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“Of course we always wish to have a big hit, but at the same time – not just in Japan, but worldwide – I think it’s really difficult to be successful with a new IP. You really need an extraordinary amount of support to have a new franchise be successful. Unfortunately we couldn’t really do as well as we hoped for.” – Grasshopper’s Goichi Suda, speaking to Eurogamer at TGS on the difficulties of making a new IP. Grasshopper released Shadows of the Damned, via EA Partners, this past summer to critical success, but very low sales.

Suda51 has confirmed that while he came up with the idea for Diabolical Pitch, he’s handed development over to a separate team within Grasshopper Media. Therefore, it was that team who has come up with this intriguing little teaser trailer for the demon-smashing baseball interpretation called Diabolical Pitch.

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One of the more obscure highlights of Tokyo Game Show so far has been the big reveal Diabolical Pitch, formerly known as Codename D. Take Japanese favourite Suda51 and the team at Grasshopper Manufacture, throw in some motion controls, a baseball bat and some scary monsters, and you’re onto a winner.

While we haven’t yet had a chance to try out the upcoming XBLA title, the sneaky folk over at Joystiq smuggled a video camera in and grabbed some more footage of the game in action, plus a shaky-cam version of the first trailer.

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Killer 7, No More Heroes, and now Shadows of the Damned – we talked to Goichi Suda about the game that is and isn’t what you’d expect it to be.

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Grasshopper Manufacture lead Goichi Suda has said Shadows of the Damned’s vision of hell is less generic than Visceral’s efforts in Dante’s Inferno.

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The incomparable Goichi Suda has said he’s not the only one pushing the boundaries with new game design, citing Dead Space 2 as an example.

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Goichi Suda has reiterated his desire to add another entry to the No More Heroes series.

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Get all the news from the EA TGS press conference after the break, including first details on the Suda51-Mikami horror title, Shadows of the Damned, a new look at Alice and more.

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According to this 1UP report, EA said in Japan today that its Suda51-Mikami horror collaboration will be announced in Tokyo next week.

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Doesn’t look as though a third No More Heroes will happen. Don’t despair, though, 51 fans.

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Goichi Suda is all about the 3D. He even wants to develop a title for 3DS.

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No pants. Rocket-launching ghetto blaster. Ideas borne from poo. It’s No More Heroes 2.

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Come on, now. Seriously?

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Like Killer 7 and No More Heroes before it, No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle’s got “Suda51″ written all over it. Translation: It’s weird. Grown-up weird. Phallic imagery everywhere weird. And you know what that means. Yep! A very entertaining ESRB write-up. Here’s a snippet:

“Two women (clad in bikinis) get suspended in mid-air, get caught between the flashing lights, lasers, and frenetic sword swipes of an assassins’ duel—the women’s heads slide across the floor once the men stop fighting.”

The listing also reveals the return of Bizarre Jelly, a fake anime that was featured in the first game. Even the show’s opening’s quick “one-to-two seconds” of bare buttock were unable to escape the ESRB’s watchful eye.

We’ve posted the full listing after the break in order to avoid unnecessary spoilage. So have at it. Take a glimpse inside Suda51′s loony bin-ripe mind for solid proof that he’s still got “it.” By which we mean his game design chops. As for the other “it” – you know, his sanity – we’re pretty sure he lost it a long, long time ago.

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Grasshopper boss Goichi Suda has a new favourite games designer. It’s Criterion games boss Alex Ward.

“I have four favorite game designers,” Suda told 1UP. “Erik [Chahi, Out of This World creator] is one of them. I’m not sure if he’s the number one, but he’s one of them.

“There used to be three, but the fourth person is [Criterion Games'] Alex Ward, who I added after I met him recently.”

Suda’s went on to say that he would most likely end up “enjoying” working with Chahi or Ward, should the opportunity arise.

TGS, TGS, TGS.

Suda51′s told Edge that No More Heroes needs to move past Wii if it’s to flourish.

“I really want to make NMH a big franchise,” he said, “and with this second episode have bigger success. I’m putting a lot of care into developing this IP, as I feel there’s a lot of potential.

“I think this is the last NMH that is going to be developed on Wii,” he added. “To expand NMH to new possibilities, we need a new platform. Wii is a great platform, but we’ve done everything we can with it now.”

Now look at this. Good news for 360 and PS3 owners, no doubt.

Criterion’s Alex Ward just tweeted that Grasshopper legend Suda51 is a Burnout Paradise mentalist.

“Suda51 came here for the day a few weeks ago,” said the dev boss.

“He’s a hardcore Burnout fan. I checked the servers – over 700hrs play.”

That’s a lot of hours. Just goes to show.

Ubisoft sat down with Goichi Suda during E3 and talked to him about Grasshopper Manufacture’s No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle.

During the chat, Suda 51 discussed Travis Touchdown’s maturity, character interaction with players, the themes of life and death in the game, and how setting limits is something he avoided when creating the sequel.

“You don’t need to put any limits when it comes to raw expression,” he said. “Limiting expression is just something set up by people to please other people.

“So we didn’t do anything like that for No More Heroes 2.”

You can watch the full interview through here.

At Ubisoft’s E3 press event it was announced that No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle would be published by the company.

A small video was shown.

The game’s set three years after the original, and features both Travis Touchdown and Silvia Chryste.

It’s out for Wii in early 2010.

Press release below.
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IGN’s posted a translation of the No More Heroes 2 details from Famitsu this week, giving first notes on characters and plot.

The game’s set three years after the original, and features both Travis Touchdown and Silvia Chrystel.

According to that piece, “Due to heavy investment from large corporations, Santa Destroy has rapidly become a tourist town. One day, Sylvia suddenly appears before Travis and invites him to another assassin ranking battle.

“At that very moment, Travis’s sole friend, Bishop, is seen in somewhat of a pinch as a gang of ruffians take close aim at his head with guns.”

Full thing through there. Trailers, and all the rest of it, will be released during E3.