Thoughts On No More Heroes 3 (NO SPOILERS) 

FU's voice actor was so good. He absolutely brought that character to life!

Cool thing I noticed in NMH3 Death Metal (First Boss of NMH) tells Travis to go home before the fight. In NMH3 Travis tells Mr Black Hole(First boss of NMH3) to go home before the fight

I think it's really cool that Grasshopper sent you a review copy. Maybe Suda even gave the video essays a watch!

The wrestling analogy sure makes a CERTAIN cutscene a lot funnier.

Overall, I enjoyed it. However, my major gripes are: 1. Only one beam katana 2. Side characters are CRIMINALLY underutilized. 3. It still takes forever to get back up from being knocked down. 4. No pre boss stages. 5. Some bosses still get "letz shake'd" 6. Major bad character changes to a certain character. 7. A certain boss screaming the same word over and over every time they attack.

Great brief summary! Although a bit of a correction here: When wrestlers are "interviewing" before a match, it's really not called interviewing, but "cutting a promo" in the wrestling industry as it serves not to break the illusion of "kayfab" (suspension of disbelief between the wrestlers' character and the line between the audience and the character the wrestler portrays; 4th wall stuff). Also, fun fact: The "Fúćķ Racism" hoodie you unlock in NMH 3 was first introduced in the Red Orca music video for the song Night Hawk, worn by the lead singer.

The combat really is great imo. Really if they just had standard stages for each boss, it would probably be the best in the series. So whilst the combat is better, I do find the arena structure and general lack of enemy variety a bit of a downgrade and makes the game blend together outside of the boss fights. For a game so focused on combat there needs to be more than like, 5 enemies. Overall though, I enjoyed the game and I think it gets more enjoyable the more time you spend with it.

Did appreciate many things in this game, but missed how they didn't have more weapon types. NMH2 had normal katana, slow big katana, double katana. Missed that, felt combat had 1 step forward & 1 step backwards

If you haven’t played TSA or any No More Heroes for that matter you will be totally lost. I’ve played all of them and even I did forget some stuff.

The only Suda games I have played are NMH1, 2, TSA, and Killer is Dead. And I personally have loved every last second of NMH3. Let that stand for what it's worth.

I really enjoyed my time with this game, my only complaints being missing the levels leading up to bosses, as they're sort of absent for the most part, and the tracks not using the vocal variants we've heard up to release, because I absolutely love the vocals

Mattmcmuscle's first impressions video was my exact reaction, nobody can deny the amount of pure love this game is full of

Definitely my favorite NMH game by far, overall. My only real minor gripe with NMH3 is that the music isn't well utilized in some parts, imo. Beast Test plays WAY too often after a couple hours in, where you stop hearing any other track for Defense and Designated battles. Besides that though, phenomenal game.

It's cool that Grasshopper saw how much you love all of their stuff and recognized your effort and gave you a code, that's why they rock

I feel like some of the combat changes are completely unnecessary and not great, putting dark step on the dodge button instead of activating from blocking makes you more likely focus on dodging, blocking intentionally is something I rarely ever did, you can tell they thought about this as regular attacks drain your power a lot more, when blocking used to be a sort of push and pull because you're negating damage but losing lots of power, you could open the enemy up if you could get a darkstep in but you could also run low on power making the darkstep worthless. Not being able to switch between light and heavy to make a combo is really odd, heavy attacks do have more of a wind up and deal more damage but it makes the game have less flow. Enemies no longer guard high or low, they negate all attacks or none, which slows things down a bit. No longer having fist/kick melee to increase the likelihood of stunning the enemies. Jumping is almost useless except for avoiding boss attacks that specifically require it, the jump attacks aren't great at all. Darkside abilities being simplified into some pretty generic buffs instead of stylish over the top things with weird screen effects is a bummer. Henshin modes while SICK barely give you anytime to have fun with it, 1 because of how long they last and 2 because you never fight enough enemies at once. The death glove abilities while good could of been more customizable like in TSA, the chip system of that game could have improved the combat a lot, instead the chip system here is just buffs to stats for the most part, nothing seemingly unique or interesting. The lack of other beam katanas at first didn't bother me until I realized the battle system wasn't getting more stuff as I progressed, there's a few unlockable moves but the vast majority of the game plays the same all the way through, even having ONE more weapon with a different combo pattern would of improved things. Combat scenerios being entirely boss fights and preset 3-5 enemy rooms is really disappointing, yeah some enemies are harder to fight and certain combinations make things more interesting but often times you're given a lot of the same over and over, it gets kind of tedious, which is something I've never said about NMH combat before, not even in TSA, it's always been fast kinetic and visually inetresting, the biggest part for me is the lack of enemy count, one of the best feelings ever is getting a multkill with one finisher and having blood and money all over the screen as like 7 guys death cries play simultaneously, but here enemies don't even talk no classic "ARE YOU PREPARED, HUH?!" or "MY SPLEEEN!" style barks. And really the lack of stages sucks, just straight up, instead of designated matches those same combat scenarios with the same enemies could have been in a series of rooms connected by paths that had a unique visual style for each boss. Money is a complete non issue, you always have enough for the entry fee just from fighting, so at this point you're just playing side missions/chores for fun, unless your just want to grind WESN to level up some stats because there's like nothing to spend money on. Anyway these are mostly just nitpicks, I still think the game is great for what it is, but I also feel it could have been better.

