24.4.2008

I love this game. Being half way though, I've found it to be a focused adventure game. You play Travis Touchdown, suckered into gaining the 11th rank of the UAA (United Assassins Association) by the sexy Silvia Christel.Stuck in a game where he can only win (loosing means death), Travis' original intent was to get into Silvia's pants. But after a few rounds, No More Heroes takes a turn I never thought it would. The pressure of remaining or advancing in ranking, the blood on their hands, and the families and lives they've missed out on, all weight heavily on the characters Travis will meet. And in turn, he will understand. Think of Kill Bill, with Japanese quirkiness and you won't be far off.Style is paramount in this game.From the odd cel-shading effect with harsh shadows (tricking my eyes into squinting sometimes, like I would on a bright summer day), to the very cool fighting styles employed by all the characters. The Wiimote has yet to be used better for hand to hand combat, with a move in the right direction of either or both hands to make a finishing move.Through the game you'll learn new wrestling moves to perform, which get more complicated and require several simultaneous wiimote and nunchuck gestures. You can increase your stats (health, strength, etc.) by going to Thunder Ryu's Gym; you'll actually mimic Travis on screen for some of the activities: lifting weights and doing squats, etc.Driving is a serviceable, but fun way of getting about the city. It isn't the Grand Theft Auto some people were hoping for, and it was never meant to be. Think of this more along the lines of Bully, or Beyond Good and Evil, where travelling is just that: A to B. This isn't a game where you'll be happy driving around for hours doing nothing like you can in the GTA series.This is a gamers game. An anthology of every game stereotype and cliché in style. Travis even runs like a game character, bounding as Mario does from the original NES game, but in a more realistic manner. The sounds, fonts, and interface are retro 8-bit in style, and it is wonderful. This game enjoys being a game. You even get fun arcade style leader board after every assassin bested.There aren't many negative points. The missing blood in the Japan and European versions aren't missed, and enemies exploding into black dust with fountains of the in-game currency is just as cool an effect. It fits more into the concept of a game for gamings sake. Though it is odd the blood was replaced, whilst the game is full of bad language. So parents? Don't get this if you don't want your kids mimicking some of the very clever insults, and funny answer machine messages.There's some slight screen-tear on my CRT TV in places, though I've not noticed a drop in frame-rate; it's easy to confuse the two, but they are different. Perhaps flat-screens handle tearing by delaying the image on screen.Pop-up whilst driving is noticeable, but only on parts of the scenery and textures - it doesn't hamper your driving ability, and you'll be able to find important items in the distance. And colliding with other cars has little effect: both vehicles will just stop. At faster speeds you'll fall off your bike. That's about it.I would recommend this game to everyone. It could have done with a bit more polish, but I'm really trying to find bad points. If you want a driving game with adventure elements, get GTA. If you want an adventure, with driving elements, get this. And if you really want blood get it imported.

25.1.2008

First of all, this is a violent title and it's a welcome change of pace from all the "casual" games out there on the Wii. There is blood and mature language, but it's in the style of of what you may have seen in the Kill Bill films. This game is totally over the top and it's funny. It's all about the intense combat, strange characters, witty dialog, wicked sense of humor and overall visual anime-style look of the game.There are tons of combat maneuvers you can perform with the Wiimote and Nunchuck. Make sure to do the beginning tutorial as once you are done, you will have the controls figured out. The combat is a mix of sword fighting with wrestling type maneuvers (Suplex, Piledriver, Powerslam,

22.4.2009

This is a good game, don't let the negative title of the review put you off.Heres why:Gameplay: 3/5Solid enough, plenty to do and upgrade, but seems to revolve around beating the next boss to 'rank up' so that you can work your way up to being top in some assasination hit parade. And why ? So you can buy a new t-shirt and some random anime poster crap... The fighting can be repetitive but on the whole its a good GTA style type of beat em' up. Average characture in travis tho' -fairly dry humoured mundain kinda dude.Graphics and Sound: 5/5Bit ropey in terms of the actual mechanisms used, but the style of the game is what sells this title,

24.3.2008

No More Heroes is just what the Wii needed - a proper gamers game that any of the older generation of gamers can appreciate. There are constant changes in pace, loads of retro nods in the loading screens and High Score tables, and simple but very satidfying gameplay.Its incredibally rough around the edges mind. The graphics at times are LITERALLY Ps1 standard and the framerate in the city sections is painfully poor (Especially when on the bike). There is lots of pop up and the collision detection is quite frankly appalling and pretty inexcusable in this day and age. If you take graphics very seriously then, excellent art style aside, technically this isnt your sort of thing.The thing is,

7.1.2008

After playing the Japanese version, I have to say, I'm quite impressed with Grasshopper studios efforts. Travis Touchdown, the character you control, strives to become Santa Destroys best assassin.The game uses cel shaded graphics, which look rather nice despite the fact it makes certain things a little difficult to see. Your beam katana (the sword thing that looks like a lightsaber) is your key weapon. To swing it, you press A despite many people actually wanted to actually swing the Wii remote. This was slightly disappointing as I was quite looking forward to swinging the Wii remote, similar to Zelda: Twilight Princess. Z is for locking onto enemies and B is used to grab stunned foes.

