No More Heroes and Wii love each other but might have to break up

Sep 28, 2009 20:01 GMT  ·  By

At the Game Tokyo Show, Goichi Suda, the creator of the Killer 7 and Wii's No More Heroes games, offered an interview for IGN.com in which several topics were discussed, but the more interesting would be the future development for No More Heroes. To be more precise, the future the game has alongside Nintendo's Wii. After a few words spoken about the upcoming No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, the question regarding the NMH3, not part of Wii, came up.

Suda 51 swirled around the subject a little and said "I still think that No More Heroes and Wii is a good match, and that for the game we need motion controls, and that's why it works so well on Wii. Even if Travis's story is finished with number two, and we decide to make another No More Heroes game within the No More Heroes world or setting I still think that it should be on a Nintendo platform, and more specifically the Wii 2 later down the line. I'm assuming that for the next Wii Nintendo will do more impressive motion controls, and that's what No More Heroes is all about. Right now though we're working on making No More Heroes 2 as strong as can be, so I'm not really thinking about a third game currently."

The designer and director of the franchise seems to be quite fond of the Wii console and very eager to continue the collaboration with Nintendo. Whether the series will really have a third installment remains to be seen, as most likely, the protagonist's story will end in Desperate Struggle. Furthermore, whether that game will come to the Wii exclusive, share the fame with other consoles or even abandon the Wii also remains an open question. As usual, future releases of a game that is part of a certain series depend more on the sales of the last game than on the creative desires of the development team.

No More Heroes is a cartoonish fighting game, with an open world game play that allows the main character, Travis Touchdown, to move freely across the game world map. In order to progress in the game's story, the player must defeat the ten worlds' strongest assassins. The open play offers the player the money to fund his endeavor, as he can spend it on training sessions, weapons, clothes and video tapes.