No More Heroes 3

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No More Heroes 3 suffers from poor performance and an uninspired open world, but it delivers kinetic and addictive combat that has style in spades. The highs greatly outweigh the lows.

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No More Heroes 3 suffers from poor performance and an uninspired open world, but it delivers kinetic and addictive combat that has style in spades. The highs greatly outweigh the lows.

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6/10

Matthew Kim (IGN)

No More Heroes 3 is an amusing but extremely uneven sequel, with its entertaining bosses separated mostly by poor performance and barebones tedium.

August 26, 2021 |

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The open world returns, as does so much of that scattershot humour, in this uneven but enjoyable sequel.

August 27, 2021 |

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Martin Robinson (Eurogamer)

4/10

Richard Wakeling (GameSpot)

No More Heroes 3 is at its best when you’re slicing your way through alien invaders, but the rest of the game wrapped around the energetic combat is a laborious disappointment.

August 27, 2021 |

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Matthew Kim (IGN)

6/10 - (Read Review)

No More Heroes 3 is an amusing but extremely uneven sequel, with its entertaining bosses separated mostly by poor performance and barebones tedium.

Martin Robinson (Eurogamer)

Recommended - (Read Review)

The open world returns, as does so much of that scattershot humour, in this uneven but enjoyable sequel.

Richard Wakeling (GameSpot)

4/10 - (Read Review)

No More Heroes 3 is at its best when you’re slicing your way through alien invaders, but the rest of the game wrapped around the energetic combat is a laborious disappointment.

