quote:

Originally posted by Ovirew:
After reading IGN's review of No More Heroes, it's pretty apparent that the game is clear-cut between its good and bad factors. It got the dreaded 8.0 rating. Yes, I did say dreaded - 8.0 is as middle-of the road as you can get when scoring a video game - it seperates your sub-par 7.5's from your respectable 8.5's.

Games as lousy as Guilty Gear XX Accent Core and as decent as Trauma Center: New Blood have received the same rating, and unfortunately the 8.5's for the system - Sonic and the Secret Rings, Mario Strikers: Charged...aren't that good.

On a system in dire need of hardcore games, most of them seem to be falling short of their publishers' good names.

The author of the IGN article praised the game's fighting system and fast-paced everything, stating that it's quite fun and the visuals help bring things to life. He heavily criticized the game's open-ended town, noting its poor interactivity, lack of places to explore and things to do and poor overall design and object model flaws. Sounds a bit like my hometown.

He actually went so far as to say that the game's open-ended features are THE worst of ANY Wii game released to date. Regardless, he did mention that the game has some of the most challenging and rewarding boss fights he's ever played through - apparently they're just hard to reach considering that the mission system in the game is crappy and gives you one shot at a mission each time one shows up on the map.

So today as people start posting their first gameplay impressions of No More Heroes, we can gather some different perspectives on the game.