Travis Touchdown, our favourite otaku assassin, is back on Nintendo consoles again thanks to the latest offering in the series,
Travis Touchdown, our favourite otaku assassin, is back on Nintendo consoles again thanks to the latest offering in the series,
If you were a fan of the original No More Heroes 1 and 2 on the Wii, then you were no doubt excited when Grasshopper Manufacture's Suda51 unveiled that there would be a new installment, Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes, on the Nintendo Switch.
"So you're back, you son of a b**ch. We thought that you had retired, that you had hung up the beam katana for good. But no, you had to light it up once again, you had to unleash another stupid bloodshed.
Developed by Grasshopper Manufacture – and of course by extension the legendary Suda51 – Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes delivers on almost everything you could want – and expect – from both a Travis Touchdown game and a Suda51 experience.
Wild Humor; Fun; Chaotic Combat; Destroys The 4th Wall; Fantastic Retro Soundtrack; Dripping With Charm
Problematic Camera; A Bit Repetitive
When Travis Touchdown first entered the scene in No More Heroes on the Wii in 2008, he became a cult-hit. A decade later, his post-mode...
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Sound design is excellent; The boss fights are interesting
Toilet save points are awkward in public; It's really quite ugly; The combat just isn't any fun
There is something unique which attracts each, individual player to a game. For some, that quality is narrative. For others, it's gameplay. For me, that quality is creativity. Nothing excites me more than seeing a developer tackle an idea that feels unpredictable or electric, and nails it with...
Wildly entertaining and full of personality; Full of fluid; engaging hack-and-slash combat; Constantly surprising from front to back
Decidedly low-budget; Feels structurally disjointed at times; Fixed camera presents the rare issue
Travis Strikes Again is smaller in scope than its predecessors, but no less weird and surprising.
No More Heroes was a ridiculously over-the-top brawler about an insufferable, arrogant nerd murdering people with a laser sword for profit. It was stylish, violent, magnificently bizarre, and a breath of fresh air for the mostly child-friendly Wii.
Repetitive, dry, and inexplicably uninteresting, Travis Strikes Again is a massive misstep for a series with an otherwise solid track record. It's not so much the near complete abandonment of what made No More Heroes so appealing that plagues the hack n' slash, but the all-around drop in quality...
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