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Art imitates life: Suda51 devised Travis Touchdown while, ahem, pooping photo

Recently, Official Nintendo Magazine got a chance to sit down with Grasshopper, the team responsible for critical darling No More Heroes. While the interview provides a neat and tidy synopsis of No More Heroes' development cycle, it provides two interesting tidbits: No More Heroes was originally planned for the Xbox 360, and Travis Touchdown was dreamed up while Goichi Suda (aka Suda51) was on the toilet.

No More Heroes' Wiimote functionality is limited to special finishing moves during combat, a mechanic that has been roundly praised by critics. That's well and good, but it almost never happened, as No More Heroes was almost a 360 game (incidentally, Suda's next game may very well be on the Microsoft console). Wii owners have Marvelous Entertainment's Yasuhiro Wada to thank, as he's the one that pointed out "that Nintendo Wii was the perfect platform for the game given the motion sensor capabilities of the Wii's controller and the cut and thrust nature of the game's combat," Suda explains.

Interestingly, Travis Touchdown's creation led to a silly in-game homage: "I actually came up with the initial idea for a game featuring a Knoxville-style character whilst on the toilet. I decided to use that inspiration as the save game mechanic," says Suda.

If No More Heroes' save system was inspired by Suda's excretionary habits, I can only imagine how he came up with the Harmon's Rooms in Killer7. Something about a maid, an old man, and sporadic sex in a wheelchair ...

[Via Game|Life, via ONM]








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Excel-2011's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/11/2008 23:53
Excel-2011
This is hardly surprising. I come up with a lot of my best game ideas in the can as well.
Geoff Henao's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/11/2008 23:56
Geoff Henao
Wasn't the whole "originally planned for the 360" thing talked about months and months and months ago?

All of MY ideas come from the shower... while I'm pooping, coincidentally. Poop is inspirational.
F Whipple's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/11/2008 23:58
F Whipple
the bathroom is one giant thinktank
The Amazing Shenazin's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/12/2008 05:26
The Amazing Shenazin
I would have preferred a 360 version to be honest

also I lol'd
Wexx's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/12/2008 07:08
Wexx
I believe it.
myheadsonfire's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/12/2008 08:59
myheadsonfire
Haha. Suda51 is my hero. But wtf don't make your next game exclusive to xbox360, dude!
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/12/2008 09:25
Holyetheline
Suda is awesome. I still need to play Killer7 too...
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/12/2008 09:48
Holyetheline
Update:

I just ordered Killer 7 from Amazon.com so I will finally get to play it. Yay!
Poopface Morty's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/12/2008 18:29
Poopface Morty
Holyetheline: not sure if you're the kind that does drugs, and I usually don't encourage people to do so (I don't do them myself either), but this is a game where they really can make this game fuck with you.
CrocBox's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/09/2008 18:09
CrocBox
@ F Whipple

Yes it is, I also come up with a lot of my ideas while indispose.
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