I'm liking NMH3 a lot so far, but I'm really disappointed by the lack of pre-boss levels. Designated fights just feel like I'm playing a revenge mission from 2 with even less context.

Really excited for the full review Gherny! I only ever found your channel via your Suda videos, so please keep up the fantastic work!

The whole wrestling analogy fits with the superhero theme as we see wrestling as somthing larger then life as we watch them fight for glory

Im looking forward to seeing you break down the story.

Can’t wait for your full review. Found Your videos around the time I found the nmh franchise and love them both equally!

I've binged all your videos in anticipation of no more heroes 3. The reason why I even got into nmh is because I listened to destroy report and philistine and liked it so much that I wanted to know where the music came from. I've known of nmh for sometime but I never paid it much attention until I started listing to the music. I honestly think nmh3 is a great game and I love how they portrayed travis.

I never noticed the targeting circle thing turning purple when you can perfect dodge, that has been extremely helpful now that i know thanks.

Aw yeah, I was waiting for this !

Although I like the idea of the designation match test I kinda like the hallway fights because it felt kinda like a reward for your work where you get to slaughter a bunch of enemies

I do love the gameplay. It's not perfect, but it's extremely fun. Though I find it weird that with each boss, they get easier. Fu kinda disappointed me on how easy he was

Fantastic video. Agreed with most except one thing, which I'll point out and doesn't detract from the video. You say Dark Step returns from the previous games. It doesn't, the mechanic we have now is essentially Witch Time. The difference is important because in the older games you first had to block an attack to enter Dark Step, which was much closer to the Bushido Samurai style of fighting that Travis does and ties into the overall narrative with his morality aspect close to the Bushido code. They probably replaced it with essentially Witch Time because it's more common in this type of gameplay but it's absolutely not the same as Dark Step when approaching fights for the player, especially in higher difficulties.

Finally beat NMH3 on Spicy before I watched this, at times I thought about restarting on Bitter just because of how much my ass got kicked in the early game, but I am glad I toughed thru it. Experiencing the entire NMH series in the span of 2 months was quite a trip and watching your series made it even better. The whole series had some low points but a majority of high points and I can say it is one of my favorite game series and I can't wait to see what Suda does next.

Absolutely earned your code. Can't wait for your analysis

Literally watched all your NMH videos the day before the game came out, keep up the great vids! Loving the game so far 🙌🏼😭

Even though I live in a poor country and shipping games cost a fortune in addition to the price of the games themselves, I have ordered No More Heroes 3 and its on the way and may arrive in a month from now

Currently playing all 4 games back-to-back and I'm especially excited for the new combat system in 3.

