GamesRadar - No More Heroes

Gaming's most important farty butts (Feature)

Oct 1, 2008

Sites like ours thrive off listing the most important details in all of gaming culture. Like a lot, I mean. Though, as professionals, we can occasionally get just as discouraged as any reader over another site’s glaring omission. Take for example when we took in Edge Online’s 50 Greatest Gaming Innovations piece from last year. Stealth, cutscenes, bloom lighting - fine... but where are the farts, dammit?! ...

No More Heroes Conceived While On The Toilet (News)

Sep 11, 2008

Thanks to the DS, the bathroom is now a gaming destination. According to Suda51, Grasshopper Manufactures creator of No More Heroes, also a development studio.

Suda51 reveals all. "I actually came up with the initial idea for a game featuring a [Johnny] Knoxville-style character whilst on the toilet", Suda says, revealing details behind his unique I.P.

Sintendo: The evil side of kiddy gaming (Feature)

Jun 13, 2008

Troublesome cameras, rotten language and bare breasts: not things you’d normally associate with a Nintendo game. Okay, some of these occur in third-party titles, but the important fact is that each one carries the Original Nintendo Seal of Quality. And that means Nintendo approved them all. Not so bad for a company famous for its censorship back in the early nineties, huh? So the next time somebody pokes fun at Nintendo for being ...

The Virgin Child Makes Her Wish Without Feeling Anything (News)

Jun 9, 2008

The 9th ranked assassin Dr. Peace from No More Heroes will be getting his CD debut with the in game song "The Virgin Child Makes Her Wish Without Feeling Anything".

The release date will be June 25, priced at 1,000 yen (about $10). It can be purchased from Grasshopper Manufacture's online shopping site"ghmR STORE".

The CD will include 4 different versions of the song: a normal version, sax version, trumpet version, and a karaoke version.

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No More Heroes at Vodafone (News)

Apr 7, 2008

Mobile Entertainment: FoneStarz inks deal with Rising Star Games to offer content from Wii game on Vodafone live!

Mobile content based on video games is a category that FoneStarz is looking to beef up, with the company on the lookout for more deals.

Interview: Suda51 (Feature)

Mar 26, 2008

The eccentric games developer and Grasshopper Manufacture CEO Goichi ‘Suda51’ Suda has found fame for his last two big-name games - No More Heroes and Killer 7 - but as a producer, he’s got a list of innovative hits as long as an elephant’s nasal spray. These include Michigan: Report from Hell, which takes place entirely behind a film crew’s camera, and soon-to-be-DSed adventure game The Silver Case. He’s ...

EGM info - review scores, rumors (News)

Mar 1, 2008

A number of Nintendo games score very well in EGM this month including Professor Layton and Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword. Full review scores and rumors below.

Wii:

Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed - C+ D+ C+
No More Heroes - B A- B-
Obscure: The Aftermath - D+ D D+ (Shame of the Month)

Multiplatform:

Sega Superstars Tennis - B- C+ C

DS:

Professor Layton - A- B+ A- (Silver)
Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword - A- A- B (Silver)
Ace Attorney 4 - A- B+ A- (Silver)
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles - A B- B-

Rumors

EA plans on making a mixed-martial arts game
Wii Fit delayed in the US because Nintendo is making a bigger Balance Board

Console Cameos - Real-world systems hidden in your games (Video)

Feb 21, 2008

No More Heroes delayed in Europe again (News)

Feb 21, 2008

Earlier this month gamers learnt that Suda 51's exclusive Wii action-adventure title, No More Heroes, had been delayed in Europe - but, thankfully, just by a week. However, today it is reported that Rising Star Games has shifted its launch date once more - and again by seven days. It will now arrive in the continent on March 14.

Console Cameos (Feature)

Feb 20, 2008

Most of us play games to escape reality. For a few brief moments, the trials of the material world trickle away and your only concern is how many goddamn gold coins you can collect in an hour. Then, out of nowhere, a friggin' Xbox 360 console shows up in the actual game and all your suspended disbelief goes right out the window. And it happens more often than you'd think. So often, in fact, that we had little trouble in amassing a large ...

