About a month ago I was at the local big box store and noticed that there was a game that was sticking out of the Wii junk bin out in the center aisle of the electronics department. I was not there to buy anything new, to be honest I was only there to get some pictures developed. But the box still caught my eye.

The bin was marked “All games $12″ - so I walked over to the bin and looked at it again, without touching anything. And then I looked to the one box that looked different from the rest, reached for it and flipped it over.

I was fully expecting it to just be another Wii game that was destined for the discount bin even before it was pressed to disc - it seems the one problem the Wii has is a plethora of mediocre games that really are far from even a B-grade title. But this game was not one of those games, it was No More Heroes.

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