No More Heroes 2. . . I mean it; please, no more
The Globe and Mail hammers Ubisoft’s actioner for its gratuitous, mindlessly vulgar, and wholly unsophisticated humour. From the story:
It feels as though the dialogue was written with 14-year-old boys in mind. Actually, strike that. It feels like it was written by a 14-year-old boy. . . .
Don’t get me wrong; I’m all for a few good sex jokes now and then, but the dirty humour on display here is less Superbad and more, well, just super bad. Dirty can be funny, but there needs to be something subtle, clever, and intelligent beneath, and No More Heroes 2’s wit is wholly lacking these three traits.
Titles like this have effectively dulled any shock or frustration I might feel that non-gamers still view the medium as something intended for pubescent boys. Who can blame them when a supposedly "mature" game seems targeted directly at these children?
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle is, despite strong play mechanics and nostalgia inducing mini-games, a step backward for video games. Its gratuitous, mindlessly vulgar, and wholly unsophisticated humour is simply intolerable. I’m shocked that anyone over the age of 16 would even sign off on it.
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