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| From: Rising Star
Category: Video Games
List Price: £39.99
Buy New: £19.84
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New (17) Used (11) from £13.90
Avg. Customer Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 730
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Rating: To Be Announced
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: RVL P RNHP
EAN: 5060102950578
ASIN: B000YSCA3I
Release Date: October 3, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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 Enjoyable in short bursts, but pretentious and repetitive April 15, 2008
20 out of 24 found this review helpful
I'm one of the people who anticipated No More Heroes' release because of it being a pseudo-sequel to the excellent Killer7 more than anything else. The bags of hype and strong critical reception helped, of course. Having played the game through, though, it's disappointing both as a follow up to Killer7 and as a game in its own right...
Comparisons to Killer7 only really extend as far as the graphical style and the offbeat nature of its story. The game is more of a hack 'n' slash type than anything, so it's just as well that the combat is satisfying and entertaining; wisely controlled mostly by button presses, finishing moves are performed by slicing the remote in a given direction, and wrestling moves can be performed with similar gestures. The fighting is fun and new tricks and tactics open up the more you play it. Unfortunately even then it becomes tiresome after a while, thanks to the endless strings of identical enemies and the fact that you do very little else in between.
To say No More Heroes lacks variety would be a bit off-base; there are things to do besides fighting, such as the jobs comprised of basic mini-games - it's just that few of them are particularly interesting, and most are simple to the point of being tedious. Regardless of what you're doing, the game feels shallow and repetitive. The cycle of gameplay is highlighted (probably deliberately) by the plot, which sees you dispatching the top 10 assassins to get to number ones - wade through enemies down identical corridors for about 10 minutes (sometimes less), kill a boss to rank higher, perform mundane minigames to make the money needed to access the next boss, rinse and repeat.
One of No More Heroes' biggest problems, in my opinion, is that it thinks it's a lot cooler than it is. The references to gaming and anime cultures feel forced and the cut-scenes are as baffling as they were in Killer7, but without being clever, funny or having any real point to them. By the end of the game the cut-scenes were so stupid and pretentious it was actually getting on my nerves; it doesn't help that lead character Travis Touchdown is possibly the most unlikeable in any game ever. We're supposed to find his perverted nerdiness endearing, but every time he started spouting his moronic dialogue I found myself wishing I could play as the other assassin and murder the little twerp.
No More Heroes isn't a terrible game, or even a bad game, but it's something I could only recommend if it was cheap, and even then it's something that can only be played in limited doses before it gets boring. Every effort made by the developers to flesh it out into something more than a hack 'n' slash seems to have failed - the bonus missions you unlock are all identical (kill all the enemies without receiving damage, which is incredibly frustrating, especially when you fail and aren't given the option to retry). The town the game is based in is so dull and lifeless that exploring it for cash and t-shirts with which to customise Travis feels like a chore. All in all it just feels like Grasshopper spent so much time trying to make the game cool that they forgot to make it fun.
 Originality on the Wii April 15, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Do you love blood in your games?? If so, then this is probably not the game for you (plus I could point you in the way of a good psychologist). Of course, the blood is irrelevant. It makes no real difference to the most important aspect: GAMEPLAY. And this has it in spades. Really. It has some great little touches and, although not exactly perfect, it is certainly something that stands out from the other Wii games that are available at the moment. Any game that has you going to the toilet to save the game is alright by me!
I truly hope this sells because, if it does, a message will go out to all publishers that we want interesting, unique titles. Not more of the same tired rubbish we get served time and again. No More Heroes is a step in the right direction. Now we need a bigger step.
 Ye! It is No Heroes!! April 10, 2008
0 out of 27 found this review helpful
10 pounds off might be encouraging, however, when you played the game, you will know why was that...
They've gimped the UK version April 9, 2008
3 out of 16 found this review helpful
You can buy a Freeloader and a copy of the game from Amazon US for less than the cost of this game in the UK.
Do that. Some bits just don't make any sense without the blood.
Disappointing.
Censored to sell more copies to younger audience is wrong! April 7, 2008
6 out of 19 found this review helpful
This is a great game censored or not, but when it's prequel Killer7 in the UK has the same amount of gore as the US No More Heroes, then its clear to see that UK version has been censored, JUST for money. To cast a wider net and to con young customers who have seen internet videos into thinking they're getting the the game as seen. This is mis-respesenting the final product and should be shunned. This was the one product Wii owners were banking on, so other platforms could not boringly label it as a kids format, and what do Suda51 go and do! Suda51 made a BIG mistake here, and have upset at lot of UK adults who were going to enjoy this game. Complaints are not unjustified!! ignore the noobs.
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