It doesn’t take me long to realize that the windows on the screen can also be targeted. I eventually discover that selecting the boss as my target is not the answer. Instead of attacking the boss, what if I attacked the game menus? Image: Grasshopper Manufacture via Polygon To win, I have to break the game’s rules. There’s nothing I can do to harm the boss if I choose to fight like this. Throughout all the fights in the No More Heroes series, this is the first time that Travis Touchdown’s penchant for violence accomplishes nothing.
The only thing I can do is heal myself with the limited amount of herbs in my inventory. My enemy, on the other hand, being a JRPG aficionado, can harm me. Every time I try to summon a companion to aid me in battle, the text on screen mentions some difficulties they are experiencing that are forcing them to disregard my calls for help. I can’t use my arsenal of magic spells because Travis actually doesn’t have any magic points to cast them. My attacks with my otherwise-deadly Beam Katana are barely hurting the boss. As the battle progresses, I notice nothing seems to work as I imagined. My summoning spells do absolutely nothing Image: Grasshopper Manufacture via PolygonĪs the fight begins, I choose commands from a menu like attacking, using magic, summoning powerful allies, and using items.
However, this battle near the tail end of the game makes me carefully choose my attacks through a two-tone menu like a classic Final Fantasy game. Nearly every fight in the game up until this point was decided by slamming buttons on my Joy-Cons until I eventually cleaved my target in two. This change in tempo completely slams the brakes on the previous dozen hours of gameplay. Instead, he forces you to play by his rules: through turn-based combat. When he finally does concede to combat, he refuses to cross swords in the style of an action game. By the time he gets to you, he isn’t even interested in fighting. It takes him several minutes to even walk over to meet you. Sonic Juice continues to downplay his threat level when you finally meet him in his battle arena. He casually chats with the game’s main antagonist, Prince FU, like old friends, shrugs off deadly threats from his cohorts, and his choice of battlegrounds looks like a Lisa Frank binder. His introduction would be more menacing if the villain wasn’t so mellow. However, in battle, Sonic Juice hangs out in a massive and translucent suit of armor that somehow makes him seem even more alien. That alone would make him an imposing figure to fight. This villain is a tall and muscular alien in a skintight jumpsuit adorned with clouds. Sonic Juice in his suit next to normal-sized characters Image: Grasshopper Manufacture via Polygon No More MenusĪfter seven intense and absurd battles through a rogues’ gallery of intergalactic criminals, you have to fight the third-ranked assassin in the universe: a monster called Sonic Juice.
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In a series that’s so focused on over-the-top action, what happens when the adrenaline-fueled main character has to slow down his battle tactics to match the snail’s pace of a JRPG? However, there’s one fight in particular that not only pays its respects - it shatters the genre in the progress. Most of these boss fights feel like homages or spoofs on different genres of games. In its latest installment, No More Heroes 3, players take part in a life-or-death musical chairs match, a combat encounter that has mechanics ripped from an MMO, and even a first-person horror game segment. The No More Heroes series has no shortage of weird boss battles.
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