No More Heroes is a hack and slash game with open world elements by Grasshopper Manufacture originally released on the Wii in 2007 with recent ports on Switch in 2020 and PC in 2021. The game oozes in style with its funny characters, pretty good music (especially the cat song) and stylistic violence that makes this game pretty fun to play.
I think the biggest two things I like about this game is the gameplay in a sense and Travis himself. The game manages to run pretty well on the portable console while fountains of bloods are gushing out of people's bodies which fill up the dopamine receptors for me and it's done in a way that's really satisfying with barely any feeling of repetition. Travis himself is a unique protagonist in that he's openly a "weeb" and very vulgar that despite his initial shallowness somehow provides a unique depth to his own character and it's nice to actually see him interact with the world and the other main characters in the story not to mention I can't imagine anyone else portraying Travis Touchdown as the original VA, Robin Atkin Downes. Most of the soundtrack here share a motif you'll definitely notice and there are some songs here that are solid but nothing that gets me excited in a sense too much. The story and characters are pretty interesting and make you think about the themes that each of them represent including a very cool and physically (for me) final fights.
I think the only source of repetition that there is here is the side jobs themselves as you need a certain amount of money to continue with the story thus being required to do certain jobs that require you to travel from one spot to another and starting the job and so forth. I wouldn't mind the side job system here if it was streamlined a little bit that didn't help with the overall traversal of the open world itself.
No More Heroes illustrate that you can really do so much and there might as well not be any point to it at all. This game really confronts you about what you expect in a game and challenges it a bit here albeit not too much. It's not complex but it doesn't mean it's not taxing since in this game, it's kill or be killed.
I think the biggest two things I like about this game is the gameplay in a sense and Travis himself. The game manages to run pretty well on the portable console while fountains of bloods are gushing out of people's bodies which fill up the dopamine receptors for me and it's done in a way that's really satisfying with barely any feeling of repetition. Travis himself is a unique protagonist in that he's openly a "weeb" and very vulgar that despite his initial shallowness somehow provides a unique depth to his own character and it's nice to actually see him interact with the world and the other main characters in the story not to mention I can't imagine anyone else portraying Travis Touchdown as the original VA, Robin Atkin Downes. Most of the soundtrack here share a motif you'll definitely notice and there are some songs here that are solid but nothing that gets me excited in a sense too much. The story and characters are pretty interesting and make you think about the themes that each of them represent including a very cool and physically (for me) final fights.
I think the only source of repetition that there is here is the side jobs themselves as you need a certain amount of money to continue with the story thus being required to do certain jobs that require you to travel from one spot to another and starting the job and so forth. I wouldn't mind the side job system here if it was streamlined a little bit that didn't help with the overall traversal of the open world itself.
No More Heroes illustrate that you can really do so much and there might as well not be any point to it at all. This game really confronts you about what you expect in a game and challenges it a bit here albeit not too much. It's not complex but it doesn't mean it's not taxing since in this game, it's kill or be killed.