now Hella Remastered, Playable at PAX East
Suda51 will play blackjack with you
Grasshopper has today announced the remaster of PS3 title Shadows Of The Damned it has in development is officially titled Shadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered. It doesn't have a release date and no platforms have been confirmed yet, but the game will be playable at PAX East next week. Members of the team will...
News Suda51 Teases Unannounced Grasshopper Manufacture Game In Suitably Direct Fashion
"What's up, a**holes?"
The Grasshopper Direct 2023 showcase was held yesterday, and it was suitably chaotic. We were even purportedly shown Grasshopper Manufacture's latest video game, with eccentric CEO Suda51 apparently being passed out for the rest of the Direct-style sendup. The 11-minute video celebrates 25 years of Grasshopper in a humourous...
News Shadows of the Damned, the Forgotten PS3 Shooter, Is Getting a Remaster
Find out more next week
Once upon a time, EA had a partners program which saw it add some lower-profile titles to its catalogue, including Alice: Madness Returns and Shadows of the Damned. The latter, a collaboration between Suda51’s Grasshopper Manufacturer and Resident Evil 4’s Shinji Mikami, was a grisly, largely forgettable third-person...
Assassins bleed
Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes is the kind of the game that revels in poking fun at its contemporaries – and yet somehow finds itself part of the punchline. This irreverent slice of post-modern punk has all of the verve of its Nintendo Wii predecessors, but it’s padded by stale gameplay segments which threaten to undo all...
E3 2019 Is Suda51 Teasing a No More Heroes 3 Announcement?
Take it to Instagram
After announcing Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes for PS4, prolific developer Suda51 said that he may have an announcement to make at E3 2019. Well, it looks like that reveal is set to become a reality with a potential No More Heroes 3 on the cards. The man himself has made an interesting post on Instagram, with the caption...
News Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes Breaks Nintendo Switch Exclusivity to Release on PS4
Announced by Suda51
Suda51 himself had been teasing an announcement taking place at his panel at MomoCom, and here it is: Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes is coming to PS4. Originally released earlier this year for the Nintendo Switch, the game was met with fairly mixed reviews, although our friends over at Nintendo Life enjoyed the experience...
News Suda51 Classic Killer7 Revived in Free-to-Play PS4 Title Let It Die
Part of Grasshopper's celebrations
Suda51’s legendary super-stylised PlayStation 2 action adventure Killer7 will be revived in Let It Die, developer Grasshopper Manufacture has announced. It’s all part of the studio’s 20th Anniversary celebrations, with the first part of the new content set to drop this spring. No other information has been...
E3 2014 What Ever Happened to Suda 51's PS4 Exclusive Lily Bergamo?
He let it die
In arguably the most disturbing reveal of Sony's E3 press conference this year, Suda51 debuted a trailer for his newest game Let It Die. However, the ambitious auteur was also previously known to be working on the PlayStation 4 exclusive action title Lily Bergamo. What's more, the presumably bonkers brawler was set to release sometime...
E3 2014 Suda 51's New PS4 Exclusive Let It Die Is Brutal and Bizarre
Speaking words of wisdom
Distinctive auteur Suda 51 is about as divisive as they come. Indeed, the luminary's games either cause intense adoration, or confused and bewildered disgust. And if this trailer for his new PlayStation 4 exclusive Let It Die is anything to go by, that trend isn't likely to be changing in the near future. The live action...
News The PS4 Is Super Speedy, Says Killer Is Dead Dev Suda51
Exclusive title on the way
It seems to have become a trend for high-profile developers to lavish undying praise on the PlayStation 4, with the most salient example being Hideo Kojima's laconic love letter to our beloved black box. The fun doesn't stop there, though, as decidedly distinctive director Goichi Suda, a
News Suda51: PS4 Title Lily Bergamo Is Not an Average Action Game
What is it, then?
It’s been several months since No More Heroes creator Suda51 pulled back the curtain on PlayStation 4 exclusive Lily Bergamo during Sony’s pre-Tokyo Game Show press event – but we still don’t actually know a whole lot about it. Speaking as part of one of the manufacturer’s
News Could Lily Bergamo Be Baffling Western PS4 Consoles?
