No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle

[Solid SOAP]

IGN written review: 8.8/10

I'm so **** pumped for this game, I've been waiting a good 2 or-so years and I'm so happy it's finally coming out next month. For those who didn't play the original No More Heroes, it was pretty much an extremely wacky and Wii-mote heavy hack n' slash game with one of the craziest stories around with an awesome cast of characters. You play as Travis Touchdown, an anime nerd who's only true motives are to become "number 1" and get laid by the end of the game.

No More Heroes seems to be, in the words of Cliffy B, "bigger, better, and more badass" than the original game and I love the direction they're taking with it. Instead of boring, tedious, and generic mini-games to play in between each assassin mission, this time you get to play fun NES styled games instead, which look a lot more fun and stylized. The graphics look a lot better, and the combat looks a lot more spiced up, with smarter enemies, more combos, more swords, more variety, and it just looks more fun in general. I loved the first game, but there were a couple of "cop-out" levels and bosses, such as the fight between the assassin with the giant robot who was simply killed by

Henry

before you could do anything to him. There are supposed to be a lot more bosses and levels in this, and I'm psyched.

This game's release really crept up on me, it's coming out Tuesday of this upcoming week, I'd like to have it by Friday, however.

[Sigourney Beaver]

Pre-E3 Trailer

This looks so bad ass, I can't wait.

[Solid SOAP]

How.

No More Heroes was great and this looks even crazier, the dev team is much bigger this time so it'll have a lot more polish as well.

[Blu3Flame]

I'm really looking forward to this. The first game was fantastic.

[imp]

Me too, one of the best I've played on Wii.

[Rudderless]

Trailer's fantastic, particularly the ending.

[scottcr]

Is the Wii now home to the most hardcore of hardcore games? So hardcore that the 'core' aren't actually interested?

[Snowman]

If only all trailers were that entertaining.

[mr_woo]

Looks fucking ace. I adored the first one and can't wait for this.

[Snowman]

Is the Wii now home to the most hardcore of hardcore games? So hardcore that the 'core' aren't actually interested?

Perhaps the problem isn't that they're not interested. It's that these games are on a platform that they don't own and cannot justify purchasing in order to play a handful of exclusive titles.

[Sketch]

Perhaps the problem isn't that they're not interested. It's that these games are on a platform that they don't own and cannot justify purchasing in order to play a handful of exclusive titles.

This.

I based my console purchase on the number of system exclusives I liked.

Wii = No More Heroes, Mad World

360 = Senko no Ronde, Cave shmups

PS3 = more than I could possibly list in this topic.

I really want to own No More Heroes, rather than play it round someone else's, but is it worth £180 to play?

[Stoikovich]

YES! well, no, probably not - shonky graphics, terrible camera and a repetitive grinds between bosses fights.

HOWEVER I am a big fan of the game! The bosses are all memorable, the cut scenes sublime.

I missed the news the sequel was in the works, and seeing how the original went straight to the bargain bins, had assumed Grasshopper would be moving on to new IP. I guess it sold well enough.

NMH2 is excellent news.

[allday247]

[McSpeed]

Want.

[ras el hanout]

Perhaps the problem isn't that they're not interested. It's that these games are on a platform that they don't own and cannot justify purchasing in order to play a handful of exclusive titles.

Don't be stupid, can't afford indeed. Get this my friend, if the Wii, with exactly the same games, was a disaster, selling 40 consoles per week and available in Japan only then the hardcore would literally be wringing their cocks off getting one for triple the price.

[scottcr]

Don't be stupid, can't afford indeed. Get this my friend, if the Wii, with exactly the same games, was a disaster, selling 40 consoles per week and available in Japan only then the hardcore would literally be wringing their cocks off getting one for triple the price.

and this is true

regardless of how many ace 'core' games come out on the Wii - they simply don't want it because it's too uncool.

[GODSTEETH]

Travis is holding a chainsaw towards the end of that trailer. And a Baseball bat.

And that dude, Copeland, with a boombox for a weapon and ho missiles? Rank 50, too. Hell yes!

That little girl at the end - "If you get me preggers, promise you won't ditch me, ok?''

[scottcr]

I can do without the rubbish city though.

[Robo_1]

I can do without the rubbish city though.

