Ranking the Bosses of No More Heroes III from Worst to Best

[@bronykingamethystrain5676]

Replacing Quinton Flynn as Henry in this game was a sin. The man was proven innocent goddammit!

[@Cellmate]

One thing that seriously disappointed me in this game, is that you don't get to fight the real Mr. Doppleganger. Travis Strikes Again, made it seem like you were gonna do that in 3, but instead we just get dialogue.

[@marcosaquino9485]

I actually love Henry's Fight, he is better than ever to fight because of his new skills, he is pretty much a mixture of Vergil and Zero from Megaman X

[@austinmorrison6953]

I honestly like just how batshit insane Henry’s fight is.

[@MGSenate]

Things I dislike about the game are: The delayed audio in the cutscenes The movement of the characters feels slower than the tone of their voices The reset wheel makes fights easy which I find cheap There aren’t any levels before the bosses like the previous games And most of all: Half the aliens die so you can’t fight them properly, just to introduce a random character. Paradox Bandit got it the worst

[@Cytonox]

Yeah the Letz Shaking got old really fast. Left a bad taste in my mouth once it became a regular thing

[@StygianOrange]

Unpopular opinion perhaps but I reckon NMH 3 is my favourite just on the combat alone. It's so visceral and it feels absolutely great

[@Deathclaw12]

It's also so much more challenging and skill based than the other NMH games. I liked that I had to be very cautious and could get out of very few tight situations by mashing.

[@pincalo6486]

1:20 I don't want to be wrong but Suda confirmed that the black one will be his design in an hypothetical no more heroes 4.

[@Cytonox]

I think I saw that somewhere also, although he also said if nmh4 does get made it will be like a decade from now or something lol

[@pincalo6486]

@@Cytonox yeah I saw that too. I mean I hope I will get to live enough to see it 😅

[@Cytonox]

Would be cool for sure, we can hope. I dunno if anything can really capture what I liked so much about 1 and 2 anymore though tbh. I think that sort of drab wii game art style and brand of humor are hard to replicate now

[@artyom9276]

The second phase of the FU fight was a pain in the ass

[@dobadobadooo]

This was easily my least favorite game in the NMH-franchise, and by a pretty substantial margin too. That's not to say it was outright bad or anything, but there were so many poor design choices in it, not to mention the (in my opinion) really subpar writing, which just left me feeling disappointed in the end.

[@Cytonox]

The writing is definitely where I felt it most, although the cleaner visual style and lack of stages/memorable music were issues for me too

[@MasterBlade365]

Agreed. I could see the angle they were coming from most of the time, but a lot of things just ended up falling flat. There was a cluster-fuck of ideas, some good, some bad, but none had enough time on screen to really do anything for me.

[@tommynelson1616]

14:44 Wait, you could do that?! I played and beat the game twice and I can't think of any point in time where that registered to me as an option.

[@Cytonox]

Honestly I don’t know why I thought to try that, it’s not obvious at all lol

[@tommynelson1616]

@@Cytonox Oh, thank God. For a moment there, I thought I was stupid. But as for your placement of Destroyman in this game, I can understand why it's placed that low. But for some reason, it just feels so therapeutic for me to just wail on him. And I didn't even play the first two games.

[@Cytonox]

@@tommynelson1616 He looks super cool and is kinda chunky, that probably helps. He really isn’t that awful tbh I’m just salty about how he was handled

[@tommynelson1616]

@@Cytonox Fair enough. Also, I agree with you on your gripes about Gold Joe. His voice alone just makes beatin' him down all the more satisfying to me. Plus, I loved gettin' into sword clashes with the guy. (Pause)

[@rpgfan1187]

Cool video, Alex! I haven't played any of the No More Heroes games, myself, but I've always heard positive things about them and watched all three of your boss rankings for the series. I especially find it hilarious how that one boss fight parodied the battle system from FF7, as that was a game I grew up playing, and giving Travis the ability to destroy the battle menu reminds me of something Toby Fox would do (especially considering what he did with the Sans fight in the Genocide Route). I know you've mentioned in the past that Nier: Automata is your second favorite game and that Persona 5 Royal is your third. Those are both games I consider masterpieces (P5R is even in my personal top 3), so I'm curious what game is your absolute favorite. Anyway, great video as always, and I look forward to yours and Jack's future content!