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Outlet	Author	Score	Date	Quote	Read
3DNews	Иван Бышонкoв	5 / 10	08-28-2021	First two No More Heroes games weren’t perfect, however, they were at least fun to play. No More Heroes 3 is just a boring game with sponge enemies and dead open world. And, to be honest, repeating the same joke for the third time doesn’t work at all.	Read review
Atomix	Sebastian Quiroz	80 / 100	09-01-2021	No More Heroes III is the best installment in the franchise and an extremely fun experience.	Read review
Attack of the Fanboy	Andron Smith	4.5 / 5 stars	08-27-2021	Summarizing No More Heroes 3 in a few sentences is hard to do. It’s the fantastic sequel that Travis Touchdown and fans of the series deserve where the game, visual, and sound designs are all sublime which is rare in this current generation.	Read review
AusGamers	KostaAndreadis	6 / 10	08-31-2021	Going even more retro is fine too, whenever No More Heroes III dips into EGA and CGA monochrome computing for little story vignettes it’s always captivating.	Read review
CGMagazine	Zubi Khan	8 / 10	08-31-2021	No More Heroes III is a blast to play and a well-conceived sendoff to the series, one which stumbles on a technical level but delivers enough on the gameplay front to carry most players to the end credits of what may be the Switch’s wildest exclusive to date.	Read review
Checkpoint Gaming	Justin White	8 / 10	08-27-2021	I had a great time with No More Heroes III. The story, wacky characters, and stylish action all had me begging for more, but the open-world sections, graphical and performance issues and the constant on-screen effects do wear thin after lengthy play sessions and let the otherwise fantastic experience down. The game is an incredibly unique experience that is jam-packed with funny, strange moments that make it truly stand out from the crowd, and the solid combat and zany narrative elevates it to an adventure that is well worth playing. If you like your action games with a healthy dose of balls-to-the-wall weirdness, this one’s for you.	Read review
COGconnected	Jaz Sagoo	81 / 100	08-26-2021	No More Heroes 3 is absurd, silly, and ridiculously fun. With its slick aesthetic, accentuating the deep and smooth combat, Grasshopper Manufacture has managed to surpass previous entries in the franchise. Packed with a ton of mini-games, this diverse trip will take you to strange and wonderful places. Although the empty open-world areas are plagued with performance issues, it doesn’t take away from the ingenuity that is imbued within.	Read review
Daily Mirror	Eugene Sowah	4 / 5 stars	08-27-2021	No More Heroes 3 is a sensational return to the garden of madness, the vast improvements made from the last two games are really astonishing and worth the ten-year wait. It does suffer from slight performances issues when undocked but that is not a deal-breaker. Suda51 has done an amazing job at crafting Travis’s best adventure yet, the only thing we want to know is “when will No More Heroes 4 is coming out?”	Read review
Daily Star	Tom Hutchison	4 / 5 stars	08-27-2021	In a year of top video games this one takes the crown as the craziest we’ve played and it’s bonkers storyline and excellent fighting mechanics make No More Heroes 3 a top Nintendo Switch title	Read review
Destructoid	Chris Carter	8.5 / 10	08-27-2021	Impressive efforts with a few noticeable problems holding them back. Won’t astound everyone, but is worth your time and cash.	Read review
Digital Chumps	Ben Sheene	9 / 10	01-11-2017	No More Heroes 3 is enticingly irreverent, throwing a barrage of stimuli at the player. While repetitive side missions may pad out its length, SUDA51’s bizarre vision shines through, creating a can’t miss roller coaster of action, laughs, and assassinations.	Read review
Digital Trends	De’Angelo Epps	4.5 / 5 stars	08-26-2021	No More Heroes 3 is a gem for the Nintendo Switch that no action fan should lack in their collection.	Read review
Digitally Downloaded	Matt Sainsbury	4.5 / 5 stars	08-27-2021	No More Heroes III is still big, colourful, bold and filled with surrealistic humour. With the energy dialled right up to the maximum, it’s hard not to love something this brash.	Read review
DualShockers	Dean James	8 / 10	08-26-2021	Featuring a great variety of different styles of gameplay and combat, No More Heroes 3 rarely feels stale and keeps players coming back for more with the over-the-top story that they have come to expect from the series. Fans were a little worried after the lacklustre spinoff, but No More Heroes 3 brings the series back to form in arguably the best outing to date.	Read review
Easy Allies	Ben Moore	4.5 / 5 stars	08-27-2021	No More Heroes 3 is an insane and wonderful trip.	Read review
