No More Heroes 2 - Ranks 6 and 5 - Moe for Me
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Things will be speeding up for a short while. You can see that because I've covered Ranks 6 and 5 in the same video. I'll explain why, but for now, control will switch over to Henry, Travis's brother and former top-ranked UAA member. He'll take over for Travis (against his will this time); Rank 4 will be the next fighter Travis will deal with.
Henry Cooldown is Travis's brother, separated before Travis could even remember. In the first No More Heroes, he took down Letz Shake (hence Letz's grudge against Henry in particular) and was the real Rank 1 assassin. Where he got that Irish accent, I have no idea. You could only face him by selecting the Bitter (hard) difficulty; he was the game's bonus boss and had to be beaten to reveal the true ending. Henry uses a beam sword just like Travis, though his works somewhat differently in that like with Shinobu, he can shoot energy blasts from it. Henry's stone-wall defense was his biggest source of difficulty, however, as he needed close to a thousand hits in before he fell.
You won't be taking quite as much damage when you're in control though.
Henry is voiced by Quinton Flynn, who does mainly video game work. His most famous role is as Raiden in the Metal Gear Solid games; other recent notable roles include Silver the Hedgehog in Sonic, Axel and Lea in Kingdom Hearts, Iruka in Naruto, and Kon in Bleach.
We'll begin Henry's section with a dream sequence, where he meets with a malevolent spirit named Mimmy who threatens to take him to her world, and refusal means death. Naturally, this means a boss fight. The first thing you'll notice is that Mimmy does not look like anyone else in this game--everyone else sports a realistic but slightly exaggerated look; Mimmy seems like she wandered from some more cartoonish anime, or maybe from Nippon Ichi Software. (She kind of resembles Marona in Phantom Brave, for one.)
Mimmy can be quite difficult if you don't know how to deal with her. That machinery she rides on is her weapon, and through it, she has several moves that each deal some heavy damage. Her reach is also longer than Henry's, so what you're expected to do is stay distance, go in for an attack or two, then head back out of her range. Except that, as I mentioned, Henry has the ability to shoot energy blasts out of his sword, so it's best to stand back at a distance and fire away until she's only at 1 block of health left, then go in and take a slice to get the signal for the finisher.
With Mimmy defeated, Henry can wake up, and as it seems, his nightmare was caused by Travis watching Bizarre Jelly 5 in the next room (and polishing his knob, it seems). He immediately sets off after getting some clothes...
Some time later, Henry gives Travis an answering machine message: He's taken out Scott Gardner, Greg Cantrell, and Massimo Bellini, and he's put photos on Travis's walls to prove it. Here's the other counting slip-up: Travis has to fight Rank 4 next, meaning he's gone up two ranks. However, Henry finished off three ranked opponents. The most likely answer that goes around is that one of them is a rank defense fight, just like wih Kimmy. If this is true, then it means Kimmy has been killed off, if not by Sylvia or some other UAA agent, then by whoever wanted to challenge Travis.
All three of these fights were originally meant to be playable, by the way. You'd control Henry as he fights them. Instead, there was no room on the game disc for it, so it was made into another rank skip. Do not fear; this is the last time Travis will skip ranks in this game. He will take on all of the top four.
Oh yeah, and here, I get Jeane slimmed back down into shape, and Travis learns the "Step-In Slice." By shaking the Nunchuk, Travis leaps up in the air a bit and lunges down swinging his sword vertically. It's good for closing the distance while attacking at the same time, though someone like me wouldn't really make much use of it.
The rest of this video is the remaining two Revenge Missions. By having killed off all five of the thugs who decapitated Bishop, Travis gets the reward of not having to wear a jacket. Well, that and a cutscene with Travis getting assigned the next ranked match and facing doubts about the UAA.
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