"I know a lot of gamers out there don’t have much patience... at least that’s what Bishop, the dude at the video store said". This phrase that marks the beginning of the game could have been heard by any of us from a local store.

Goichi Suda, aka Suda 51, as he likes to be called, is one of the most brilliant minds at work in the industry today. After bringing us Killer 7, the man who knows no limits for insanity bring us the equaly unique No More Heroes. Classic. Genious. Select.

You play as Travis Touchdown, a nerd addicted to anime and wrestling, who ends up becoming a professional killer and finding out that there’s a Top 10, on which he’s now at the 11º position, having the proposal to getting rid of the other killers and aim at number one.

At first you may think the story is not as deep as Suda’s previous work, and the deeper you get into the game, the more you feel some characters don’t have motives or objectives. At some point you’ll probably find this awkward. However, lack of motives is a big point in No More Heroes, several times you, Travis, and the other killers, will ask what’s the motive behind all of this, and that should puzzle players in a way that no other game can.

Everything happens at Santa Destroy, where Travis live at the No More Heroes hotel and has a bike which is so big that’s almost a car. The whole mechanic revolve around working, paying a tax to fight the next killer, eliminating him, and going back to work so you can pay for the following one.

To do so, there’s a job agency that will offer you some normals jobs like gathering coconuts and working on a gas station, as much as some stranger ones, like collecting explosive mines on the beach or capturing poisonous scorpions.

Those jobs are pretty simple and open up the way for you to get an extra as a killer in another agency, unfortunately without a lot of variety, where you’ll kill the same president of a restaurant several times. There are also some Free Missions around the map that are not as fun, since they are hard and can’t be played again for a while after you lose.

To move around the town, we have Travis’ extravagant bike, equiped with Nitro, capable of jumping, and even tight turnings, using the Wii Remote and the breaks. But don’t be fooled, you won’t be driving around killing pedestrians or causing accidents, in fact, you can’t even crash into the cars, they have some kind of invisible shield that protects them.

The battle system is incredible, you attack with a simple touch of the A Button, and whenever an enemy is close to dying, you’ll be prompted to make a gesture with the Wii Remote in the indicated direction, causing a blood bath with heads being cut off and people split in half.

Each attack drains the energy of your lightsaber, with special attacks and defense draining it even more. Usually you won’t have trouble with that, but during longer combats, there’ll be the need to recharge it, that’s when Travis executes some... strange movements... that are effective for reasons unknown.

Sometimes you’ll be able to knock your enemies dizzy with a physical attack on the B Button, and by pressing it again, you can trigger wrestling moves, gesturing the Wii Remote and Nunchuk in a way that really makes you feel inside the game.

Everytime an enemy is killed with the final Wii Remote slash, slots appear at the low part of the screen, and in case you get three of any kind of signs, you’ll enter a special mode that can vary from Travis becoming faster, invincible, or even shoting energy balls. You can notice a satirical hair that gets blonde and a tiger at the upper part of the screen, which measures the length of that special mode.

No More Heroes has some of the most creative bosses nowdays, fighting them might not be exactly had, but they are all so unique in style, motivation, that killing them becomes a challenge of finding weak spots, while not just following a routine, you have to understand what they are thinking to catch them off guard.

Whenever you’re not fighting killers and working to pay for these combats, you can chill out at Travis apartment, with some interesting distractions. Checking collectable wrestling cards that you get in the rest of the game, watching Travis’ cat, and even saving at the toilet. Yes, you’ll saving at restrooms during your whole adventure.

You can also check some itens that you can buy at the game shops, like new clothes, wrestling videos, which teach you new moves, you can upgrade you beam katana too, workint out with button mashing and some gesture based minigames using the Wii Remote and Nunchuk, and even finding a man that will teach you useful techniques by finding objects around the map.

The graphics, like most in the game, are a question of style over technique, there are some really well done things, like real shadows, Travis modelling and his bike, and even the art of the city itself. On the other side, the framerate suffers almost all the time and objects just pop up in front of you, while crashing against them is rare.

The game has a small amount of musics, basically three, the title song that you’ll hear during all your missions, one for when you’re riding your bike and a selection of songs for your unusual jobs. Ok, I could hear No More Heroes theme for the rest of my life, it’s incredible, but it would be nice to have some variety.

Sounds effects are simple and stylish, a lot of them are retro versions from the 8 bits era. All the main characters have their scenes voiced with some of the most perfect voice acting lately, showing unbeatable emotion. Generic enemies yell the same phrases over and over again, there should’ve been more. Before you face each killer, you’ll get a call that you’ll hear straight from the Wii Remote speaker. It’s been done before, but it never ceases to amuse me.

Suda 51 is a genious, there’s no doubt, it’s the Quentin Tarantino from the videogames. Sure, No More Heroes has some techinical flaws, but in any way this hurts it’s grandiosity. We have an adventure of around ten to fifteen hours, depending on how well you do your jobs and how much you’ll be burning your money with items.

If you have read this until now thinking that it’s a review, here’s a turnaround! This is just a guide that shows why you should buy No More Heroes. "It’s about who’s best", quoting from the game again. By the way, allow me to not be as creative as the master, ending this with another quote:

"I wanna be number one. How is that? Short simple enough for you? It’s gonna be a long hard road... but who knows? Could kick ass. Could be dangerous. Could totally suck. What do you say bro? Join me. Let’s see how far we can take this. And for your there holding the Wii Remote right now, just press the A Button. Let the bloodshed begin!"