No More Heroes Does OK In America (Probably Better In Europe) (News)

Feb 15, 2008

Marvellous Interactive have published some worldwide shipping/sales figures for Suda's No More Heroes. In Japan, homeland of all parties involved? It's done terribly. Only 40,000 copies have shipped since launch. Ouch. How about America, then? Little better: they've shipped around 200,000 copies, and have sold just over 100,000 since launch. Not bad! Finally, however, they announce some European numbers. And while the game's not even out there yet (it's shipping late Feb/early March across all PAL territories), they're expecting to sell 160,000 units across the continent at launch. Could something finally be coming up roses for Suda? Let's hope so!

No More Heroes launch delayed in Europe (News)

Feb 13, 2008

It seems as if those gamers in Europe hoping to snatch a copy of Suda 51 and Grasshopper's exclusive Wii adventure, No More Heroes, will have to wait just a little bit longer. News reaches Nintendic that the title has been delayed by a week on the continent from the original launch date of February 29 to a week later on March 07.

No More Heroes: Heavenly Star cut from US but in Euro version (News)

Feb 7, 2008

Siliconera reports that the Heavenly Star music video was cut from the Ubisoft's "red" (North American) version of No More Heroes. Rising Star Games informs Siliconera that the music video would appear in the European release. This makes the European version essentially the same as the Japanese version except the subtitles and mission objectives are not written in kana.

The Top 7... Assassins (Feature)

Feb 6, 2008

On some level, roughly 95 percent of games have always been about assassination: go to point A and kill prominent entity B, fighting your way through goons C through Z to get there. Most games tend to come up with a morally justifiable pretext for all the violence, but more and more, we're seeing games that drop the act and let you be what you've secretly known yourself to be all along: a remorseless killing machine bent on destroying your targets. ...

No More Heroes strategy guide: Kill the killers (Feature)

Feb 6, 2008

No More Heroes is a fantastic game. Fantastic but very very hard. Taking down the UAA's top ten assassins will take all the brains, braun, and tactical thinking you can muster, but don't go worrying. We've taken the beats, we've learned the lessons, and we've got you covered. ...

No More Heroes began life on 360, says developer (News)

Feb 1, 2008

Grasshopper founder Suda51 has told MCV that he first planned for Rising Star's No More Heroes to be an Xbox 360 title.

"Originally, I'd wanted to make this game for Xbox 360, actually. [Marvelous Interactive boss] Wada-san had information about the new Wii and how the new controller would work before it came out, so that's why he thought I should produce the game on that format."

"At the time, I didn't really understand why, but after seeing and understanding how it works, I think it was a good choice and the controller works really well with the game."

No More Heroes - Plot exposed - 01-29-08 (Video)

Jan 29, 2008

No More Heroes: The hidden plot revealed! (Feature)

Jan 29, 2008

[Spoiler warning: Under no circumstances read on if you haven't played right to the end of No More Heroes yet. Doing so will make you cry. We can virtually guarrantee it.] Okay, so you've fought your way right through to the end of the game. You've marvelled at the crazy invention and lunatic imagination on show. You've been thrilled by the katana-swinging, bad guy-exploding action. You've grooved to the soundtrack, you've run that bike over more people than you can remember, and you've loved ...

GameFly: Burnout Paradise Leads The Races (News)

Jan 28, 2008

Gamasutra reports this week's top rental charts from U.S. game rental company GameFly, representing the most requested games for the week ending January 21st, highlight both to-be-released and already released games in a unique demand-specific chart.

Burnout Paradise hangs on to the top spot for the second week in a row. Capcom's Devil May Cry 4, slated to release February 5th, made the top five twice last week --the Xbox 360 SKU in second position, and the PS3 SKU in fourth -- but this week, the Xbox 360 SKU steps back a spot to third, while the PS3 SKU fails to chart in the top 5.

What follows is a breakdown of the top titles requested by GameFly subscribers across each of the major platforms:

Xbox 360

1. Burnout Paradise (Electronic Arts)
2. Turok (Touchstone)
3. Devil May Cry 4 (Capcom)
4. The Club (Sega)
5. Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (Ubisoft)

Nintendo Wii

1. No More Heroes (Ubisoft)
2. Endless Ocean (Nintendo)
3. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo)
4. Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo)
5. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Sega)

PlayStation 3

1. Devil May Cry 4 (Capcom)
2. Burnout Paradise (Electronic Arts)
3. Turok (Touchstone)
4. Unreal Tournament III (Midway)
5. Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (Sony)

No More Heroes shirts (News)

Jan 27, 2008

NeoGAF reported that the rumored No More Heroes shirts do exist, but it just may be hard to import them from Japan. Check out the selection at the game developer Grasshopper Manufacture's product page via the link below.

