Suda51 says he doesn’t know if we’ll ever see No More Heroes’ Travis Touchdown again

Veteran game designer Goichi “Suda51” Suda has said he doesn’t know if the world will ever see No More Heroes or its star Travis Touchdown again after the 2021 launch of the climactic No More Heroes 3.

Speaking to Eurogamer ahead of his appearance at Momocon 2024 last month, No More Heroes producer and director Suda acknowledged that the rights to the No More Heroes series belong to Japanese game publisher Marvelous rather than his own studio Grasshopper Manufacture.

“To be honest, I don’t know either,” Suda51 told Eurogamer when asked if No More Heroes and Travis Touchdown would ever return. “Of course I would love to see them again, but honestly, it’s not just my decision.”

No More Heroes 3 was designed as a game that would conclude the series so far, as Marvelous otherwise focused on its own franchises such as Rune Factory, Story of Seasons, and Daemon x Machina.

In the meantime, Suda51 is currently busy producing Hotel Barcelona, ​​a collaboration between his Grasshopper Manufacture studio and Hidetaka “Swery” SuehiroFamous from Deadly Premonition.

“A long time ago, before COVID, we did an event in Shibuya where Swery was a guest. We just started talking about some kind of collaboration,” Suda51 explains about when work on Hotel Barcelona began. “The idea came up, Swery liked it, and they basically brought it to the development stage, and now it’s become a thing.

“Swery is playing the role of both director and producer and doing most of the work; I started working with him initially. But Swery is having a lot of fun making it, and I am also having a lot of fun giving inputs here and there, etc. I am extremely happy to be involved as a co-producer.”

Fans of Grasshopper’s earlier work can look forward to at least two other launches: remasters of both lollipop Chainsaw And Shadows of the Damned,