"You can trust for Suda to care for the ones you love" - Cant really agree sadly, Badman, Shinobou and Henry each get a screentime of like... well, to avoid spoilers, lets say: Very little. Meanwhile he throws in longer references for his old games, not everyone even knows - also: "The story keeps me guessing constantly" is a nice of phrasing: Some things never get explained whatsoever. I mean, the whole game is full of references, but at the cost of having barely any background story or character development. Even the scenes where FU talks to the bosses gave more insight and feeling than the 1 min banter Travis had with each before their fight. Suda51 said in an live interview with ign last night that Marvoules borrowed him the rights for the NMH IP for five years, and thats kinda how the end product appears. I mean, its still impressive that he managed TSA and in this one in that time period, but I just wish he had more time, and corona certainly didnt help in the progress either. Ive watched all of your Deadly Individualism videos in the last weeks for anticipation, and looking forward for this one aswell, of course this was short preview of many things I hope you will adress. It just kinda appears that youre very hyped for this game now, understandably, and maybe after some time you have a more reflective look on all of it. But wether our opinions differ on this or not, I want to say that I enjoy your videos and your doing a great job 👍

WOW! I beat the game twice now and never knew bout the dark step tip, THANK YOU!

I'm gonna shit my pants once you upload the real deal, I've been anticipating it every single day.

Cannot wait for your analysis on this, my guy!

My biggest gripe was no other weapons nor did either Shinobu or Bad Girl were not playable, but I still enjoyed the game a lot.

Just finished the game, what a ride! I'm ready for your full thoughts whenever you are ready to upload them.

Great video! btw, they do show you the shadow step or rather "perfect dodge" is what they call it in tutorial I guess you meant when it turns purple you can also throw them when doing this. (match enemy attack timing for a) (a) Perfect Dodge (During Perfect Dodge) (zR) Perfect Dodge Throw

I've played all three No More Heroes games and 3 is bar none my favorite. Grasshoppers always appealed to me with their more quiet contemplative games, along with the surreal horror of K7 and I think the balance between zaniness and a more contemplative side made this games pacing absolutely excellent. I breezed through it, and I'm excited to play it again because it generally felt like a much smoother experience than 1 or 2.

I was honestly very disappointed with this game, but I'm looking forward to your full analysis in the future.

Great video as always 👍

Oh yea, and thanks for the DarkSlide tip, dude!

I'm stoked you are enjoying it and got sent a review copy. That's sick!. I am currently playing it and the combat hasn't clicked yet for me. The first boss black hole bodied me at least 20+ times because I couldn't understand the slam mechanics of it and whether dodging was even possible on that attack which seemed like the right choice..

Lets GO!!!

So many great memories with the launch of this game.

Pro tip: I thought you could only grapple an oponent when they were dizzy, turns out you can grapple then even when they are not dizzy if you do it from behind them. If your desling with several oponent at once, performing a grapple can give you some room to breath and do some significant damage.

was watching this while doing a fight and I won god like video as always

Can't wait for that analysis dude.

I just beat NMH3 today, after seeing this video I played through the whole game on spicy.. I ended up being happy I did but it took me 31 hours to beat.. Just started on Friday lol. Been loving your channel for awhile dude, cheers.

I'm really grateful I'm not the only one who died a bunch during the first boss fight with Mr blackhole, I thought I was just terrible lmao

Oh, a new GhenryPerez video about No More Heroes. I wonder how long until he complains about people who didn't like Travis Stri-- 0:11

my game is still in delivery. happy to hear your opinion

you did it, ghenry

I knew when I sat down at the first sushi station, heard the music, and i sat there for 10 minutes just chilling, that they did an absolutely fine job on this game. I literally can't complain about anything except I got my ass kicked on spicy difficulty, but thats on me lmfao.

The only glitch I personally experienced was a bug that at first made the cutscene slower than the dialogue, and the next scene failed to load properly, so I just stared at the skybox for a few seconds before having to reset the game

Definitely play on Spicy. My main criticism with the game was that on normal it was way too easy. The only somewhat challenging part was the boss that kills you in one hit with every attack. The slots power boosts are completely broken. Hopefully there chances of occurring on higher difficulties are lower, because they are way too powerful. Also the completion rewards for getting all the collectibles are pretty poor. You just get some Tshirts, money and XP. No extra moves or exclusive chips. There’s also three adventure missions and two of them I believe give you absolutely nothing upon completion. I honestly thought this game was pretty disappointing, but I think Spicy mode would have been better. Bitter had no challenge at all.

