I know everyone has their taste, but I just can't understand how people liked this game so much.
-The game honestly tries to offer something different.
- It's actually kind of funny; I couldn't stop laughing some times.
The Bad
- It's too much repetitive overall, the story and the gameplay both.
- Annoying mini-games.
- A city with good size, but where you can't do virtually ANYTHING.
The only way I could recommend No More Heroes to anyone was if they didn't really care about what to buy, because that's what No More Heroes is: a game that doesn't care about itself. And how is that? Well simply everything about it is absurd: the story, the setting, the characters, maybe even the gameplay… And that's not all bad, but it seems the developers lost themselves in trying to create something different and ended up building a really crappy game that maybe was good in some things, but in the aspects that really mattered it wasn't.
I am a committed gamer, and though I started hating the game through half-way I was strong enough to finish it, and let me tell you it's not rewarding at all. You will follow the same pattern from start to finish. There are ten bosses to fight, each one of them requires you to have a certain amount of money, and you will unlock a bunch of annoying mini-games in order to gather the amount of cash needed, so it would go like this: fight the boss, play mini-game, fight the boss, play mini-game, etc, etc; and that's No More Heroes for you.
Don't expect to find comfort in side-quests or extras, because there isn't any of interest, maybe the most significant would be that you can get another ending, but I really couldn't bring myself to do it. The city where the game is set has a good size, but there is nothing to do there, you will hardly see any people or any vehicles in sight so it feels like if it is a ghost town, and I am not saying the game should've been a GTA clone, but it's just annoying having a city where you can't do a thing. The only vehicle you will have at your disposal is Travis' weird futuristic-like motorcycle that doesn't bring too much fun to the game either… There's just nothing to do with that thing, only move from point to point and the driving is abysmal too, you can't crash anything, you can't touch anything; it feels like a Nintendo 64 game.
Talking briefly about the gameplay the fighting it's not all bad, but after a while it gets a little too much of the same and eventually boring. Press "A" repeatedly to slash an enemy with Travis' laser sword, and finally shake the wii remote to the direction showed at the screen to finish the bad guy. That pretty much sums it up with the fighting; the mini-games consist in silly missions like gathering coconuts or recycling trash and will require you to combine joystick and buttons with movements.
The graphics didn't bother me; in fact I thought they were one of the few things great about the game. They have a cartoonish style but without losing seriousness, kind of cell-shade… Well they were good overall. The sound was pretty lame, when you are walking or driving the motorcycle the city almost doesn't make a sound, you will hardly listen to any good theme or sound effects but there are a few. The voice acting it's another story; I actually thought it was pretty good, along with the dialogues in the videos, that aspect of the game was good.
Well that's everything about No More Heroes, loved by the critics and the gamers, hated by a few; but hey… there's always someone, right? Hope this review was of help and my final recommendation: Rent It.