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2019 video game

Travis Strikes Again:
No More Heroes
Travis Strikes Again Poster.jpg
Programmer(s) Grasshopper Industry
Publisher(s)
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Grasshopper Manufacture
  • PlayStation iv
    • JP: Marvelous
    • NA: Xseed Games
    • EU: Marvelous Europe
    Windows
  • Marvelous
Director(south)
  • Goichi Suda
  • Ren Yamazaki
Producer(s)
  • Goichi Suda
  • Kazuyuki Kumagai
Programmer(south) Toru Hironaka
Creative person(s)
  • Boneface
  • Yūsuke Kozaki
Writer(due south)
  • Goichi Suda
  • Masahi Ooka
  • Keita Takayanagi
Composer(due south)
  • DJ Kazuhiro "MEEBEE" Abo
  • DJ 1-2[2]
Series No More than Heroes
Engine Unreal Engine iv
Platform(s) Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows
Release
  • Nintendo Switch
  • January eighteen, 2019
  • PlayStation 4, Windows
  • October 17, 2019[1]
Genre(due south) Action-adventure, hack and slash
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes [a] is an activity-risk hack and slash video game adult and published by Grasshopper Manufacture. The game was released for Nintendo Switch on January 18, 2019, and for PlayStation 4 and Windows later that twelvemonth. Directed by Goichi "Suda51" Suda, the game is part of the No More Heroes franchise and features series protagonist Travis Touchdown fighting Badman, the father of Bad Daughter. The two are drawn into a possessed video game console, and must fight through its various games. Equally the get-go championship he has directed since the kickoff No More Heroes, Suda collaborated with several indie developers to feature elements from their games in Travis Strikes Once more. While part of the No More than Heroes series, Suda does not consider the game a direct sequel to the previous title No More Heroes 2: Drastic Struggle, but a fresh first for the character Travis.

Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes received mixed reviews upon release, with critics praising its story and imaginative presentation, while finding the game play aspects repetitive. Five months after the game's initial release, No More Heroes III was announced at E3 2019, interim as a follow-up to the game, and a sequel to the series proper, released on the Nintendo Switch on August 27, 2021.[3]

Gameplay [edit]

In a modify for the series, Travis Strikes Once again: No More Heroes is played from a top-down perspective. As Travis, players are tasked with going through multiple video games and defeating the bugs in each game. The levels are inspired by various video game genres such as platforming games and role-playing games. Despite this, gameplay and combat itself predominantly plays out as a hack and slash like to that of previous No More than Heroes titles, occasionally undergoing perspective changes and introducing new gimmicks or minigames that are pertinent to the genre of each individual game.[4] New to the serial is the power to equip "Skill Chips" (named after Gundam models) that allow the player to utilize an array of special attacks, ranging from a scattergun-type blast to an orbital light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. At the end of each game, the player faces confronting its residing boss. The game supports two-actor co-op with single Joy-Con support, where the 2d role player controls Badman.

Travis can return to his trailer at whatsoever time during game play, where the player can purchase new attire to wear, and access the "Death Drive MK-Ii", which hosts the video games the thespian will explore. From the trailer, the thespian tin can also access "Travis Strikes Back" - an hazard mode designed every bit a classic visual novel where Travis explores the real world in search for "Death Balls" that contain the Expiry Drive's video games.

Plot [edit]

Seven years after the events of No More than Heroes 2,[v] a former professional person baseball player turned assassin named Badman is on the run from the Smith Syndicate. He is tracked downwards by one of the syndicate's assassins, Dan Smith, who is seeking retribution for beingness double crossed. Badman justifies his deportment as being for the sake of his own survival, as he wishes to go revenge on Travis Touchdown, who had murdered his daughter, Bad Girl, during the events of No More Heroes. Dan successfully tracks downwards Travis' location, granting Badman a Death Brawl and allowing Badman to live, under the condition that he kill Travis, and apply the ball to resurrect his daughter.

Travis - now 37 years old - has isolated himself and lives in a camper in a forest in Texas, where he spends his time playing video games. When Badman attempts to deadfall Travis, the 2 accidentally awake a dormant video game console in Travis' possession - the "Death Drive MK-II". The console reacts to Badman'southward Death Ball, and the ii get transported into the video game that'due south independent in information technology. Travis and Badman acquire from the panel'southward AI construct, Death & Bulldoze, that the unreleased console was created past Dr. Juvenile, and completing the six Death Balls that comprise the only games adult for the console will grant its player i wish. The two grade a truce, opting to team up to locate every Death Brawl, and defeat all of the games, in order to resurrect Bad Daughter.[6] [seven] [8] [9] [10]

Travis interacts with a non-role player character. The game'due south adventure segments are conveyed through a archetype visual novel setup.