EGM	Michael Goroff	8 / 10	08-26-2021	No More Heroes III brings back gaming’s favorite passing assassin in a bombastic way, with the kind of inventive, fourth wall-breaking presentation one might expect. It’s flashier, bolder, and even funnier than its predecessors, and the gameplay feels just slightly modernized without sacrificing any of the series’ charm. The pacing might seem a bit halted in some places, and it could have worked best as a capstone to the series, but it’s clear that creator Suda51 and the rest of the designers are just as passionate about the Garden of Madness as ever.	Read review
Eurogamer	Martin Robinson	Recommended	08-27-2021	The open world returns, as does so much of that scattershot humour, in this uneven but enjoyable sequel.	Read review
Everyeye.it	Stefano Calzati	6.7 / 10	08-27-2021	Removing everything that does not work and that is there to do “longevity”, we would have had 5 sensational hours of pure videogame exploitation that we would have been ready to glorify as a cult. But the reality is that Suda51’s new work for Nintendo Switch is the shadow of the No More Heroes that was, where brilliant ideas, follies, memorable moments and the same brutal combat system are watered down in a mediocre and rhythmless techno-playful context.	Read review
Game Informer	John Carson	7.75 / 10	08-27-2021	No More Heroes cutscenes and boss battles are worth the time investment alone. Its highs greatly outweigh the lows and provide plenty of fun for those who stick it out until the end	Read review
Game Rant	Greysun Morales	4 / 5 stars	08-27-2021	No More Heroes 3 brings the mainline series back after 10 years, and it’s better than it’s ever been before.	Read review
Gameblog	Julien Inverno	6 / 10	08-27-2021	No More Heroes III is radical, punk and messy experience with a unique personnality that wil indeed please players who have been seduced by the first episodes on Wii	Read review
GameMAG	Unknown	8 / 10	08-30-2021	No More Heroes 3 is a special game with a soul of its own. It’s not a perfect game, but the one you’re not going to forget any time soon.	Read review
GamePro	Michael Cherdchupan	76 / 100	08-27-2021	Simple action-adventure with wild pop culture references, which scores with lively fights, but bores with a dull open world.	Read review
Gamer Escape	Aaron Botts	8 / 10	08-26-2021	Really, should anyone be surprised that No More Heroes III is a good time? Suda51 and his gang may be known for games that are varying levels of weird, but you can hardly ever say that they’re boring at all. Travis might have been in relative exile for a while, but it feels like he hasn’t missed a beat. It’s time to fire up that beam katana back up, people. Far from a swing and a miss, it’s good to see Travis back in his element. This gets a solid recommend from me.	Read review
GameSkinny	George Yang	7 / 10	08-26-2021	No More Heroes III is more of the same after 11 years since its last mainline entry, for better or for worse.	Read review
GameSpew	Richard Seagrave	8 / 10	08-27-2021	No More Heroes fans will absolutely adore No More Heroes 3 – it’s no doubt the best game in the series so far.	Read review
GameSpot	Richard Wakeling	4 / 10	08-27-2021	No More Heroes 3 is at its best when you’re slicing your way through alien invaders, but the rest of the game wrapped around the energetic combat is a laborious disappointment.	Read review
GamingBolt	Pramath	8 / 10	08-27-2021	No More Heroes 3 is the most concentrated dose of auteur Suda51 we have gotten in over a decade, and without question the best outing in the series to date.	Read review
GamingTrend	David Flynn	85 / 100	08-26-2021	While it doesn’t feel like a No More Heroes game entirely, No More Heroes III is still a fantastic action game with great combat, fun minigames, and hilarious dialogue. I’ll certainly miss the more introspective and dark story, but I look forward to more wacky adventures with the crownless king.	Read review
GBAtemp	Jakub Kowalski	7.6 / 10	08-29-2021	It’s unfair to call No More Heroes 3 a mixed bag, even if it does look like one from the outside. With a production like this it’s hard to tell what’s a fault and what’s intended by the author to be a little janky since by its very nature the series is an over the top marathon of satire and parody of our culture, from movies to video games. To me, it was just what the doctor ordered, but it’s definitely not for everybody. Me? I just want more. I hope it’s successful, so that I don’t have to wait too long for the next instalment.	Read review
God is a Geek	Lyle Carr	6 / 10	08-27-2021	No More Heroes III is a hugely mixed bag with loads of fantastic boss fights, but an atrocious open world that lets it down.	Read review
