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At last year’s Tokyo Game Show, Suda 51 and Grasshopper Manufacture (No More Heroes, Shadows of the Damned) announced a Kinect-exclusive game under the working title of ‘Codename D,’ with a few strange images and a weird trailer included to up the intrigue.
Fast-forward to this year’s edition of Tokyo Game Show and we now have further details on the game, including a real name.
Shadows of the Damned is a game about tragedy, despair and desperation. It’s a game about foul-mouthed, hideous and nightmarish demons, damned to an excruciating existence in the gloomy, unique vision of Hell presented by Suda51 and developer Grasshopper Manufacture. Despite the game’s oppressive themes and atmosphere, however, and in amongst the darkness and torment, Shadows of the Damned is also a game about unbridled defiance, boundless hope and the never-ending battle between the powers of Good and Evil, with a few big-hearted and helpful demons at hand to light the path towards victory.
Occasionally, your path will also be lit by glowing feces dropped by a bat-like creature with one eye, and you’ll hold regular conversations with a talking skull with a British accent. Sometimes, you’ll need to consume a human heart to survive in the world, and you may even witness a dozen severed heads rolling down a ramp. Shadows of the Damned is about all of these things and more, but nothing can quite prepare you for what you will see.
Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Shadows of the Damned.
Today’s reopening of the PlayStation Store has brought plenty of great new content to living rooms around the Western world (sadly Asia is left out of the fun for now).
One of these tempting items is the Move-enabled No More Heroes: Heroes’ Paradise demo. It’s only available on the UK store for now, but hopefully it will be published in short order on the South African and North American variants too.
[Update] Added a kerrazy direct-feed trailer for Codename D below. [End of Update]
During Microsoft’s press conference at Tokyo Game Show, Grasshoper Manufacture’s Goichi Suda, or Suda 51 (No More Heroes, Killer 7) arrived on stage to announce that his studio is working on a Kinect game known as ‘Codename D.’
First it was Warren Spector who heaped uncontrolled praise on Nintendo’s little stereoscopic 3D handheld, the 3DS, and now it seems Japanese game developers are getting in on the act, with excited comments coming in from high-profile personalities such as Keiji Inafune at Capcom, Hideki Kamiya at Platinum Games and Goichi Suda at Grasshopper Manufacture.
Providing comments to Japanese videogame magazine Famitsu, here are a few choice quotes from Japanese developers who are keen to get started working on 3DS games:
Even though Suda 51 and Grasshopper Manufacture’s latest action adventure title, No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, has already released in the US to high acclaim, European Wii owners will only be able to get their hands on the game at the end of April, according to the title’s publisher for the region, Rising Star Games.
Managing director of Rising Star Games, Martin Defries, praised the series for its personality and ability to push boundaries:
A slew of screenshots has exploded onto the ‘net to demonstrate the detail present in the high-definition PS3 and Xbox 360 entries to the No More Heroes series of action adventure games, entitled No More Heroes: Heroes’ Paradise.
First revealed by way of Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu (and scans from the mag), Heroes’ Paradise will appear on Xbox 360 and PS3 in Japan on February 25th, while no further information on a Western release has been announced.
Additionally, the official website for Heroes’ Paradise has been launched, and seems to be teasing new content to arrive on the site on November 27th. Exciting!
Absorb the rest of the newly released screenshots from No More Heroes: Heroes’ Paradise below:
According to scans from Japanese games magazine Famitsu, and reports from Siliconera, an entry to Grasshopper Manufacture and Suda 51’s action game series, No More Heroes, will be appearing on the Xbox 360 and PS3, foregoing the series’ preferred platform (i.e. the Wii) in favour of the higher definition consoles.
Tentatively titled No More Heroes: Heroes’ Paradise, the game will feature new modes, Japanese voice acting (as opposed to English voice acting in the Japanese version) and traditional control input (as opposed to Wii motion controls).
Heroes’ Paradise is said to be releasing on February 25th next year for between 5 040 and 5 800 Yen (between $56 and $65).
There’s no word yet on how this new game will affect the upcoming No More Heroes 2 for the Wii, which is also slated for a release in early 2010.
Pore over larger images of the Famitsu scans revealing No More Heroes: Heroes’ Paradise below:
It’s been announced that No More Heroes 2, the sequel to Suda 51 (Goichi Suda) and Grasshopper Manufacture’s original ultra-violent action adventure game for the Wii, will be distributed by Ubisoft in North America when the game is released early next year, and to celebrate, a trio of new screenshots from the game have been released.
No More Heroes 2 continues the tale of Travis Touchdown after he finds himself at the bottom of the United Assassins Association rankings (after fighting so hard to become No. 1 in the first game), and must now make his way to the top once again, using two swords this time around to fend off multiple bosses and opponents at the same time.
Check out the next two screenshots, as well as an announcement trailer, below:
While it may have seemed that the awesome, irreverent, crazy action title, No More Heroes, didn’t sell that well (although it was popular in a niche way), it turns out that it must have been commercially successful enough to warrant a sequel, which has been announced to be in development at the original developer, Grasshopper Manufacture, under the watchful eye of Suda51.
No More Heroes 2 should be coming next year for Wii, so check out the confirmation trailer below until more information arises.
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