Grasshopper Manufacture, the studio headed by acclaimed video game designer SUDA51, have five new video games in production and three of those will be new IPs.
The news was announced by SUDA51 in a No More Heroes 3 launch livestream in which he also said that they want to focus on their own IPs as they do not own the franchise rights to their high profile games such as Killer7, No More Heroes, etc.
About the No More Heroes franchise
SUDA51 also said in the same stream that the No More Heroes franchise was given to them by Marvelous for 5 years. Those five years are now up and the rights for the IP has now been returned to Marvelous.
No More Heroes is a 2007 action-adventure hack and slash video game for the Wii. It was developed by Grasshopper Manufacture and published by Marvelous Entertainment, Ubisoft, and Rising Star Games. The game was directed, designed, and written by Goichi Suda, also known by his nickname Suda51. The game follows Travis Touchdown, a fan of video games and anime who wins a beam katana in an auction, from which he inadvertently becomes involved in the United Assassins Association and forced to kill assassins higher in rank to prevent other assassins from targeting him.
A sequel, No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, was released for the Wii in 2010. The title Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes was released for the Nintendo Switch in 2019. The next mainline title, No More Heroes III, was announced at E3 2019 and was released on August 27, 2021 for the Nintendo Switch.
