Category: Works
NO MORE HEROES 1.5: DESPERATE STRUGGLE
This animation was included as a special feature in the Japanese HOPPER’S Edition of NO MORE HEROES 2: DESPERATE STRUGGLE. In a story set between NO MORE HEROES and NO MORE HEROES 2: DESPERATE STRUGGLE, Travis Touchdown became a local hero to the Santa Destroy community after becoming a top-ranked assassin, but his fame began…
NO MORE HEROES (III)
This action series consists of four main titles and four spin-offs. The earliest release was on December 6, 2007, and the most recent was on August 27, 2021. The original game was remastered in high definition by two different studios. Four other games in the series were only published on mobile devices and are now…
The Silver Case (II)
This investigation series consists of two main titles, a spin-off game, a novelization, and a short story. The earliest release was on October 7, 1999, and the most recent was a remake title on March 13, 2018. Translated versions of all three games were published out of order many years after their original release. A…
Grapagos
This casual game series was quietly shuttered after releasing two titles, FROG MINUTES and フロッグミニッツ. Its name was a portmanteau of GRASSHOPPER and Galapagos Islands. FROG MINUTES director Tadayuki Nomaru was at one point open to expanding the Grapagos series with not only a FROG MINUTES sequel but also a brand new idea entirely, however,…
NO MORE HEROES: Behind the Scenes
This book was included with the Collector’s Edition of NO MORE HEROES published by Limited Run Games. It includes an interview with SUDA51 by Jeremy Parish, an analysis of the game by Destructoid journalist Jonathan Holmes, and artwork for the game, much of it translated into English for the first time. No More Interviews Why…
THE DEV ROOM
This Grasshopper Archives web series follows the jobs and antics of GRASSHOPPER MANUFACTURE. The series is published on YouTube in both Japanese and English. The earliest episodes censored most works-in-progress, although future episodes were more lenient, such as showing the practical model and artwork for a monster from ROMEO IS A DEAD MAN. The most…
killer BADMINTON
This crossover badminton video game was released on April 1, 2022. The game was to some extent an April Fool’s joke, born from a conversation between Destructoid journalist Jonathan Holmes and SUDA51 during an October 2021 interview. Holmes later reached out to a number of designers to realize his vision and asserted that further updates…
killer7 Vol.1
Six issues of this comic series produced by Kinetic Underground were published between July 2005 and June 2006 through Devil’s Due Publishing. The first two issues were only distributed promotionally, before the commercial run began in February 2006. killer7 Vol.1 mostly retells the events of the killer7 video game, leading up to the Killer7‘s assignment…
CHAMPION ROAD BEYOND
Three years after the release of Spike Chunsoft’s FIRE PRO WRESTLING WORLD, the Fighting Road expansion CHAMPION ROAD BEYOND was published, which saw SUDA51‘s return to the FIRE PRO series and acted as a sequel to the story mode in SUPER FIRE PROWRESTLING SPECIAL, called CHAMPION ROAD in the game. Chapters
NO MORE HEROES 2: DESPERATE STRUGGLE Erotica Comic
This book was included with preorders of the HOPPER’S Edition of NO MORE HEROES 2: DESPERATE STRUGGLE and contained three manga, including NO MORE LOSER by Yūsuke Kozaki, Pure Wite Lover Bizorre Jerry 5 ビザールジェーリーセカンドシーズン by Okama, and エロクナイ★チカクナイコミック by Takayuki Mizushina, along with five full-page illustrations. Read Credits
THE EVIL WITHIN 2
THE EVIL WITHIN 2 was a survival horror video game developed by Tango Gameworks and first published by Bethesda Softworks on October 13, 2017. It functioned as the first sequel to THE EVIL WITHIN. In addition to Tango’s work, GRASSHOPPER MANUFACTURE was one of nine other studios also credited with lending additional support, although exactly…