Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes

Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes is outrageous. The game is uncompromisingly zany: full of smart design, fluid combat, and laugh out loud personality front to back. While some may be turned off by its low budget feel and disjointed design, those who can look past these rough edges will find a hack-and-slash so quirky that it’ll be tough not to fall in love. This title stands as a shining beacon of bold creativity and anyone who values risk-taking in games owes it to themself to give Travis Strikes Again a shot.

Developed by Grasshopper Manufacture – and of course by extension the legendary Suda51 – Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes delivers on almost everything you could want – and expect – from both a Travis Touchdown game and a Suda51 experience. The titular assassin returns, seeking solace deep in the forest away from the assassins who now hunt him for his place at the top of the league. As the game begins, Badman – father of former assassin Bad Girl – has tracked Travis down to his trailer and vows to make him pay for killing his little girl. During the ensuing battle, Travis’ Death Drive Mark...

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Travis Strikes Again isn’t the No More Heroes games that fans were hoping Suda51 would bring to the Nintendo Switch. Though it’s dripping in all the style and quirky humor that fans have come to know and love from the esteemed director, it’s not the fully-fledged open world sequel to follow in the same vein as its predecessors.

Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes might not have been the game in the series that I was hoping to receive a few years back, but it's no less a fun return for one of my personal favorite characters in gaming. Even though combat and level design are easily the weakest portions of Travis Strikes Again, the quippy writing and wacky tone constantly keep things fun even in the game's duller gameplay stretches. For a project of much smaller size and scope compared to previous No More Heroes games, Travis Strikes Again still carries the legacy of the franchise forward in a meaningful way that will ...

A worthy followup to the Wii cult classics, Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes is a fun and action-packed hack-and-slash adventure, when it isn't getting in its own way.

Read our Travis Strikes Again No More Heroes review to see if Travis Touchdown coming out of retirement after nine years is all it's cracked up to be!

We've all been waiting an absurd amount of time for the return of Travis Touchdown, Suda51's iconic otaku, and when Travis Strikes Again was first announced, it sent a long-dormant cult following into a frenzy - myself included. Though No More Heroes and its sequel weren't perfect by any means, they were fascinating and fun, both gems of the Wii library. So Travis Strikes Again simultaneously has nothing to prove, and a lot to live up to.

Will the real Travis Touchdown please stand up? Please stand up?

Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes is a low point for the action franchise. While each of the game worlds try to introduce new mechanics, they all devolve into predictable fights with waves of bland enemies. Slicing through them with the Beam Katana isn’t as satisfying as before because of the mostly top-down perspective. Well-written visual novel sections offer some classic Suda51 humor, but it’s not enough to elevate Travis Strikes Again to more than just a monotonous, disjointed hack and slash game.

There are many different strategies a developer/publisher can adopt in order to try to get a dormant franchise back to the spotlight. You can release a remaster of an older title in order to increase the overall awareness of the franchise, just like Capcom is doing at the moment with Onimusha. You can ignore the fact nobody has been asking for a new entry in a franchise and release a game anyway, like Bubsy. You can jump on the bandwagon after someone else has failed to release a spiritual su...

As an unapologetic Suda51 and No More Heroes fan, it’s such a letdown to have to pen these words after finally, finally seeing one of my favorite franchises resurrected on the Switch. While I dug absolutely every facet of the game's aesthetics and the fact that I was finally able to get more No More Heroes after such a long wait, I didn't quite want it in this format. While it was clear at the start that this wouldn't be a core entry in the series, it's also bereft of much of what makes No More Heroes such an unforgettable and classic game in the first place. Technical issues, strange gameplay...