He may be a warlock with tiger blood pumping through his grizzly veins, but in the sparsely populated Santa Destroy, Charlie Sheen and anime junkie Travis Touchdown are equals.
Perhaps this will make more sense when you dive headfirst into the crazy and bizarre kill-or-be-killed world of Suda 51′s No More Heroes.
Still considered one of the Wii’s benchmarks of maturity (and immaturity for that matter), Heroes’ Paradise arrives on PlayStation 3 with added bloodshed, a slick HD makeover and all the motion controls still intact thanks to Sony’s lollipop wand.
In his crusade to bed a pretty face, you’ll be put through your paces as a Beam Katana-wielding otaku’s ascends through the ranks of the UAA’s prestige of assassins to become number one.
Each one of Travis’ 10 targets is a worthy opponent from their witty punch lines to screams of bloody murder as they meet their gruesome ends. Discovering weaknesses through their unique traits is essentially to landing a few swings of your Beam Katana and the odd suplex.
Sadly these thrills come at a cost and not a cheap one at that. Funding your next ranking battle will have you pumping gas, mowing lawns and partaking in the odd assassination mission to afford the entry free.
At the helm of Travis’ ride ‘Schpeltiger’, the baron over-world of Santa Destroy offers little in the way of leisure activity although a plethora of collectibles and the opportunities to buff up a weedy assassin become obsessive and time-consuming.
Whipping out the PlayStation Move controller offers an experience on par with that of the Wii original although the DualShock 3 set-up is precise if not occasionally nonsensical having you click the R3 stick in order to execute a slicing directional finisher.
For all the minor gameplay tweaks and bounty of extras including nightmarish glimpses of Desperate Struggle’s early opponents, Heroes’ Paradise remains the game is was three years ago if not much prettier and a lot gorier.
At its heart, No More Heroes is still the modern day love letter to retro gaming and jokey finger pointed at bloody-thirsty gamers. Heroes’ Paradise is a better package but still boldly flawed and therefore unashamedly Suda.
Score: 80%
Tags: No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise
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