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2019 video game

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

Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes [a] is an action-take a chance hack and slash video game developed and published by Grasshopper Industry. The game was released for Nintendo Switch on January xviii, 2019, and for PlayStation 4 and Windows later that year. Directed by Goichi "Suda51" Suda, the game is function of the No More Heroes franchise and features series protagonist Travis Touchdown fighting Badman, the father of Bad Girl. The two are fatigued into a possessed video game console, and must fight through its diverse games. As the get-go championship he has directed since the first No More Heroes, Suda collaborated with several indie developers to feature elements from their games in Travis Strikes Over again. While function of the No More Heroes serial, Suda does non consider the game a direct sequel to the previous title No More Heroes 2: Drastic Struggle, but a fresh start for the grapheme 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. 5 months after the game's initial release, No More than Heroes III was announced at E3 2019, acting equally a follow-upward to the game, and a sequel to the series proper, released on the Nintendo Switch on August 27, 2021.[3]

Gameplay [edit]

In a change for the series, Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes is played from a tiptop-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 diverse video game genres such as platforming games and role-playing games. Despite this, gameplay and combat itself predominantly plays out equally a hack and slash similar 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 private game.[4] New to the series is the ability to equip "Skill Chips" (named later on Gundam models) that allow the 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 actor faces against its residing boss. The game supports two-player co-op with unmarried Joy-Con support, where the second player controls Badman.

Travis can render to his trailer at whatever 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 player will explore. From the trailer, the player can also admission "Travis Strikes Back" - an adventure mode designed as a classic visual novel where Travis explores the existent world in search for "Death Assurance" that contain the Decease Drive's video games.

Plot [edit]

Vii years after the events of No More Heroes ii,[5] a former professional baseball game thespian turned assassin named Badman is on the run from the Smith Syndicate. He is tracked down by one of the syndicate's assassins, Dan Smith, who is seeking retribution for being double crossed. Badman justifies his actions as being for the sake of his own survival, as he wishes to get revenge on Travis Touchdown, who had murdered his daughter, Bad Daughter, during the events of No More than Heroes. Dan successfully tracks downwards Travis' location, granting Badman a Death Brawl and allowing Badman to live, nether the condition that he kill Travis, and use the ball to resurrect his girl.

Travis - now 37 years old - has isolated himself and lives in a camper in a wood 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 panel in Travis' possession - the "Decease Drive MK-II". The panel reacts to Badman's Death Ball, and the two get transported into the video game that's contained in it. Travis and Badman larn from the console's AI construct, Expiry & Drive, that the unreleased console was created by Dr. Juvenile, and completing the six Death Assurance that contain the only games developed for the console will grant its player one wish. The two form a truce, opting to squad up to locate every Death Ball, and defeat all of the games, in order to resurrect Bad Girl.[6] [7] [8] [9] [10]

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

The game explores Travis' current circumstances and Badman's backstory in visual novel portions that are set between each Death Drive game. In the last 7 years, Travis had married former UAA confidant Sylvia Christel, and had two children, though he abased his family for their prophylactic, equally 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 every bit Kamui Uehara from The Argent Example, and Mondo Zappa from Killer Is Dead. Travis also receives data about Dr. Juvenile and her past through fax messages from her purported married man, 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 technology. She also implemented elements of her history and upbringing into the Expiry Drive'southward games, such as basing the in-game serial killer "Doppelganger" on her adoptive father. Travis learns that the Death Drive MK-Two was designed as a car that would create clones of its users, and that while it was initially intended for space travel, the authorities had re-purposed information technology to be a super soldier program - a prospect which caused Juvenile to demolition the projection in an act of defiance, and go into hiding. Despite this, the mother motorcar responsible for its protocols still lays fallow within the CIA, and Travis is warned that completing all six Death Ball games will cause it to reboot, allowing the government to proceed developing super soldiers. He is also alerted that should it be reactivated, Juvenile would destroy the United States in retaliation.

Despite warnings, Travis and Badman successfully complete every Death Ball; however one of the games - Killer Marathon - turns out to exist an incomplete version of the game. As such, when they wish for Bad Daughter'due south resurrection, she ends up being resurrected in the course of a domestic dog. Travis later ends upwardly locating a prototype for a Death Ball which, rather than transporting him into a video game, transports him direct into the CIA. Massacring his way through the facility he locates the Death Drive mother auto which is being guarded by Dr. Juvenile, who has infiltrated the facility and taken the grade 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 motorcar and is transported to Mars, where he meets John Winter; the creator of the very original Death Drive and Juvenile'due south mentor. Winter explains that he retired to Mars to escape Earth's problems, and safeguards the planet, opposing the government's plans to emigrate in that location. He offers Travis the opportunity to stay on Mars and live a perfect life. Travis declines, realizing that he tin can't abandon his past, and deciding to face his problems caput on. Winter responds by decapitating Travis, equally the just way for him to return is to "die".

Back on Earth, Travis is approached by his self-proclaimed educatee, Shinobu Jacobs, who asks him to render from hiding to face up the assassins. Travis remarks that it'due south time for bloodshed. In a playable postal service-credits segment, Travis is controlled from a 3rd person perspective like to the previous No More than Heroes games, set in a default Unreal Engine level. While attempting to approach a dummy, Travis berates the role player for treating the expanse like a game, saying that they're currently "in development".

