No Extra Heroes 3 PS4 Overview

No Extra Heroes 3 is the newest, weirdest, and final installment within the fan favourite and weird No Extra Heroes motion RPG sequence. Whereas the sport got here out just a few years in the past for the Nintendo Change, it’s now obtainable on all platforms the place extra gamers can expertise its glory. Nonetheless, it’s unlucky that the port can’t change most of the sport’s obtrusive flaws.

Bombastic Introduction

No Extra Heroes 3 opens in a brilliantly cinematic means with a brief animation that introduces gamers to a boy and his little Alien customer FU, who offers him particular powers. The animation takes a couple of minutes to inform us their story and present a tearful departure. Nonetheless, 20 years later, Fu, who was exiled from his personal planet, returns to the boy who now runs a prime firm due to his powers and decides it’s time to take over earth alongside together with his 9 officers/ companions, beginning with Santa Destroy. It’s as much as Travis, who’s a bit rusty because the final sport, alongside together with his fellow assassins, to cease the aliens and their surprisingly political rampage.

In a phrase, I discovered No Extra Heroes 3’s story attention-grabbing because it contains components I’ve but to see in a sport. Not solely does it seize and intrigue gamers with the absolutely animated opening, but it surely additionally holds stated consideration with a bombastic prologue chock filled with high-octane motion scenes, an intense however intelligent boss battle, and many loopy hijinks. And imagine it or not, the story will get wilder because it progresses. My solely qualm is that whereas extremely entertaining, the sport doesn’t supply a lot depth by way of storytelling, and it isn’t successful any awards both, which is appropriate for the kind of sport it’s. It merely delivers a humorous and sometimes absurd narrative that’s true to the franchise’s roots. The English and Japanese solid does a wonderful job with their character performances, making the sport’s cutscenes an actual deal with to look at. 

The Good and Dangerous

The fight is simply as satisfying, if no more so, as your common hack-and-slash sport, as gamers use a wide range of weapons, together with Travis’ signature beam katana, to defeat enemies. The boss battles are significantly difficult, requiring gamers to dodge and parry assaults whereas attempting to land essential blows. Nonetheless, I shortly discovered that the fight will get repetitive after some time, particularly as there may be restricted selection within the enemy sorts and assault patterns.

What’s worse is that engagement whereas current is restricted as the sport’s open world doesn’t supply a lot and is an empty, soulless setting that gamers will solely use to get from level A to Level B, which is why I imagine the sport would’ve succeeded extra as a linear narrative sport. That is particularly whenever you notice that in an effort to progress the story, gamers should battle waves and waves of normal enemies simply to face the primary baddies, and I at all times hate when a sport forces me to do unnecessarily repetitive actions to progress the plot. 

Remaining Ideas

Visually, No Extra Heroes 3  sports activities an excellent aesthetic and nice visuals. Vibrant colours encompass you with each slash of your sword, the animations are as fluid as they’re chaotic, characters and enemies have loopy but attention-grabbing designs, and the retro/ cyber/metropolis pop vibes are phenomenal. Nonetheless, It’s price noting that the sport’s fashions don’t switch nicely from the Change, even on a stronger console, the PS4, as they noticeably haven’t modified a lot because the earlier titles. By way of efficiency, No Extra Heroes 3 runs fairly nicely on the PS4 with few points. Nonetheless, it is usually price noting that I encountered just a few glitches right here and there, however nothing extreme or game-breaking. 

General, No Extra Heroes 3 sports activities difficult and fascinating fast-paced fight, a novel story, and a visually gorgeous presentation. This makes it a straightforward suggestion to RPG followers who don’t thoughts its soulless world, grindy components, and janky controls.