Travis Touchdown's triumphant return: stylish combat, deranged staging and total tonal freedom. Uneven tech and a fragmented structure annoy, but the punk energy sweeps everything along.
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Action1 player18+
Description
Travis Touchdown faces an alien invasion and climbs a new assassin ranking in Santa Destroy. Published by Marvelous, released worldwide in 2021. Beam katana combat with unlockable skills, outsized bosses, travel across a semi-open world, irreverent humor and minigames.
No More Heroes III review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
4/5
Music
★★★★★
"Excellent"
3/5
Story
★★★★★
"Solid"
Gameplay
"Masterful"
Wielding Travis's beam katana has never felt this electric: punchy fights mix dodges, charges and flashy finishers, paced by the recharge gimmick that keeps you moving. The scattered structure and uneven tech sometimes break the flow, but readable clashes and raw punk energy sustain a primal thrill. A pick for anyone who loves stylish, unfiltered action.
Suda51 lets loose: No More Heroes III strings together outsized confrontations where the Beam Katana meets aliens lifted from a super-sentai parody. Splintered visual transitions, geek references and brutal tonal shifts keep you on edge. Every boss rewrites its own rules, blending stylish action, knowing irony and bursts of unbridled creativity.
When the game breaks the 4th wall
True to form, the assassin never forgets he's inside a game: he addresses the player, mocks the genre's conventions and turns menus, saves and even transition screens into a playground for meta gags. Beneath the blood and the glitz, this constant awareness of the medium, inherited from a provocative author, makes every interruption a gleeful complicity with whoever holds the controller.
A questionable morality
Climbing the assassin rankings with a beam katana is the ambition of an otaku hero driven more by glory and money than by any noble cause. We methodically eliminate rival killers while savoring a cheekily provocative humor, without dwelling too much on the line of work involved. Watching a goal this trivial — becoming number one — legitimize such a pile of corpses is irresistibly offbeat.
