No More Heroes (series)

A punk-inspired assassin saga of beam katanas and rankings.

No More Heroes is an action-adventure hack and slash video game series developed by Grasshopper Manufacture and created by Goichi Suda, known as Suda51. The series takes its name from an album by the British punk band The Stranglers. It follows Travis Touchdown, an otaku who wins a beam katana at auction and becomes entangled with the United Assassins Association.

Quick Facts

Genre

Action-adventure, hack and slash

Creator

Goichi Suda

Developer

Grasshopper Manufacture
feelplus
AQ Interactive

Publisher

Marvelous Entertainment
Ubisoft
Rising Star Games
Konami
Marvelous
Grasshopper Manufacture
Xseed Games

First release date

December 6, 2007

Latest release version

No More Heroes III

Latest release date

August 27, 2021

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Did You Know?

Travis Touchdown appears as a downloadable pawn named 'Travis TD' in Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen on Nintendo Switch from April 25 to July 8, 2019.
Travis appears as a downloadable Mii Fighter costume in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, along with three spirits based on No More Heroes III.

Games

The first game, released on Wii in 2007, follows Travis Touchdown, a stereotypical otaku living in near poverty in the No More Heroes motel in Santa Destroy, California. After winning a beam katana in an internet auction, he runs out of money for video games and wrestling videos. Sylvia Christel hires him to kill Helter Skelter, earning him rank 11 in the United Assassins Association, and he then seeks the number one position. An enhanced port, No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise, was released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2010.

Ports of the original version came to Nintendo Switch in 2020 and to Microsoft Windows and Amazon Luna in 2021. The second game, released on Wii in 2010, is set three years after Travis became top assassin and walked away. He returns to Santa Destroy and fights Skelter Helter, who seeks revenge for his brother Helter Skelter. After winning, Sylvia Christel informs Travis he is ranked 51st.

Skelter Helter warns that he and his co-conspirators will still have their revenge. A port of Desperate Struggle was released for Nintendo Switch in 2020 and for Amazon Luna in 2021. Travis Strikes Again, released on Nintendo Switch in 2019, is viewed from a top-down perspective. Travis fights Badman, father of Bad Girl, and the two are drawn into a possessed video game console.

Suda collaborated with several indie developers to feature elements from their games. Suda does not consider it a direct sequel but a fresh start for Travis. A port subtitled Complete Edition was released for PlayStation 4 and Windows later in 2019.