No More Heroes 3 in the test: Despite the ruckler a fun alien

Say goodbye to Heroes is a 2007 action-adventure hack and reduce video clip game for the Wii. It was created by Grasshopper Manufacture as well as published by Marvelous Enjoyment, Ubisoft, as well as Climbing Star Games. The game was directed, designed, as well as composed by Goichi Suda, additionally recognized by his label Suda51. The game complies with Travis Touchdown, a fan of video clip games and also anime that wins a beam katana in a public auction, where he accidentally becomes entailed in the United Assassins Organization and forced to eliminate assassins greater in rank to stop other assassins from targeting him. A port of the game, entitled No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise, was launched for the PlayStation 3 and also Xbox 360 with added web content in Japan. Unlike the initial, the global version of the game was released by Konami, and only the PlayStation 3 version of the video game was local in English. A port of the initial version was later on released for the Nintendo Switch in 2020, as well as for the Amazon Luna and also Windows via Vapor in 2021. A sequel, Say goodbye to Heroes 2: Hopeless Battle, was launched for the Wii in 2010. The title Travis Strikes Once more: Say Goodbye To Heroes was released for the Nintendo Change in 2019. The next mainline title, No More Heroes III, was announced at E3 2019 and also was launched on August 27, 2021 for the Nintendo Switch.

Suda 51 Aka Goichi Suda is something like the Japanese Enfant Terrible under the game designers. His works are relish in references to Japanese pop culture, whistle on conventions and surprise in the minute clock with absurd ideas. The main character of the No More Heroes series is therefore consistent: Travis Touchdown is a Supernerd, who is on the day as an order killer and traveled at night his collection to Anime Merchandise.

He is completely aware that he is in a video game, which allows you to compare a comparison to Deadpool. In the previously published spin-off Travis Strikes Again Verkam the collection of self-references to the self-purpose, which degrades the actual game to Drögen Zinwerk. No more Heroes 3 makes a lot more mood again!

Ranklist fighting with aliens

But what is it about? Actually, Travis had already fought at the top of the world rankings of all assassins, but a new threat forces him to resort to the homemade laser catana: Aliens! They have done nothing lower than the world domination - but from pure boredom. Therefore, they spice the invasion with a competition in which the coordinator Sylvia Christel known from the predecessors is right. It ensures that Travis can engage in extensive boss fighting an alien villain after the next in the ass.

Varied bosses: Excuse the choice of words, but the (verbal) impact exchange is so vulgar as bloody during the boss fighting. Every boss fight is overpiring for ingenious absurd stalls that challenge you to varied strategies. One of the first alien bosses works with magnets, for example. Travis must then change its own polarity by touching corresponding floor plates in the arena in order not to be pulled in devastating vertebrae attacks. Every boss fight plays differently and waits with a crazy staging. For example, Travis crashes a pop concert in another scene and returns a rap-battle with its opponent.

Varied enemy design

To compete in boss fights, Travis needs money for enrolling to the next stage in the tournament. He takes orders in an open world, which consist of a mix of mini-games and struggles. The latter make up most of what the game is very beneficial. Travis basically occurs in arenas against a variety of different, very creatively designed opponents - optically, like tactical.

Charming: Externally you look like a scifi trash film of the 60s, which gives you a very own charm. Playfully, every opponent type comes with a certain behavior. There is, for example, the alien ninjas with motorcycle helmet, which immediately attack on frontal and are very fuss. Their counterpart are sniper aliens who remain at the edge of the fighting, but can cause irascible damage with a targeted, slow-recharging shot.

Individually, the aliens are easy to defeat. Only in group constellations is the challenge growing as all opponents attack at the same time. Then you have to tactize and think, whom you first are concerned or when you'd rather withdraw.

Wild, colorful and good to control

The fights are not just having fun because of the great enemy design, but also because they intuitively control themselves. Veterans of the series may be pleased that the movement control of the Wii original was successfully transferred to the Joy-Con. For death rods, for example, large arrows are displayed, the direction of which you can imitate. This is especially funny with Wrestling Moves: Here you pack an opponent and slam him with the right joy-con movement to the ground! Yes, that's as satisfactory as it reads.

Especially because a graphic with blood and particle effects only bombarded. If you do not feel like motion control, you can also just use the right analog stick. However, a little of the joke is lost when charging the laser catanas: whose battery charge must always be kept in mind during the fight, so that it does not fail in the wrong moment. She is charged with a, uh, sexually pretty clear shaking gesture.

Also great: Travis has many possibilities during the vintage. From the spin-off Travis Strikes Again he brings a glove with which special promotions are occupied. For example, he can trigger a gravitational shock that scatters dangerous opponents. Of course, a kind of overdrive mode must not be missing, in which Travis can transform briefly into a mech.

In addition, after each defeated opponent, a roulette is displayed, which can randomly generate advantages. In the luck, Travis gets more force in this way, for example. After a similar principle, a lucky wheel appears while failing, which is always a bit slower after each screen death in the same struggle. This takes the frustration in the often failure because, for example, easier to win extra life.

Slant Open World

While the fighting is a lot of joy, you can not claim that from the open world. She is divided into six main areas - for example a desert or a city - which act very lifeless. There are clutches hidden at random sites, which are partly in Travis' apartment.

You can walk on foot or with a (reminiscent) motorcycle by the world. Or rather jerk, because the switch has immense problems to represent the extensive area. To the low frame rate also discontinue hearty edge fibrillation and some graphics errors, so that memories of Deadly Premonition 2 are awake. You can be glad that there is a quick travel function.

Crazy pastime: After all, quite funny are the optional mini-games, where even the lawn mowing returns from the original. For example, Travis refers, for example, giant allerators per cannon from a beach or Rempelt gangster carts from the highway, which is very reminiscent of the burnout racing games. Not every mini-game is a hit, but most are amusing. The pay (in the form of different currencies) Travis can invest both in the next competitions as well as in upgrades of his stats or perks.

The latter provide small advantages, such as short-term strength in certain combat situations. Although the achievements in the open world ultimately serve to make the fighting even cooler, you can not shake out the idea that you would have made the game even better in a stalked form.