GotGame	David Poole	9 / 10	08-26-2021	In the end, even with all its faults, No More Heroes III is a true standout to me. I love the meta references, the dialogue, and even the crazy boss battles. The anime inspired cutscenes and effects pump the title with over-the-top energy and I’m here for it. If you’re a SUDA51 fan and you’ve followed the series, you need to pick this up.	Read review
GRYOnline.pl	Mikołaj Łaszkiewicz	7.5 / 10	08-30-2021	Against the backdrop of previous installments, No More Heroes III seems somewhat underwhelming, but it still brings a bloody mayhem dripping with absurdity. It’s a lot of fun despite some setbacks (especially the technical side, ugh!), and it can easily be recommended to all adult Nintendo Switch owners. Don’t say it’s too weird, just try it.	Read review
Guardian	Tom Regan	3 / 5 stars	08-30-2021	Ugly, unpolished and ultraviolent – Suda51’s kitsch curio fires on all cheaply made cylinders	Read review
Hardcore Gamer	Chris Shive	4.5 / 5 stars	08-26-2021	After over a decade since a proper numbered sequel, No More Heroes III brings back the franchise in what could arguably be called its strongest entry yet, and one of the best overall games that Suda51 has helmed.	Read review
Hey Poor Player	Heather Johnson Yu	4 / 5 stars	08-27-2021	No More Heroes 3 dazzlingly outshines its predecessors in many respects. The combat is vastly superior, the overworld map makes a triumphant return, and the art styles and music are so brilliantly executed to the point where I want to buy the entire dev team a round of drinks. In the team’s eagerness to return to a clearly beloved franchise, I think a lot of fantastic storyline ideas came together in a way that didn’t always fit perfectly, but No More Heroes 3 was never anything less than a total blast. If you’ve already played the other three games in the series and loved every second, I have no idea why you’re still reading this article — go get No More Heroes 3 already!	Read review
Hobby Consolas	Javier Escribano	85 / 100	08-27-2021	No More Heroes 3 delivers on the things we would expect from Suda51: a kinetic and addictive combat system that ends up overshadowed by the creative liberties and eccentricities of its creator, leaving a fun but uneven gameplay experience. But the constant experimentation of its mise en scène makes this a stimulating and surprising game.	Read review
IGN	Matthew Kim	6 / 10	08-26-2021	No More Heroes 3 is an amusing but extremely uneven sequel, with its entertaining bosses separated mostly by poor performance and barebones tedium.	Read review
IGN Italy	Biagio Etna	7.5 / 10	08-27-2021	No More Heroes 3 is rough, imperfect, sometimes even unpolished, but also artistically insane and spirited and has great gameplay.	Read review
Luis Alamilla	Luis Alamilla	7 / 10	09-02-2021	No More Heroes is a good Suda51 game and his games are so tailored for a niche market, it’s completely understandable that this game is simply not for everyone. It’s a game that requires you to not be so serious when tackling it and enjoying it for what it is, just silly charming fun. While that shouldn’t mean you should disregard the performance issues, at the end of the day, I thoroughly enjoyed playing it, despite its many shortcomings. For those still lost and scared about jumping in after this review, I saw go give the first two games a shot and then decide if the series is for you or not as their formula will paint a good expectation for 3.	Read review
Metro GameCentral	GameCentral	6 / 10	08-30-2021	A better game than the earlier spin-off but Travis Touchdown’s time is clearly over, even if he is still able to provide some entertainingly odd boss battles.	Read review
MMORPG.com	Victoria Rose	7 / 10	09-01-2021	None of us will ever be as questionably cool as neighborhood otaku asshole Travis Touchdown, nor have a world that sings and flashes to his tune as we dance around swinging a laser katana. Nor will we be flooded by such an incredibly preserved imagination of cool 80’s and 90’s nostalgia. But we can pretend for a few minutes! That’s the fun of a video game like No More Heroes 3, right?	Read review
MonsterVine	Spencer Legacy	4.5 / 5 stars	08-31-2021	No More Heroes III is a wacky, funny, and bloody swan song for the No More Heroes series.	Read review
Niche Gamer	Fingal Belmont	7 / 10	08-27-2021	While it may not please everyone, No More Heroes III offers a completely new experience unlike any hack and slash before it.	Read review
Nintendo Enthusiast	Miguel Moran	8 / 10	08-27-2021	No More Heroes 3 is the joyride fans have been waiting for.	Read review
