It certainly has problems, both as game and port, but none are big enough to bring down the whole. There's nothing among the additions that changes the game per se, but the new bosses are a nice bonus. There's also a score-attack mode, which gives the bosses a Street Fighter select screen and offers online leaderboards, and there are a few new jobs in Santa Destroy. That's got to go down as some kind of result.

You do, however, get to perform a rotating backdrop on a schoolgirl while listening to what sounds like an OutRun tribute. The simple arena created for these excludes any of No More Heroes 2's more excessive pyrotechnics, sadly, making these fights feel a little vanilla - after all, half of it is the show. Substantial additions for Heroes' Paradise include five bosses imported from the game's sequel, who crop up occasionally when Travis falls asleep on the toilet. The HD treatment works best on the main character models and those wonderful beam katana effects. The game name is from a Stranglers track with genuinely the worst rhyme ever: Shakespearos.īut No More Heroes was always an aesthetic triumph rather than a technical one, and there's more vivacity in any one of its characters and designs than entire other games. No More Heroes should look great in HD, and it kind of does, but the increased resolution also makes some of what was passable into flaws. Its characters and combat look spectacular, but the rest is basic, and its visual charm rests in touches like the arcade scoreboard after each boss fight, the icons composed of giant pixels and the blooping sound effects. No More Heroes was always defiantly lo-fi and gimmicky. That obviously isn't a big deal, but it points to a deeper truth about the original. The phone calls from Sylvia before each boss just aren't as special, because on the Wii she spoke to you through the remote's speaker. There's also one minor detail, unavoidably missing, that made the original perfect for its platform. There's screen-tearing and AQ Interactive, responsible for the port, also makes some dreadful decisions: the various posters dotted through Santa Destroy have been defiantly embalmed in their original pixellated form, and the on-screen font when you're doing jobs has been irretrievably ruined. Quite apart from this, Heroes' Paradise isn't technically outstanding. No More Heroes' saving grace is the combat system, but that doesn't excuse such a paucity of content.

Repetition is a wider problem: the freelance Assassination missions, picked up in Santa Destroy for extra cash, are mostly uninspired re-hashes, with the occasional glimmer of an idea hammered home ad nauseam.

It's clever-clever, but frankly the jobs would be better if they were fun. They're all timed at two or three minutes and seem to finish up just as you're getting bored of that particular repetitive action. Take the jobs Travis acquires to make some extra cash. This aspect of Heroes' Paradise is ingenious, sometimes very funny and often frustrating: it has parts that are quite deliberately menial.

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