Haven’t been able to play more than 15 mins so far but it’s been the best 15 mins ever! Thanks for this video of your thoughts without spoilers, if you loved it I knew I was gonna love it.. now for my neck to get better so I can play again :)

I loved Jeans voice reveal

I haven't played through the game yet but i am immensely happy with it so far!

Can't wait to see your deadly individualism on this game. Cause my first time beating the game, the story just had me so confused and a little angry. I played all of the previous NHM games, including TSA. And some certain things just had me so confused SPOILERS AHEAD like What the hell happened to Henry? He looks and sounds so different. And he's in a gang now? Was this explained in TSA? Cause I might have forgotten. I forget a lot of things when they are in text form. Also, both Travis and Henry died but then came back to life for some reason? I was just so confused. And Sylvia. Her entrances are a bit too zany for me. She flies, comes down in a light, has glowing eyes at one point. So many things made me so confused

That's my number 1 huge complaint with the combat. The enemies make no audio cues at all. I would at least like to hear them grunt or something before attacking. Also, after using the drop kick chip, I hate how vulnerable I am and the camera gets put in a tight spot immediately right after. Last, I didn't know about the lock on screen flashing purple to execute the dodge. Thank you for that tip! The game doesn't even tell you how to quick get up after being knockdown either. Took me a bit of time to realize I have to keep mashing "A." But I'm loving this game! Of course despite some major flaws with the combat/open world. I'm enjoying this so much! Great video as well by the way! Look forward to your next No More Heroes video!

I at first was mad at the 60 dollar price tag because I heard it was short and the graphics look outdated in the overword. But holy damn I am loving every second of the game so how can I complain, most games don't bring this much fun and style.

Beat the game last night and at no point realized that the lock-on turns purple when you're meant to Dark Step. Welp, guess I gotta play NG+ now.

I'm glad to see Grasshopper has moved past NMH2's "more is more" philosophy just didn't fit them or Travis.

You can reduce the blood in fights in the options menu to increase clarity.

I just finished the a game a few minutes ago and I loved every second of it, except for one boss fight. I really wanted to like it, but hell it's only a drop in the amazing content that I got. Easily one of my favorite games in recent years.

It's been six months. And I still wait for the nmh 3 deep analysis video.

Probably my favorite no more heroes game

Do you think they call it perfect world because it's so small, it has the least amount of performance issues?

Travis's character model looks like a mannequin that's dressed as Travis.

I love it, my only issue is the fakeouts on some bosses

Admittedly, I was a bit underwhelmed by NMH3 early on since yeah it has been on me for thinking it'll play like an improved NMH1 with some skill chips added in. But as I continue through the story and level up some more, it's gotten a lot better, and I began to appreciate the gameplay style that was done in this game! Moreso, I've been having a helluva fun time combo slashing alien goons, and exploring the world itself finding so much interesting stuff. It's a brilliant game that I enjoy very much, despite a couple of gripes I may have on the side that I obviously can't say due to spoiler reasons.

I played NMH 3 from beginning to end, It's very easy to overwhelm these if you use the grab outta the chipp buffs, sushi buffs, death slow and rain in a sequence. Super easy 👌. Gonna do spicy diff later. Overall, I enjoyed the game and I dig the gameplay and open world aspect.

My move in day for college was the same day as this game came out and I was nervous about moving in instead of having the smart idea of downloading the game before I left my house. I couldn't find a way to connect my switch to the schools wifi, so I tried to turn my phone into a wifi hotspot. I ended up draining through that data quick and over night the download went from 40% to 46%. Luckily, I did find a way to connect to the wifi and I beat the game a few days ago.

This is definitely the most challenging NMH game on it's spicey difficulty and the combat can be pretty fun, however... I personally think NMH3 is a huge downgrade compared to the first two games in almost every way. The comedy bits never made me laugh, the story and characters were kinda bland with too much emphasis on Family Guy styled "Hey remember that one time?" kinda dialogue, the visuals were awful in certain places and with certain characters ( Lookin at you Shinobu... ), and the overworld areas were extremely disappointing with how empty they were... Neo Brazil in particular was such a lazily designed area.

