Of course, by “evolution” I mean the painstaking process of taking the ogreish tough guy seen on the left, and transforming him into the ogreish tough guy seen here on the right. Incredible, isn’t it?

The dev diary also reveals the reasoning behind the game’s black and white look; to prevents players from feeling guilty about taking such pleasure in murdering so many strangers (something most Japanese developers get around by filling their games with unsightly zombies). From experience, I have the ability to state the black and white “trick” really works. While playing the game at the NY CC ‘09, I was immediately struck by how un-disturbing it was to see a man’s head shoved up his own ass.