Japan gets No More Heroes soundtrack this January (News)

Jan 24, 2008

"It was revealed that Japan will be getting the soundtrack for Ubisoft and Grasshopper Manufacture's Wii exclusive No More Heroes this January 23, 2008. The full package of 3 CDs will have all of the music from the game including some vocal variants of the songs. Head on over to the full article to find out more."

-- by Enrico S. on Jan 23, 2008

Notes: QJ.NET has a link to the original announcement. The announcement is in Japanese, but it lists the music tracks in English.

Major Japanese Talent Confirmed For GDC '08 - Final Fantasy, Lost Odyssey, Killer 7 Devs Join Feb Line-up (News)

Jan 23, 2008

Gameindustry reports the developers behind some of Japan's biggest franchises will be delivering sessions at next month's Game Developers Conference, boosting the line-up for the February event.

Two of the team behind Square Enix's epic Final Fantasy franchise will be at the event, with general manager for technical research Taku Murata discussing the company's work on a new game engine for FF XIII, while art director Isamu Kamikokuryo will discuss the art style of the series in an interview with Bungie's Steve Theodore.

Ray Nakazato will be delivering a session on Lost Odyssey, the Xbox 360 exclusive RPG co-created by Mistwalker and Microsoft Game Studios' FeelPlus team, to address what did and didn't work on the original project.

The latest addition to the audio track is a session from Masafumi Takada, who will be delivering a retrospective of his work from Killer 7, God Hand, Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles and No More Heroes.

No More Heroes (Screenshots)

Jan 22, 2008

GameFly: Devil May Cry Storms The Top Five (News)

Jan 22, 2008

Gamasutra reports that this week's top rental charts from U.S. game rental company GameFly, representing the most requested games for the week ending January 21st, highlight both to-be-released and already released games.

Burnout Paradise speeds into the top spot after spending last week at number three, displacing three-week leader Kingdom Under Fire: Circle Of Doom, which tumbles all the way down to tenth place.

Capcom's Devil May Cry 4, slated to release February 5th, makes the top five twice -- the Xbox 360 SKU in second position, and the PS3 SKU in fourth. In between them, holding the third spot, is the Xbox 360 SKU of Turok, while No More Heroes enters the charts in fifth.

Overall:

1) Burnout Paradise (360)
2) Devil May Cry 4 (360)
3) Turok (360)
4) Devil May Cry 4 (PS3)
5) No More Heroes (Wii)

Xbox 360

1. Burnout Paradise (Electronic Arts)
2. Devil May Cry 4 (Capcom)
3. Turok (Touchstone)
4. Assassin's Creed (Ubisoft)
5. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision)

Nintendo Wii

1. No More Heroes (Ubisoft)
2. Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo)
3. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Sega)
4. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo)
5. Endless Ocean (Nintendo)

PlayStation 3

1. Devil May Cry 4 (Capcom)
2. Burnout Paradise (Electronic Arts)
3. Turok (Touchstone)
4. Unreal Tournament III (Midway)
5. Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (Sony)

No More Heroes (Review)

Jan 22, 2008

Violence, sex, things to see, things to collect, spectacular graphics and even better sound, a sense of humour, a sense of purpose, an insane logic running through every fiber - and enough swearing to get your TV banned by the authorities. Killer7 creator Suda51 is back, all right. Our hero, Travis Touchdown, is a motel-dwelling, action figure-collecting, anime-obsessing gamer who wins a lightsaber in an online auction and sets off on a mission to become the worlds number one hitman so he can ...

Suda: "Comments Regarding Wii Third Party Misinterpreted" (News)

Jan 21, 2008

Kombo Reports: "We previously reported that Suda had expressed displeasure with sales of third-party titles on Wii in Japan. However, the official GrassHopper website has posted an official statement from Suda stating that his previous comments were misinterpreted. In reality, Suda wanted say that No More Heroes will instead attract a different type of gamer in Japan, opposed to the typical non-gamer audience.

