Grasshopper Announces No More Heroes Sequel

Cult Wii title No More Heroes is getting a sequel, following a surprise announcement by Grasshopper Manufacture CEO Goichi Suda (aka Suda51) at the Tokyo Game Show. A trailer for No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle was revealed, and like its predecessor, it will be a Wii exclusive, currently slated for January or February of 2010. Few other details of the new game were announced, but consumer website Eurogamer reports that Suda51 wanted to make a sequel in part to "reward the surprisingly large numbers of fans the first game amassed in Europe and the U.S." The game will again be published by Marvelous Entertainment in Japan. In the West, the original was published by Rising Star Games in Europe and by Ubisoft in North America. As a result, the two versions were different -- the European version, like the original Japanese, featured little explicit gore in contrast with the significantly bloodier American version. Along with the upcoming Western release of Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse (aka Project Zero 4), Grasshopper Manufacture is also working on an unnamed action horror project with Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami for EA. The busy developer is also committed to Kurayami on the PlayStation 3 and Nintendo DS -- remakes of Suda51’s earlier titles Flower, Sun and Rain and The Silver Case.