No, MORE Heroes!
Bigger. Better. More. Not exactly the watchwords of the original, shockingly audacious No More Heroes, with its minimal content stretched out across the sweeping, empty landscape of Santa Destroy, memorable for its sheer desolation and entirely in keeping with its satirical take on the “open-world game”. But, as Grasshopper’s splash screen reminds us, punk’s not dead. And what could be more punk than taking almost everything that defined No More Heroes and flipping it on its head?
Sure, the fighting is still in No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, and it’s been tweaked with new moves and special attacks to make things that little bit breezier and, yes, more fun. And from that standpoint, it really is bigger. Better. More. The tiresome-by-design part-time job sections, in which you raised money for your next ranked fight? Gone, replaced by enormously fun 8-bit/NES style minigames – including an incredibly addictive variation on the classic Pipe Dream that we’d honestly love to see expanded into a game of its own.
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