No more heroes/NMH2 is a good series for the Wii, critiquing the typical escapist gamer lifestyle while still showing that violence is undeniably fun. It also pokes fun at anime and various TV troupes.

NMH is a story about Travis Touchdown, an isolated weeaboo who lives in his apartment full of luchador masks, gundam models, and PVC dolls of young heroines from his favorite magical-girl anime. Blessed with anime logic and the ability to copy everything he sees on TV, he buys a beam-katana off of ebay and decides to become a professional assassin.

SPOILERS await!

In the opening scenes he kills the gunslinger Helter-Skelter in the opening scenes, where he then meets a girl named Sylvia Crystal. Se tells him he's become the tenth best assassin, and that he should try to kill his way up through the ranks.

Using his sword, wrestling moves, and special attacks from his MG anime, he plows his way through minions who spew out ridiculous amounts blood and gold coins Scott Pilgrim style. He'll make it to bosses who have similar hangups, generally based off of some typical anime archetype. The superhero, the cowboy, an afro samurai and even a crazy sadist girl.

After a while though, you as the player realize it's kinda gross and pretty tragic. The first boss tells you that he's "free of desire", that he's "living in a place to die", and that Travis will be like that as well if he continues down the path he's on. Travis doesn't care though, all he sees are the bosses sweet cars, huge mansion, and steamy hookers. To boot, after you kill the boss and Sylvia comes in with her guards to clean up the remains, Travis even says that he'll be sure to make it to the number one spot if she'll will have sex with him just once when he's there.

It's an analogy however; Travis isn't just doing this so that he can reach the life of luxury, he's doing it to "please himself". Infact, you have to recharge your sword in the second game by using the Wii remote to jerk it off. That's all Travis does, he kills people because it's fun to be an anime character. He just likes violence, everyone likes violence. NMH2 even features a boss that's a violent old lady who tragically blows up your sensei (who hadn't been mentioned until the very cutscene that he died; it's just NMH making fun of anime again). It's not weird to like violence the way it's not weird to... well... "shake your wii remote". Everyone "shakes their wii remote". Just don't do it in public like Travis; keep the violence in the video games. That's the message.

The next boss indirectly explains how lonely his life as an assassin has become, going as far as to say that that his daughter "would be happy to hear this song" into the microphone Travis is holding before keels over and dies. In spite of the fact that Travis is also a loser living in an apartment with no social life whatsoever, he refuses to relate to his deceased foe. However as the story goes on, Travis becomes more and more sympathetic and human in general. I'm not going to explain it all. The moral of the story is that liking violence isn't wrong, but that being violent can be. I'm not going to go through all the bosses though, that would take too much time.

Now that the serious stuff is out of the way, I'll explain the REAL REASON to buy NMH.

Travis's home life.

You literally get to do everything Travis does. You can play with his cat. Mow lawns for money. You can watch his anime DVD's featuring (really) young girls in skimpy clothing and huge mechs on his television, plus you can play the danmaku game that goes with the series. You even save the game by walking into the bathroom and watching Travis take a dump. There's even a scene where he goes to check his answering machine for his next assignment, but instead gets a message from the movie store prompting him to return the DVD he had rented, by the name of "Big German jugs five" or something like that. Plus he's got an anime motorcycle, and even pilots a mech in space during the second game. It's hilarious.