A compact, experimental Suda51 spin-off built from minigames and meta-humor. The audacity and offbeat tone amuse, but repetitive dungeons and visual poverty soon cap the fun.
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Category
Action2 players16+
Co-op
Description
Travis Touchdown is sucked into a cursed console and must clear six games to escape. Published by Marvelous, released worldwide in 2019. Top-down beam katana combat, varied styles for each inner game, offbeat dialogue, video game references and two-player co-op.
Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
4/5
Music
★★★★★
"Excellent"
3/5
Story
★★★★★
"Solid"
Gameplay
"Masterful"
Slicing bugs with a beam katana through retro dungeons rides on a wild idea, but the execution stays deliberately minimal. Levels string together repetitive layouts and a basic brawler that tires quickly, rescued by meta humor and varied mini-games. A curiosity that entertains in bursts rather than gripping you, best left to Suda51 enthusiasts.
Fun
"From the very first minutes"
Addictiveness
"Captivating"
Difficulty
"Easy"
Lifespan
"Long"
Technical info
💾6 GB📅18/01/2019
Published by Marvelous
Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes (Nintendo Switch) price, value & rarity
Sucked inside a cursed console, the assassin leaps from game to game and relentlessly comments on the medium itself: obscure indies, game-design conventions and references galore fly past across adventures that sometimes unfold as text fiction. This meta dive into the guts of video games, signed by a playful author, delightfully blurs the line between playing and talking about games.
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.
