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2019 video game

Travis Strikes Again:
No More than Heroes
Travis Strikes Again Poster.jpg
Developer(s) Grasshopper Industry
Publisher(s)
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Grasshopper Manufacture
  • PlayStation iv
    • JP: Marvelous
    • NA: Xseed Games
    • EU: Marvelous Europe
    Windows
  • Marvelous
Director(s)
  • Goichi Suda
  • Ren Yamazaki
Producer(southward)
  • Goichi Suda
  • Kazuyuki Kumagai
Programmer(s) Toru Hironaka
Artist(due south)
  • Boneface
  • Yūsuke Kozaki
Author(s)
  • Goichi Suda
  • Masahi Ooka
  • Keita Takayanagi
Composer(s)
  • DJ Kazuhiro "MEEBEE" Abo
  • DJ i-ii[2]
Serial No More Heroes
Engine Unreal Engine 4
Platform(southward) Nintendo Switch, PlayStation four, Windows
Release
  • Nintendo Switch
  • January 18, 2019
  • PlayStation 4, Windows
  • Oct 17, 2019[i]
Genre(due south) Action-adventure, hack and slash
Manner(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes [a] is an activity-take a chance hack and slash video game developed and published by Grasshopper Manufacture. The game was released for Nintendo Switch on January eighteen, 2019, and for PlayStation 4 and Windows later that year. Directed by Goichi "Suda51" Suda, the game is part of the No More Heroes franchise and features series protagonist Travis Touchdown fighting Badman, the male parent of Bad Girl. The ii are drawn into a possessed video game panel, and must fight through its various games. As the showtime championship he has directed since the showtime No More Heroes, Suda collaborated with several indie developers to feature elements from their games in Travis Strikes Once again. While office of the No More than Heroes series, Suda does not consider the game a direct sequel to the previous title No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, but a fresh start for the character Travis.

Travis Strikes Once 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 subsequently the game'due south initial release, No More than Heroes III was appear at E3 2019, acting as a follow-upwards to the game, and a sequel to the series proper, released on the Nintendo Switch on August 27, 2021.[iii]

Gameplay [edit]

In a change for the series, Travis Strikes Again: No More than Heroes is played from a top-down perspective. Every bit Travis, players are tasked with going through multiple video games and defeating the bugs in each game. The levels are inspired past 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 Heroes titles, occasionally undergoing perspective changes and introducing new gimmicks or minigames that are pertinent to the genre of each individual game.[iv] New to the series is the power to equip "Skill Chips" (named after Gundam models) that permit the role player to utilize an array of special attacks, ranging from a scattergun-type smash to an orbital laser. At the end of each game, the player faces against its residing boss. The game supports two-role player co-op with single Joy-Con support, where the 2nd player controls Badman.

Travis can return to his trailer at any time during game play, where the player tin buy new attire to wear, and access the "Death Drive MK-2", which hosts the video games the player volition explore. From the trailer, the player can too access "Travis Strikes Back" - an adventure mode designed every bit a classic visual novel where Travis explores the existent earth in search for "Expiry Assurance" that comprise the Decease Bulldoze'southward video games.

Plot [edit]

Seven years after the events of No More Heroes two,[5] a former professional baseball player turned assassin named Badman is on the run from the Smith Syndicate. He is tracked downward by i of the syndicate's assassins, Dan Smith, who is seeking retribution for being double crossed. Badman justifies his actions every bit being for the sake of his ain survival, equally he wishes to get 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 assuasive Badman to live, nether the status that he kill Travis, and use the ball to resurrect his girl.

Travis - now 37 years quondam - has isolated himself and lives in a camper in a forest in Texas, where he spends his fourth dimension playing video games. When Badman attempts to ambush Travis, the 2 accidentally awake a dormant video game console in Travis' possession - the "Death Drive MK-II". The console reacts to Badman'due south Death Ball, and the two get transported into the video game that'southward contained in it. Travis and Badman larn from the console's AI construct, Expiry & Bulldoze, that the unreleased panel was created past Dr. Juvenile, and completing the 6 Death Balls that incorporate the merely games developed for the panel volition grant its player one wish. The two form a truce, opting to team upwards to locate every Death Ball, and defeat all of the games, in lodge to resurrect Bad Girl.[6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

Travis interacts with a non-actor character. The game's adventure segments are conveyed through a classic visual novel setup.

