Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes
Travis is living the trailerpark dream in the rural South when Badman comes knocking to avenge his daughter, Bad Girl. It looks like Game Over for Travis when both of them are sucked into the legendary Death Drive Mk II games console. This time, the games are taking the fight to you! The characters of the Death Drive Mk II's diverse game library aren't going to go down without a fight! Slice your way through them with all the beam charging, pro-wrestling-finisher action you know and love – turned up to 11. Burn through your skill gauge and link special and regular attacks for some kick-ass combos! Mix-up your approach and own your playstyle. Play as Travis, Badman and – if you're a bad enough dude – maybe Shinobu and Bad Girl, too! KEY FEATURES Exhilarating Action Spanning Multiple Game Worlds The legendary games console, the Death Drive Mk. II has a diverse games library that you can play! But each of those games has its own hero who might not be happy to see Travis, and each game’s world is drastically different from the others.
Game Discussion
Steam User 11
After 10+ hours of gaming per a day,
I must say, you really need to play this before
No More Heroes 3, OTHERWISE YOU WILL DIE!
Steam User 6
I think the black sheep of the series is my favorite one. Unfortunately, the visual style of the first two games is lost in the move to UE4, but Travis Touchdown is still Travis Touchdown. The music in this one is excellent. This game gives Travis some much needed characterization in the visual novel sections (which were the highlights for me personally). Suda got meta and pulled in characters from all his other games in a way that was quite fun. There's 8 main levels of top down, super basic hack and slash gameplay. The levels were widely creative and varied in the what they set out to do, but not all of them were winners. The Coffee and Donuts (awful platforming and too much backtracking), CIA (too long and the combat really wore thin at this point), and Killer Marathon (so many traps and gank squads) levels were all unpleasant to trudge through. I like a vast majority of the bosses (with the exception of the Coffee and Donuts one because that half-hearted side-scroller camera perspective is truly atrocious). Sadly, the combat is the weakest part. The hack and slash gameplay needed a few additional mechanics and hooks to really make it feel like more than a means to an end. It's just far too simplistic and wears thin well before the credits roll. Enemies were cookie cutter and there wasn't nearly enough variety. This was clearly a deeply personal game for Suda, and while relatively flawed, it was a damn good time.
Steam User 9
Amazing game and very easy recommend if you played the other no more heroes games!!! it reminded me of when i first played nmh1 (one of my favorite games of all time) and travis is just a great character like always! I definitely recommend playing through the other kill the past games (the silver case, FSR, killer7, the 25th ward) before this or before a replay!!! it will make you appreciate this game much more!!!
Steam User 3
Great if you're a fan of Suda 51's other work. The soundtrack was great. The gameplay was quite simplistic with damage sponge enemies and levels that overstayed their welcome. If you haven't played a lot of the other games in the overall franchise a lot of this game will NOT make sense at all. I liked it and I think it was worth its playthrough. Though if you wanted more "No More Heroes" gameplay this one is more like a spin off that takes place before 3 and explains a lot of the missing context in 3.
Steam User 7
Travis Strikes Again is great. The gameplay is incredibly simple but Grasshoppper Manufacture was able to keep things interesting with the unique levels.
Each level is spoofing or paying tribute to classic games. They’re enjoyable, it’s great video gamer fan service that is done in good fun.
The various abilities you can unlock and use keep combat engaging enough. There’s not a whole lot to the system, but I had fun finding the best build with the abilities.
Coop is an option, I didn’t play it, but it’s definitely a game I could see being a lot of fun with a friend.
The story, setting, writing, and over presentation is standard SUDA. There is a whole lot of whacky here and it’s beautiful. Not everything lands but I never expected it to, I just expected to go on a trippy ride and have fun.
This is a nice NMH spinoff.
Steam User 2
This is definitely going down as one of my favorite games I've ever experienced. I don't need to justify myself this is beyond peak, please write more visual novel Suda.
Steam User 2
Suda games are almost always 10/10 in style and rough gameplay and that's generally still the case. It's got co-op and it's intentionally more simplistic. The game is infinitely more enjoyable with better skills -- the dash feels almost mandatory. I never took it off. Must have been doing something very well for me to 100%