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Fairly disappointing

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: March 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I guess a lot of people seem to really like this game, but I couldn't figure out why. The graphics are actually quite dull for the most part. The "shading" is actually just ugly pure black sections of otherwise completely lit people and doesn't look like shading at all because there is nothing between solid black and glowingly lit. The backgrounds are simple and thoroughly unimaginative, and the characters aren't very interesting either. Not a single thing in this game looked truly original and I just felt like I had seen it all before... some of it 20 years ago. People seem to be impressed with the level of gore for a Wii game, but I guess those people haven't played Resdient Evil 4, Manhunt 2, or House of the Dead 2 & 3 because this game seriously pales in comparison as far as the violence is concerned. Basically, a giant inexplicable red cloud bursts out of your enemies as they turn into a bunch of coins. Maybe if they shattered into body parts I would actually consider calling it graphic, but coins just aren't my idea of violent. All the tons of random red bursts and spurts obviously suggest blood, but don't resemble it in any real way. To say that "No More Heroes" is the mature title Wii owners have been waiting for is really absurd... I've seen children's cartoons that were more graphic than this. Resident Evil 4, which came out much earlier, completely puts this shallow and lazily animated game to shame. You're forced to navigate the city on your rather cumbersome bike, which controls so poorly that it's much more obnoxious than fun. The entire city could just be a menu where you select what you want and move on instead of wasting all this time "driving" to what you want to do next. The controls are fairly pathetic: you're supposed to follow the on-screen cues (which I never thought was a very good use of the motion sensors to begin with) but in reality all you have to do is shake your remote real fast and it will work for any of the on-screen cues, rendering them completely pointless. There are some things that I enjoyed about this game, like some of the humor and certain aspects of its style, but overall it just wasn't very fun to play. A true waste of a good Wii in my opinion; there are MUCH better games out there.

Graphics - Unimaginative characters, atrocious shading, and backgrounds that belong in the early 90's

Violent content - COINS? Are you kidding me? COINS?!?!

Gameplay - Flail the remote around and you've now mastered the motion controls, no matter what pops up on the screen

Humor - Scattered bits and pieces to make you smirk... certainly nothing to warrant a real laugh

Why most reviews of this game are wrong.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 15
Date: February 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This isn't really a review so much as a few comments detailing the misconceptions that might arise from reading various reviews of No More Heroes. I have also added my own views on what made this game not as totally awesome as I had initially expected (for the benefit of the potential reader, of course; no need to thank me, I consider myself a real life hero of sorts).

1)
You might read (I'm too lazy to cite sources) in the occasional review that this game is short. This is an understatement. I beat the game in under 10 hours, obtaining every possible augmentation for the beam katana, every wrestling move (I think), every fitness upgrade. This is not something that should happen in a game I shelled out $50 for. I should have to complete so many story-related missions to finish the main game that I get sick of it, leave the game in my closet for a couple of decades, then resell it on eBay as a collectors item for oodles of cash (or PayPal or whatever).

2)
This is not GTA. There is no reason to complain about not being able to run around while decapitating hookers. It's not an open-ended exploration game with multiple branching choice tree...things. It's a third-person action game, that's made in such a stupid way as to give gullible gamers the illusion of nonlinearity. Yeah, there's not enough to do in the town (which is unnecessarily huge, by the way), but you shouldn't have to do much anyway. Unless you spend all your money on clothes (in which case I pity you), you shouldn't have to complete more than a few side missions in order to obtain the cash necessary to upgrade your weapon (and yourself), as well as buy your way into the next ranked fight.

3)
If you had to murder your way through 20 hours worth of generic sword-wielding men in black business suits, then you can complain about repetition. If the indiscriminate killing is under 10 hours, then it's still fun. Especially since all those fights are just warm-ups for the boss battles. Which, by the way, are awesome. They're truly the highlight of the game and the only reason I gave it 3 stars.

4)
The plot doesn't make any sense, so don't even bother with it. Some of the dialog is funny, but Travis has a terrible voice actor and his delivery is always off. Most of the villains are pretty good though, so it balances out.

5)
Teh graphics suck. Really. GTA 3 on the PS2 looks just as good. After playing Super Mario Galaxy I can see that you can do better on the Wii.

Stylistically speaking, the whole 8-bit, retro menu thing is kinda' lame. It would go well with crisp, beautiful graphics, but with the stuff No More Heroes is showing, the menus only remind me of how ugly the rest of the game looks.

If I were the kind of person to summarize instead of writing long, rambling and incoherent behemoth reviews, I'd say that No More Heroes is worth a rental, but I wouldn't plan on having it last until Brawl comes out.

Solid and begging for a sequel

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Its a solid game... bit short, but its a testament to the Wii's ability to produce a solid game for a mature audience. The mini games are bizzare and original while the bosses a phenomenally creative and diverse. The graphics look great (and shush, all you "I don't like cell shading" whiners... you all had the same gripe about windwaker and totally overlooked an amazing game with amazing graphics due to your narrow scope of great potential innovations in art). All in all, the only complaint one might have for this game is the brevity. This game can be dusted in about 10 hours on easy... but the harder settings provide a solid 15-20 hours of unique gameplay, and a storyline laced with peculiar characters and childishly adult dialogue. For those of you considering finally venturing into the Wii's 3rd party line up... I would say this would be a wise first step

It's okay.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

So, it's like this. You mash the A button and then swing the remote and some guy's head comes off and you're mashing the A button again before you swing the remote and asplode a guy into, like, a pile of blood. Pretty soon, you're in a hallway with a line of homicidal baseball guys who're throwing balls and you're swinging the remote and punching that ball through their line, killing nine people like Casey at bat. Then this old guy's all pistols and smokes and talking about his daughter and a restaurant and you're all, "Screw this," so you cut him down because he was the next highest ranked assassin and you're not taking grief from anyone.