The game explores Travis' electric current circumstances and Badman's backstory in visual novel portions that are set between each Expiry Bulldoze game. In the final seven 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 coming together characters from other Suda51 games, such as Kamui Uehara from The Silver Case, and Mondo Zappa from Killer Is Expressionless. Travis as well receives information well-nigh 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 authorities to develop advanced applied science. She also implemented elements of her history and upbringing into the Expiry Drive's games, such as basing the in-game series killer "Doppelganger" on her adoptive father. Travis learns that the Death Drive MK-II was designed as a machine that would create clones of its users, and that while it was initially intended for space travel, the government had re-purposed it to be a super soldier plan - a prospect which caused Juvenile to sabotage the project in an act of defiance, and go into hiding. Despite this, the mother car responsible for its protocols still lays dormant within the CIA, and Travis is warned that completing all six Death Ball games will cause information technology to reboot, allowing the government to keep developing super soldiers. He is as well alerted that should it be reactivated, Juvenile would destroy the Usa in retaliation.

Despite warnings, Travis and Badman successfully complete every Death Ball; yet one of the games - Killer Marathon - turns out to be an incomplete version of the game. Every bit such, when they wish for Bad Girl's resurrection, she ends up being resurrected in the form of a dog. Travis later ends upward locating a epitome for a Death Ball which, rather than transporting him into a video game, transports him directly into the CIA. Massacring his way through the facility he locates the Expiry Bulldoze mother machine which is being guarded past 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 Decease Drive and Juvenile'south mentor. Winter explains that he retired to Mars to escape Earth'southward bug, and safeguards the planet, opposing the government'south plans to immigrate there. He offers Travis the opportunity to stay on Mars and live a perfect life. Travis declines, realizing that he can't abandon his by, and deciding to face his bug caput on. Winter responds by decapitating Travis, as the only way for him to return is to "die".

Dorsum on Earth, Travis is approached by his cocky-proclaimed student, Shinobu Jacobs, who asks him to return from hiding to face the assassins. Travis remarks that it'due south fourth dimension for bloodshed. In a playable mail service-credits segment, Travis is controlled from a third person perspective similar to the previous No More Heroes games, set in a default Unreal Engine level. While attempting to arroyo 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 brother Henry, who is now part of an enigmatic order with a vendetta against Travis. Travis and Shinobu prepare to boxing against his subordinates before they're interrupted by a pair of villainous alien lucha libre wrestlers aptitude 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 once again interrupted, this time past Death & Bulldoze, who have broken free of the Death Drive MK-Two and are seeking revenge against Travis. He manages to beat them in a game of Burn down Pro Wrestling, obtaining the location of the completed version of the Killer Marathon Death Ball, which is in the possession of Travis' married woman, Sylvia Christel. Travis returns to her manor, obtaining the Expiry Ball and reconnecting with his daughter and wife in the process. After beating the completed version of Killer Marathon, Travis and Badman successfully resurrect Bad Daughter. Travis also spots a glimpse of the Death Bulldoze mother machine, which states that coding has been completed.

Development [edit]

The logo of the game was designed past Kojiro Kondo of Black Belt Jones DC, who was too responsible for designing the original No More Heroes series logo.[eleven]

Following the release of No More Heroes two, Goichi Suda had been looking for an opportunity to go along the serial, but became busy with other projects, such equally his involvement with Permit It Die. In mid-2016, as work on Let It Dice was terminal, he was invited to one of Nintendo'due south pre-release developer meetings for the then-upcoming Nintendo Switch. While the panel was different from the Wii, it offered like 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 amidst the planned Switch titles like The Legend of Zelda: Jiff of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey.[half dozen]