"This is Suda51, director of "NO MORE HEROES". Currently on promotional tour through 5 European countries. Having visited in United Kingdom, France, and Italy, currently in Milan for the weekend.

I am concerned to learn my comments in one interview regarding the success of Nintendo 3rd party titles have been misinterpreted.

My point was that "NO MORE HEROES", unlike a lot of Nintendo Wii titles currently available is the kind of product which will attract a different kind of consumer to the hardware, ie. gamers who are looking for a different genre to the products which have been successful on this platform thus far.

CEO Goichi Suda"

Week in Games: No More Heroes Edition (News)

Jan 21, 2008

Kotaku writes:

"We finally start getting some good titles this week with No More Heroes, Advance Wars 2 and Pirates of the Burning Sea and Burnout Paradise My wallet is going to start emptying itself again. I can just feel it coming. What are you going to be picking up this week?"

Nintendo unveils first-half game lineup for Wii and DS (News)

Jan 16, 2008

Game giant promises at least 65 new Wii games and 80 new DS games in the first half of the year.

"Our momentum is not limited to one system or one game," said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America's marketing replacement for Perrin Kaplan. "We're going broad and bold in 2008, with something for every member of the family."

First-party highlights from the release list include Advance Wars: Days of Ruin and Crosswords for DS, with Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Mario Kart Wii, and Wii Fit headed to Nintendo's fifth-generation console.

Suda 51: Third party Wii games aren't selling (News)

Jan 16, 2008

CVG writes:

"Goichi Suda, otherwise known as Killer 7 and No More Heroes director Suda 51, claims that third-party titles for the Wii aren't selling in his home land and that only Nintendo is really profiting from its success.

Speaking about the sales of No More Heroes in Japan, he told us, "Whilst the sales weren't as high as I hoped, other titles for Wii aren't selling so well either. Only Nintendo titles are doing well. This isn't just because of the current situation in Japan, as this is happening outside Japan."

Designing avant garde games on the toilet (Feature)

Jan 16, 2008

16th Jan, 2008 Given his involvement in games like Killer7 and No More Heroes, people often assume director SUDA51 to be a very strange man indeed. They expect a dark and twisted Lynchian gore-fiend. They expect an overly-serious, high-brow arty type. They expect an bizarre, unholy, avant garde weird-monger with torrents of quirk pouring out of his ears. What they do not expect is a good-humoured Japanese man happily pottering around a videogame shop picking up a few PS2 games, but that's ...

SUDA-51: I want No More Heroes sequel (News)

Jan 15, 2008

No More Heroes is due to go on sale exclusively for the Wii on January 22 in the US, and February 29 in the UK. But the creator of the game, Goichi Suda, isn't exactly resting on his laurels.

Suda told GameSpot that what he really wants to do now is to make a sequel. When asked what games he was working on right now, he laughed, "It's a secret!" Then he confessed, "Actually, I'm really willing to make a sequel version -- and right now I'm asking if it can be made... I think No More Heroes is a great game, there's no other action game like it for the Wii. If it was a band, it would be really energetic, like the Arctic Monkeys."

EDGE slams Soul Caliber Legends, Soldier of Fortune; praises Burnout, No More Heroes (News)

Jan 14, 2008

EDGE review scores Februari 2008 edition:

Nights: Journey of Dreams (Wii, Sega): 6
Soul Calibur Legends (Wii, Namco Bandai): 2
No More Heroes (Wii, Grasshopper Manufacture): 9
Geometry Wars Galaxies (Wii, Sierra Entertainment): 7
Burnout Paradise (PS3/Xbox 360, EA): 9
Soldier of Fortune: Payback (PS3/Xbox 360, Activision): 4
The Club (PS3/Xbox 360, Sega): 7
Pain (PS3 PSN, Sony): 6
Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow (PSP, Sony): 6
R-Type Tactics (PSP, Irem): 6
Dragoneer's Aria (PSP, Koei): 4

No More Heroes Ships Early (News)

Jan 5, 2008

Publisher Ubisoft previously had its potential cult-hit action game, No More Heroes, set for a February release, right up against a little fighter called Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Not the best decision, but thankfully the company seems to have reconsidered and fans of offerings like Killer 7 are the benefactors of the decision.

