Not as good as the first game but not as bad as everyone made it out to be. Learned Suda was less involved in this one and you can for sure feel it at times. Still though I had a really good time, the presentation was kicked up by 11 which really added to it.

Lots of great character design, environment design, and the soundtrack rules! There was less grinding for money, but also the jobs were not as fun/less memorable as they played a smaller role. The gym minigames were a little too hands on to still cost money as well, the strength mini game was really hard for me lol. Losing the overworld is also a shame, made everything feel way more disjointed than the first game. I also thought things were too easy this time around, most bosses I could stun lock, some of them were just annoying (Shinobu's two fights mainly), and the ones by the end finally STARTED to feel good but never got to the heights of the original.

I know there was a lot of complaining there, but the good in this game is still really good! If you're looking to have dumb fun with Travis, this game serves it's purpose. Excited to see where the next two games go once they go on sale again, but I do not have $80 to drop at the moment. So I'll prob be checking out some of the other Suda games first, up next is Killer7!

I would probably recommend this game if you liked the first No More Heroes, but if you haven't played any, you gotta start with that one.

Oh yeah. Did I mention you can get dual beam katanas in this one? Now that's moe.