Top Critic Average
Critics Recommend
Must-play for Fans
Lack of Game Features
Repetitive Gameplay
Fans of Suda51's other titles will find Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes to be a must-play. However, others may not be able to look past technical issues, occasionally mediocre gameplay, and a small feature set.
Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes - Golden Dragon GP Trailer - Nintendo Switch
Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes - Coffee & Doughnuts Trailer - Nintendo Switch
Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes - Life is Destroy Trailer - Nintendo Switch
A limp arcade action game amidst a sea of mindless references, Travis Strikes Again fatally lacks the style of its predecessors.
Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes has Suda51's eccentric charm, but the repetitive hack and slash gameplay doesn't feel nearly as great as previous entries in the series.
Travis Strikes Again returns to the more stylish tendencies of early Grasshopper Manufacture, with decent combat elevated by a strong sense of style and writing
Travis Strikes Again succeeds as a simple hack-n-slash with seamless co-op, but doesn't do enough to avoid repetition or challenge you in meaningful ways.
Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes is a welcome return of Travis Touchdown. Amidst the enjoyable gameplay is great storytelling and dialogue set in imaginative game worlds.
Billed as a side dish, Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes has been prepared with enough love and affection to become a filling meal on its own, packed with the spice and spirit you'd expect from Travis Touchdown. It's a fun, indie-inflected blast of hack-and-slash which doesn't change the world mechanically (and don't go in expecting No More Heroes 3), but its sincerity and energy are charming. It's an adult game – a gamer's game – foul-mouthed and dripping with style. If you're sitting on the fence, we'd recommend diving in, if only to support its infectious, celebratory spirit; Suda51 seems to have a real affection for Nintendo hardware and this makes you feel lucky to have him working on Switch.
Not quite the glorious return we wanted for Travis Touchdown, for all of this game's desire to be weird it does a better job of making itself uninteresting.
In a lengthy message to fans of Twitter, Goichi Suda, aka Suda51, has announced a delay for No More Heroes 3, pushing the game into the new year, 2021.
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