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RSS FeedsTravis Strikes Again: No More Heroes Review - Short On Heroics
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16 january 2019 15:05:56

 
Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes Review - Short On Heroics
(GameSpot PSP News)
 


Relentless absurdity and hyper-stylized action have been core tenets of the No More Heroes series. It never cared for making much sense and instead embraced its own ridiculousness with bold self-awareness, a staple of director Suda51. The slimmed-down hack-n-slash spinoff, Travis Strikes Again, hits many of the same notes, but not as hard and with varying degrees of success. Its combat is frenetic, but well worn toward the end. Its story and style is unique, but thin in crucial moments. Its humor lands in spots, but not quite with a punch. But despite a middling delivery of what past games have done, there`s fun and charm packed into Travis Strikes Again, and if anything, it is a great example of local co-op action on Switch.Seven years after the events of No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, Travis Touchdown has removed himself from the world of assassination. The series` too-cool-for-school protagonist now spends his days playing video games in a trailer nestled away in the backwoods of Texas. The father of past enemy Bad Girl, aptly named Bad Man, tracks him down for revenge, but he and Travis get sucked into an alternate dimension within Travis` possessed Death Drive Mk II video game console. They end up working together to uncover the true nature of the haunted console and its games, and that`s how you get the co-op premise where you can play as either Travis or Bad Man in the six Death Drive games that serve as missions.Charge attacks are satisfying to pull off, especially when Travis unleashes his inner tiger.Travis Strikes Again primarily plays as a top-down hack-n-slash action game that pits you against hordes of enemies, referred to as `bugs,` that look like they`re from a digitized hellscape. Travis is still equipped with his trusty beam katana, but can now equip four unique abilities mapped to the face buttons, which can be activated when holding down the left bumper and operate on a cooldown. As you acquire more of these skills, called Chips, comba ...


 
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