Nintendo News | Suda 51 Talks Gaming, Killer 7 and No More Heroes

The creator of the quirky GameCube/PS2 Capcom project, Killer 7 and the upcoming Wii exclusive, No More Heroes, recently sat down and discussed various gaming issues and the studios forthcoming projects.

Goichi Suda (aka Suda 51), recently spoke to IGN in an in-depth interview.

Speaking on his thoughts on video games, Suda felt "videogames telling "good" stories do exist. However, I feel that there are still few videogames that actually tell good stories in the game." He noted that the story/concept should be a key focus when developing a game. With positive feedback on the company's previous effort, Killer 7, Suda brought the unfortunate news that a direct sequel was not possible due to Capcom holding the rights for the name. "I am not at all opposed to the idea of developing sequels to the game at all, but I always want to challenge and create games with new ideas if possible."

He went on to discuss the equally bizarre game for Wii, No More Heroes. The title, unlike Killer 7, is a free-roaming adventure game starring a 70s-looking Travis Touchdown born from the Jackass star Johnny Knoxville embedded into an animation obsessed, sci-fi nerd who happens to win a lightsaber and decides to go out using his love for martial arts and general beating things in an assassin stint.

His rankings on the "cool" list of killers is a fairly low 11th, and so Travis goes about killing other assassins for the pure obsession of coming top on the loser leaderboard.

During his adventures, Touchdown will encounter various boring tasks during his killing spree, and will be able to go about his town, Santa Destroy, on his motorbike.

Finally, the game will support both 16:9 and progressive scan modes for those seeking a visual treat and there are talks for potential WiiConnect features. After the adventures of Touchdown, the studio intend on working on a few projects for Microsoft's Xbox 360.

Thanks to C3 reader ten2two for the tip.