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NUK: How much did your own experiences with Nintendo Switch inform the design of Travis Strikes Again? Was single Joy-Con an important consideration, for instance?
S51: When we started developing, at the very beginning, we only had a team of four people. One of the people on that team was the main programmer for the entire No More Heroes series, Toru Hironaka – he’s actually worked on 60/70% of the boss fights in the entire series, so a very important team member. He brought up the idea to me saying ‘I’d like to make this game multiplayer co-op’, and I could tell that he’d thought a lot about the controller, the way it works and that. Since he has so much esteem amongst the staff I decided it would be good to take his idea and put that into play.
NUK: With the co-op multiplayer being such a fun way to play, and noting that Travis and Badman have four unique skills each in the demo here at EGX Rezzed, are these skills purposefully designed to work together to let players take down enemies stylishly? In the demo we were able to use Badman’s slow-mo field with Travis’ bomb to clear lots of enemies at once, or trap enemies with Travis’ wall to control a fight more effectively.
S51: Yes, it’s very important that skills can work together. There’s a few skills that combine nicely in this demo, but in the final game there will be a wide variety of moves to learn and choose from.
NUK: Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes is inspired by lots of retro games, so will we see Travis fighting through a variety of retro genres?
S51: So basically that gameplay style you’ve seen will continue throughout the game, but there might be some small variations that happen. There’s one area that’s side-scrolling, for instance. There’s also going to be a section with a racing game, called Gold Dragon GP, that we’re working on right now. That would still be action, but it’s going to have some racing elements to it.
NUK: Crucial question… will Travis be visiting the toilet at all in Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes?
S51: Absolutely. Many times.
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