No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
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| Developer(s) | Grasshopper Manufacture |
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| Director(s) | Nobutaka Ichiki |
| Producer(s) | Yoshiro Kimura |
| Designer(s) | Toshihiro Fujikawa Chihiro Suda |
| Platform(s) | Wii |
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| Genre(s) | Action-adventure, hack and slash |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 84.32 |
| Metacritic | 84/100 |
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| Publication | Score |
| 1UP.com | A- |
| Destructoid | 9.5/10 |
| Famitsu | 34/40 |
| Game Informer | 8.5/10 |
| GameSpot | 8.5/10 |
| GamesRadar | 9/10 |
| GameZone | 9/10 |
| Giant Bomb |   |
| IGN | 8.8/10 |
| Nintendo Power | 9/10 |
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No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle (ノーモア★ヒーローズ 2: デスパレート・ストラグル Nōmoa★hīrōzu 2: Desuparēto sutoraguru?) is an action-adventure hack and slash video game developed for the Wii video game system. It is the sequel to No More Heroes. It was produced by Suda51, developed by Grasshopper Manufacture, published by Ubisoft and Rising Star Games, and was released on January 26, 2010 in North America, May 25, 2010 in Australia, May 28, 2010 in Europe and October 21, 2010 in Japan.
The story of No More Heroes 2 is told with normal cutscenes following Travis' journey, interspersed with scenes of a woman at a peep show dictating the story's events to an unknown observer.
Three years have passed since Travis Touchdown became the top assassin in the United Assassins Association (UAA) and walked away (what happened to him throughout said years is never explained). Now, he returns to Santa Destroy and fights Skelter Helter, who seeks revenge on Travis for killing his older brother Helter Skelter prior to the first game. After winning the battle, he meets Sylvia Christel again, who informs him he is now ranked 51st. The nearly-dead Skelter Helter interrupts them and warns Travis that he and his co-conspirators will still have their revenge.
The same night, a group of criminals kill Travis's best friend, Bishop, and throw his head through Travis's window in a paper bag. Travis, seeking revenge, asks Sylvia to set up the next fight. Sylvia tells him that the one who ordered the killing was Jasper Batt, Jr., the CEO of Pizza Bat and first-ranked assassin. In the first game, Travis stopped three different attempts by Pizza Bat (called Pizza Butt back then) to expand into Santa Destroy by assassinating the CEOs. In the three years since, with Travis out of the picture, Pizza Bat successfully opened a headquarters in Santa Destroy and bought out practically every business in town. Travis resolves to climb to the ranks to get a chance for revenge on Jasper.
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