No More Heroes: Nintendo Wii Review
No More Heroes is a game of unique proportions. If you play this game, chances are you will find at least one thing you will like, whether it be blood, swords, kitties, sexy women, motorcycles, baseball…well you get the idea. So without further ado, lets get started!
You play Travis Touchdown, one of the most dorkiest assassins you will ever know. The game starts off with a cut-scene that explains how you won a beam katana off a popular online auction website and, thanks to that investment, Travis has run out of money for video games and wrestling videos. This is where a sexy vixen named Sylvia Christel comes in. She tells you all about this association where it ranks the world’s top assassins and then tells you how you can be number one by simply killing every single one of them. Hmmm, sounds easy enough.
The City is fairly large, which can make finding your destinations mildly difficult. The collision detection is not very good and it’s pretty distracting when you crash and fall off your bike when you are about 3 feet from the vehicle you supposedly hit. Although the free roam is not great, it still provides you with plenty of trees, streetlights, and even people to run over.
So what makes this game so amazing if the free roam sucks you ask? Well, the gameplay is a pretty good start. To use your beam katana, you press A to swing. The only real motion controls used involves holding the Wii-mote up or down, which has Mr. Touchdown hold his beam katana accordingly. This comes in handy when your opponent is blocking in a high or low fashion. As soon as you hack at an enemy long enough, a big arrow comes up in the middle of the screen that you need to copy by swinging the Wii-mote in whatever direction it shows to finish your man off.
There are also a variety of wrestling moves you can perform when an enemy is stunned. You do these the same way as the finishing moves except it adds the nunchuck into the equation. When fighting the unusual bosses you come across, the gameplay doesn’t change, although strafing around them is a pretty good idea.
To get to the assassin fights, you must gather enough money to do so. This is done by completing various odd jobs and assassination missions found through out the city of Santa Destroy. So where the heck am I supposed to relax inbetween the action? Well Mr. Touchdown has the perfect apartment to rest. This is a very interesting place. First, there is the closet where you can change into the clothes you buy at Area 51. Then, we have the drawer where you are free to customize your weapon. Next is the toilet…well, this is where you save. These are only a few of the smallest oddities in the game, you will just have to find the others yourselves.
No More Heroes has the great, unique gameplay that could only work on the Wii. The missions will have you breathless and will make it hard for you to play any other ordinary game. The story will shock and suprise you, it truely is amazing that such a silly game can contain such an intresting story. Despite the poor freeroam, this game is one most Wii owners should consider and, if it were up to me, everybody who owns a Wii would have this game in their collection.
Positives
- The story is amazing
- Creative controls
- Scantly clad girls don't hurt
Negatives
- The free roam isn't very good
- Poor collision detection
OverallNo More Heroes is a great game with a shocking story and amazing gameplay. If this game isn't in your collection yet, you definitely should consider buying it. | 9.3 Excellent |
The Wii is a terrible console for anything other than party type games. I would not recommend this system to anybody I know.
I would have to humbly disagree and say that, while some may consider this to be a decent game, the majority would probably argue that even at the peaks of the game, it is mediocre at best.
Cory, stop.
And while we are on the topic of mediocre, you might want to throw in the fact that your reviewing skills are exactly that, mediocre.
From what little I’ve played, No More Heroes is a sweet game, probably the best action game on the Wii.
And Ehh, the Wii is actually a very good console. Smash Bros Brawl, Metroid Prime 3, Zelda: Twilight Princess, and Super Mario Galaxy are four of the best games of the generation so far.
while this was an excellent game, I thought that the review was poorly articulated and was not an adequate representation of what the game had to offer. I can say with confidence that I will not be using beefjack for my gaming recourses if this level of quality is common.
I’m confused, I was under the assumption that to write for this so called “review” site, you had to have a basic understanding of simple paragraph structure and a vocabulary larger than a fifth grader’s. I have no idea how you were accepted to review for beefjack. This reflects poorly on not only your reputation, but the reputation of this otherwise mediocre website.