[@Cytonox]

Glad you liked the video! Persona 5 Royal, Undertale, FF7 Remake, and Nier Automata are all on my radar at the moment too, vids on those will be out eventually. My favorite game of all time is Doom Eternal, which I covered twice back in the day. Just the coolest looking designs of any game along with my favorite gameplay and soundtrack, and super cool developers too. Hard act to beat imo -Alex

[@rpgfan1187]

@@Cytonox Doom Eternal is an excellent FPS and easily my favorite from that franchise. I found the level design and aesthetics much more varied and interesting than Doom (2016), and it felt like the perfect culmination of the series. I didn't realize you'd played FF7 Remake. I haven't played it yet, myself (only watched a Let's Play of it when it released), but I have played a bunch of the games over the years. For a long time, the original FF7 was actually my personal favorite game, but it's dropped down a long ways over time. It's still in my top 50, but there are just a lot of other games I've played since then that have overtaken it. I'm pretty sure that was due to it being my introduction to JRPGs as a kid, and it wasn't until I started playing more games in the genre that I stopped placing it at or even near the top of my list. From the FF games I've played, my personal ranking is: 1. FF Tactics (1997) 2. FF6 (1994) 3. FF9 (2000) 4. FF7 (1997) 5. FF5 (1992) 6. FF4 (1991) 7. FF10 (2001) FF Tactics is actually among my top 10 favorite games and is my favorite PS1 game, even beating out Symphony of the Night for that honor. It was largely overshadowed by FF7 due to that game's success and Tactics' more complex gameplay and punishing difficulty, but I actually think it has both the best gameplay and story in the entire series. Square-Enix is supposedly remastering FF Tactics for modern systems, so hopefully that will garner it more attention.

[@dobadobadooo]

Anyways, this is my ranking of the bosses of the game: 11. *Destroyman True Face* 10. *Henry Cooldown* 9. *Gold Joe* 8. *Damon* 7. *Native Dancer* 6. *Mr. Blackhole* 5. *Velvet Chair Girl & Ohma* 4. *Kimmy Love* 3. *Sonic Juice* 2. *Midori Midorikawa* 1. *FU* Overall not a very impressive selection of bosses in my opinion, with the top two being the only ones I'd consider above average for the franchise. Speaking of which, would you guys consider doing a boss ranking for the franchise as a whole, as in ranking every boss from every game? EDIT: Changed my mind slightly on some of the placements, no substantial changes though.

[@Cytonox]

I don’t think I’d do a full video on it, but I could give you a rough approximation of my list in a comment if I thought on it a bit. Gotta do something right now but when I get back I’ll type it out

[@dobadobadooo]

@@Cytonox Sweet, looking forward to seeing it!

[@tsugaru_music]

I feel like NMH3 was actually really awesome, but it really is the weakest of the three games. But the two earlier games was really good so it’s hard to beat 😎 but I enjoyed the hell out of NMH3 really!

[@dimentiorules]

My list would be: 11. Velvet Chair Girl 10. Sonic Juice 9. Midori Midorikawa 8. Destroyman True Face 7. Damon 6. Native Dancer 5. Gold Joe 4. Kimmy Love 3. Mr. Blackhole 2. Henry 1. Fu I couldn't disagree more on Henry's position, I thought the fight was really cool, I love the idea of a character that was once the cool suave foil to Travis completely losing his mind, whereas Travis has become a true hero, the juxtaposition is just *Chef's kiss*. The only real gripe I have is a small one, that he doesn't have an Irish accent anymore.

[@argentgoat6184]

I remember about the honest kids juice pouches was that they were such a pain in the ass to put the straw in the top

[@TheVTable]

Actually, Black Night Direction is voiced by Paul Mercier, who voiced Leon in Resident Evil 4

[@aarontruong354]

Hoping the algorithm blesses y'all today

[@christhenerdyderg3916]

Despite how fun most of the boss fights are, like you said, this game was still kinda disappointing.

[@flashydiver1770]

Respect, I hated the new destroy man but I personally liked Henry as a boss and character alot

[@marcwolfleach]

I completely hated gold joe the blue and red magnets don’t seem to have any affect during the fight And if he goes red he just instantly pushes you into the fence for a instant kill

[@FantasticAlbum77]

I think maybe you're just stupid

[@g4b0l0l8]

In fact if it has an effect, if you and he are the same color, you will move away from each other, but if you are different colors, you will move closer to each other. That's the mechanics of that battle

[@shadowarrior5928]

I'm late but yeah. This was my most anticipated game from the year and end up being a disapointing. Hell i even enjoy more the previus game. Tsa is easily my top 2 nmh games. The combat in this game is cool. And in deep you end up discovering that has a lot of potencial (especilly in bosses) but the main problem is that this game try to hard in being too manny things at the same time. The open world is boring and souldles (and is where you gonna spend the most of you time) and feels like is missing something. And example is if you play TSA. in there a lot of bosses make you think that you are gonna see them in here. (Where in the hell is my battle against silver face suda?!!! ) in my opinnion this game was a miss oportunity for a perfect close to the saga. If i was to direct this game i will eliminate fu and the gang and instead repleyce them for the cia. It will make more sense to me. We pass for a travis that is more mature and deep. To a travis more like. "Hey kids! You remember this game about kill assassins well now you are gonna do that but with aliens. Hell yeah!" But. What do i know. I'm just a random guy. So watteva.

