History YMMV / TravisStrikesAgainNoMoreHeroes

* AuthorsSavingThrow: A lot of fans were not happy when early previews of the game revealed that there wouldn't be any fully-voiced dialogue, especially in light of the Screen Actors Guild strike going on in the United States at the time of the original announcement, with even Travis's long-time voice actor Creator/RobinAtkinDownes voicing his disappointment that he might not be returning (it didn't help that [[TheOtherDarrin Travis had a different voice actor]] in the first trailer). When the first two DLC packs were announced, it was revealed that not only would Downes be reprising his role as Travis Touchdown (with Grasshopper Manufacture tweeting "Of course, you can't have Travis Touchdown without Robin Atkin Downes!"), the DLC characters' previous voice actors would be reprising their roles too.

* ThatOneLevel: The second half of "Life is Destroy" has you being chasen by a demon head that can instakill your character while figuring out the neighborhood road puzzles.

* HarsherInHindsight: The knowledge that Damon Riccitiello violently assaulted Dr. Juvenile during the development of Serious Moonlight becomes a lot more unfortunate, if not scarily predictive, when you find out that former EA and current Unity CEO John Riccitiello--the person whom Damon is based off of--was accused of sexual harassment months after release of the game.
** Bad Girl's WoundedGazelleGambit and bitter personality in the original game is made even worse when its revealed in ''this'' game's Badman Strikes Back scenarios that [[spoiler: she was kidnapped and tortured to the brink of insanity before she became an assassin.]]

* CompleteMonster [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Damon Ricotello]]. See [[YMMV/NoMoreHeroesIII here]].

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** [[spoiler: Badman’s quest to revive his daughter becomes this in ''No More Heroes III'' when Badman is KilledOffForReal by FU, leaving his daughter alone for good.]]

** Bad Girl's WoundedGazelleGambit and bitter personality in the original game is made even worse when its revealed in ''this'' game's Badman Strikes Back scenarios that [[spoiler: she was kidnapped and torutred to the brink of insanity before she became an assassin.]]

** Eight Hearts is also well liked for his fantastic design, and the twist that [[spoiler: he's really Johnson from ''Shadows of the Damned.'']]
* HarsherInHindsight: The knowledge that Damon Riccitiello violently assaulted Dr. Juvenile during the development of Serious Moonlight becomes a lot more unfortunate, if not scarily predictive, when you find out that former EA and current Unity CEO John Riccitiello - the person whom Damon is based off of - was accused of sexual harassment months after release of the game.
** Bad Girl's WoundedGazelleGambit and bitter personality is made even worse when its revealed in this game that [[spoiler: she was kidnapped and torutred to the brink of inanity before she became an assassin.]]
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: The very existence of ''Serious Moonlight'' is this in both a traditional and meta sense. [[spoiler:Its backstory is that after Dr. Juvenile's attempt at an open-world action RPG was compromised, she decided to make a sequel to a future game she's enjoyed playing in her dreams: ''VideoGame/ShadowsOfTheDamned'', the one game Goichi Suda had the most problems with. ''Damned: Dark Knight'' faithfully recreates the atmosphere of said game and brings back Garcia Hotspur, [[PassingTheTorch who endows Johnson with enough power to become Eight Hearts]] after being wounded by Alfred. When Travis encounters Eight Hearts, he genuinely gushes over the original game, with his only criticism being that it could have needed a NewGamePlus, and after he bests Eight Hearts (who receives spiritual encouragement from Garcia), he shows nothing less than respect to him and looks forward to he and Garcia's full next adventure. It goes to show how much Suda came to acknowledge ''Shadows of the Damned'' as a part of Grasshopper Manufacture's lineage, warts and all.]]

* ScrappyMechanic: The charging, which as [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]] describes "has the battery of a 6-year old Iphone", the inability to upgrade player abilities besides total HP and damage, and the fact that most enemies can cancel your special attack.

** Bad Girl's WoundedGazzelleGambit and bitter Personality is made even worse when its revealed that [[spoiler: she was kidnapped and torutred to the birnk of inanity before she became an assassin.]]

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: The very existence of ''Serious Moonlight'' is this in both a traditional and meta sense. [[spoiler:Its backstory is that after Dr. Juvenile's attempt at an open-world action RPG was compromised, she decided to make a sequel to a future game she's enjoyed playing in her dreams: ''VideoGame/ShadowsOfTheDamned'', the one game Goichi Suda had the most problems with. ''Damned: Dark Knight'' faithfully recreates the atmosphere of said game and brings back Garcia Hotspur, [[PassingTheTorch who endows Johnson with enough power to become Eight Hearts]] after being bested by Alfred. When Travis encounters Eight Hearts, he genuinely gushes over the original game, with his only criticism being that it could have needed a NewGamePlus, and after he bests Eight Hearts (who receives spiritual encouragement from Garcia), he shows nothing less than respect to him and looks forward to he and Garcia's full next adventure. It goes to show how much Suda came to acknowledge ''Shadows of the Damned'' as a part of Grasshopper Manufacture's lineage, warts and all.]]

** None of the previous ranked assassins besides series staple Shinobu reappeared until this game, which brought back fan favorite Bad Girl by way of her father Badman coming after Travis for revenge.

** While VideoGame/ShovelKnight is more or less the poster boy of indie games, the announcement that Creator/Suda51 wanted to include him in ''No More Heroes'', a series that is decidedly ''not'' family-friendly thanks to being constantly punctuated with profanity, sex, and lots and lots of violence, took quite a few people by surprise.
** Bad Girl, whose death caused Badman to seek revenge against Travis, returns in the second DLC, "Bubblegum Fatale", becoming playable for her very own level.

** No one expected [[spoiler: [[VideoGame/{{Killer7}} Dan Smith]]]] to show up, let alone in a fully-voiced, plot-critical cutscene in that game's style. [[spoiler: Given that neither Japan nor USA has been in ruins and there is no Heaven's Smile outbreak, one can assume that No More Heroes took place before Killer 7.]]

** No one expected [[spoiler: [[VideoGame/{{Killer7}} Dan Smith]]]] to show up, let alone in a fully-voiced, plot-critical cutscene in that game's style. [[Spoiler: Given that neither Japan nor USA has been in ruins and there is no Heaven's Smile outbreak, one can assume that No More Heroes took place before Killer 7.]]

** No one expected [[spoiler: [[VideoGame/{{Killer7}} Dan Smith]]]] to show up, let alone in a fully-voiced, plot-critical cutscene in that game's style.

* EndingFatigue: The CIA level for its overly long maze levels.

* ScrappyMechanic: The charging, which as [[WebVideo/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]] describes "has the battery of a 6-year old Iphone", the inability to upgrade player abilities besides total HP and damage, and the fact that most enemies can cancel your special attack.

** The CIA levels are dragging for longer than expected.

** "Golden Dragon GP" where the minigame plays like a ''Videogame/NeedForSpeed'' drag-racing game... except shifting is done by navigating a mini-maze that is randomized every time a race starts.