15.10.2010

First of all. Not suitable for children.This game is great fun. Well written storyline, great characters, wonderful presentation. It is unfortunately, not perfect.The graphics are very nice. Some nice effects and handled very smoothly, even with a lot of enemies on the screen. Everyone goes on about the lack of blood, but does it really matter. Even without the blood its still very violent.Game play wise, very simple but uber fun. Gain enough cash from doing part time jobs, some innocent, some not so innocent. Once you have collected enough cash you can enter a rank challenge. This involves slicing and dicing your way through a level, dispatching numerous enemies on your way. Once at the end,

14.3.2008

It is a a shame that the european version of the game no longer has the streams of blood the American version has, BUT, what some people are forgetting in their reviews for this game is that even without the gushing blood, this is truly a magnificent game.I have NEVER played a game like this and all wii owners waiting for something different, fresh and violent should definitely invest in this game.What Grasshopper has done brilliantly is exploit the wii's strengths. For combat you won't be swinging the Wii remote round like a looney, you'll simply be pressing A and raising and lowering your wii remote for the two different stances - simple but very effective and deeply satisfying especially when delivering the final blow.

20.3.2008

The easy part of this review is to tell you how great this game is.The hard part is to describe exactly what 'No More Heroes' is. The game is a melting pot of Tarantino style violence, Manga visuals, and a punk image. The game also seems to be one of the first satirical games i've ever played. Suda 51's game comments on how de-sensitized to violence we all are. This is reflected in-game as you go from the banality of coconut collection to walking into a high-street assasination agency as if it were like walking into your local newsagents.The original quirks of this game are surprising and plentiful. Whether its saving your progress on the toilet,

6.6.2010

One of those love-it or hate it titles for the Wii, and although there are some things that bug me about this game, I still can't help but fall into the former category. Sure, it has some wonky dialogue now and again, severe lulls in the action (grass mowing, anyone?) that you have to trawl through to progress and some technical hickups that pop up now and again. But come on! A game where you save your progress by going to the toilet?!? Where you feed and pet your kitty before riding off on your retro sci-fi bike to battle schoolgirls?!? Lightsabre duels?!?(Although technically I'm not supposed to call it that, am I?) Honestly, what's not to like!?! Not to mention the kooky cell-shaded graphics,

15.6.2009

This is a great product although don't be confused as to what sort of game its is. Although there are aspects similar to GTA(roaming round the city, performing side jobs, customising character clothes) this really is mainly a hack n' slash game. Not that this is a problem with the enjoyable battle style. Its has a great humour and sense of style running throughout it, with some neat touches (like physically raising the Wii remote to your ear when you get phone calls before the boss battles, the voice of the caller coming throiugh the Wii remote speaker) and neat retro nods. The boss battles are very inventive and rising up the rankings is great fun.

24.4.2008

I admit that I had looked forward to this game for a long time but I tried not to be biased when playing it. However, the game blew away my expectations from the get go, the fight system is excellent, fun, but also surprisingly deep at times, not just button mashing for the sake of it. It features probably the best cutscenes, acting, storyline, humour and adult themes of any Wii game to date as well. Yes, this European version has had the blood removed, but given the fact that Manhunt 2 was so recently and publicly banned in this country that isn't really a surprise. However, I don't feel you actually lose anything by losing the gore. The game has a very surreal and comical approach anyway,

4.6.2010

First of all this game is seriously hilarious, 'Take some time to release yourself before work' -you have to save the game by going to the toilet! Also Travis Touchdown, the game's protagonist is one of the funniest game characters in Video Game history! Play the game and see for youself. No More Heroes is a very unique game with awesome characters, a very funky soundtrack, cool shell-shaded graphics and insane boss fights.However there are some bad points, the graphics are good but they are not great. Also you live in an awesome sunny city in California called Santa Destroy, it's a shame then that your exploration of it is limited.

14.9.2008

This game has had a lot of insults because of the lack of blood. i love gore in films and i am attracted to gory games such as madworld and at first was excited abut the blood in this game.When i realised there was no blood and it was censored, i was a bit confused as to why, but i knew it was such a great game that i had to hav it. I ordered it off of amazon and finished it in about 2months. (im a casual gamer, okay?)who cares there's no blood, to be honest ithink as much as the blood looked cool, i think the effect when they die is actually better because it adds to the whole attitude of the gme. its a really wierd game and the whole black dust effect works with the games attitude perfectly.

16.3.2008

I admit at first I was a bit upset about the game being censored but I would never let it stop me from buying a game. You start off with the excellent tutorial which you can skip if you wish then you're right into the action. Everything about this game oozes quality. The cell-shaded graphics, the dialogue, boss fights, the humorous cut scenes and I even enjoyed the mini games you play to earn more money. I find myself laughing over and over at the main character who goes by the name of Travis Touchdown. Some people may look at this game and think it looks pretty shallow but there is much much more I could put in this review.

22.7.2008

No More Heroes is a shiny gem in the third-party swamp of mediocrity of the Wii's library. The action is incredibly addictive, the satirical plot is excellent and the soundtrack is very suited to the game.The plot follows antisocial otaki Travis Touchdown, an avid japanophile gamer who buys a beam katana and decides to become the #1 assasin in the world after inadvertantly killing #11.The gameplay is simplistic and fun. The main gameplay is in the assasination missions, where you must run around in a specific map killing everything that moves. TO that end, you use the beam katana. Hammering A slices, and to perform a death strike you swing the Wii Remote in a specific direction. Very simple,

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