Nintendo Life	Stuart Gipp	8 / 10	08-27-2021	No More Heroes III has the faults of both its mainline predecessors – it’s a little more tedious than No More Heroes 2, and a little less meaningful than No More Heroes. It makes up for this, however, by being another inarguably impressive, balls-to-the-wall carnage-fest, a blood-spattered love letter to excess, and a Suda51 fan’s wet dream splashed across the Switch. The story it tells is cool. The game it plays is cool. Neither of these crucial aspects reach the heights of the series’ Nintendo Wii origins, but nobody who truly gets No More Heroes could reasonably be disappointed with this third incarnation. The joke’s beginning to wear thin, but it’s all in the telling. And Suda51 can still spin a very fine yarn.	Read review
Nintendo Wire	Ricky Berg	7.5 / 10	09-01-2021	If you’re new to this rainbow-blood-soaked world you’ll be missing some context on certain characters (even Travis Strikes Again is essential for full comprehension), but this also manages to be one of the best examples of a creator putting themself into their work despite some frustrations along the way. When that creator is Suda51, you can’t afford to miss it.	Read review
NintendoWorldReport	Matthew Zawodniak	6.5 / 10	08-27-2021	Even the game’s style and technical performance are wildly inconsistent between the sublime combat and sterile overworld. It feels half-baked in the most literal sense, with one half being cooked to perfection, and the other half still cold from the freezer. I just can’t shake the feeling that I’m the one doing something wrong, because I’m just not sure how a game can be so incredibly good, and yet so very bad.	Read review
Noisy Pixel	Jacob Kavanaugh	7.5 / 10	08-26-2021	No More Heroes 3 is composed of a fantastic combat system with stylish visual flair but, on a narrative level, falls flat in every way compared to its predecessors. However, you weren’t really coming into No More Heroes 3 for the story, were you? This is why after completing the adventure, I simply booted it up to play again. I guess the fights are just that good.	Read review
PCMag	Jordan Minor	4 / 5 stars	08-27-2021	Series newcomers must adapt to its many idiosyncrasies, but No More Heroes III successfully resurrects Suda51’s decade-old, hack-and-slash cult hit.	Read review
Polygon	Suriel Vazquez	Recommended	08-27-2021	You don’t play a No More Heroes game for its story. You play it for its style, and No More Heroes 3 has style in spades. The best thing I can say about No More Heroes 3 is that its combat and open-world design stay out of the way, letting its style take center stage, occasionally facilitating some truly great one-off moments.	Read review
Press Start	James Berich	9.5 / 10	08-27-2021	No More Heroes III is the best No More Heroes experience this far. A streamlined structure, some fantastic writing and direction from Goichi Suda and some of the tightest combat the series has ever seen makes No More Heroes III the best in the series. There’s some technical issues that we’ve come to see from the Switch, especially in the open world, but these are otherwise minor blemishes on a remarkable artistic achievement.	Read review
Screen Rant	Scott Baird	4 / 5 stars	08-27-2021	Travis is back on top.	Read review
SECTOR.sk	Matúš Štrba	8 / 10	08-27-2021	Travis Touchdown is back in another gory and kafkaesque No More Heroes game that is beautiful in its insanity.	Read review
Shacknews	TJ Denzer	7 / 10	08-26-2021	This game’s open world just isn’t fun, and the activities you need to do to get back to the good stuff are increasingly stretched and dull. I can appreciate the flashy action and grindhouse exploitation nature of No More Heroes 3 for what it is, but it kept the camera on the boring parts a little long for my liking. Still, if you’re looking to continue the weird assassin adventures of Travis Touchdown, then the chores are also probably worth doing to see how the escapade unfolds.	Read review
Slant Magazine	Ryan Aston	2.5 / 5 stars	08-27-2021	Despite wearing its influences on its sleeve—Travis drives a facsimile of Kaneda’s bike from Akira and can transform into a Gundam rip-off—No More Heroes III shows no respect for the artistry or cultural context of the pop culture that it pilfers from. In fact, Given its alternately snarky, nihilistic, and condescending opinions of just about everything, you would be justified in feeling that the game doesn’t just dislike the things that it references but even itself.	Read review
SpazioGames	Unknown	6.9 / 10	08-27-2021	No More Heroes 3 has moments of pure genius and a lot of fresh and brave gameplay ideas, but is technical disaster that even the hardcore fans can’t stand.	Read review
Stevivor	Matt Gosper	8 / 10	08-27-2021	All in all, No More Heroes 3 is kind of a mess – but it is a FUN mess.	Read review
TechRaptor	Tyler Chancey	9 / 10	08-27-2021	While at times overwhelming in its frame of references and a little tedious in spots, No More Heroes 3 shines with unforgettable boss fights and genre bending setpieces	Read review
