I'm one of the few who totally agrees with this. The original NMH'so open world was like running around the world in the DS port of Flower Sin and Rain....boring AF.
NMH2 was an ungraceful sequel that divided the fan base pretty harshly. Any reasons to be hyped about a new game in the series predominantly boils down to the novelty of it's gameplay and the appeal of it's characters - things that No More Heroes already did, and in most ways did better. The main thing that also made a new NMH such an appealing concept and a big deal among fans is that Suda is actually directing it for a change, something he didn't do when it came to NMH2.
Very convincing argument. Maybe you should take a nap and come back when you actually want to engage a conversation instead of putting fingers in your ears and flinging insults like a small child
Suda had little to no involvement in NMH2, sadly. He mostly had a concept in mind. It had moments of Sudaishness(the meetings with Sylvia), but overall it didn't have any of the original's satirical wit.
The game is a hack 'n slash but it's not a "minigame compilation"; it's that the levels are literally video games that Travis enters and they're all based on a certain genre. If you look at the portion of the footage that includes a chunk of the level doing a flip, presumably the puzzle game, Travis is still running around in it with a beam katana while enemies are spawning.
I would like a new mainline No More Heroes but more than that I would want a Suda-directed game. TSA ain't the former but it's certainly the latter, which is infinitely more exciting.
Cool. I am excited to see more. He always excels at creating fresh new styles and great throwbacks to games rooted in 8-bit times.
Oh look you being negative. What else is new? Nobody asks for a lot of stuff because gamers don't know what they want. So give me a break with that.
I mean, if anyone has their fingers in their ears, it is you. Oh no, Suda 51 did something you didn't expect, and based on a 1 minute trailer that shows 90% of one of the "game worlds" and only 10% of the other content in the game, including showing off 2 seconds of actual NOT top-down, proper NMH gameplay, and you are just crapping all over it.
I mean, I hope you're right but at this point it's wishful thinking, at best we see we might be able to run through corridor style areas, absolutely nothing hints at having "proper" NMH gameplay as you call it. Hell, to me it seems like Travis just behaves the exact same way as he does in the more top-down sections and it's just a camera shift in that part, possibly even as just an introduction to the level or other intermission, rather than something that will replace the hectic arcadey combat seen there with something closer to NMH1&2. I would think that if this game included that kind of combat in any capacity then it'd also be part of the bosses but we see none of it here. Until otherwise shown I wouldn't hope that the meat of the experience will look very different to what's most prominently shown in this trailer. You're acting like if this was NMH2 then the trailer would be just of the side job 2D retro mini games and people are judging it based on that when reality so far seems to be very different, we're seeing the meat of the game and there may or there may not be some more traditional NMH1&2 style side content to that. Again, I'd love for your assumption to be proven right by the time the next trailer or other information about the game hit the internet but I certainly wouldn't hold my breath. If that doesn't happen as you hope, will you then join the hate bandwagon though? Personally, I like what I've seen of the game, it looks fun in a simple arcade game kind of way, I do love arcade games personally, the good ones obviously, but I was hoping at least the boss fights would be "proper" NMH since we've not had a NMH game in so long and I quite liked fighting its bosses and that's not shown to be the case (as at least one boss fight is in the trailer and it's also top-down). Yet.
Well it also remains to be seen how different those 7 ways are. I mean, when the trailer narrator says "puzzle" and Travis is navigating some pipes or something controls seem to be the same and it's also top-down but the focus in that part is clearly not on fighting enemies but navigating or whatever instead, possibly without falling off in that instance which could be tricky with that kind of speedy hectic gameplay shown. We also see him in a further-away top-down mode as he navigates what seems to resemble the open world bits of the first game but again it seems to control the same as the other parts. I guess that weird TravisMobile shown does hint at a more different part of the gameplay if we get to use it.
I really don't think it is wishful thinking, I think that the 7 death drive games will obviously have connective tissue for the story mode, and that will take some form that clearly we have not really been shown yet.
