No Extra Heroes (opens in new tab) 1 and a pair of shall be getting fixes for his or her beleaguered PC ports quickly, writer XSEED has introduced.
In a Steam dialogue discover (opens in new tab), XSEED’s group growth supervisor Luke Brown acknowledged “We’re very a lot conscious of the problems affecting this title since launch, and after over a yr of making an attempt to develop patches, we are able to report that we’ve got introduced the hassle to handle these points in-house”. XSEED then apologised for the delay and lack of communication, stating it could “present additional info as quickly as we’re assured that we’ve got patches in releasable form”.
Initially launched for Wii in 2007 and 2010 respectively, No Extra Heroes is a collection of oddball action-adventure video games directed by Suda51, whose different work contains Killer7 and Lollipop Chainsaw. The 2 video games have been ported to PC in June final yr, however the ports have been lambasted by the sport’s group, with complaints about damaged achievements, animations, and audio. Extra usually, there has apparently been little effort to gear the port towards PC, with the video games allegedly nonetheless bearing the credit and button structure for the Change model of the sport, upon which the PC port relies.
That Change model was co-developed by NMH’s developer Grasshopper Manufacture and Engine Software program, a third-party studio which beforehand assisted with the well-received PC port of Killer7. Presumably, that relationship hasn’t labored so properly for the 2 No Extra Heroes video games, and in consequence XSEED has taken the choice to repair the releases internally.
As for why XSEED has taken the choice announce these upcoming patches now, it would have one thing to do with the truth that No Extra Heroes 3, the 2021 follow-up to NMH 2, launched on PC this week (opens in new tab). This third sport, which can also be primarily based on the Change port, at the moment has a “very constructive” score on Steam, albeit with solely 81 evaluations on the time of writing.