No More Heroes 3 is still in development as we speak and will hit the Nintendo Switch when it launches in 2020. While we wait for the next installment to arrive, the stylized action-adventure title has a new trailer up thanks to The Game Awards 2019 that sees Travis Touchdown gearing up to stop FU.
What starts as something that looks soft and akin to Ni No Kuni, turns into something rather dark in that the world faces its first “goddamn superhero.”
Yes, Suda51 and Grasshopper Manufacture’s new trailer sees Damon, a small boy, taking care of an alien named FU that crash lands near his dwelling. Fast forward by 20 years, and FU pays a successful Damon a visit and offers him the world.
We later see Mr. Touchdown pull off a Shotaro Kaneda powerslide and say, “Superhero? You must mean me!” A retort to FU. All of this is a build-up of what’s to come, and how FU is the new antagonist as seen below:
“No More Heroes 3 – the latest numbered installment in the No More Heroes series – is set for release exclusively to the Nintendo Switch in 2020!!
Featuring a score by lead composer Nobuaki Kaneko, as well as Robin Atkin Downes reprising his role from the previous titles in the series as Travis Touchdown. Original series lead character designer Yusuke Kozaki is back as well!!
Also featuring boss characters designed by Masanori Ushiki, with Kenichiro Mizuno taking on design duties for the character of Damon.”
Back on November 4th, 2019, website wccftech.com reports that No More Heroes 3 won’t have a world as big as something from Ubisoft or Rockstar. However, the game will expand on the original world size but bigger.
The publication site sees Goichi Suda explaining the upcoming game’s world size below:
“It will definitely be a bigger open world than the original No More Heroes, but you have to remember that we’re a middle-class studio in terms of size. It takes a lot of skills, wisdom, and resources to make an open-world game, so it won’t be as big as something you see from huge companies like Ubisoft or Rockstar.”
Folks who are worried about side-missions in No More Heroes 3 can get a brief idea from Suda:
“It will have about the amount of side-missions you’d expect from a No More Heroes game, along with some other extras as well.”
When asked to elaborate on this “extra” stuff, Suda seemed to shy away from answering with much detail and instead offered a brief explanation by saying that these things are something “different” than typical mini-games:
“They’ll be something…greater. Something different than your standard minigame.”
Lastly, Suda explains that Switch owners can use motion controls to facilitate “interesting” moves in No More Heroes 3:
“It will definitely have the motions you know from the series, but the real challenge was figuring out how to best use the Switch hardware. There are some interesting new possibilities.”
You can look to explore No More Heroes 3‘s open-world on Switch and face off with FU using the “special” motion controls sometime in 2020.
