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Added by Jeff Gerstmann on Oct. 9, 2008

I intended to get over into the Marvelous Entertainment booth at Tokyo Game Show 2008 tomorrow, and after seeing this new trailer, I just found another reason.

  
  


Travis Touchdown, relaxing at home.
Travis Touchdown, relaxing at home.
This is the debut trailer for No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle, which is a sequel to No More Heroes, the Wii game developed by Goichi Suda's Grasshopper Manufacture. It doesn't sound like any platform details have been announced formally, but 1UP is reporting that the series will remain on the Wii and also that Ubisoft will be handling publishing in the US.

Personally, I would have called it No More Heroes 2: Touchdown From All Angles and had E-40 play a pivotal boss character. But since I'm probably the only person who remembers that Click song, Desperate Struggle is a pretty good name, too. Though since it abbreviates to DS, I might have held that name for a portable side story or something.


36 Comments

Scarbearer
on Oct. 9, 2008
Woot! No More Hero's was one of the best reasons to own a Wii!  Hurrah for more of a good thing!

killawogg
on Oct. 9, 2008
nice,  hope it rocks

jyurakyumihawk
on Oct. 9, 2008
A man..i like the first steam-punk lightsabre better.

musdy
on Oct. 9, 2008
Gamevideos FTW!!

mrfluke
on Oct. 9, 2008
FUCK YEA NO MORE HEROS 2  travis touchdown = third party face for the wii

and goddammit travis better be in the next smash bros game ill definitely buy one of those games if hes in the game

him or cyborg gallup

Venatio
on Oct. 9, 2008
Nice, finally a reason to keep my Wii

MattBodega
on Oct. 9, 2008
No More Heroes is one of the smartest, slickest, most intelligent game satires ever made. I couldn't be more stoked!

Xander51
on Oct. 9, 2008
Yes! I'm hoping for the return of Destroyman myself. Maybe even a Destroyman 2!

Chicken008
on Oct. 9, 2008
So its confirmed to be a Wii game?

RHCPfan24
on Oct. 9, 2008
Cool.  I liked the first one and more of these types of games for the Wii is certainly a good thing.

LordAndrew
on Oct. 9, 2008
1UP says Wii, and I think it's fair to assume that it probably will be.

Endogene
on Oct. 9, 2008
I am praying for a motion plus dude slicing mini game.

Steve_C is online
on Oct. 9, 2008
Yes! More sweet monologues. Damn... NMH is awesome.

albedos_shadow
on Oct. 9, 2008
Oh thank you, sweet Videogame Gods!

Marzy is online
on Oct. 9, 2008
:D I can't wait for this! looks amazing. Definitely another Wii game to really look forward too, for me.

Motion Plus could work really well, if they choose to use it

GonzoGuy
on Oct. 9, 2008
I hope this is on the DS. Maybe that way Suda51 can find the time to finish making the fucking thing before chucking it onto the shelves.

NMH was perhaps THE most overrated game of all time. Too many people were tricked into buying it by critics who were all excited to just have an "artistic" game to rub in Roger Eberts face never mind the fact that much of the artistic value was stuck in the game's own cleft asshole. 

Even Zero Punctuation's Yhatzee (who I thought from his previous stances hated quick time events and tedium) advised people to buy this game. Perhaps this is why every mature themed game arriving on the Wii looks like a low budget disaster: all flash and no substance, just like NMH. Programmers now think they can throw together whatever crap in a couple of weeks, chuck in enough blood and toilet humor to get an M rating and they expect everyone to go nuts over it.

I would be a little more optamistic if any one part of NMH worked well but even the boss battles (by comparison the most interesting part of the game) ended up being just as repetitive, tedious, and full of QTEs as the rest of the crap.

I took the critic's advise on NMH1 but it'll be a cold day in hell when I buy the sequel (or anything else critics suggest) for anything more than $5 in the bargain bin.

Milkman
on Oct. 9, 2008
Oh yes! No More Heroes is definitely the best reason to own a Wii, next to Super Mario Galaxy.

Irishjohn
on Oct. 9, 2008
This makes me happy.

AttackedCamo
on Oct. 9, 2008
If only I had a Wii...

Cloneslayer
on Oct. 9, 2008
So when the last game's ending destroyed and created a possibility for a sequel at the same time, I'm glad they chose this one.


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