Ubisoft confirmed to IGN Wii this afternoon that No More Heroes has officially been moved up for a January 22 release date -- less than three weeks from now, if you're counting.

No More Heroes more bloody in US (News)

Dec 13, 2007

With the news that two different versions of No More Heroes will be published in North America, many European gamers began to wonder how the localized treatment from Rising Star would turn out. Earlier today, that question was answered in the form of Rising Star's Managing Director, Martin Defries.

Courtesy of Play.tm:

"There are two versions of No More Heroes that are going to be published in the West," revealed MD Martin Defries. "Ours, which will be drawn down from our parent company, Marvelous Interactive, which is directly from the Japanese iteration of the game, and there will be a version in the US that is a full-on gore, beheadings, dismemberment¿and it seems some confusion has come to the fore in the past few days as to which version Rising Star Games will publish.

"Why the decision has been made is a difficult one for me to comment on - that's a Ubisoft decision for the North American market. We've always drawn down our games from Japan, we tailor them in language, in text and audio, and nothing else."

So while both North America and Europe will see the release of the Japanese version, the violently enhanced version will remain in the West.

Studio boss chose to censor Euro No More Heroes (News)

Dec 12, 2007

Following this week's news that the European version of Grasshopper's highly anticipated No More Heroes will be censored, as per the Japanese version of the title, the game's developers have issued a statement claiming that it was their decision ¿ and not publisher Rising Star Games ¿ to release the toned-down version of the title in this territory.

No More Heroes is more punk than the Pistols (Feature)

Dec 11, 2007

11th Dec, 2007 If videogames are the new rock ‘n roll, then No More Heroes is the Sex Pistols. Gory or not, Suda 51s latest is more than just crazy, violent and visually striking (although it is all of those things). More than anything else, No More Heroes is punk, in a way that we cant remember a game ever having been before. There really is no other word to describe it. The sense of anarchic, dont-give-a-f*ck hedonism runs through every aspect of the game like a stream of Sid Vicious ...

Mini-Skirt Or Not, No More Customers (News)

Dec 10, 2007

Face it: Japanese Wii owners buy Wii Sports, Wii Fit and maybe Super Mario Galaxy. That's about it, really! So, when a third party company releases something that, well, isn't any of those three, what happens? Not much. That's No More Heroes executive producer and Harvest Moon creator Yasuhiro Wada and No More Heroes and Killer 7 creator Goichi Suda hoping to give out toilet paper and hoping to sign copies of NMH. Thing is, after twenty minutes of Suda and Wada standing in front of Akihabara's Sofmap, nobody bought the game. Keep in mind, that not only two well-known game creators were giving out toilet paper, but there was also a woman in a mini-skirt. Talk about a tough crowd!

No More Heroes - Censored gameplay 12-07-07 (Video)

Dec 7, 2007

Xbox 360's Lost Odyssey Sells 40k in First day sales in Japan while Uncharted for PS3 sells 7k (News)

Dec 7, 2007

An impressive first day sales for Xbox 360's Exclusive title Lost Odyssey.

Else where No More Heroes did not sell to expectations with only 10k sold and Uncharted in with 7k.

Tales of Innocence (DS) : about 75k (About 50% of shipments)

Everbody's Golf Portable 2 (PSP) : about 40k

Lost Odyssey (360) : about 40k (About 50% of shipments)

PowerPro-kun Pocket 10 (DS) : about 20k

Yuusya no Kuse ni Namaiki da (PSP) : about 15k

Gintama: Gintama Quest (DS) : about 15k

No More Heroes (Wii) : about 10k

SILENT HILL ZERO (PSP) : about 10k

Virtua Fighter 5 Live Arena (360) : about 10k

Uncharted (PS3) : about 7k

Yakuza 2 (cheap edition) (PS2) : about 7k

No More Heroes creators give us everything but the game (News)

Dec 3, 2007

Destructoid writes "Don't get me wrong, Marvelous Entertainment. We appreciate the steady flow of gameplay clips and we love your official cosplay, but we've come to a point where freebies will only make us more impatitent. Come on! Toilet paper? We want to play No More Heroes now!"