The Games Machine	Danilo Dellafrana	8.2 / 10	08-27-2021	No More Heroes 3 is a glorious sequence of boss fights, spectacular, fun and crazy, but surrounded by a really bland open world. If you’re a fan of Travis it remains a recommended game, especially considering the previous games adopted a very similar structure, but everyone else would do well to wait for a price drop.	Read review
TheSixthAxis	Nick Petrasiti	9 / 10	08-27-2021	No More Heroes 3 shines with its fourth-wall-breaking self-awareness, zany characters and stunningly slick combat. It’s not afraid to be what it is, Suda 51 and his team delivering a great instalment to the franchise that welcomes us to the Garden of Insanity.	Read review
Twinfinite	Omar Banat	4 / 5 stars	08-27-2021	Fortunately, the fantastic gameplay, music, story, writing, and character design are all ways that No More Heroes 3 more than makes up for the game’s shortcomings. It has been well worth the wait for diehard fans and is easily recommendable to anyone who enjoys action games.	Read review
VGC	Chris Scullion	3 / 5 stars	08-27-2021	If you loved the previous games, you’ll love this. However, it doesn’t offer anything new to improve on the series’ flaws, meaning anyone who isn’t a devotee may want to try the original first to see if its quirky, sharp-tongued style is for them.	Read review
VideoGamer	Josh Wise	7 / 10	09-02-2021	No More Heroes III should be played, if for no other reason than it could have been made by nobody else.	Read review
Washington Post	Jon Bailes	Not Recommended	08-27-2021	Not every idea lands — a parody of turn-based JRPG battles toward the end feels overly labored — and it’s hard to escape the sense that writer and co-director Suda51 is being self-indulgent even by his standards. Perhaps there’s such a thing as trying to squeeze too many references and cameos into a script. For all the surprises, the riotous homages, plot twists, characters and style switches, there’s not much to bind them, and not much genuine innovation.	Read review
Wccftech	Unknown	8.5 / 10	08-27-2021	No More Heroes III is a glorious, gory mess, bursting with excitement and creativity from beginning to end. The game’s intensity does shift down a gear when exploring its dated open world, but its best moments shine bright enough to keep your heart and beam katana pumping through the slower bits. Suda51 has scored another bloody Touchdown.	Read review
WellPlayed	Arana Judith	6.5 / 10	08-27-2021	https://www.well-played.com.au/no-more-heroes-iii-review/	Read review
Worth Playing	Chris “Atom” DeAngelus	8 / 10	08-27-2021	No More Heroes III feels like a sequel to the first two games in every way, for all the good and bad that entails. It’s creative, clever, charming, and delightfully weird. The combat system is simple but fun, and it doesn’t overstay its welcome thanks to a wide variety of creative boss fights. However, everything outside of those elements feels a bit dull. Thankfully, like the first two games, No More Heroes III has enough interesting stuff going on to overshadow the flaws. Newcomers would probably be better off trying the cheaper No More Heroes titles on the Switch to see if Suda 51’s specific eccentricities are to your taste.	Read review
Zoomg	آراییس نظریان	9 / 10	09-12-2021	The game No More Heroes 3 is an unforgettable experience of Travis Touchdown’s adventure with his electric katana in a strange and brutal world, a world filled with humorous dialogues, breathtaking struggles and details that you can taste together in a game.	Read review
ZTGD	Ken McKown	7.5 / 10	09-08-2021	No More Heroes III is a wild ride though a psychedelic warzone that begs to be experienced. The technical issues and slog of an open world drag it down at times, but it never stopped me from wanting to see it through. I really wish the game had been released on more powerful hardware as it is clear the team had bigger ambitions than the Switch could handle. Still if you have enjoyed previous entries then this is a no-brainer. Definitely a solid end to the trilogy and one of the most unique games you will play ever.	Read review

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The legendary assassin Travis Touchdown makes his glorious return to the Madness in the No More Heroes 3 game, exclusively on the Nintendo Switch™ system! The evil Prince FU and his band of alien assassins are itching to conquer Earth, and the only thing standing in their way is Travis Touchdown and his crew. Armed with his trusty Beam Katana, new tech, and some killer wrestling moves, Travis must battle to the top of the Galactic Superhero Rankings and put an end to the invasion.

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