A solid game, but not nearly as good as the first one. It's really a big step down. The story is way less interesting and kind of anticlimactic. Most of the bosses aren't as memorable, but they're still pretty cool compared to other games. I hate that they removed the freeroaming, and that all the side-missions are downgraded to annoying NES-like minigames. However, it's still No More Heroes and it could never be a bad game obviously. The art direction and designs are still as amazing as any Suda51 game. Also the soundtrack slaps! I really liked playing as other characters than Travis as well, even tho he is still the best.

This game is mixed, I certainly enjoyed it, but its not as good as the first one.
You can tell Suda51 didn't direct this, has less sauce than the first.
I know its strange, but I miss driving around a hub world to go do menial tasks, and having to re-drive there if you fail. There is one boss that starts with sylvia saying "see if you can find the place of the next rank" but,,, its just an option on a map.

The Jiggle physics are fucking weird as fuck in this game, wtf did they do to naomi dude.

LOVE the second boss and how it ends, it soooo fucking stupid.

Glad the kept the scorpions though
(Headcanon Shinobu is trans)

Принято НМХ2 ругать, но мне очень даже зашло. Точно не хуже первой части, а в каких то моментах даже лучше.

Геймплей тут разнообразнее. Видов врагов стало больше, сами они стали больше отпор давать, стали жирнее, но их количество в целом поменьше. И вроде ковыряешь их больше, но это все равно не душно, так как тут ещё добавили механику типа ярости, юзаешь её и ебашишь врагов со скоростью света. А ещё тут дают поиграть даже за двух других персонажей, у них геймплей отличается не так сильно, но сам факт уже вносит разнообразие.

Опенворлд и гринд ради продвижения дальше убрали, и это охуенно. Работы стали 8-битными мини-играми, стали комплекснее и интереснее, их задрачивать интересно, как игры на Денди, где с каждой попыткой получается лучше. При том так то их задрачивать даже не обязательно, если хочешь заработать деньги на прокачку и шмотки, это плюс. Ну и просто разнообразить геймплей после резни.

Боссы в целом тоже немного разнобразнее стали, при этом сохранив колорит и стиль. Плюс темы музыкальные у большинства хорошие, в первой части у меня практически ни одна тема во время игры слух не зацепила. С босса советского космонавта даже всплакнул чут чут... Но вот довольно большая ложка дегтя это первая стадия финального босса. Она сама по себе скучная и душная, так ещё и для её прохождения нахуй не понятно что делать и ничего не намекает. Только с подсказкой пацанов понял, что надо было с боссом столкнуться, хотя на протяжении всей игры механика столкновения не требовалась для продвижения в боссфайте. Разрабы могли кучей способов хотя бы намекнуть на это. По сути моя самая большая претензия к игре.

Сюжет харош, но концовка в первой была мощнее. Честно сказать, я сюжет понял не до конца, не понял всю эти линию с женщиной, с которой кто-то говорит по мере прохождения игры. Если бы понял, может понравилось бы больше. Но вот сама идея про месть мне нравится больше, чем тупо секс в первой части. И в целом история тут подается интересне в процессе прохождения и размазана по всей игре лучше , когда как в первой части на тебя вываливают все в конце практически.

It's immediately apparent that this is a significant step up in visuals, with much smoother gameplay, and is generally far weirder and funnier than the first game.

It's still got a mean streak a mile wide, but I think the boost in its absurdity and ultraviolence makes some of these shitty characters far more amusing this time around. Travis even has fleeting moments where he says something that almost resembles something human, but its all still nonsense so who really cares.

For the first chunk of the game it almost feels like the increased volume of cutscenes has eaten into the level budget, with many being very short or almost non existent, but by the end I found a couple of stages to be far too long. I do however enjoy how these games just throw new characters at you like they're regulars in a TV show... and then they just die in violent, bloody ways never to be thought or spoken of again. It can at times all just feel like a big inside joke, but I think that's probably some of the appeal, and is most definitely intentional.

In general, I think I prefer the second game a little more with its less mean writing and reduced busywork, but on the flipside the new training minigames truly suck, and there are a couple of very annoying bosses late in the game despite an overall decrease in difficulty.

It's somehow more ambitious, and yet strangely smaller than the first game, but I think a lot of the harsher edges sanded off benefit the overall experience. It's good fun though, but I still do like the third game the most.

Faster, more stylish, and with a few cooler bosses, Desperate Struggle is a great follow up that gets tangled up in a lot of loose narrative moves that will likely remove some investment from players coming from the first game. That isn't to say it's bad by any means, but if NMH1 is a celebrated b-movie, Desperate Struggle is its junk food straight to DVD follow up. It's beloved and for great reason, but is definitely focused on being a fun game first and having a strong direction second. Excited to see how this entry shapes Travis Strikes Back and NMHIII as I get around to them.

Insane how big a step up this is from the first game, the graphics are honestly next gen (somehow) and the OST goes so fucking hard all the time. I have big mixed feelings though, the game is very short, money, and by proxy side jobs, is useless, theres a total of four katanas in the game and only two you can purchase. Also, the final boss is pretty shit, designwise and gameplay wise too. Side content ran out around getting ranked fourth. Although there are a couple missions playing as Shinobu and Henry, they felt very barebones. The story is plenty simple, but the comedy took a step down from the first one. It also lost the free fight missions and the open world. Now granted all of these were very jank in the first game, but I feel like it gave the game a lot of character. This game tries harder to be a "normal" gaming experience and suffers a bit from it. But, what matters most, is that the combat looks, feels, and is plain fucking amazing. Based ass game!

i might like this even more than the first one, simply because i didnt need to grind my ass of in the end and some of the fights actually were a challange unlike in nmh1

there is still stuff that the first game made better tho, the bosses were way better as characters, all of them had some charm while nmh2 barely had any boss was as cool as most of the ones from 1, also i miss the open world cuz it was cool as fuck
and last but not least... THE GAME CRASHED LITERALLY EVERY THIRTY MINUTES IN THE FIRST THREE HOURS THAT SHI WAS TERRIBLE