[@shadowarrior5928]

And if you haven't play tsa. I recomend it to you. It worts more the 3 that... this (Not convinced yet? Well hear me out. The reason why i was so hyppe about nmh3. It is because of NMH TSA)

[@Cytonox]

@@shadowarrior5928 tbh TSA was my least favorite game in the series. I didn't enjoy the gameplay at all and only beat it out of obligation as a big fan of the mainline games. It had an awesome reveal trailer and some interesting story bits but that was sorta it. I enjoyed the racing game in the world where you fight Smoking King though, that was cool. Doppleganger was an awesome character also, it's a shame that they made him a pointless sidequest instead of a hidden boss

[@MasterBlade365]

I agree with a lot of your rankings in this video series, bro. Glad I'm not the only one who found NMH3 to be a bit disappointing. Fu (phase 1) was a pretty solid fight that made you think strategically beyond just darksteping and mashing, but sadly by the time I got to him I was already kinda burnt out by some of the other aspects of the game (like the whole Henry thing that you went over), so I feel like I couldn't appreciate him to the fullest extent. That second phase was total ass, what a boring way to end off an otherwise climatic fight. Before seeing the Damon fight (which got a chuckle out of me), I was feeling real bitter that the series would be ending off on that. I know everyone hates Jasper, but at least his final phase just let you wail on him to end it quick. Fu phase 2 just had me sit there and wait for a couple minutes. Btw, whats your opinion on the aesthetics of this game? Me personally, I'm not a fan. Maybe its cause of the unreal engine, but the character models just look unfinished at times, with excessive clipping and that strange glossy appearance. Idk, TSA also used the unreal engine and I thought it looked better than this, but maybe thats just cause the models were further away from the camera most of the time.

[@Cytonox]

I'm with you, I hate this visual style. Switch games as a whole are way too glowy, for lack of a better word. I loved how the wii nmh games looked, I think I just miss that era of graphics as a whole really. It's a shame every game that comes out on the switch looks like this now (bayonetta 3 is another game that suffered an unquantifiable visual downgrade from the past games imo)

[@MasterBlade365]

@@Cytonox man it’s like you read my mind. Didn’t look too much into bayo 3 but when I saw it had that same glowy/glossy aesthetic, I was also pretty put off by it. It’s like that whole trend of “hyper-realistic graphics” from the last era is popping up again. IMO, a game with a stylistic art style will hold up 1000x better than a game focused on flexing hardware (and dating itself hard because of it). I’m glad I could meet someone who shares some of the same sentiments about this game as I do. Thinking so much on the flaws of 3 just makes me want to go replay 1 and 2 now, lol.

[@Cytonox]

Always a pleasure to meet a likeminded individual! And true, at least nmh1/2 are still out there for people like us

[@dylanstaley6089]

Any chance we could get Zelda bosses ranked? I would love to see that video.

[@MrTdiFanBoy1]

My list: 11th: Destroyman True Face 10th: Velvet Chair Girl 9th: Damon 8th: Native Dancer 7th: Gold Joe 6th: Mr. Blackhole 5th: Sonic Juice 4th: Midori Midorikawa 3rd: Kimmy Love 2nd: Henry 1st: Fu Yeah... Not very impressed by many of the bosses in this game... I actually really enjoyed the game. It's in my top 10 games of 2021. It's just a shame that the top 5 of my list are the only good bosses....

[@alexiryo]

I love that you love both doom and no more heroes

[@alexiryo]

HOW IS DESTROYMAN THE WORST BOSS Ok yes I really hate he’s just shoehorned I was hoping he ended up being Midori Midorikawas boyfriend but the actual boss is great

[@Cytonox]

I misread a comment on a video and thought he was gonna be an ally to Travis going into the game and thought that would’ve been cool, bummed it went how it did. And I still like the game for the record, but felt like there were a lot of choices made I disagreed with strongly

[@alexiryo]

@@Cytonox Yeah it definitely made a lot of decisions I did not expect and there was plenty of wasted potential, for example speed city not being one of the islands, but overall I think it's the best game in the series and my personal favorite videogame of all time. No more heroes 3 doesn't reflect the feel of No More Heroes 1, but neither did 2 or TSA. Each game is the best at being itself and that's why I excuse so much dissapointment

[@sakura368]

henry turns from cool to vergil

[@Omar8181]

Oh my god I remember the collaboration they did with daemon x machina lol don’t want to be a jerk but that was the most stupid/hilarious thing I ever seen lmao

[@Giornio.b]

I am probably the only person who thinks this is the best game in the series

[@lucyarmy8879]

The first part of Fu fight is cool and really hard but the second is so boring

[@ASwagPecan]

Peak gaming

[@ThatChadWithTheAnchorArms]

Velvet Chair Girl SUCKED

[@lucyarmy8879]

The final boss honestly was the worst boss in the game, I Mena the first phase was good and hard and the second boring and repetitive

[@SilentGamer50509]

Destroyman is last place? He was the most fun and one of the harder ones! Only reason why some people breeze through it is cuz they spam death skill attacks on him and use the full armor or the full green mode on him to skip his battle! He’s actually somewhat difficult! Although I will admit I wish he was more involved with the story! Instead of being shoehorned in like a side story!