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No More Heroes 3 on Nintendo
The No More Heroes games have always been a bit of a black sheep among the typically happy-go-lucky titles in the Wii library. The blood, violence, and profanity never quite aligned with the typical Nintendo look. However, it would be a shame to think that shock value is all this franchise has to offer. And No More Heroes 3 yet again proves that Suda51 and the development team at Grasshopper Manufacture are artful masters of the action game genre.
An action game is nothing without interesting characters and No More Heroes 3 has incredibly memorable characters in spades. Anyone who has been paying even the smallest amount of attention to the trailers for this game is likely familiar with Prince FU (aka Jess Baptiste VI). But besides the big bad guy of this title, there’s an entire organization of galactic “superheroes” with wild designs in their own right.
Even with the bizarre, nonsensical names that sound as if they were created by a random name generator like Black Night Direction, Sonic Juice, and Paradox Bandit, they’re clearly not an afterthought by any means. Each member of the Galactic Superhero Corps has their own distinct personality and an equally unique design to match.
And then there’s Damon, FU’s unfortunate long-time friend who took in the alien prince when his ship crashed 20 years prior. His presence is fairly inconsequential throughout most of the story, but the fact that he’s still alive after FU’s return shows that the alien has at least a sense of loyalty.