Blast demons with a gun who is also a motorcycle who is also a demon while shouting “Taste my Big Boner!”
Shadows of the Damned, the unexpected collaboration betweenNo More Heroes,Killer7andLollipop Chainsawcreator Goichi ‘Suda51’ Suda andResident Evilcreator Shinji Mikami, will finally see a PC release with a new remake later this year - over a decade after it first hit consoles.
Helping Garcia was Johnson, his demon pal who could transform into a full armoury of guns, a flashlight - used to weaken darkness-dwelling demons,Alan Wake-style - and a literal motorcycle amidst lines like “Taste my Big Boner!” and “Aim for the cracks and shoot it with your hot Boner.” (The Boner being Garcia’s revolver, obviously.)
As you can probably grasp from that if you haven’t played it, it’s a very silly affair, soaked in Suda’s trademark love of rock music and punk stylings as seen in the likes of No More Heroes and Lollipop Chainsaw (which isalso due a return). Mikami’s influence comes through the game’s solidsurvival-horror-tinged shooting and genuinely demonic monster designs, despite the goofy approach. I remember liking it a good amount at the time, despite never really gelling with No More Heroes, though I was also a literal teenager at the time, so I can’t speak to how its crass tone might land today.
