No More Heroes 2 Review

This only got a 15 rating. How it did that, I don’t think anyone knows. Constant swearing (The “F” word is said about 50 times each mission), extreme amounts of blood, constant sexual references… It’s GTA with a laser sword and not being someone who can get arrested. Yeah, everything Travis does is legal. Chopping people in half is legal, beheading them is legal, and so on and so forth. I really wouldn’t want to live in Santa Destroy. Maniacs.

But, anyway. Gameplay is admittedly repetitive after a while, as you just press A to slash and B to punch/kick. The only variation of the two is you get a more damaging ,but slower, attack if you tilt the Wii-mote down, and a quicker, but less damaging, attack if you tilt the Wii-mote upwards. Although, a giant robot fight is included for no apparent reason, which adds… slightly less repetition, adding another button to be used, but still doesn’t really save it.

One problem I’ve found myself plagued with was some slowdown during the more graphically intensive parts, such as when there is a lot of blood on screen. It’s not that noticeable though, so if you’re willing to overlook it slightly, you’ll be just fine.

The graphics actually look pretty good. Maybe it’s because I’m a big fan of cel shading, but they just do.

The game, despite offering “50 characters to beat”, the game’s actually pretty short, using rather cheap tricks to shorten playing time. Stuff like moving 25 places up in the rankings by beating one guy. Yeah. The game took me about 7 hours to play through, but that was without completing any of the revenge missions. Those add about an hour maximum to the game though, so it’s still disappointingly short.

Ratings…

Gameplay- 6/10. Repetitive through and through, but it is still fun slicing up people with a beam katana.

Replayability- 7/10. Due to the 3 different difficulty settings, it is somewhat worthwhile for the completists among us to play through them all again.

Lifespan- 5/10. As I have said before, it’s disappointingly short. Mind you, that seems to be the case with most games nowadays, but it still irks me nonetheless.

And yet, despite the low ratings I have given it, I actually quite liked this game. Probably because I’m a sucker for an action game.

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