Travis Strikes Again Review | Not Worth the Suffering in the Slightest
I love the No More Heroes franchise, but this game has some of the most infuriating and frankly insulting game design choices I have ever…

I love the No More Heroes franchise, but this game has some of the most infuriating and frankly insulting game design choices I have ever had to play through. Travis is cool. But this game sucks man. I hate to say it like that, but it does.
I reflect on my time with this game and I honestly can’t believe how hard it was to play through it. To keep returning to play through it. To beat it. Around every turn, it feels like the SUDA is trying to beat you down and make you give up. Above all else it feels like it aims to waste your time. Make you go the longer path. Make you underleveled so you have to grind previous levels to pad for time. Make an infuriating level with incomprehensible and downright evil game design filled with enemies that barely telegraph their attacks, some of which are unavoidable.
Travis Strikes Again lives upon the shoulders of the No More Heroes legacy as a gross Barnicle, spitting on the franchise, and you get to sit there playing as it laughs. “Oh, you’re not gamer enough?” It’ll say to you. “The game is only hard because you suck”, it implies. And I’m not even being facetious, the game implies this several times through its dialogue. I couldn’t believe my eyes reading stuff like that. SUDA is probably rolling on the floor in complete amusement thinking about all of the gamers suffering through this. Man.
Sorry SUDA. The game sucks simply because it sucks. Unlike the games of the past that it claims to be (poorly) emulating: It’s not fun to play. To get killed by crappy game design. I’ll go even as far as to say that Travis Strikes Again wouldn’t have been fun to play in whatever hell dimension these insane design choices were cherry-picked from. I can only assume that’s where they originated because they’re so far out there. It’s hardly describable. I will continue to be a fan of No More Heroes. But good grief. I can’t believe I’ve suffered so much to claim that. Don’t play it. Just play the mainline entries.