No More Heroes 2

[Mad March Harris]

Anyone else playing this? If it wasn't for school being incredibly important for me this term it would entirely consume my life for the next week. As it stands I'm devoting as much time as possible to playing it because it's absolutely fantastic. It's the first game in a long while that demands that I share it with people. It'll probably get a decent amount of attention on its own but if it doesn't sell well I'll be legitimately sad.

Just a bit of introduction to the amazingness:

1. Travis' first line is "It's called being fashionably late, fuckface!"
2. After you kill a certain boss he comes back to life to tell you your friend has been killed, then he tears his own head off
3. The side jobs are called: Bugging out, Laying the Pipe, Coconut Grabber, Chasing Tile, Pizza with a Vengeance, Meat Handler, and Getting Trashed
4. The mini-games have NES graphics and double-dribble speak
5. There's a giant robot battle
6. There's a shmup
7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjDFrWGbIWk

If you own a Wii it is your duty to buy and play this game.

[Gee-Man]

I am greatly anticipating the arrival of my copy in the mail. The original NMH was hands down one of the Wii's strangest and greatest games. From what I've seen, NMH2 improves on that in just about every way. I can't wait!

[Mad March Harris]

It honestly does improve everything. It looks better, it plays better, it's better written, it's more varied, it's better designed. Everything is better. The only thing that's kind of "take it or leave it" is that Dark Sliding is now really hard to do but that just makes the game harder. And the game is also a lot harder. I almost got killed by the first boss, had to do the second one twice, and had to do the third boss three times. You can't just hack away at bosses anymore.

[Setre]

Is it required to have played the first one to realize what's going on?

[PBz0r]

No More Heroes is really a game that grows on you. When it came out and I played it I really enjoyed certain parts of it, but thought it had some seriously fatal flaws in the game design, variety and control departments. In other words I didn't think it was a very good game, not to mention how horribly overrated it was two years ago (but moreso right now as everyone has already forgotten about the bad parts in it).

However, I'm also human, so I too have mostly forgotten about the bad parts and since it seems a lot has been fixed, I can't wait to return to Santa Destroy. Having already beaten the first, I think I'll be able to appreciate NMH's charm more than before anyway.

And hey, it's been months since I bought a game for my Wii.

[Mad March Harris]

Is it required to have played the first one to realize what's going on?

Not really. Sylvia and Travis actually have a brief discussion at the start of the game about "How people will be starting from the sequel without caring about continuity". Some of the substantive dialogue won't make any sense at all but a stand-alone plot is thrown together


No More Heroes is really a game that grows on you. When it came out and I played it I really enjoyed certain parts of it, but thought it had some seriously fatal flaws in the game design, variety and control departments. In other words I didn't think it was a very good game, not to mention how horribly overrated it was two years ago (but moreso right now as everyone has already forgotten about the bad parts in it).

However, I'm also human, so I too have mostly forgotten about the bad parts and since it seems a lot has been fixed, I can't wait to return to Santa Destroy. Having already beaten the first, I think I'll be able to appreciate NMH's charm more than before anyway.

And hey, it's been months since I bought a game for my Wii.

I'd really dispute this. Almost entirely, actually. Everyone was acutely aware of how annoying the overworld is in No More Heroes. There were also complaints about tedium in the side missions and whatnot. Part of the reason No More Heroes 2 is so acclaimed is that it improves so immensely on the original and that everyone is aware of it.

[PBz0r]

I'd really dispute this. Almost entirely, actually. Everyone was acutely aware of how annoying the overworld is in No More Heroes. There were also complaints about tedium in the side missions and whatnot. Part of the reason No More Heroes 2 is so acclaimed is that it improves so immensely on the original and that everyone is aware of it.

It wasn't really based on the general consensus, but rather on the opinions some of my friends have. I also used to work for a gaming website myself and I kinda got in a fight over NMH because our reviewer rated it 9 out of 10, which is absolutely astounding to me. Sure he was trying to support niche/indie games or whatever, but in my opinion that's no reason to tell people to spend 60 bucks on a game that doesn't realize half of its potential. No to mention it cost like 7 million to produce and the title was picked up by Ubisoft, which is a pretty major publisher if you ask me. It wasn't indie, it wasn't very good, but at least it was pretty unique. But does anyone remember the awful, AWFUL scorpion catching job (I'd call it a side mission but it's required to beat the game)? I failed like ten times. I'd never been so frustrated before. :P

[Gee-Man]

Well I got the game in the mail today and played it for about two hours or so. I have to say, it definitely feels different from the original, but I'm loving it so far. My only complaint is that the assassins aren't as fleshed out anymore. Not that they were very deep in the first one, but in NMH2, they literally just throw assassins at you out of nowhere. There's not even any buildup.

Then again, I've only fought Nathan Copeland (has the coolest weapon ever) and Charlie MacDonald so I haven't really experienced much yet.

[PBz0r]

Damn you Americans! I can't seem to find a date for EU anywhere... you'd think one would have to have been announced by now, no? There was two months between the US and EU release of part one so I'm counting on the end of May. If this was PS3 I'd have imported it already, because the coming months are stuffed with must-haves.

[Mugen]

Still need to check this out. NMH2 looks insane...

[Mad March Harris]

I'm at the last boss and I've been putting it off in favour getting better at TvC. My approach with Polimar is starting to get better and I've actually developed a pretty strong Ryu.