Suda51: No More Heroes 2 to be more serious -- but not too serious

by JC Fletcher { Oct 17th 2008 at 11:48AM }

We've recently featured excerpts from Suda 51's Eurogamer interview, but Eurogamer has just now posted the entirety of the chat, and it's excellent reading for anyone interested in No More Heroes Desperate Struggle or Suda. Talking about the new game, the charismatic game director mentioned his desire for a somewhat less jovial tone this time around: "I think it's time for No More Heroes to become serious. But it's going to have humour, don't worry. It won't be too serious."

The revenge-based plot seems to fit in with this idea. In the first game, Travis Touchdown was essentially competing in a big game; having a real, personal stake in the fighting definitely changes the feel of the game. Suda even has a vendetta against Santa Destroy: "I wanted to make a lot more stuff, more detail. So this time in No More Heroes 2, I want to take my revenge. And actually, the theme of No More Heroes 2 is revenge, so..."

There's also the all-important "weirdness" contingent. There's no poop talk yet, but Suda expressed his admiration of a past E3 promotion in which booth babes threw pants at attendees. "One day, I want to be able to throw pants to the public. That's one of my main goals."

Tags: action, marvelous, no-more-heroes, no-more-heroes-desperate-struggle, suda51

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Nigeria @ Oct 17th 2008 11:57AM

But can I still save on a toilet seat?

samfish @ Oct 17th 2008 12:02PM

I hope they make the city, since it's unfortunately coming back, more populated and into a huge beat 'em up.

Monkey Thing?!!? @ Oct 17th 2008 12:19PM

Revenge? Against whom (warning: this post shall now contain SPOILERS for the end of NO MORE HEROES plot)

Jeanne is dead, he has no proper vendetta against Sir Henry, the end of the game left me with impressions that they were going to settle into a kinda Goku-Vegeta relationship, if anything

Unless he's out to kill Silvia for all the hell she put him through. That would be win.

Also: Sir Henry Motherfucker

Eternityx @ Oct 17th 2008 12:29PM

(/spoiler)Did you see the end when Silvia was with a child at the art museum? What was that about (\endspoiler)

I personally wasn't that big of a fan of the story besides the odd characters bosses..

I enjoyed the gameplay and artistic approach. They can make it more a more serious tone as long as it sticks to what made NMH1 good.