Customer Reviews for No More Heroes

No More Heroes
by UBI Soft

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Video Game Reviews of No More Heroes

Customer Review: Where it works, it's outstanding
Summary: 4 Stars

Talk about a hit-or-miss game, this defines it. The areas where it succeeds, it succeeds wildly. The areas where it fails, it fails miserably.

Let's start with the bad and get it out of the way. The main city map is miserable and boring. The various tasks and jobs are dry and uninteresting. Searching for the balls (to upgrade) and the playing cards is no incentive whatsoever to explore the lifeless world. You would think at this point they could at least make a world on par with GTA3, but not even close.

Now the good. The bosses are some of the most over-the-top and ridiculous characters ever to grace a video game. They are amazing personalities, prefaced always by entertaining cutscenes. The boss battles are equally fun, requiring a surprising amount of strategy (button mashing fails miserably). A skilled player can beat any boss taking little to no damage, but a novice will get beat up pretty quick. The combat system is much deeper than it seems initially. Also, the game retains an outstanding and quirky sense of humor throughout. It's certainly adult and stays true to itself.

Overall this game is a huge bargain at under $20. There's really nothing else out there like it. Far from perfect (that time between boss battles can really drag), there's still so much RIGHT in the game that it can't be missed.

Customer Review: fun
Summary: 4 Stars

fun game lots of action bloody and plane out fun but the game seems to easy at some points and secrets ain't well hidden but still a fun game overall

Customer Review: Awesome in Retrospect
Summary: 5 Stars

If you'd asked me what I thought of this game about three-quarters of the way through, I'd say it had its charms, and an excessive amount of style. Now, I'd say that it's a truly great game, and certainly one of the best on its system.

That delayed realization was at least partially my fault. I'd taken the (at least at first) relatively easy difficulty curve as a sign that I could play it as a button masher. But combat in the game becomes much more over-the-top and fun when you master the more detailed techniques (being able to dark step reliably, making use of those suplexes, adding extra power to your finishing blows). The overworld controls are similar, kind of awkward if you're expecting something conventional, very fun once you embrace the absurd.

And absurd it is, although whether it's absurd for the sake of absurd or something deep and symbolic is up to you to decide. (I've read at least one essay that suggests that the game is a deconstruction of masculinity in a post-feminist world. Then again, there are few vaguely relevant things that this game is _not_ seemingly a deconstruction of, so they may have a point.)

So turn up the speaker on your Wii remote and follow Travis Touchdown, that otaku ex-pro-wrestler turned professional assassin (and minimum-wage jack-of-all-trades), as he wields his trusty beam katana in an epic quest to become the world's number one assassin and find love.

Customer Review: What a FABULOUS into to the Wii
Summary: 5 Stars

We just got our Wii, and my previous exposure had been Wii Sports. I figured that it, together with a couple of cute kids games (my kids are 6, 10 and 13) would be a nice way to start. Then I read reviews about No More Heroes... they used superlatives like "the best game out there", which seems nuts but everyone was saying it. And... wow. I'm going to end up spending a lot more money on games, I think (not that I have the time) because this demonstrates the rich, creative, entertaining quality that you can get on a Wii, using the controller and nunchuck brilliantly. I had thought boxing was cool with its awkwardly shaped boxers and simple use of the controllers. But this is... art, a story, a game, an adventure, all brilliantly done.