
The how or why isn’t clear, but it’s awesome. This mysterious drug seems to give you the ability to slow down time. Time rewinds back to the start of the level or checkpoint, which brings me to the next awesome feature of this nostalgic game: Your silent Samurai is juiced up on some unknown drug called Chronus. When you ‘die’ in Katana ZERO, you don’t actually die. It’s safe to say that I could not put this game down from start to finish. It’s little things like this that make the game incredibly difficult to stop playing. Learning vital information from your past. Throughout the course of the game, your character drops in and out of conversations with what you believe to be a therapist of some sort.

There’s a lot of mystery surrounding the main character, and uncovering that was exciting and exhilarating. What really surprised me while playing Katana ZERO was its plot. There is a one-hit-kill mechanic here that works both ways you can kill in one hit, but you can also be killed in one hit.

For one – and as you probably can guess – your main weapon is a katana, slicing and dicing anyone in your way. Where it differs from Hotline Miami is in the mechanics of the game.
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Katana ZERO is a lot like Hotline Miami, not only in its publisher, but also in the way that you have a series of interlocking rooms and all enemies within these rooms must be killed/defeated in order to progress to the next area. This is a character that you will come to learn a lot about throughout your journey, and you will love this silent Samurai, just as I did.

Zero is a capable and deadly assassin who has honed his abilities to an almost inhuman peak. Ambidextrous Sprite: His sword is traditionally depicted as being sheathed on his left hip, as he's right handed. Zero has apricot skin, long, black hair that is usually tied into a samurai-like ponytail and brown eyes. The media seemingly nicknames him 'The Dragon' after a few jobs. Upon first starting a New Game, you will quickly be introduced to the character you take the role of throughout the story – a nameless Samurai who pretty much doubles as a hitman, whether he likes it or not. A nameless assassin that is working for a secret group to assassinate key figures in New Mecca.
