Recent pre-release footage of No More Heroes 2 has been awesome, and it seems that the Shinobu/8-bit work-games videos from a few weeks ago were just the start of it. This new trailer gives us our first close look at the game's third playable character, the one and only Sir Henry. If you haven't finished the original No More Heroes, you may not know who this guy is, but trust me, he's cause for excitement.
Well, I guess I could be wrong about that, so let me ask you first: does a well dressed John Lennon look-a-like with a light saber fighting a pop idol-style happy girl armed with giant (and by giant, I mean five foot long) robot battle gloves sound exciting to you? How about poppies? How about Scottish accents, and poppies? You know what poppies mean right? They mean hallucinations, and anyone who has played through Batman: Arkham Asylum knows how awesome hallucination-enhanced 3D beat 'em ups can be.
Speaking of The Batman, take a close look at frames :34, :35, and :36, and you'll see a bat-a-rang fly across the bottom left side of the screen (see gallery for details). Now I seriously doubt that Batman will end up making a cameo in this game, but if anyone can make that happen, it's Suda51. Even if all we get is a Revenge of Shinobi-style imitation-Batman boss, I'll still be ecstatic.
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This game is just getting to the point of unbelievable. It seems like they're cramming in too much content for one game! Like they crammed in NMH2 and threw in half of NMH3 for good measure. SO AWESOME.
A character who looked like the sucessor to Destroyman fought Shinobu in the trailer. Hollywood superhero to make references to Batman? Seems likely. Just a guess though.
OK. Here is what I was talking about. It is not exactly new information, and VGFreak1225 has it sort of right. And who knows if this character even uses that batarang:
@ Gohan and VGFreak- Could be, but the location where Shinobu fought the new Destroyman looks nothing like the TV filled mansion that Henry and Travis are in this vid.
We'll see pretty soon though. Less than three months!
Yeah... I am so counting the hypothetical days [they still don't have a definite date, although likely January or something right?]... I don't put money down for reserves that often, but already did so at my local GameStop. Like a month or two ago. Dunno what the preorder bonus is, but I am most interested in playing the shit out of it [likely the take a day off from work if it is a weekday] the moment it comes in.
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11:00 PM on 10.21.2009
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EXCITE!
After playing this at PAX, I was sold (I meant to do an impressions blog for you, BTW, sorry). This just doubly solidifies the deal!
Also, Henry's on some of that sticky icky ICKY.
Do tell!
Or at least, give us the option of clicking a link or something.
Henry, welcome back!
PSYCH!
Can't wait for it!
The wii has a promising future, with games like tatsunoku vs capcom, silent hill, mario galaxy 2 and this .
@Jonathan Holmes:
A character who looked like the sucessor to Destroyman fought Shinobu in the trailer. Hollywood superhero to make references to Batman? Seems likely. Just a guess though.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v476/Gohan_Egret/f9hg8qhg98gh98qg8qg9q.png
We'll see pretty soon though. Less than three months!
@ Cadtalfryn- OMG SPOILERS WTF
@ Strider S- That would be amazing.
Also, the person in the portrait in that room looks like a male Harley Quinn.
And what about the letters "PB" on top of the bat-symbol above the door?
P.S. - I would rather play as Dark Star so that I can wield his dragon-sized beam katana.
P.P.S. - "Don't be deceived so easily." Damn you, Suda, for breaking the virtual 4th wall of the first game's true ending arggggggggh.
With Suda, anything goes.