Playing A Game No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle Wii

My grievances so far:

  • Part of the charm of No More Heroes was that it was entirely fresh and new. Inevitably, an iterative sequel loses that feeling. There is no way this could have been avoided, but, I wanted to mention it.
  • There are fewer side-missions involving wanton killing, and they are not repeatable. The new NES-style jobs are way better than the ones from the first game - you'll actually want to replay these! - but I do miss endlessly-repeatable murdering.
  • The game sets you up to believe that you may be killing 51 assassins. This, in fact, is the game pulling a "Suda" on you. Swaths of the chart are skipped, in one form or another. There are still considerably more fights than in the original, but! just don't get your hopes up for fifty of them. It's only one game disc.
  • I really, really want this game to be in high-definition. The visual style is amazing. At a higher resolution, I imagine it would be absolutely incredible.
  • Compared to the first game's assassins, I feel like this one's are more interesting, but less verbose - they frequently leave me wanting more. I guess, really, this isn't much of a grievance.
  • There is a level where you can jump, and it shows how terrible the camera can be during rapid movement.
  • I miss Holly Summers.

But these are all minor nitpicks, relative to the good in Desperate Struggle. In so many words, it takes what was good about No More Heroes, removes most of what was not-so-good, and adds even more good.

What I'm saying is, this game is really good.

Progress: Rank 4

Rating: Awesome