Slitterhead review | PC gamer

From the creator of Silent Hill and Forbidden Siren comes a game that spits in the eye of survival horror. Slitterhead is a bloody, ridiculous action slaughterhouse. True, there are countless Cronenbergian monstrosities to battle, and many unpleasant things happen to people’s constantly popping heads. But this is pure lame nonsense, with few of the real fears one can have in a game where you throw spears of blood at beasts and try not to giggle at “blood” as a prefix for pretty much every other word in the vocabulary.

You play as a mysterious floating entity with no memories (obviously) that can possess virtually any NPC in the game. You spend your first moments bouncing between bodies until someone in a dark alley greets you with their head exploding, revealing your first Slitterhead beneath: the game’s monstrous antagonists. They’re gloriously terrible, especially when they reveal their massive final forms, as if the designers saw a typical Resident Evil boss fight and thought ‘hmm, way too understated and subtle’.