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Same. Beat Travis Strikes back and only watched gameplay of these 2.
Not me. Judging from the way Suda talked about Smash Bros. in interviews, it always felt like he was expecting Sakurai to come talk to him about bringing Travis into Smash Bros, rather than the other way around (as is standard).
With the NMH series it's a bit different, since he earnestly wants Travis to be his mascot for Grasshopper and make it big via Smash Bros.
I'm really curious to see the character dynamic between FU and Travis. It occurred to me the other day after watching the new NMH3 trailer, that the final bosses of NMH1&2 were unknown, not a presence, basically was just a thing to get to (which I get is thematically the point on some level.), but FU seems to be getting into Travis' face, presumably taunting him or challenging him to fight when we're presumably not yet strong enough to do so, he'll be a presence not unlike some M rated Saturday Morning Cartoon villain, and that'll be new for a NMH game.
That's funny, considering how that is the closest thing to an adaptation of NMH.
You can say that he's certainly a contrasting sequel antagonist in this sense. The fact that he got an entire backstory (minus the time skip journey that eventually led to him becoming a galactic conqueror) before the game even released is pretty unusual as well.
Playing through NMH1 again, I kind of hope the NMH franchise one day gets ports to PC, if just so someone can make a mod for NMH1 that re-creates the ability to explode the NPCs of Santa Destroy into a bloody mist when you run them over with the Schpeltiger, as was said to have been in playtests of NMH1 but was later taken out as that would spike up the rating of the game too high.
Even the first game barely got to have content adequate enough to placate CERO, as the decapitations were crudely censored in the JP versions.
I think I'm missing one Lovikov ball. NG+ and I still can't find it. Why did they make the Lovikov dots orange on a primarily yellow/green map? Seems really obnoxious for finding those things.
Here's a map that I used:
I still loathe the term "toxic masculinity", but I know what it means and I get it. On that note, the last note there hits it on head a bit. One of the appeals to the series that garnered it's small but dedicated fanbase is the multiple levels of meta narrative attempting to make NMH a satire of several things, including action games of the time and cool, badass hero guys (whether it succeeds in being a successful satire or just rehashes what it attempts to parody usually depends on who you're asking, as many people have different opinions on that.). Travis embodies a sleazy, pervy, creepy loser in a lot of respects. Surface level he's cool and slick, but really look at him and you realize we're supposed to notice he's a loser who objectifies women, wears crass shirts, is in some ways the worst aspects of video game and anime culture, and as for his profession, well it's psychotic for anyone to want to mass kill hundreds if not thousands of people, and yet he revels in it and sees the assassin fights as a means to an end to get to #1, not even considering the person until the rank 6 fight with
Have all of his games been motion control? It's a pain in the ass, never ending tutorial, but the controls become pretty simple even within the first level.
I think on Nintendo consoles, yeah. Probably not on the Xbox/PS remakes. That said, I find the motion control jank personally. I got these ports and they're my first time playing them on a normal (pro) controller and the difference imo is night and day. I feel like I have an idea what I'm doing in each level and fight.
I won’t post any pictures because hey spoilers, but it’s public knowledge I guess since it’s been shown off in a trailer and IGN livestream already.
Wait, he was shown in a trailer? Neat, that art of the two returning characters that came out seemed so different from what we're getting that I figured maybe those were made in early concepts for NMH3, and were maybe scrapped. Maybe this game will have some human fights after all.
Might not have been a trailer, I just remember it being shown off by Suda so it may have just been that livestream. But they did say he was there!
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Yeah, I believe that those concepts were posted on this thread before. Odds are that the aliens modified him for this one, so it'll be fun to see him in context.Not quite, it’s actually this one.
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If you’re ok with visual spoilers, it’s around 2:14:00.
Why does Travis want to become #1?
To get layed in the first game.
Thematically, it’s to represent the idea that playing a game with an inherently violent premise stems from a relatively pointless desire to live out such violent fantasies with no real reward or consequences at the end for the player aside from “I did it/I’m number 1”, but since it’s Travis’ real life it’s far more gruesome and doesn’t end with him just getting off scot-free.
I wonder what the bait and switch will be this time, if any. I have a hard time seeing them bring back Letz Shake a third time.
Well, in the same interviews that revealed Final Destroyman, theyve revealed that Kimmy Howell is back in some form, so maybe that’ll be it or some other boss that came back somehow?
Come to think of it, we never did get to see how she took getting spared by Travis, so that could be interesting.
Henry killed three assassins off-screen in the second game (though Travis only went up two ranks) - maybe one of them wasn't quite dead and comes back looking for revenge against "some jerk with a beam katana"?
I kind of hope the bosses have wild personalities to compensate for the designs a bit. Potentially unpopular NMH opinion(?): My current read on the aliens right now is that, save for FU, they look like these crazy random monsters that anyone could doodle, but it feels a little like a blessing and a curse in that since, because they're crazy alien designs, I can't get a good read on what they're about. With the human bosses of NMH 1&2, oftentimes their design gives us a look into their character via their weapons, facial expressions, clothes, stance and general demeanor, but with NMH3 while it's not impossible that these aliens can deliver that too, I worry they'll just kind of become generic if they don't do enough other than be the next large multicolored design I have to slash up. I few look more humanoid, I see and axe and a trident wielder, but others, like that crazy looking floating guy with almost no discernable recognizable features or appendages, will I even remember him/her/them even after playing the game? Maybe, but maybe not.
tl;dr, here's to hoping for that, since I have the small worry I'll be unimpressed.