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What I'm Playing!

Sometime between classes last week, on a quest for notebooks and supplies, I happened upon a shiny new No More Hero's sitting at the bottom of the UStore's minimal, but step in the right direction, game corner for a not too shabby $15, a price point which overwhelmed all but my most basic notions of frugality.

With regards to video games being a quintessential rescission proof commodity, it certainly holds merit that if you know what your doing, a single 8 hour shift at your shitty job will provide you with sufficient rupees to invest in potentially no holds barred gaming bliss that will last you anywhere from a week or so (No More Heroes) to presumably the rest of your waking days (Left4Dead).

As I want to come back to a lot of this for later discussion, I will try and be brief. While the game as a whole has a, not quite AAA budget feel to it, the experience is fully offset in full by Suda 51's spot on grasp of style and flare that permeates the world of Santa Destroy. For a game where you dismember literally thousands of unassuming grunts, the game shows off a remarkably lighthearted atmosphere and contains endearing levels of kink and quirk typically reserved for the Japanese.

With a combat system that revolves largely around the A button, the relatively simple yet engaging controls are pure candy and feel truly at home on the wiimote. The majority of your attacks will end with a brief quick time event pause which will require you to swing your wiimote in the direction of an on screen arrow, enabling you to finish your combo with a gratifying flick of the wrist and a whole fuck ton of blood. In conjunction with the wrestling combos which also call for less conventional usages of the wiimote motion inputs, No More Heroes successfully reminds us why swinging our tiny $40 plastic wand is so damn fun.

I still have about five battles ahead of me before I can assume my mantle as ultimate bad ass, but its the journey not the destination, right? Well, signing out. There are urgent matters, such as Managerial Accounting that must be attended to. Tune in next time.