This belief got a dose of reality when the game opened only a little better than the first game (on both systems), and sales legs dropped off even more quickly. It was given a remaster ( No More Heroes: Red Zone Edition/Heroes' Paradise) for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, exclusive to the latter in all regions except Japan, based on the belief that its poor sales were due to the Wii being unreceptive to this kind of game. That said, no game lets you rain down on Mooks like some sort of angry nerd god quite like No More Heroes. All that Travis has going for him is his delusional grandeur and self-image as a cool protagonist, and even that is slowly stripped away as the game presents him with the harsh truths of a professional killer, and the fact that his murderous rampage is fueled by nothing more than a shallow need for self-gratification. It gives you a Wide-Open Sandbox and a kickass motorcycle, but also the stark realization that the world Travis lives in is mostly empty and devoid of things he can actually affect even running down pedestrians is completely ineffective. It juxtaposes the glamorous and high-octane battles of an assassin's lifestyle with the grim reality of a main character who lives in a motel room, roots through dumpsters for collectibles and needs to do menial labour to pay his U.A.A. After taking a job from the mysterious Sylvia Christel, Travis unwittingly becomes the 11th-best assassin in the United States and decides to climb the ranks of the United Assassin's Association the hard way: challenging the ten assassins ranked higher than him, and taking them out one-by-one.ĭeveloped by Grasshopper Manufacture and directed by Suda51, the mastermind behind the divisive Killer7, No More Heroes is simultaneously a celebration, parody and deconstruction of sandbox games, American geek culture, and the concept of an Anti-Hero. No More Heroes is the story of Travis Touchdown, a perennially-broke Occidental Otaku who wins a beam katana off of " an Internet auction site" and becomes a part-time assassin to pay for his otaku lifestyle.
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