The game explores Travis' current circumstances and Badman'due south backstory in visual novel portions that are set up betwixt each Decease Drive game. In the final 7 years, Travis had married former UAA confidant Sylvia Christel, and had two children, though he abandoned his family unit for their prophylactic, as assassins kept showing up to battle Travis. In his search for the Death Balls, Travis ends up traversing the planet and meeting characters from other Suda51 games, such as Kamui Uehara from The Silvery Case, and Mondo Zappa from Killer Is Expressionless. Travis also receives information about Dr. Juvenile and her past through fax messages from her purported husband, learning that Juvenile is a war orphan with genius intellect and an affinity for video games, who was hired by the US government to develop advanced technology. She also implemented elements of her history and upbringing into the Death Drive'due south games, such equally basing the in-game serial killer "Doppelganger" on her adoptive male parent. Travis learns that the Death Drive MK-II was designed as a machine that would create clones of its users, and that while information technology was initially intended for space travel, the government had re-purposed it to be a super soldier program - a prospect which caused Juvenile to sabotage the projection in an act of disobedience, and become into hiding. Despite this, the mother machine responsible for its protocols still lays fallow inside the CIA, and Travis is warned that completing all six Death Brawl games volition crusade it to reboot, allowing the government to continue developing super soldiers. He is too alerted that should information technology be reactivated, Juvenile would destroy the Usa in retaliation.

Despite warnings, Travis and Badman successfully complete every Decease Ball; however 1 of the games - Killer Marathon - turns out to be an incomplete version of the game. As such, when they wish for Bad Girl's resurrection, she ends upwards being resurrected in the form of a dog. Travis afterward ends upward locating a epitome for a Death Brawl which, rather than transporting him into a video game, transports him direct into the CIA. Massacring his mode through the facility he locates the Death Drive mother machine which is existence guarded by Dr. Juvenile, who has infiltrated the facility and taken the form of "White Sheepman". Travis, expressing respect for her talents and sympathy for her suffering, reluctantly battles and ultimately defeats her. He interacts with the mother machine and is transported to Mars, where he meets John Winter; the creator of the very original Death Drive and Juvenile's mentor. Wintertime explains that he retired to Mars to escape Earth'due south problems, and safeguards the planet, opposing the government'due south plans to emigrate there. He offers Travis the opportunity to stay on Mars and live a perfect life. Travis declines, realizing that he tin't carelessness his past, and deciding to face up his problems head on. Winter responds by decapitating Travis, as the only way for him to return is to "die".

Back on Earth, Travis is approached past his self-proclaimed pupil, Shinobu Jacobs, who asks him to return from hiding to confront the assassins. Travis remarks that information technology'southward time for bloodshed. In a playable postal service-credits segment, Travis is controlled from a third person perspective similar to the previous No More Heroes games, prepare in a default Unreal Engine level. While attempting to approach a dummy, Travis berates the player for treating the area similar a game, saying that they're currently "in development".

DLC #2: Bubblegum Fatale [edit]

Following the events of the principal campaign, Travis and Shinobu are intercepted past Travis' twin blood brother Henry, who is at present role of an enigmatic order with a vendetta against Travis. Travis and Shinobu prepare to boxing confronting his subordinates before they're interrupted by a pair of villainous alien lucha libre wrestlers bent on world domination, and a self-proclaimed super hero named "Notorious". When Travis questions the sudden presence of the new characters, Shinobu wonders whether they are foreshadowing "the next game". The standoff is one time once more interrupted, this time by Death & Drive, who take broken free of the Death Drive MK-Ii and are seeking revenge confronting Travis. He manages to beat them in a game of Burn Pro Wrestling, obtaining the location of the completed version of the Killer Marathon Death Ball, which is in the possession of Travis' wife, Sylvia Christel. Travis returns to her manor, obtaining the Death Ball and reconnecting with his daughter and wife in the process. Subsequently beating the completed version of Killer Marathon, Travis and Badman successfully resurrect Bad Girl. Travis also spots a glimpse of the Death Drive mother machine, which states that coding has been completed.

Development [edit]

The logo of the game was designed past Kojiro Kondo of Blackness Chugalug Jones DC, who was also responsible for designing the original No More Heroes serial logo.[11]

Following the release of No More Heroes 2, Goichi Suda had been looking for an opportunity to continue the series, but became busy with other projects, such as his involvement with Let It Dice. In mid-2016, as work on Let It Die was last, he was invited to 1 of Nintendo'southward pre-release developer meetings for the then-upcoming Nintendo Switch. While the console was different from the Wii, it offered similar motion-based features through the Joy-Con, and he recognized he could revive No More than Heroes for the system. He felt the game would fit in well among the planned Switch titles similar The Fable of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey.[6]