Give me the first game without all the GTA Lite stuff, and we have a winner.

I still can't believe this game got the green light. Didn't the first one completely bomb?

[Royshan]

Yay!

I loved the first game.

[hellsbells]

Just finished the first one - late I know - and can't decide whether it's completely rubbish or utterly brilliant. The quality is all over the place. Also too easy I thought, but a lot of fun. I think NMH2 will have to be something special to warrant a purchase.

[Solid SOAP]

http://wii.ign.com/dor/objects/14288376/no...iler_90309.html

- 2d job games include coconut collecting, racing, cooking, shooting and more

- new camera lock-on feature includes a circle of cubes which indicate the enemy's health. When all the cubes change from blue to red, your enemy is about to die

- controls remain largely unchanged from the first title

- cycle lock-ons with Z button

- duck/roll in any direction with d-pad

- B trigger now kicks and punches

- kill gestures return

- blood will be in the North American version

- things Travis yells in the current demo "You're weak!" and "You're a joke!"

- things enemies yell in the current demo "Help me, boss!"

- press the 2 button to cycle between single and double beam katanas

- more wrestling moves than the original

- 'ghetto blaster' boss from the first trailer is in the current demo, and his fight involves his henchwomen getting sliced up during the battle

- 'ghetto blaster' boss can shoot missiles from his arms, and drop a chandelier at will

- Suda's favorite part is still that you shit to save the game

..AMAZING AND BEAUTIFUL

I'm liking the added depth to the beam katanas, giving me a reason to want to keep more than one other than "the more expensive the better". Also, I love the 2D side missions already. Suda 51 knows those side jobs in No More Heroes 1 blew, and he knows that he won't be able to make anything too flashy & amazing side-job wise on the Wii, so what better way to take advantage of the Wii's crappy graphical capabilities than with charming and silly looking side-missions? It's things like that that almost make me happy the Wii is graphically inferior to other consoles.

This game is a winner.

[The Sarge]

Demo Gameplay Footage

Part 1

http://uk.wii.ign.com/dor/objects/14288376...ip1_090309.html

Part 2

http://uk.wii.ign.com/dor/objects/14288376...ip2_090309.html

[luth714]

Just finished the first one - late I know - and can't decide whether it's completely rubbish or utterly brilliant. The quality is all over the place. Also too easy I thought, but a lot of fun. I think NMH2 will have to be something special to warrant a purchase.

Too easy? Wish I could the say the same, still stuck on that frigging beach boss. Had a go a few weeks ago and it still almost reduced me to a seizure. So frigging frustrating, camera all over the place, falling in holes....AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!

Up until that point I was having an absolute blast with all the silly touches and noises, even though I struggled with some of the other bosses (the girl in the school, the baseball boss I just managed to grind down)

[McSpeed]

http://wii.ign.com/dor/objects/14288376/no...iler_90309.html

..AMAZING AND BEAUTIFUL

Lots of stuff in your list isn't really that new, actually.

Still, it looks to be a very nice sequel Still rather high on my Wanted list.

[FargalEX]

Great trailer, Suda51 on a toilet.

[GODSTEETH]

I'd read somewhere that they were using 2d sections as extensions of the little victory screens upon defeating ranked bosses and such. Kinda replacing the old ranking table that followed each fight. Not sure where I heard it now though...

Anyway, I'm liking the variaton in enemies on display. And them 2d side missions look ace! Is that a cooking sim in there?

[Capwn]

I love the arrogance and pure pisstake of suda by giving us the coconut mini game again...but in 2D...

Genius!

[Solid SOAP]

Only thing I don't like so far is that the pizza and batteries aren't 8-bit anymore.

Everything else looks delicious.

[Sketch]

Just finished the first one - late I know - and can't decide whether it's completely rubbish or utterly brilliant. The quality is all over the place. Also too easy I thought, but a lot of fun. I think NMH2 will have to be something special to warrant a purchase.

What? No way was it too easy. The 3rd boss, that girl in the school, I needed an infinite health cheat for. Same with the final boss. And the secret boss at the very end is impossible, even with infinite health.

Toughest game I've played in years - and I've beaten Demon's Souls!

Also, I hope they don't censor the UK version again - bunch of idiots. Thankfully I've got a US Wii!