At Gamescom, Suda51 took some interviews on the release of Travis Strikes Again: Complete Edition and No More Heroes 3. Gamexplain just uploaded their interview with the man. Here's a non-exhaustive bullet point listing of the stuff:
- About developing on the Switch itself, Suda appreciates that it's a gaming console at core and has been built exclusively for that purpose rather than a multimedia tool. He feels Nintendo is pretty punk as a company, just like Grasshopper.
- Motion controls are definitely returning in NMH3
- Suda was taken by surprise at the Switch lite announcement (and the fact that it will not have separate joycons for motion control specifically) but is not afraid because there are ways around that so he'll find a way.
- Since Travis is carrying back Dr. Juvenile's Death Drive gauntlet from Travis Strikes Again, he'll be once again able in NMH3 to extract powers from the video games he played, although the system will be different than in TSA. This will be used to have large scale, Thanos-level battles.
- The HENSHIN! suit from the trailer is obviously a game mechanic of NMH3
- Suda reassess again that the game is roughly 50% done. Most mechanics are realized. He also adds that he's about 90% done writing the scenario.
- He's in talks with Marvelous about how to tackle the eventual NMH1+2 port. The hardest problem right now is deciding whether they're doing simple ports or fully remaster them for the new generation of hardware.
- Right now, there are no plans to do anything with Killer 7. Capcom owns the rights so it's up to them, although they've been very supportive of the recent Steam re-release.
- Unlikely to work on more of Lollipop Chainsaw because James Gunn is now super famous and busy with the Guardians of the Galaxy movies.
- If Nintendo gave him the keys, he'd like to work on a new The Mysterious Murasame Castle
- As for the return of the overworld in NMH3, it's not decided yet and will depend on the fan feedback.
- Grasshopper is paying a lot of attention to fan feedback, although they still stay realistic. They're trying to find a middleground between what they want to do and what fans would like to see.
- One thing he noted is that fans really liked the bike side-missions/mini-games so they're looking into adding something like that into the game. Same for the gardening mini-games in NMH1 (personal note: it was awesome as fuck and i support this idea). He's not saying they'll add the exact same things but understand that people liked those parts because they were silly stuff you could only find in No More Heroes, so he'll try to bring more of that.
[Note: the title of the video says "NMH2 Jobs return" but Suda was talking and quoting only examples from NMH1 in his interview]
- No More Heroes 3 is still planned for next year, and Grasshopper is working hard to exceed all previous NMH games.
There's also the weirdest question ever that takes up four minutes just for a "no comment" about Suda being asked if they'll be able to top-up the fact that Norman Reedus has a pee button that works anywhere in Death Stranding.
The interview has more interesting stuff on other games Suda worked on in the past. I went very brief with the resume here so you should check up the whole thing.
- About developing on the Switch itself, Suda appreciates that it's a gaming console at core and has been built exclusively for that purpose rather than a multimedia tool. He feels Nintendo is pretty punk as a company, just like Grasshopper.
- Motion controls are definitely returning in NMH3
- Suda was taken by surprise at the Switch lite announcement (and the fact that it will not have separate joycons for motion control specifically) but is not afraid because there are ways around that so he'll find a way.
- Since Travis is carrying back Dr. Juvenile's Death Drive gauntlet from Travis Strikes Again, he'll be once again able in NMH3 to extract powers from the video games he played, although the system will be different than in TSA. This will be used to have large scale, Thanos-level battles.
- The HENSHIN! suit from the trailer is obviously a game mechanic of NMH3
- Suda reassess again that the game is roughly 50% done. Most mechanics are realized. He also adds that he's about 90% done writing the scenario.
- He's in talks with Marvelous about how to tackle the eventual NMH1+2 port. The hardest problem right now is deciding whether they're doing simple ports or fully remaster them for the new generation of hardware.
- Right now, there are no plans to do anything with Killer 7. Capcom owns the rights so it's up to them, although they've been very supportive of the recent Steam re-release.
- Unlikely to work on more of Lollipop Chainsaw because James Gunn is now super famous and busy with the Guardians of the Galaxy movies.
- If Nintendo gave him the keys, he'd like to work on a new The Mysterious Murasame Castle
- As for the return of the overworld in NMH3, it's not decided yet and will depend on the fan feedback.
- Grasshopper is paying a lot of attention to fan feedback, although they still stay realistic. They're trying to find a middleground between what they want to do and what fans would like to see.
- One thing he noted is that fans really liked the bike side-missions/mini-games so they're looking into adding something like that into the game. Same for the gardening mini-games in NMH1 (personal note: it was awesome as fuck and i support this idea). He's not saying they'll add the exact same things but understand that people liked those parts because they were silly stuff you could only find in No More Heroes, so he'll try to bring more of that.
[Note: the title of the video says "NMH2 Jobs return" but Suda was talking and quoting only examples from NMH1 in his interview]
- No More Heroes 3 is still planned for next year, and Grasshopper is working hard to exceed all previous NMH games.
There's also the weirdest question ever that takes up four minutes just for a "no comment" about Suda being asked if they'll be able to top-up the fact that Norman Reedus has a pee button that works anywhere in Death Stranding.
The interview has more interesting stuff on other games Suda worked on in the past. I went very brief with the resume here so you should check up the whole thing.