And then you're back to work the next day mowing the yards of Santa Destroy and kicking open dumpsters to steal old T-shirts and driving your superbike all over pedestrians who need to learn that you're the number uno in this town. But you need more money so you takes some minor hitjobs and kill a few more guys to credit your bank account to kill the next assassin, but not before watching some luchedore videos so you can piledrive this little schoolgirl you're about to fight.

Totally every bizarre, amazing gameplay concept I could ever want thrown into one game.

If Quenton Tarantino made a video game this is what it would look like.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I loved the game all the way through. Great on many levels. So simple and yet has many tiny things most wouldn't notice till mentioned. The game is excellent. Stylish to the max

Great adult game for the Wii

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The Wii has very few adult games. This is one the better if not the best one so far. The game play, while a bit repetative and not too clean graphicly, is always fun and involving. The story is really the best part of it. You fight to become the top ranked assassin, so you can "do it" with your liason Silvia. The game is a laugh riot. With jerking off your beam katana to recharge it, splitting your enemies in half to be showered in blood, and getting naked to train with your master. Not alot of thought involved, just your good old fashioned crude adult humor. A must have for those of you who "bought a Wii for the kids" and secretly play it when they go to bed.

One of the best third party games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: January 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have been waiting for this game ever since the director announced it would be more violent then manhunt 2. This game was just incredible in everyway once I bought it I couldnt stop playing it. The story is hilarious and the kills are phenomenal. I just beat the game and Im already playing it again. Suda 51 should be given an award and hes already working on another game for wii along with nintendo and Im already counting the days to buy that. I just hope to god theres a sequel on the way. BUY THE GAME NOW

Frustratingly Inconsistent but Still Fun

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 12
Date: February 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is a lot of fun but is seriously lacking in consistency. The game swings wildly from ridiculously easy to incredibly boring to insanely difficult. I am about a third of the way through on mild mode which is the second difficulty level. Here is what falls into each category for me. Ridiculously easy: The battles leading up to the bosses. I don't think I took more than one damage the entire way to the boss. Incredibly boring: Driving around town; maybe I haven't gotten far enough, but there isn't really anything interesting to do between bosses. Insanely Difficult: The first and third bosses; after getting through the enemies before them without a scratch I am repeatedly destroyed. One reason for this is the games heavy reliance on z button targeting, which makes it extremely difficult to use the control stick because you must constantly hold down the z button in order to block and dodge.
While many things about this game are extremely fun, the fact that I waste the guards and then murdered repeatedly by the bosses makes me wish I could turn the former up a notch and the latter down. I also wished that the down time was less monotonous, because it requires you to repeatedly motorcycle from point to point in the city, which while at first is novel, becomes super boring after about 15 seconds.
In short, if you are more patient and skilled than I, you may find this game fantastic, but for me it has just been a rollercoaster of annoyance, brief fun, and frustration. Maybe there is some secret that I am missing which will make the game more enjoyable. Alas, for now I cannot fully recommend it.

Way overrated

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 12
Date: March 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This was a huge letdown. I read so many reviews about how great this game was so I forked over $50 expecting to be rewarded with a great fighting game for the Wii. First off what's good: the humor and the way the Wii controller is used as a cell phone. That's about it really. Now the bad: The level design is horrid and boring. I guess the designers felt that if they put this stylized filter over it they wouldn't have to do things like texture anything or design a level more complicated than a square room, multiplied ten times. Not to mention you get clipped by invisible objects and the camera can't follow you in tight corridors. You actually disappear off screen and just have to imagine you can actually see your character. The 'light saber' is cool in theory, but unfortunately you don't have to employ any kind of skill or strategy to win in battle. Just mash the A button over and over and press other buttons at random. You'll basically kill every enemy. To sum it up I'd like write to every magazine that gave this a good review and have them pony up some cash to help me recoup my losses.

Overall, It's just not that great.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 25
Date: January 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I really wanted to love this game. I reserved it and picked it up the first day. But, I've played it and I found it to be a huge disappointment. It does have merit. Visually it's great. The story is awesome, as are the characters. It's bloody, rude, and crude. But, when it comes down to it, the gameplay is just plan boring. There is very little challenge and almost all the enemies look the same. You push the A button to swing and then it goes into a finishing move where you have to swing the remote in the direction of the arrow on the screen. This is all great fun, until you realize it doesn't really matter which way you wave the remote. You just waggle it, like so many other Wii games and you'll get your finishing move pretty much every time. Then for getting to missions it makes you drive around GTA style, but there is nothing interesting to do in the city. You just drive from place to place and it is completely pointless and boring. The game is worth a rental, but I can't see any reason to buy this game. The reviewers got this one wrong, the game is fun to look at, but overall it gets boring quick. A real bummer.

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