No More Heroes 3

For context, my experience with the No More Heroes franchise is a bit wonky, I've only played NMH2 a lot of years ago before playing NMH3, so it's a bit hard for me to compare games. This is a franchise that I absolutely love in concept and execution to some degree, it's very unique and chaotic, quite impossible to not understand why it gathered so many fans along the years. There's a dark humour mixed with a bunch of geek references that is hard to find anywhere else because it's so niche and absurdist.

This fourth interation of the series is pretty much more of the same, it's a hack-n-slash with usual for the genre, there's a crazy random plot going on and there's lots of gore. I'm absolutely sure that if you're into the series, you'll have at least a fun time with NMH3, the fighting is very satisfying.

I don't quite remember how NMH2 played aside from the boss battles, but NMH3 has an open world approach which is fine, riding your motorbike is fun, the world building is nothing particular special though. I thought the many minigames, which are mandatory to do so you can make enough money to fight the bosses, are quite shallow and repetitive. The boss fights are, obviously, the highlights, I really enjoyed the different approaches, parodies and designs, they definitely do not feel the same, I really wish I felt like this about the game as a whole.

It's by no means a bad game, but I assume I would've liked it better if it was more linear like I remember NMH2 was. I couldn't really get into the vibe of the "plot" and the characters because the segments were separated by multiple random missions. This open world approach makes possible the addition of collectibles, side missions and whatsover, it adds some replayability so it's not bad, I just don't particulary found anything interesting enough to make me come back for it.