New releases for upcoming week in Japan (12/2 - 12/8) (News)

Dec 3, 2007

VG Chartz has a list of the upcoming releases in Japan for the Wii, DS, PS3, PS3, PSP, and Xbox 360. Not all games are listed - only major releases are listed. The list includes release dates.

Source: Sinobi (Japanese)

Dated: No More Heroes - Lightsabers on Wii (News)

Oct 30, 2007

This bizarre Wii exclusive from the mind of the maker of Killer 7 has been given a release date. It features bizarre lightsaber wielding hero Hero Travis Touchdown, who battles villains like Destroy Man.

No More Heroes details and new Nintendo Wii screenshots (News)

Oct 27, 2007

No More Heroes is the highly anticipated action game by acclaimed game designer Goichi Suda (Suda 51) and his studio Grasshopper Manufacture, Inc. No More Heroes will arrive at retailers in North America for February 2008, exclusively for the Wii home video game system from Nintendo.

No More Heroes tells the story of Travis Touchdown, an anime fan who lives in the fictional town of Santa Destroy, California. After an unexpected turn of events, Travis finds himself at the bottom of an Assassins' organization. Travis will have to prove himself worthy and defeat 10 other bloodthirsty killers - all with deep stories of their own - to make his way to the top of the assassin's league.

*NOTE: Images cannot be linked and must be viewed on the website itself.

No More Heroes: Violence reduced in Japan; to be ultra-violent elsewhere (News)

Sep 25, 2007

In an interview with Kotaku, Suda 51's Goichi Suda acknowledges that the level of violence in No More Heroes has been toned down for the Japanese audience but stresses that this will not be the case for the American and European markets. Suda says that No More Heroes was going to be violent. Like, Manhunt 2 violent.

No More Heroes scores US publisher (News)

Sep 20, 2007

Sept 20, 2007 Ubisoft recently announced that they will be publishing No More Heroes and that the game is scheduled to hit North American retailers in February 2008. No More Heroes is the latest creation from Goichi Suda (aka Suda 51), the man who brought us Killer 7. If there's anything we can count on when it comes to titles from Suda 51, it's something different. No More Heroes tells the tale of Travis Touchdown, an anime otaku who orders a katana off of eBay and finds himself thrown into ...

America Has No More Heroes (News)

Sep 20, 2007

Ubisoft on Wednesday revealed exclusively to IGN that it has picked up the rights to publish the anticipated Wii action game No More Heroes in North America. The title will release stateside next February, just two months after the Japanese ship date.

No More Heroes is developed by Grasshopper Manufacture and directed by Suda 51, who also helmed the critically acclaimed GameCube adventure title Killer 7. The brutal endeavor pits players as Travis Touchdown, a hardcore anime fan living in the fictional town of Santa Destroy, who takes it upon himself to murder the world's top assassins so that he can be number one. To accomplish this task, Touchdown must battle 10 "bloodthirsty killers -- all with deep stories of their own," according to Ubisoft.

No More Heroes (Preview)

Sep 20, 2007

Sept 20, 2007 Information on this pseudo-sequel to Killer7 is leaking out slower than your Grandpa adapting to computers. But the game's website is gradually filling up with new characters and videos, and there's the promise of much more to come. And don't worry - it's still all looking as reassuringly nuts as you'd hope for from Suda ...

No More Heroes Playable at TGS (News)

Sep 10, 2007

An update on the official No More Heroes website reveals that the crazed assassin will be playable at this year's TGS, through the "Terrorist Man" level.

No More Heroes gameplay videos (News)

Sep 3, 2007

Sept 3, 2007 No More Heroes is one of the upcoming Wii titles that has really caught our eye with its Beam Katana-based battling and assassin driven storyline. And because it's being produced by Suda 51, the man behind the crazy but brilliant Killer 7, it's guaranted to have a much more adult theme than the average offerning for Nintendo's console. We havent heard much about No More Heroes since our interview with the man himself back in December, but with the release of three, ...

New No More Heroes Assassin Revealed (News)

Jun 20, 2007

In the latest issue of Japanese publication Famitsu, Grasshopper Manufacture Game Designer Suda 51 introduced a new assassin character for No More Heroes. He also discussed how the Wii title goes the "opposite direction" of his studio's GameCube game, Killer 7.