Suda considered the No More Heroes series as "fun slash 'em up kind of games", merely with Travis Strikes Again, he wanted to play around with the history of video games and the idea of retro games, and "how Travis would interact with the individual rules and the individual vibe from each game".[12] The six games are new games developed for the title, some in homages to existing indie games, with at least one being a vector browse game.[vii] [eight] [12] When originally announced, some took Suda'south comments to reflect that the levels would exist set inside bodily indie games similar Hotline Miami, but Suda later clarified that these games would exist featured as "T-shirt collaborations", with Travis able to unlock and wear habiliment items that promote these indie games, a concept he came upwardly with while seeing various game expositions like PAX West.[thirteen] One such title is Hyper Light Out-of-stater, with Nintendo of America showcasing Travis'south shirt alongside announcing the game's release on the Switch.[fourteen] Suda wanted players to encounter Travis as a fan of indie games, not but to give recognition to the indie game scene, but due to his belief that Grasshopper is similar to an indie programmer, and he wanted to testify his back up of the upwards-and-coming smaller studios.[v] He estimated that there will be at least 15 indie games represented in Travis Strikes Again, with titles to be revealed as part of the ongoing promotion.[15] The game would also run across the add-on of t-shirts from The Legend of Zelda: Air current Waker,[sixteen] The Legend of Zelda: Majora'due south Mask [17] and Zelda Two: The Adventure of Link [eighteen] that grant Travis a spin assault. The idea of crossing between games was partially influenced by the film Existenz.[6] UK artist Boneface contributed designs for the game'due south dominate battles.[5]

There will besides exist sections of the game that use the standard gameplay approach every bit the other No More than Heroes titles.[12] One goal of the game for Suda was to take it exist completely playable on a unmarried Joy-Con controller for the Nintendo Switch version, simplifying the controls compared to the second game.[9] Reporters from Eurogamer and Polygon have taken Suda'southward comments that the game may back up multiplayer, since the Switch supports two Joy-Con. Suda was unable to speak on this under confidentiality at PAX West, simply did tell reporters who asked about this that there are "two main characters, then depict your ain conclusions, if you want".[9] [19] [5]

The game is being developed in Unreal Engine 4.[20] At the time of reveal, Robin Atkin Downes, the vox of Travis in the previous titles, had reportedly not been asked to reprise his role in Travis Strikes Again.[21] He was later confirmed to exist returning to the role in Dec 2018.[22]

Travis Strikes Again was teased during the January 2017 reveal briefing of the Nintendo Switch. Suda was present for the live event, and appeared on stage to show a promotional image of Travis Touchdown wearing a shirt that said "Travis Strikes Again";[23] however, no mention of the No More than Heroes serial was made. Suda said in a later interview that this was a purposeful choice, every bit he wanted the tease to feature Travis himself as the central focus.[12] The game was formally announced every bit Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes in an Baronial 2017 Nintendo Direct, along with farther reveals at the PAX West event a few days later on.[12] Suda noted that the title's ordering, placing the series' name after Travis Strikes Once more, was to insinuate to the fact he does not consider this game a straight sequel but instead "the starting time of a new adventure, of a new series for Travis" merely that still otherwise takes identify in the No More than Heroes universe.[ix] Suda also stated that Travis Strikes Once more serves every bit "something of a stepping stone on the road to No More Heroes 3", and hopes to make a true sequel if the game proves successful enough.[24]

On Nov 14, 2018, Grasshopper Manufacture announced that Travis Strikes Again would receive a physical edition which would exist distributed by Nintendo. The physical version of the game is also bundled with a season pass. The developers have confirmed that some of the boosted content will include a new playable character, a new scenario, and a new stage.[25] The offset DLC pack was after confirmed to include a scenario for Badman, too every bit serial-recurring character Shinobu Jacobs as a playable grapheme, while the 2d pack includes a new scenario for Travis, a new phase for the game Killer Marathon, and Bad Girl from No More than Heroes as a playable character.[26] Grasshopper further confirmed that Robin Atkin Downes would be returning in the part as Travis, and that Steve Blum had been cast as Badman. Kimberly Brooks and Kathryn Fiore were confirmed to return in the roles of Shinobu Jacobs and Bad Daughter respectively, while Greg Ellis was cast to play a new boss character, Brian Buster Jr.[27]

A PlayStation 4 and Windows version were released on October 17, 2019.[1]

Reception [edit]

Travis Strikes Again: No More than Heroes received "mixed or average reviews", according to review aggregator Metacritic.[28]

Several reviewers for Famitsu noted that the concept of switching between different "games" was a unique approach that offered the game a constantly refreshing sense of presentation, praising the game'south ability to make the player want to keep playing in guild to notice out what happens adjacent. The visuals and combat of the game were too praised for their explosive style and satisfying feedback, though a few reviewers felt that at times the combat could cease up beingness a flake of a grind.[32]

The Switch version of the game met internal expectations for sales,[42] reaching 24th on the eShop best sellers chart.[43] The PS4 version did non identify in the top 30 in its week of release.[44]

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ Japanese: トラヴィス・ストライクス・アゲイン ノーモア★ヒーローズ, Hepburn: Toravisu Sutoraikusu Agein Nō Moa Hīrōzu

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External links [edit]

  • Official website (in Japanese)

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_Strikes_Again:_No_More_Heroes

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