Thanks for keeping out the spoilers, still saving up for a switch lmao

I honestly think NMH2 started using light and heavy attacks, but also ended up making it to where low attacks are heavy and high attacks are light(which make sense) since I notice using low attacks wore at enemy health faster.

Yo I know this is an old video and you're probably working on something else, but there's a forgotten suda51 game on the 3ds called liberation maiden. It's a mech game that kinda reminds me of the nmh3 mech levels, but more in depth and lowkey better. I only just found out about it but it seems like a classic suda51 game, and I think it's something suda51 fans should know about

seeing midori midorikawa return in this game was so interesting

Biggest praise fun and true to the series Biggest gripe needs more customization

11:45 I mean I suspected this was just a modified game systems from Travis Strikes Again since they let us see the combat proper. Especially with TSA’s ending tease. Both made in Unreal and all that, that’s just wise planning.

i'm currently playing this game on spicy since I already played the other games on normal difficulty and found them a bit too easy mostly NMH2. now I'm getting my ass kicked a lot lol

NMH3 is probably my favourite No More Heroes game, such a stylish masterpiece.

You didn’t mention the biggest new change. You can now take off Travis’s Jacket!

The hack and slash gameplay also reminded me of Killer is Dead's gameplay.

Haven’t finished 3 yet but from what I have played I like it a lot but I still have some gripes

Honestly I get why the main complaint is about the lack of stages, I think the worst part of this is the environments the fights take place in. These would've been amazing as stages, I do have other complaints like how we don't fight some of the aliens. But the cutting of the stages just hurts harder.

My biggest problems: The story, it starts off promising but gets a little TOO zany near the end, it also feels pretty rushed. Most boss fights had annoying gimmicks, also pretty easy on bitter difficulty. Music is just OK. You can only change into different shirts which is lame. Henry cooldown is a fucking BADASS in this game but we barely get to see him..... I really liked the minigame where you shoot giant alligators lol

Side note, I would love to see all of these shirts in real life. It would be great merchandise for grasshopper

I'm a big No More Heores fan who's beat the first game several times and beat TSA with every character. But it pains me to say this that NMH3 was disappointing. After Gold Joe, things took a dive for me. I'm just doing 3 matches in the hub world just to go meet with a boss who gets killed off half the time. No cool build up or introduction either. Is their replacement bosses? Yes. But it doesn't feel like I'm taking on world ending aliens anymore. It really feels like Suda had cool alien boss designs commissioned. But then he didn't know how program them into a boss fight, or they were short on time so he had no choice but to kill them off immediately and replace them with more traditional boss fights with simpler designs to render and program. As far the story goes; the stakes felt high in the beginning, when Badman was killed, Shinobu was in a coma, and Badgirl was traumatized, but then it just fizzled out towards the end. Overall, when you beat the game, I don't feel like I saved the world or finally reached the end of my adventure. TSA built so much up in the story, only for none if to come to fruition in NMH3. The best way to describe NMH3 is "style over substance." You can tell they were cutting corners with this game. I know the pandemic made things worse, but I would have been fine with NMH3 being delayed a year to make the game seem actually complete. The first game will always be my favorite in series because overall it's a whole lot more well rounded. 2 cents from a random NMH fan.

I think Jeane explains the Perfect Dodge system while you're actually fighting.

My biggest gripe is that there isn't enough upgrades and nothing to spend money on, honestly at like rank 6 I stopped doing side missions because there was no need, if there were like trophies/achievements maybe I would do them.

You make a valid point in 13:15 when discussing the games graphical visual. You forgot the PlayStation version though XD

Never got to a video this early b4

Though the general graphics are primitive, the UI elements are amazing

Between NMH 2 and 3 it has been 416 Years, 11 Months, 3 Weeks, 3 Days, 5 Hours and 40 Minutes

Not to rush you or anything, but when might we see your individual video on this?

No More Heroes 2 isn't a bad game, it's just not a Suda game.

Kinda crazy that 1 still had the best gameplay loop

I love this game it was my first NMH the hardest boss to me was #9 (No spoilers)