Ever since No More Heroes 3 was announced at Nintendo's E3 Direct last year, fans have been eagerly awaiting their first look at the upcoming title from video game auteur Goichi "Suda51" Suda. While the game's developer, Grasshopper Manufacturer, has been silent on the upcoming title for almost a year now, with the exception of an animated trailer unveiled at the 2019 Game Awards, the game's release date remains slated for some point in 2020. While many fans are skeptical of whether the title will hit this estimated release window or not, Grasshopper Manufacturer has finally revealed the first gameplay from No More Heroes 3, however there is one major catch.
Earlier this month, Suda51 shared the first screenshot of the upcoming Nintendo Switch exclusive on his Twitter account, slightly obscured by an action figure of Rick & Morty character Mr. Meeseeks. This, along with Grasshopper Manufacturer announcing its participation in New Game Plus Expo, indicated that it wouldn't be long until the cult favorite game developer would finally reveal gameplay for the long anticipated sequel to 2010's No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle.
Understandably, fans were ecstatic when yesterday's New Game Plus Expo stream opened with a message from Suda51 himself, along with gameplay footage of No More Heroes 3 playing behind him. The only issue was, Suda never moved to allow viewers to actually look at the gameplay, instead rambling to the audience about his backlog of Nintendo Switch titles he has yet to finish such as Super Mario Odyssey. Even more humorously, the Japanese game director took to his Twitter account afterwards to pretend that the gameplay reveal was a leak that he was entirely oblivious to, tweeting "Oh snap! Looks like an unfortunate, uh, editing issue, caused a little NMH3 gameplay footage leak!"
Fans of Suda51 are no strangers to the eccentric video game director's habit of trolling his fans, with the director's titles featuring a bombastic sense of humor and many tongue-in-cheek references to one another. Hopefully this indirect gameplay reveal leads to more footage from the title in future Nintendo Directs, as up until this point Nintendo has been responsible for the game's marketing. For now, the gameplay shown does give some sort of idea of how No More Heroes 3 will play, appearing mostly similar to the original two Nintendo Wii games and showcasing Travis Touchdown facing some sort of boss. As for a legitimate look at the game, it seems fans will have to wait longer.
No More Heroes 3 is slated to release in 2020, exclusively for Nintendo Switch.