DLC #two: Bubblegum Fatale [edit]

Following the events of the main campaign, Travis and Shinobu are intercepted by Travis' twin brother Henry, who is now function of an enigmatic social club with a vendetta against Travis. Travis and Shinobu set up to battle confronting his subordinates before they're interrupted by a pair of villainous conflicting lucha libre wrestlers bent on globe 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 over again interrupted, this fourth dimension past Death & Drive, who have cleaved costless of the Death Drive MK-Ii and are seeking revenge against Travis. He manages to crush them in a game of Fire 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 girl and wife in the process. After chirapsia the completed version of Killer Marathon, Travis and Badman successfully resurrect Bad Daughter. Travis also spots a glimpse of the Decease Drive mother motorcar, which states that coding has been completed.

Development [edit]

The logo of the game was designed by Kojiro Kondo of Black Belt Jones DC, who was also responsible for designing the original No More than Heroes series logo.[11]

Following the release of No More than Heroes two, Goichi Suda had been looking for an opportunity to continue the serial, but became busy with other projects, such equally his involvement with Let It Die. In mid-2016, every bit work on Allow It Dice was concluding, he was invited to one of Nintendo's pre-release developer meetings for the and so-upcoming Nintendo Switch. While the console was unlike 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 arrangement. He felt the game would fit in well amongst the planned Switch titles like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey.[half dozen]

Suda considered the No More Heroes series as "fun slash 'em upwardly kind of games", only with Travis Strikes Again, he wanted to play effectually 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 vi games are new games developed for the championship, some in homages to existing indie games, with at least one beingness a vector scan game.[7] [viii] [12] When originally announced, some took Suda's comments to reverberate that the levels would exist set within bodily indie games like Hotline Miami, only Suda afterward antiseptic that these games would be featured as "T-shirt collaborations", with Travis able to unlock and wear article of clothing items that promote these indie games, a concept he came up with while seeing diverse game expositions like PAX Due west.[13] One such championship is Hyper Light Drifter, with Nintendo of America showcasing Travis's shirt alongside announcing the game's release on the Switch.[xiv] Suda wanted players to encounter Travis every bit a fan of indie games, not only to give 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 back up of the upward-and-coming smaller studios.[5] He estimated that there volition be at least 15 indie games represented in Travis Strikes Once more, with titles to be revealed as office of the ongoing promotion.[fifteen] The game would likewise see the addition of t-shirts from The Fable of Zelda: Current of air Waker,[xvi] The Legend of Zelda: Majora'southward Mask [17] and Zelda II: The Gamble of Link [xviii] that grant Travis a spin set on. The idea of crossing between games was partially influenced by the film Existenz.[six] United kingdom creative person Boneface contributed designs for the game'due south dominate battles.[5]

There will also be sections of the game that utilise the standard gameplay approach as the other No More Heroes titles.[12] I goal of the game for Suda was to accept it be completely playable on a single Joy-Con controller for the Nintendo Switch version, simplifying the controls compared to the second game.[ix] Reporters from Eurogamer and Polygon have taken Suda's comments that the game may support multiplayer, since the Switch supports two Joy-Con. Suda was unable to speak on this nether confidentiality at PAX West, simply did tell reporters who asked well-nigh this that there are "two chief characters, then draw your own conclusions, if you desire".[9] [nineteen] [5]

The game is being developed in Unreal Engine 4.[xx] At the time of reveal, Robin Atkin Downes, the vocalization of Travis in the previous titles, had reportedly non been asked to reprise his role in Travis Strikes Again.[21] He was later confirmed to exist returning to the part in December 2018.[22]

Travis Strikes Again was teased during the Jan 2017 reveal conference of the Nintendo Switch. Suda was nowadays for the live event, and appeared on stage to show a promotional paradigm of Travis Touchdown wearing a shirt that said "Travis Strikes Again";[23] however, no mention of the No More Heroes series was made. Suda said in a later interview that this was a purposeful option, as he wanted the tease to feature Travis himself equally the central focus.[12] The game was formally appear equally Travis Strikes Again: No More than Heroes in an August 2017 Nintendo Direct, along with further reveals at the PAX W upshot a few days after.[12] Suda noted that the title's ordering, placing the series' name afterward Travis Strikes Again, was to allude to the fact he does not consider this game a direct sequel only instead "the commencement of a new adventure, of a new series for Travis" merely that still otherwise takes place in the No More than Heroes universe.[9] Suda also stated that Travis Strikes Again serves as "something of a stepping rock on the road to No More Heroes iii", and hopes to make a true sequel if the game proves successful enough.[24]

On November xiv, 2018, Grasshopper Manufacture appear that Travis Strikes Once again would receive a concrete edition which would be distributed by Nintendo. The physical version of the game is also bundled with a season laissez passer. The developers have confirmed that some of the additional content will include a new playable graphic symbol, a new scenario, and a new stage.[25] The first DLC pack was later confirmed to include a scenario for Badman, likewise as series-recurring grapheme 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 Daughter from No More Heroes as a playable character.[26] Grasshopper farther confirmed that Robin Atkin Downes would be returning in the office 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 four and Windows version were released on October 17, 2019.[one]

Reception [edit]

Travis Strikes Over 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 arroyo that offered the game a constantly refreshing sense of presentation, praising the game's power to brand the player want to keep playing in order to detect out what happens next. The visuals and combat of the game were also praised for their explosive way and satisfying feedback, though a few reviewers felt that at times the combat could end up being a bit 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 not place 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)

shecklerhavess.blogspot.com

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

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