No More Heroes is an interesting new twist on the age old hack and slash genre. Armed with a Katana Beam, you control Travis Touchdown as you aim to take down the top 10 assasins in the town of Santa Destroy, guided along the way by the mysterious Synthia.

The game itself is very easy to play. To my suprise, you slash your opponents by pressing the A button instead of swinging the remote. Whilst initially feeling very disapointed by this, after just a short period of time. The only time that you will swing the remote is to perform either a finishing move, or a wrestling move.

Graphics wise, the game is a bit of a let down. In many places, particullarly around Santa Destroy, the landscape is bland, be it uninspired buildings, box shaped cars (this isn't the 80's you know) or walls that are so plain. It's a shame as in places, it does look quite good and stylish, but the apparent laziness in places is rather disapointinf. Much has also been made by the lack of blood in the European version, with the dead turning into black ash instead. It's no big deal though. Whilst it does look odd at first, you get used to it after killing a couple of enemies, and it actually helps add style to the game.

Now onto the main aspects of the came and we come to the town of Santa Destroy. No More Heroes has often been likened to GTA by the media, which is completley unfair. In GTA, the city is a vital part of the game as it's where all the action takes place, whilst in No More Heroes, Santa Destroy is no more then a means of getting from one level to the next, with a few hidden extras here and there. That in itself is a let down though as it's clear that not a great deal of effort was put into making the town come to life. As already mentioned, the buildings and cars look pretty poor for the most part, but add to that the fact that the town is pretty much missing any sort of traffic or life and you have a very poorly planned part of the game. It doesn't take long before moving around Santa Destroy becomes a chore, especially as you seem to go to the same locations over and over again whilst other parts of the map are pretty much unused.

The main part of the game however consists of doing part time jobs, assasiantion missions and finally, fighting the top 10 assasins. In order to get to the levels though, you must raise enough cash, which is where part time jobs and assasination missions come in. At first, the part time jobs are amusing, put they soon grow a little tedious. All I wanted to do is get on with killing the next boss, but instead, you're made to perform a mundane task such as picking up litter or cleaning graffiti in order to earn enough cash. The same can be said for the assination missions. It doesn't take long before they start repeating them, making you wonder what the point is. Thankfully, the main levels are much more interesting. As you probably expect, you run around various different enviroments killing the cronies until you finally meet the ranked assasin. For the most part, the levels are exciting and interesting. Unfortunately, in the middle part of the game, some do grow boring. Thankfully they do pick up again quickly, with the final two levels being the best of the bunch, and the final having an interesting twist (and if you unlock the full ending, it gets even more interesting).

Overall, this is a very good game that is well worth purchising. It isn't the most challenging game, with about 10-15 hours worth of life, and has little replay value as well as numerous frustrations, but the enjoyment it brings makes it a good purchase.

This is a game that has obviously not have a big buget to use but they have out-dun themselves and put highly rated games in shame shows you don't need to spend thousands on graphics and sticking to a usually way of gaming its all about the fun.

The Wii has, at the moment, its fair share of sword-wielding, motion sensitive action games, where moving the wii remote will swing your sword. I'm actually glad to say NMH breaks away from that. To swing your sword -- or beam katana in this case, all you need to do is press the A button, but this isnt your average button bashing hack 'n' slash. It throws in motion sensitivity for awesome finishers and crazy wresling moves.

Although at times the gameplay does get a bit samey, it throws in slight variations like a sort of baseball style multi-kill attack, and even a sort of side-scrolling mission which manages to keep the whole experience fresh and interesting.

Its also worth noting the unique stylised graphics and even the dialogue. its like something ripped from a Tarantino Movie with plenty of dark humour and just some down right insanity.

Even though the Wii is made out to be a "family console", its nice to see it isnt all rainbows, lollipops and marios

NMH is a tricky one; personally I love it to bits, but I do realise it has some flaws. For me, the wicked sense of humour and pop-culture style make up for it. I am looking forward to the (possible) sequel, as I feel Suda51 can improve upon the bucketloads of potential that wasn't explored fully in this outing.
Overall, give this game a shot, it is one-of-a-kind and blimey, is it fun.

This was an joyful experience for me, it's always nice to play a game that does things differently, not just game wise, but story wise too. I'd recommend this to any mature Wii owner.

picked this game up, and played it, the graphics are absolutely terrible, with periods of the whole character just being in black, the game play is alright but not amazing, not worth its weight in pennies

This feels like an unfinished game, whilst the missions themselves are interesting however a bit tedious, the city itself is dull, and suffers a big drop in visuals i.e. pop ups, slow down. A big disappointment.

I got this game on tuesday. played it and it was the best game I ever played, i finished it today and i had to write a review i HIGHLY reccomend it

for 25 gbp? you'd be silly notto pick this up.this is a very masterful game created by one of the newest game visionary. an essential wii purchase. i mean come on, crappy games like my awesome horse are probably more pricey than this. no more heroes and zak and wiki... essential!!!
C

I usually finish a games main story before passing judgment, but No More Heroes is the type of game that I may never finish, because it becomes extremely difficult extremely fast.
I'm not saying it's a bad game, it's just flawed.

Graphics - Nice, but a little idle in places, especially in the repetitive animation.
Sound - Some good sound effects (some lifted from well known popular space-themed franchises), and some entertaining dialog.
Gameplay - Fun but very, very, very challenging.

I really want to like No More Heroes, and it wants us to like it in return, but an unforgiving camera and uncomfortable lock-on system make most of the boss battles a lot harder than they should be. Which is spoiling the game for me.
The boss battles are the core on which the game is based, and I feel that they are made too hard in comparison to the rest of the game.
You can comfortably hack your way through hordes of on coming enemies without breaking a sweat, but as soon as you reach a boss, you need to use strategy, in a game which the control system isn't capable of doing to an acceptable manner.
Which is why it only gets 3 stars from me.
As much fun as I've had so far, I can't see myself doing it again. As soon as I finish it the first time, that's it for me.