Question time
Prepare yourself for more puzzling plots and suggestive cut-scenes, as Suda51’s first PlayStation 4 project Lily Bergamo could be heading overseas. The title – which was announced with a stylish video earlier in the year – has been trademarked by parent company GungHo in North America, making an international releas
News Killer Is Dead Stars an Assassin with an Outrageous Arm
Packing heat
It's been a long time since we learned anything about Grasshopper Manufacture's upcoming PlayStation 3 action title, Killer Is Dead. The game was announced in April last year, but has been kept under wraps for the past eight months. Thankfully, that's changed this week, courtesy of a Famitsu magazine exposé. The report, translated by
News Lollipop Chainsaw Ships 700,000 Units Worldwide
Record breaker
Grasshopper Manufacture is no stranger to commercial failure, but it looks like the studio has finally secured a timely hit. The Japanese developer has declared that it has shipped over 700,000 copies of Lollipop Chainsaw worldwide, making it the most successful title in the company’s history. Studio gaffer Suda 51 and Japanese...
News Grasshopper to Release Student Developed Vita Games in Japan
Edutainment
Lollipop Chainsaw developer Grasshopper Manufacture has announced the winners of its student development initiative, Game Campus Festa. The project – which kicked off last year – was launched as a collaboration between the developer and various Japanese schools. The fruits of the scheme will be released later this month on...
News Sine Mora Shooting onto PlayStation Vita
A nice surprise
In a somewhat unexpected announcement, Grasshopper has revealed that its former Xbox Live Arcade shooter Sine Mora is flying onto PlayStation Vita. The game – developed in conjunction with Digital Reality – is “a diesel punk shoot ‘em up that provides a unique take on the genre, where time is the ultimate factor”. The...
Interview Goichi Suda - Grasshopper Manufacture
Suda51 talks Lollipop Chainsaw, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and what "punk" means to his studio
There's crazy, and then there's Japanese studio Grasshopper Manufacture's particular brand of bonkers, which positively oozes from its upcoming title Lollipop Chainsaw. As the developer braces itself for the June release of its over-the-top teenage bubblegum...
News Killer is Dead Concept Art is... Alive
Worldwide release planned
As promised, Japanese gaming bible Famitsu has released the very first images of Grasshopper Manufacture’s new PlayStation 3 title Killer is Dead. The concept shots focus on a futuristic city and an alarmingly tidy office. Seriously, how do people cope with such cleanliness? It makes our skin crawl. Posting in the...
News The Killer is Dead in New Grasshopper Game
Not a sequel to Killer 7
Grasshopper Manufacture may be hard at work putting the finishing touches to bonkers high-school zombie slasher Lollipop Chainsaw, but that’s not stopping the utterly insane studio from raising the curtain on its next project. Entitled Killer is Dead, the title promises to blend the gameplay of Killer 7 and No More Heroes...
News Grasshopper Considering Shadows of the Damned Sequel
Spurred on
Shadows of the Damned didn’t get the respect it deserved. In what other third-person shooter do you feed crying babies strawberries in order to open locked doors? Exactly. If you haven’t played it, you’re part of the problem. Still, despite the game tanking like a weight in water at retail, former Silent Hill composer (who worked on...
News Japanese Lollipop Chainsaw Trailer Makes Our Day
Yummy and juicy
The world might be infested with rot and madness, but none of that’s stopping Juliet Starling from donning her favourite bikini and going out zombie slaying. This Japanese trailer for upcoming Lollipop Chainsaw is as mad as you’d expect, with sparkles, inappropriate clothing and gore all at the centre of the footage. There’s...
News Lollipop Chainsaw Piles On The Stupidity, Introduces Antagonist Swan
Ignore Lollipop Chainsaw's antagonist Swan's similarities to The Cure frontman Robert Smith, because it definitely ain't like heaven at San Romero High School
As previous trailers have established, Lollipop Chainsaw is a zombie game with a bubblepop twist. Could there be a more fitting bad-guy than a misunderstood high-school goth? Sure, Lollipop...
News Lollipop Chainsaw's Boxart Is Appropriately Awesome
Good boxart should summarise a game's contents in a single image
Lollipop Chainsaw's front-cover does exactly that. The artwork shows protagonist Juliet Starling clutching at a chainsaw with her beheaded companion key-fob dangling from her waist. In the background are high-school lockers with zombies inside. Pretty much tells you everything you need...
News Lollipop Chainsaw Celebrates Hallowe'en The Only Way It Knows How
The latest trailer for Grasshopper's bizarre third-person slash 'em up, Lollipop Chainsaw, pretty much sells itself when it plasters enormous curse words all over the screen
Oh, and the part where protagonist Juliet Starling chainsaws a dude in half, only for him to immediately heal back together and ask, "Did you think that hurt?" Judging...