Suda considered the No More Heroes series every bit "fun slash 'em up kind of games", but with Travis Strikes Once more, he wanted to play around with the history of video games and the thought of retro games, and "how Travis would collaborate with the individual rules and the individual vibe from each game".[12] The vi games are new games developed for the title, some in homages to existing indie games, with at to the lowest degree one being a vector browse game.[seven] [eight] [12] When originally announced, some took Suda's comments to reflect that the levels would be set inside actual indie games like Hotline Miami, merely Suda subsequently clarified that these games would be featured as "T-shirt collaborations", with Travis able to unlock and clothing wearable items that promote these indie games, a concept he came upward with while seeing diverse game expositions like PAX Westward.[13] I such title is Hyper Light Out-of-stater, with Nintendo of America showcasing Travis's shirt alongside announcing the game's release on the Switch.[14] Suda wanted players to see Travis equally a fan of indie games, not merely to requite recognition to the indie game scene, but due to his conventionalities that Grasshopper is similar to an indie developer, and he wanted to show his support of the upwardly-and-coming smaller studios.[5] He estimated that there will be at to the lowest degree xv indie games represented in Travis Strikes Over again, with titles to be revealed as part of the ongoing promotion.[xv] The game would likewise run into the addition of t-shirts from The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker,[16] The Legend of Zelda: Majora'due south Mask [17] and Zelda Ii: The Adventure of Link [18] that grant Travis a spin assail. The thought of crossing between games was partially influenced by the film Existenz.[vi] UK creative person Boneface contributed designs for the game's boss battles.[5]

There will also exist sections of the game that utilise the standard gameplay approach as the other No More than Heroes titles.[12] One goal of the game for Suda was to have it be completely playable on a single 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's comments that the game may support multiplayer, since the Switch supports 2 Joy-Con. Suda was unable to speak on this under confidentiality at PAX W, but did tell reporters who asked most this that there are "ii main characters, and so draw your own conclusions, if yous want".[9] [19] [5]

The game is beingness developed in Unreal Engine four.[20] At the time of reveal, Robin Atkin Downes, the voice of Travis in the previous titles, had reportedly not been asked to reprise his role in Travis Strikes Again.[21] He was later on confirmed to exist returning to the role in December 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 epitome of Travis Touchdown wearing a shirt that said "Travis Strikes Once again";[23] however, no mention of the No More than Heroes series was made. Suda said in a later interview that this was a purposeful selection, as he wanted the tease to feature Travis himself every bit the cardinal focus.[12] The game was formally announced as Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes in an August 2017 Nintendo Direct, along with farther reveals at the PAX West event a few days afterward.[12] Suda noted that the title's ordering, placing the series' name later Travis Strikes Again, was to insinuate to the fact he does not consider this game a direct sequel but instead "the offset of a new adventure, of a new series for Travis" but that still otherwise takes place in the No More Heroes universe.[ix] Suda also stated that Travis Strikes Again serves as "something of a stepping stone on the road to No More than Heroes iii", and hopes to make a true sequel if the game proves successful enough.[24]

On November 14, 2018, Grasshopper Manufacture announced that Travis Strikes Once again would receive a physical edition which would be distributed past Nintendo. The physical version of the game is likewise arranged with a flavor laissez passer. The developers have confirmed that some of the additional content will include a new playable grapheme, a new scenario, and a new stage.[25] The first DLC pack was later confirmed to include a scenario for Badman, equally well as series-recurring character Shinobu Jacobs as a playable character, while the second pack includes a new scenario for Travis, a new phase for the game Killer Marathon, and Bad Girl from No More Heroes as a playable character.[26] Grasshopper further confirmed that Robin Atkin Downes would be returning in the role every bit 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 Girl 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 Heroes received "mixed or boilerplate 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'due south power to brand the actor desire to go on playing in club to observe out what happens side by side. The visuals and combat of the game were also praised for their explosive style and satisfying feedback, though a few reviewers felt that at times the gainsay could terminate up existence a bit of a grind.[32]

The Switch version of the game met internal expectations for sales,[42] reaching 24th on the eShop all-time sellers nautical chart.[43] The PS4 version did not identify in the top thirty 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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