No More Heroes 2 Thread

ChopperMan · November 18, 2009, 9:43am

I don’t know if there are plans to even localize it.

I just remember Marvelous talking about bring the franchise to PS3/360 since they were extremely disappointed with the wii sales in japan.

but game did well enough over here to allow them to do a sequel.

Apparently the game also has japanese voice actors. So yeah this game is an obvious attempt to appeal more towards Japanese audiences in hopes of selling copies

Wellman · November 18, 2009, 10:24am

You do have to feel bad for Marvelous, all their games don’t do that well in Japan on the Wii but they put up respectable numbers overseas.

Honestly, I think Japan audiences don’t dig games like NMH that are so humor centric and poke fun at genre cliches all the time, unless there is fan service. How else can you explain the failure of Viewtiful Joe and God Hand in their native land? Japanese Otaku and fan boys are a strange lot that don’t seem to tolerate fun unless a half naked digital female might be involved.

I don’t know if they would even be able to do this to the NMH2 considering Ubisoft seems to be bankrolling NMH 2, although it could still happen, I guess if they agree to localize it.

Ha, a Japanese company having to pay a western one money to buy the localization rights of a game developed in Japan to publish it there. I’m sure more then a few guys over at Grasshopper and UbiSoft would love that.

ChopperMan · November 18, 2009, 10:34am

Did viewtiful joe fail?

It had an anime series and a variety of spinoffs

and I think god hand did pretty bad everywhere. It only really had/has a cult following. It was too hard to be popular.

and I forgot that 2 doesn’t even have a publisher in japan because of how bad it did.

I guess…that’s…reassuring

They’ll probably attempt to get the rights if this re-release does well

Wellman · November 18, 2009, 8:32pm

I think the character and the first game did pretty well but the sequel and spin offs rapidly released with 18 months of each other after the first game and Joe’s disappearance until TvC seem to indicate that it didn’t do that well. Otherwise we’d probably have seen much more games and Clover Studios wouldn’t have folded.

ChopperMan · November 22, 2009, 1:39am

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3177036

ubisoft does not plan on bringing Heroes Paradise stateside

With this we can kind of gauge the chances of Desperate Struggle getting a remake as well

Clover studios folded because the biggest names behind the company(Mikami, Kamiya, Inaba) left to form Platinum Games. This was done over disagreements with Capcom, not any specific game’s sales.

ReXXXSoprano · November 29, 2009, 1:34am

ESRB Listing is Out!!!

ESRB:

No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle

Platform: Wii

Rating: Mature

Content descriptors: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Partial Nudity, Sexual Themes, Strong Language

Rating summary:

Players assume the role of Travis, an anime-watching assassin who fights his way through the ranks to become the number-one assassin. Being an assassin means using a retractable katana blade (i.e., a laser sword); it means slicing, chopping, and dismembering human enemies to death in this highly-stylized (somewhat “cartoony”), cell-shaded action game. The depictions of violence in the game are intense, yet somewhat exaggerated: men in black suits are sliced in-half as blood and money flow from their bodies; an assassin with a boombox does not recover after his lower torso has been chopped off?after blood shoots from his empty waist like a geyser; and two women (clad in bikinis) get suspended in mid-air, get caught between the flashing lights, lasers, and frenetic sword swipes of an assassins’ duel?the women’s heads slide across the floor once the men stop fighting. Cutscenes depict more dismemberment: assassins slicing each other into several pieces in slow-motion, enemies pulling their own heads off, characters displaying trophy-heads on silver platters. These over-the-top depictions of violence account for the Mature rating; they also account for the Intense Violence and Blood and Gore descriptors. The language is strong, too, as characters sometimes use the phrases “fking a*shole," "fkhead,” and “You gotta be sh**tin’ me!”

