No more heroes (opens in new tab) 1 and 2 will receive fixes for their beleaguered PC ports soon, publisher XSEED has announced.

In a Steam Discussion Notice (opens in new tab)XSEED's community development manager Luke Brown stated, "We are very aware of the issues that have been affecting this title since launch, and after over a year of trying to develop patches, we can report that we have made every effort to resolve these issues internally." XSEED then apologized for the delay and lack of communication, stating that they would "provide more information once we are confident that we have patches in release form."

Originally released for the Wii in 2007 and 2010 respectively, No More Heroes is a series of quirky action-adventure games directed by Suda51, whose other works include Killer7 and Lollipop Chainsaw. Both games were ported to PC in June of last year, but the ports were met with criticism from the gaming community, with complaints about achievements, broken animations, and audio. More generally, there appears to have been little effort put into bringing the ports to PC, with the games reportedly still featuring the credits and button layouts for the Switch version of the game, which the PC port is based on.

This Switch version was co-developed by NMH developer Grasshopper Manufacture and Engine Software, a third-party studio that previously helped on the well-received PC port of Killer7. Presumably, that relationship didn't work out as well for the two No More Heroes games, and as a result, XSEED made the decision to patch the releases in-house.

As for why XSEED made the decision to announce these upcoming patches now, it may have something to do with the fact that No More Heroes 3, the 2021 successor to NMH 2, launched on PC this week. (opens in new tab)This third game, which is also based on the Switch port, currently has a “very positive” rating on Steam, albeit with only 81 reviews at the time of writing.