10 Exciting 2018 Video Games Nobody Is Talking About
4. Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes
No More Heroes is one of those series that despite having multiple installments, not many have been exposed to its over-the-top, violent-filled charm. After all, how can you pass up a series that involves a protagonist named Travis Touchdown, a baseball player-turned-assassin who kills enemies in immensely bloody fashion with a lightsab...uh, beam katana.
Set seven years after No More Heroes 2, Travis has exiled himself from society until the father of a recently-killed villain comes to get his revenge. The two clash and upon colliding, they are transported into the 'Death Drive MK-II,' a video game console that was cancelled during its development. Travis must then fight multiple antagonists across six different games, each of which with its own gameplay style. The focus was on offering the greatest amount of variety, where a level could resemble a Hotline Miami-style shoot-em-up, and another being a 2D side scroller like Shovel Knight.
It's clear that Travis Strikes Again will offer players the kind of variety only possible with games that involve heavy amounts of fourth wall breaking, and No More Heroes is chock full of them. This expansive gameplay offering allows newcomers to experience something fresh alongside series veterans. And with head developer Goichi Suda remarking that this game's success would ('hypothetically') lead to No More Heroes 3, it's essential that it gets some deserved support.
Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes releases late 2018 for the Nintendo Switch.