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    No More Heroes III

    Sep 09, 2021 4 minutes

    Developer/publisher Grasshopper Manufacture

    Format Switch

    Release Out now

    Boutique action game developer Treasure once proposed a theory: if the climactic boss fight represents the most exhilarating moment in any videogame, then any game composed primarily of boss fights would surely be the most exhilarating yet. Alien Soldier was the result, and the game – one of the last to arrive on Sega’s Mega Drive – remains a design masterclass. Its foundational principle has since appeared in varied shapes, from Fumito Ueda’s stately, dour Shadow Of The Colossus to Goichi Suda’s No More Heroes, a high-fructose series built around a succession of battles with screeching pantomime villains.

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