Another Wednesday, another awesome Zero Punctuation video game review. This week, the venerable Yahtzee Croshaw takes a look at the latest odd-fest from Suda 51 with No More Heroes for the Wii. For a change, he actually likes this game, despite some of it’s derivativeness and repetition. Of course that hasn’t stopped him from finding things to poke fun at before, and that definitely doesn’t stop him this time either.

Via The Escapist

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Rising Star Games, who is the European publisher for No More Heroes, has changed the release date for the game. For those you waiting on Suda ’51’s latest title, you will only have to wait one more week though which is not bad considering how often release dates are changed by months at a time. So, come March 14th you will have No More Heroes sitting on your retail shelves.

Although not released with great fanfare in Japan which has only seen 40,000 copies sold since its launched on December 6th, over here in American 100,000 copies have been sold since its January 23rd release. The game has received generally positive reviews from the gaming community which for a Wii title is not too shabby. 1UP gave the game a 7.5 review score, and the average score for the game is 8.1.

For more information on No More Heroes, check out our previous posts and 1UP’s GDC 08 coverage of Masafumi Takada the composer for the game who has also created music for gaming gems such as: Super Smash Bros. Brawl, RE: Umbrella Chronicles, and Killer 7.

Thanks for the new release date info: CVG

Marvelous Entertainment and Grasshopper Manufacture (Killer 7, No More Heroes) have confirmed that the Nintendo DS port of the PS2 adventure, Flower, Sun, and Rain, will be making its way to North America after all. Featuring extras and add-ons exclusively for the DS, Japanese gamers should expect the game to hit their shores on March 6th, while the US version will follow “shortly”. We have not heard any word regarding a European release date either, but we will keep you updated as more information comes our way.

Storyline: Sumio Mondo is an assassin who arrives on the resort island of Lospas and takes a room at the F.S.R. hotel after being given the assignment to detect and defuse a time bomb planted on a plane which is soon to leave the island’s only airport. On the way to the airport however, Sumio encounters other hotel guests and island residents requesting his help with various problems, including searching for missing items. While Sumio is distracted by them, the airplane with the bomb on board takes off and explodes, crashing into the island. The next morning, however, Sumio awakens in his hotel room and discovers that something strange has happened - not only has not even headed to the airport yet, the airplane explosion and crash have not happened either. Sumio attempts to head to the airport to prevent the explosion and once again people who need his help appear, distracting him long enough to lead to a repeat of the previous days explosion, and Sumio once again awakening in his hotel room with the previous events having yet to unfold. As the same fateful day repeats itself over and over, Sumio finds his hotel room becomes more and more warped and twisted, reflecting the fact that he is slowly losing his mind from the repetition.

Players will control Sumio Mondo, to seek out other people’s items while using a suitcase-shaped instrument named “Katherine” to solve the mysteries about said items. Sumio can crack any secret code by using “Katherine” with a “Dial” for inputting numbers and to get the information needed, players will get hints from what people say, combined with a tourbook of Lospas Island. The DS version will feature over 50 missions in 18 scenarios, and the touch screen will be imperative when solving many of the puzzles in the game.

For more information on Ground Hog Day Flower, Sun, and Rain, check back with us often and visit two sites related to the game here and here. Hopefully, you will get the pages translated before you decide to try and decipher them yourselves.

No More Heroes, the Wii exclusive from Grasshopper Manufacture’s Goichi Suda (Suda 51) and Ubisoft is now in stores. Ranked the 11th best assassin in the world, you will lead the main character Travis on a journey to defeat 10 other killers and become the top dog of the assassin league. Featuring graphics familiar to those who played Killer 7, No More Heroes is full of bizarre characters and twisted storylines.

For more information on the game, look over our previous posts.

Via: Press Release

Are you aching to see more of what the upcoming weird-fest, No More Heroes, looks like? Well, then you’ll be happy to know there’s now a bevy of new screens for the game up. They mostly show a lot sword play…er, “beam sword play.” Apparently that thing can slice foes as well as deflect some ranged attacks. All that and you get to ride a motorcycle it seems. Considering this is the new game from Suda 51, creator of Killer 7, you can expect this to be one strange, but very original game. You can view the rest of the screenshots here.

Rising Star Games have announced that they are now the official publishers of No More Heroes, the action game by game designer, Goichi Suda. The project has been developed by Grasshopper Manufacture and Rising Star Games’ parent company, Marvelous Entertainment. No More Heroes is set to arrive in Europe in February 2008 exclusively for Nintendo Wii.

No More Heroes tells the story of Travis Touchdown, an animé fan who lives in the fictional town of Santa Destroy, California. After an unexpected turn of events, Travis finds himself being approached by the head hunter of an assassins’ organization. Travis is challenged to prove himself worthy by defeating ten other bloodthirsty killers to make his way to the top of the assassins’ league.

“Rising Star Games is very excited to be bringing Suda’s latest project to the European market,” commented Martin Defries, Managing Director, Rising Star Games. “He is without doubt a legendary creative powerhouse within the gaming industry. No More Heroes is shaping up to be a widely anticipated Q1 title for both the trade and consumers alike. It’s a massively engaging and immersive gaming experience for the Wii. This is exactly the right product to broaden the format’s appeal to a wider, more serious gaming audience.”

“With No More Heroes, we wanted to create a game that allows players to be able to jump right in and play,” said Suda, president of Grasshopper Manufacture. “The Wii allows us to create an open world where movement and gameplay feel very natural.”

Already available in Japan, the North American release of No More Heroes will be published by Ubisoft. For more information on No More Heroes, check out our previous posts.

Via: Press release