No More Heroes. It is a bizarre game in many aspects. For one thing, you play as a 27-year old stereotypical otaku wanting to become a assassin. You fight with a beam katana, fighting a wide variety of assassins in order to become #1. The bosses themselves also are very different from the standard fare of games. One boss fires (SPOILER ALERT) laser beams from his crotch, and another boss fires a massive laser cannon from a shopping kart. It may sound very good, but does it actually do anything good with these ideas??

Gameplay: No More Heroes plays as a action hack 'n slash. You play as Travis Touchdown, a 27-year old stereotypical otaku who becomes a assassin to become the best. In order to fight these bosses, you must collect enough money to fight them. You obtain money by doing various jobs at the Job Center, and assassin missions at K-Entertainment. Though the assassin missions are fun, actually obtaining money can get boring and very frustrating at times. Actually fighting in Ranked Battles allows you to head through the ranks, eventually becoming #1. The actual gameplay is smooth, with a mixture of sword-play and wrestling moves. As you go along, you can purchase new clothing, new swords, and upgrade your weapons. You can also improve your stamina and attack strength at Thunder Ryu's Bldg and learn new abilities by collecting Lolikov balls and giving them to Lolikov, a fat old drunk.

Graphics: No More Heroes has a distinctive art style. The game is cel-shaded and very colorful. The problem with the graphics however, is the terrible draw distance. On the free-roaming sections of the game, the draw distance is probably, I'd say around 60 feet. There are many pop-ins while exploring Santa Destroy.

Presentation: The game can be very glitchy and fuzzy at times. The game has terrible collision detection in the free-world sections of the game. Sometimes the graphics can get fuzzy, and like I said before, the terrible draw-distance. No More Heroes isn't the game you want if you want a glitchless experience. Hopefully, the sequel will fix these problems.

Open-world: The open-world in No More Heroes is vast, but is dissapointing. Imagine if you went on a trip to Paris and everything was closed except for the World's Smallest Violin. It seems like there would be a lot of places to go to and explore, but sadly there just isn't much to do other than jobs and assassination missions.

Sound: Very good voice acting, interesting music during boss fights, and overall good sound effects.