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[Kendamu]

Ooh! ACII DLC? I didn't know about this. I'll definitely have to check that out soon!

I did get No More Heroes 2 and I'm on my first New Game Plus right now. It's a damn good game worth playing, but I can think of as many pros as I can cons about it. It's just that the pros outweigh the cons enough in importance that I can play through it at least twice.

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Like I said, the pros outweigh the cons, but there are plenty of things I liked and disliked about the game. I still recommend playing through it, though. If you're a hardcore NMH fan, you need to own it.

Pros:

- Awesome new weapons that have lots of variation
- Easier-to-accomplish finishing slices (more sensitive to Wiimote movements)
- Playing as Shinobu and Henry
- The apartment changes as you collect more items in the stages.
- If you have a save file from the original, all the masks you collected will still be in your apartment in the second game.
- The Part Time Jobs are awesome. Especially the Bug one.
- The music has more variety and the songs are great.
- Travis can now go without a jacket after certain requirements are met.
- The story, while not as funny as the original, shows a real development in Travis' character as he progresses through the ranks. He's almost a completely different person by the end of the game.
- Giant Robot Boss Battle!
- The return of Destroyman (in a very funny and clever way)!
- Opening the game with killing a Cloud Strife wannabe!
- Interactive kill cutscenes!
- Poked fun at lots of music genres, old Japanese gangster movies, anime, etc.
- Really cool status effects for the slot thingie when you kill guys and getting a jackpot on the slots is a lot easier. So it's not like you get something cool with only one guy left to kill once in a great while.
- The 8-bit "workouts" in the gym are fun!
- Dual weilding!
- Changing beam katanas mid-battle!

Cons:

- The city map is only a menu. I would've at least liked the option of either using the menu or biking around Santa Destroy.
- The last boss is incredibly lame. Nothing super cool like the original.
- Only one ending and no secret boss! The original had such a cool secret ending!
- The t-shirts aren't as cool this time.
- Not enough stuff to buy at Naomi's shop.
- Platforming as Shinobu. There's very little of it and it doesn't hurt or kill you if you mess up, but it's annoying.
- You only play as Henry for one boss fight! Lame!
- It felt like they wanted to do more but didn't get around to it.
- It's harder to do Dark Slash (dodging with the control stick and countering) than before.
- The boss fights in Bitter Mode are way too difficult only because the bosses don't really react to being hit and they have way too much life, so they can counter just about anything you do very easily.
- Bitter Mode is the only difficulty where the regular thugs and baddies start to present a real challenge, but it's not worth it because the bosses are overpowered.
- Too short.
- No Assassin side missions. There are "Revenge Missions" but you can't replay them like you could the Assassin side missions from the first one.
- No funny little phone conversations just before the boss fights.