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No More Love for No More Heroes

By Alex Petraglia on Wednesday, December 12, 2007 at 1:00 PM EST  

One might think that selling a super-stylized and ultra-violent videogame featuring lightsaber swordplay and scantily clad women to Japanese Wii owners would be as easy as selling Snickers to morbidly obese children.

But No More Heroes director Goichi Suda (pictured right) found otherwise earlier this week. He was joined by the game’s executive producer Yasuhiro Wada outside a Sofmap electronics store in Akihabara, Tokyo’s ‘electric district,’ hoping to sign copies of the game and hand out free promotional toilet paper.

After waiting almost a half hour, not a single copy was purchased.

According to reports, an editor from the popular Japanese gaming publication Famitsu, who was on-hand to cover the event (or non-event), was so sympathetic to Suda-51, that he personally purchased the first copy to have signed.

If that wasn’t bad enough, Rising Star Games, which will handle publishing in Europe, confirmed on Monday to Eurogamer that both the Japanese and European versions of the game feature censored content. Copies in the US, distributed by Ubisoft, will contain the original, untampered code. The game is out in February in North America and Europe.

I personally have been looking forward to No More Heroes for a long time and these reports are disheartening. I did enjoy Suda’s previous Killer 7, and I’m hoping Heroes might just give me a reason to turn my Wii on after months of dormancy.

To give you a taste of the frantic gameplay and surreal visuals to be found in No More Heroes, enjoy these videos from Gamersyde.

Finally, Suda-san recently was interviewed by Dengeki Online and revealed that he has a strong desire to develop a game for the Xbox 360, believing that the console’s good fortune in the United States presents a challenge for him, presumably to create a game that would be equally as successful.

(Image from Akiba Blog; more at the link)

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