After clearing a stage and passing 'go', I know I won't have to return.

It only takes me eight tries to pull it off the way I envisioned it.Īlthough I'm expected to perform flawlessly, Katana Zero does the favor of separating its eleven levels into individual scenes that function like checkpoints. After frying those two, I jump and slash through the floorboards of another room, killing one mobster in the process and slowing time to deflect the bullet of the second one back in his face. With their heads on the floor, I'm able to take out the guys with guns above them who are conveniently standing in the path of several deactivated lasers, the switch for which is on the wall beside me covered in Ricky guts. If I sprint up and throw the makeshift murder tools with four fast button presses, I can take them all down. Four weapons, four crowbar-wielding Rickys.

In the back halls of a noisy nightclub, in pursuit of a drug-dealing DJ, I pause to watch four pompadoured gangsters hazing the newest member of the 'Skinny Rickys.' I'm badly outnumbered, but I can see three bottles and a butcher knife lying in a room at the top of the stairs. I have to chain together slowed attacks with realtime ones or I'll wind up with an empty slow-mo tank while the bullets and fists are still flying. But it's a scant resource that can seldom get me out of danger alone. Slowing time is Katana Zero's core ability, and turns what would otherwise be an unfair challenge into a tactical tango. It only takes me eight tries to pull it off the way I envisioned it.

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