GamesCom 2011 Grasshopper Manufacture Announces Black Knight Sword For PlayStation Network
Grasshopper Manufacture and imaginative game concepts go together like cheese and pineapple, so the Japanese developer's latest PlayStation Network title won't come as a huge surprise
Entitled Black Knight Sword, the downloadable title — which is set to be published by Digital Reality early next year — is a 2D platformer with a "picture...
News Debut Lollipop Chainsaw Trailer Hits The Web, Makes Us Smile
Lollipop Chainsaw protagonist Juliet Starling screams her insults as she thrusts a chainsaw into the face of an unsuspecting stumbling corpse
The result is not a fountain of crimson, but instead a splutter of glitter — such is the style of Suda 51's latest PlayStation 3 action title. From a commercial perspective we're not quite sure why...
News Grasshopper Goes Dieselpunk With PSN Shmup Sine Mora
We had to look up "dieselpunk" on Wikipedia
Apparently the buzzword represents "a sub-genre of the pop surrealist art movement, as well as a budding subculture, that combines the aesthetics of the interbellum period through the early 1950s with postmodern technology and sensibilities". Right. To be honest, all you really need to know is...
News YES! Warner Bros Confirms Western Release Of Lollipop Chainsaw In 2012
Grasshopper Manufacture's bonkers looking zombie slasher, Lollipop Chainsaw, will be published in Europe and North America by Warner Bros next year, the company has announced
The pop-music inspired slasher will feature Suda 51's outrageous design and Akira Yamaoka's audio skills. There's now an official website for the game through here. Our...
News In The Interests Of Proving That Lollipop Chainsaw Is A Genuine Product
Some of you may have seen our story on Lollipop Chainsaw earlier in the afternoon
The project may have drawn a stern, "Yeah, whatever, it's not even April fools," from the most cynical amongst you. We can confirm that the girly zombie slayer is indeed an actual product. In fact, Famitsu has released a batch of new screenshots to prove as...
Rumour Grasshopper Working On Cheerleader Zombie Slaying Game Called Lollipop Chainsaw [Updated]
Original story: If this rumour had any other developer's name attached to it, we'd call it rubbish
But this is a rumour for Grasshopper Manufacture's latest title; y'know, the Suda51 joint. That means it's hard to treat any rumours as nonsense — the crazier they are, the more likely they are to be true. Take Lollipop Chainsaw, the studio's latest...
News Shadows Of The Damned Director Leaves Grasshopper
Shadows Of The Damned director Massimo Guarini has left Grasshopper Manufacture to set-up a new studio
Guarini's upstart, Ovosonico Productions, will be based on "games, music and films with an attitude" according to the company's website.
Feature Let's Give EA Some Credit -- 'Twiggy' The Push Square Opinionator
Over the last three weeks I've played two niche games which I thoroughly enjoyed
Neither of the games were particularly successful at retail, but both enhanced my appreciation of EA as a publisher. Alice: Madness Returns was scorned for being derivative and classical in design, while Shadows Of The Damned was dismissed because of some poor gameplay...
News Shadows Of The Damned Launches With New Trailer
Shadows Of The Damned is getting rave reviews from all corners of the Internet
The problem is: no-one knows that the game is coming out. The reviews aren't unexpected — this is a game from Suda 51, Shinji Mikami and Akira Yamaoka after all — but it's disappointing to see such a collaboration of super-creative minds slipping under the radar so...
News Oh Right, EA Put Out Another One Of Those Weird Shadows Of The Damned Documentaries
In this new Shadows Of The Damned developer diary, Akira Yamaoka and Suda 51 make silly faces while being dubbed by ridiculous voices
We speak for everyone when we say: "day one".</em>
News Shadows Of The Damned Shows You Who Is Boss
It's funny
We know virtually nothing about Grasshopper's Shadows Of The Damned, but we've had the game preordered for months now. How much more do you need to know beyond "Shinji Mikami" and "Suda51"? The game's even been scored by ex-Silent Hill composer Akira Yamaoka. Sure, we would have preferred the game to take a more...
