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No More Heroes beam katana replica, being auctioned by Grasshopper Manufacture for Japan relief. It’s predictably expensive — $720 right now — but 100% of the proceeds go to the Red Cross as part of the game industry’s “Play for Japan” initiative.
This “Blood Berry” replica was brandished by Suda 51 during Tokyo Game Show 2009, when Suda was doing interviews to promote No More Heroes 2. I was personally threatened with with this beam katana! According to the auction, it was primarily used as a reference for animation. It’s really impressive in real life. I totally want to bring it home for myself, but yeahhhhhhh.
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[Thanks, Chris Kraft!]
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No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle for $28.48 at Amazon! To be honest, I was just going to write about this cute fanart, but I happened across that quite irresistible Amazon price while doing so.
I’m very nervous about recommending this game, because, like its predecessor, it’s hella idiosyncratic, occupying an uncomfortable space between drama, parody, B-movie, action game, and I don’t know what the hell else. I really liked it, though. In fact, if I didn’t have a massive backlog (and if I weren’t going out of town this weekend), I’d consider replaying it right now.
Buy: No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle ($28.48!)
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[Artwork: “Shinobu” by Hiiragi Aki]
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Super-sharp Shinobu fanart by Kagamihama Shijimi. This image of the playable No More Heroes 2 character, who makes Travis feel “like a creepy teacher in a porn,” is totally rad despite the fact that the artist made Shinobu look really bored, and also white. I like the detailing of the Bizarre Jelly charms on her sword.
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“Happy New Year” by Nobiru. I decided to post some No More Heroes fanart today, just so we’d have another excuse to talk about No More Heroes stuff on the site. I have yet to play the sequel yet, and it’s fucking killing me. So here’s Sylvia and Travis in some semi-traditional New Year garb!
“Travis” by July 7.
“Tiger-eared Travis” by Nekokan Batari (I guess). So that’s what the tiger transformation looks like!
“Sweet” by Usatarou. It’ll be just as embarrassing to buy the PS3/Xbox port of No More Heroes, with these costumes in it, as it is to look at this picture now.
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GameStop just dropped the DS port of Grasshopper Manufacture’s weird Flower, Sun, and Rain to $20. While a $10 price drop on the Suda 51-created adventure isn’t as thrilling as, say, the $9.99 price point that everyone will jump on, it’s still a price drop, and more importantly, it’s an excuse to link to this!
Matt “Fort90” Hawkins named Flower, Sun, and Rain his favorite game of 2009!
Not saying it’s the best playing game of 09, but it is without a doubt the most daring and easily the most interesting (the fact that it’s a remake of an obscure, import only PS2 title makes it all the more awkward and fitting).
He goes on to say that it’s okay if you tried the game and couldn’t get into it, which is the situation I unfortunately found myself in. I loved the world, the characters, the creepy, uneasy feeling about everything — I loved everything but trying to figure out the damn numbers for all the puzzles.
Even though it didn’t exactly work out for me, I respect this choice, because it’s interesting. And as someone who nominated Little King’s Story as the GOTY for a major website, I appreciate unusual choices! (I’m totally right about Little King’s Story).
tags / flower sun and rain / jc / xseed / suda 51 / fort90 / grasshopper manufacture
This week’s random retro sale offer from NCSX is Human’s Super Fire Pro Wrestling III: Final Bout. I have no real interest in wrestling games (that don’t feature The Amazon), but I’m curious about this Super Famicom title for one reason: it’s the first game Goichi Suda worked on.
Don’t expect a bunch of crazy typography and fourth-wall breaking — Suda worked as a scenario writer on this game, rather than director, so it’s not a “Suda game”. However, it is full of wrestlers, like Suda’s other works.
I should also point out that the boxart is totally great — it looks more like an RPG than a wrestling game.
See also: Wrestle Game Challenge
tags / human / fire pro wrestling / suda 51 / super fire pro wrestling iii / ncsx / jc / super famicomOne constant highlight is the back and forth between him and Edo, an extremely enigmatic but ultimately nice fellow (to a certain degree), and it’s primarily from this interplay that Sumio begins to slowly evolve as the days go by.
Of all the years I’ve been playing video games, which is a lot, I simply cannot recall another title that features such richly defined characters. Rockstar’s offerings, with their ‘sophisticated’ personalities (i.e. they’re poorly conceived ethnic stereotypes that also curse a lot) can’t hope to possibly come close.”
— From Matt “Fort90” Hawkins’ review of Flower, Sun, and Rain. Yeah, that’s right, I’m linking to Fort90 twice today. That’s just what is happening.
Flower, Sun, and Rain is still a really interesting game to me, despite the fact that I didn’t actually enjoy playing it. I loved the setting, I thought the story and characters were very cool, but I found the number-based puzzles kind of frustrating. I still think I’m going to try it again when I’m in the mood for something kind of mellow.
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