The game contains sexual overtones and partial nudity. Players can watch portions of an anime show called Bizarre Jelly; the opening credits depict a female character whose clothes suddenly disappear, revealing her bare buttocks (one-to-two seconds). Game dialogue contains sexual references, including the phrases “dirty nympho,” “the one that’s throbbing,” and “I feel like that pervy teacher in a porn.” Female assassins are depicted in low-cut tops, thongs, short schoolgirl uniforms, and fishnet bondage-style outfits; breasts and buttocks jiggle, and the camera often lingers (there is no equivalent physics applied to male body parts). A couple of cutscenes contain strong sexual innuendo: when characters enter a store, a surprised clerk struggles with his belt buckle and zips up his pants (e.g., “I was just. Uh, doing inventory.”); a woman moves a katana blade in front of a man’s groin, kneels down, and kisses it (the blade), causing the retractable laser to extend. The battery meter for Travis’s sword is always represented by a cartoon-like penis icon in the upper-right corner of the screen: as battery power runs out, the icon starts to shrink?a sad face appears.

OH MY GAWD!!!

NMH2 is gonna be epic as fuck.

Sonichuman · November 29, 2009, 6:54am

lmao @ the description. I’m fuckin picturing this mid 50’s white woman with glasses and a suit in front of a podium just reading this shit.

ChopperMan · December 5, 2009, 3:55am

Trailer for the NMH ports

Japanese voices shown

I like Travis’ (Hijikata from Gintama) but I’d take the english voices any day

Also I don’t think the vid is in HD so it’s hard to judge the graphics

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Youtube link

DietSoap · December 5, 2009, 5:03am

Oh my fucking god… :love: :love: :love:

I’m calling it right now, goty, right here.

Also, good shit to ReXXX and ChopperMan for keeping tabs on this stuff… Great for the lazy slobs around here like myself. :lol:

MadeManG74 · December 8, 2009, 10:39am

The game looks really nice, but it seems to have lost some of the brightness and colour of the Wii original, which I really liked.

ChopperMan · December 8, 2009, 11:52pm

Haha

New vids(Kinda)

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Postcard Teaser

Haunted Teaser

Fresh Air Teaser

They’re all really goofy. Edited like youtube poops

but some new footage is shown

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v166/ChaoOtaku11111/AssassinB.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v166/ChaoOtaku11111/AssassinC.png

New assassin and haunted house theme stage

and

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v166/ChaoOtaku11111/AssassinA.png

Silhouette of some figure. Don’t know if he’s just another part of the hauted house level or another new character

Not the update alot of us were hoping for, but I still found this entertaining.

and the more they keep under wraps the more we’ll enjoy the game later

Kajiba · December 9, 2009, 12:09am

Lol little creepy zombie kid. Haunted place is looking good.

And I’m happy they’re not showing to much in these trailers. Kinda started to get worried if they’ll show to much or not. I wouldn’t have a problem if they kept doing it this way for their trailers in the future until the game comes out.

DietSoap · December 9, 2009, 1:11am

Bigass combat trailer :love:

Lol@ that “Fresh air” trailer… must feel great to be able to just fuck with your fans like that.

ChopperMan · December 9, 2009, 1:17am

Shinobu Combat Trailer

The Luchadore Work Out Vol. 6

GhabStop_R · December 9, 2009, 1:41am

I love the way the trailers and information is being put out for this game, it’s got me rather hype. I love the way Suda presents his goods.

ninja_velmor · December 9, 2009, 2:22am

all those new trailers are awesome. i cant wait for this game

Wellman · December 9, 2009, 10:42am

Combat Trailer

Spoiler

So was I the only one that noticed in that trailer, along with the Henry and Shinobu scenss, they showed snippets where it looks like the player is controlling a fucking Tiger?

ChopperMan · December 9, 2009, 12:05pm

I noticed it too

It’s the tiger from Travis’ Slot Machine power ups in the first game.(The one that would move across the screen indicating how much time the power up had left)

I was wondering if those things were scrapped altogether with the removal of the slot machine after kills(I think alot of people complained about the random element, and getting them when everything was already dead)

I can’t say I’m really excited about it but it’ll be cool to see how they implemented that

OrangeCat · December 9, 2009, 12:11pm

I am fucking amazed at what they are doing in terms of graphical capability. I mean it’s no Uncharted 2, but it’s pretty fucking amazing how gorgeous this thing looks. More on the animation side than the poly count side, but still.

OC

ChopperMan · December 10, 2009, 12:46am

two more

seems like they sent a bunch of different ones to a bunch of different gaming news sites