News Latest Shadows Of The Damned Screenshots Are Ridiculously Awesome
What happens when you let Shinji Mikami and Suda51 make a game together? Shadows Of The Damned is the answer
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News Shadows Of The Damned Pushed Back Slightly
The release date of Shinji Mikami and Suda51's grindhouse horror romp, Shadows Of The Damned, has been pushed back a couple of weeks
The game was originally due out in early June, but has now been given a more firm June 21st date. The change has probably been implemented in order to avoid the E3 media vaccuum that's due to kick off at the start of...
We're all over EA's Shadows Of The Damned
Not because it looks particularly fresh, innovative or originial, but because it's from Shinji Mikami (Resident Evil) and Suda51 (Killer7). Silliness is guaranteed.</em>
News No More Heroes: Red Zone Includes Levels Cut from Wii Version
Travis scores a touchdown
It's been a long time since we've heard anything about Konami's No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise, but Siliconera has unearthed a few details about extra content in the game's Japanese release, titled No More Heroes: Red Zone Edition. Famitsi (via Siliconera) reports the game will feature 10 missions cut from the Wii version...
News Suda51 Is Keen On Doing Another No More Heroes, Won't Be Doing It Any Time Soon
For as repetitive and eye-wateringly frustrating as No More Heroes is, we have a fondness for the franchise
Suda51's motion controlled slasher isn't the most technically refined game in the world, but it's no-less comically ridiculous. So would we be up for a third game in the series? Damn right we would, and Suda51's totally with us. The legendary...
News GDC 2011: We're Getting Suda51 & Shinji Mikami's Brainchild Sooner Than We Assumed
How much have we actually seen of Suda51 and Shinji Mikami's horror title, Shadows Of The Damned? Not a lot at all, but it's out in just a few months
EA's slapped a June 7th release date on the grindhouse-inspired game, creating a horror double-header alongside Alice: Madness Returns. Speaking at GDC, both Suda51 and Shinji Mikami fleshed out some...
News We're Still Not Sure About Shadows Of The Damned...
When Shinji Mikami revealed he was working on a new PS3 title with Grasshopper's Suda51, we immediately jumped to all the wrong conclusions: survival horror, bonkers art-style, weird psychological narrative, awesome
Unfortunately, the reality of the collaboration, Shadows Of The Damned, has done nothing but disappoint us. Maybe our expectations were...
News Make Your PlayStation Move A Beam Katana With No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise
To remind everyone that the stupidly stylish No More Heroes is coming to PlayStation 3, Konami's released a batch of new screenshots of the Nintendo Wii port
The HD update's due in the West this year with added PlayStation Move controls. There are more screens through here.</em>
News No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise Lands PlayStation 3 Exclusivity In North America
Konami announced months ago that they'd picked up the publishing rights to the HD Wii port No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise, and were planning to bring the title to Europe with PlayStation Move support
The publishers finally announced that the game's coming to North America too — as a PlayStation 3 exclusive. For those unfamiliar, No More Heroes:...
News Konami Announces No More Heroes for PlayStation Move... Again
Travis touches down
The official US PlayStation blog gets plenty scoops – it is the official PlayStation blog after all – but not always. Cast your minds back to the early days of Movemodo – our first day of operation, in fact. We brought you news that Konami was bringing No More Heroes to PlayStation 3, and today Konami has announced it's...
News TGS 10: Shinji Mikami/Suda 51 Collaboration Revealed, Not As Exciting As We'd Hoped
It's hard to judge a game based on a 90-second trailer
It's probably something we shouldn't do in the first place. But it's hard to not be disappointed by the long-awaited announcement of Shinji Mikami and Suda51's "horror" project; officially announced this morning as Shadows Of The Damned. Perhaps it's a matter of expectation. Shinji...
News EA, Suda51 Finally Prepping Horror Announcement For Tokyo Next Month
Aside from the PlayStation Network's Siren: Blood Curse, horror games have been a little tame this generation
Even the biggest new horror franchise, Dead Space, is markedly soft compared to some of the PS2's top horror titles. We're hoping that the EA published Suda51 and Shinji Mikami collaboration fixes that. News of a big Tokyo showing from EA...
News EA Readying "Several Announcements" For Its Tokyo Showcase
Announcements of announcements are never fun, and with GamesCom just out of the way, we didn't want to come across greedy by talking about new video games we've no idea about
But this was too good to skip over. EA's promising "several announcements" for its TGS Tokyo Showcase; and Tokyo means Japan — the home-land of Shinji Mikami and...