No More Heroes Announcement in 9 Days (News)

Jun 13, 2007

Hankering for some new info on this game? Ditto. Suda51 and the team have remained tight-lipped since a trailer was unveiled several months ago. But now, through the scrupulous means of PR, a countdown has appeared on the official site for the game.

Suda51 Talks Emotion In Games, 'Breaking Stuff' (News)

Apr 18, 2007

Cult Killer 7 game creator Suda51 discussed his history in the business, the concept of emotion in games, and his upcoming Grasshopper Manufacture-designed Wii title No More Heroes at the recent GO3 conference in Australia, and Gamasutra has added a detailed write-up of the game creator's speech.

10 reasons why Killer 7 will melt your brain (Feature)

Mar 27, 2007

At one time, the curiously-titled Killer 7 was a hot property in the video game world. New trailers created either curiosity or excitement in gamers and journalists wondered loudly whether we were about to see the worlds first post-modern game, one that would infuse life in the shooter genre and exist purely as “art” because of its bizarre cel-shaded graphics. Maybe they wondered a little too loudly ‘cause once the game hit retail, the review scores were low - mainly due to ...

No More Heroes to out-gore Manhunt (News)

Feb 20, 2007

Suda 51 has promised that he'll work as hard as he can on making No More Heroes, his latest project for Nintendo's Wii, at least as splatter-happy and violently entertaining as Rockstar's already-infamous Manhunt 2. The oddly-monikered creator of the crazy-great Killer 7 swears that he'll try his best "to make No More Heroes as violent, or even more violent than Manhunt 2!" during a recent interview with website ...

No More Heroes (Preview)

Jan 22, 2007

Hands up who remembers Killer 7? No? Well thats probably because no one bothered to actually buy Capcoms mentalist on-rails super-violent adventure. Still, you can rectify matters by checking this out – its by the same studio, and is, in some ways, a prequel of ...

No More Heroes - the SUDA 51 interview (Feature)

Dec 12, 2006

Though you might have heard about it on the news - video game-hating lawyer Jack Thompson briefly cast his disturbed glare over it - there's very little chance you actually played underground hit Killer 7. Its murder-obsessed cults and split personalities make it one of the weirdest games on the PS2, and that's saying a lot. Forget about that, though: the game's creator, Goichi Suda - aka SUDA 51 - is back with something that looks, well, totally kick-ass. And this time it should be playable, ...

New Name for Heroes (News)

Nov 29, 2006

Plus, first gameplay details on the latest from team Killer 7.

Say goodbye to Heroes and hello to No More Heroes. Only in a world where something named Wii is the hot toy for Christmas could that sentence actually make sense.

The mysterious game that has been known for most of this year as Heroes now has a new name. The latest issue of Famitsu reveals that the all original Wii adventure game is now known as No More Heroes.

Heroes or No More Heroes, this game has gotten much of its hype due to its development background. Although Spike is set to publish the game in Japan, the title is being developed by Grasshopper Manufacturer and directed by Goichi Suda. You may remember these names from Capcom's stylish Killer 7. Other talent includes Shigeto Koyama, of Eureka Seven and Top wo Nerae 2! fame, who's in charge of weapon and vehicle design, and character designer Yusuke Kozaki, known for his work on Speed Grapher.

Famitsu has first details on the game. In No More Heroes, you play as Travis Touchdown, a geek who wins a Beam Katana (a weapon that resembles a Light Saber) through an online auction and uses the weapon to start a new career as a professional killer. One day, an assassin named Helter Skelter appears before Travis and the two face off in a battle. Travis emerges victorious and finds himself in the presence of Silvia Christel, a French chick who claims to be an agent with the UAA (we're not entirely sure, but this appears to stand for United Assassins Association). Silvia gives Travis official rank of 11 in the organization...

No More Heroes Walkthrough (FAQ)

Jun 10, 2008

Go to GamesRadar to see the FAQ ...

Another Killer 7 Reference (Easter Egg)

Jun 9, 2008

Go to GamesRadar to see the Easter Egg ...

Beating Bad Girl (Hint)

Jun 9, 2008