The first thing I did in No More Heroes today was go check out those new shops that had opened up. Area 51 turned out to be a clothing store, the gym had some training options available, and the lab had a new katana and accessory I could buy, but I didn’t have very much money, and went to do more jobs first.

The lawn mowing job had opened up, and it’s fairly simple but tricky, since you have to twist the controller from side to side to control the mower. I only got silver the first time, but tried again and got gold fairly easily the second time. I then had enough money to go and buy the new katana, at least.

I then went and fought the rank #8 boss, at the town’s high school. The twist in the henchmen section was a segment where they set off the fire sprinklers, shorting out my beam katana and forcing me to run past them all as I made my way to the shutoff switch, while doing an amusing little animeish ‘shocked’ dance. The boss herself turned out to be a little girl with anime hair, and she was a fairly tough fight due to having only small windows where she’s vulnerable and a couple extremely powerful attacks when her health is low. I failed the first couple of attempts, but just barely succeeded on the third, after taking a more defensive approach.

After that, a couple more shops opened up, including a porn/video store where I could buy a tape that taught me a new wrestling move, and a bar where I met the Lovikov guy who wanted these balls I’d been collecting along the way, and taught me a bunch of techniques in return. The most useful one of them right now is a dash that speeds up running around the world map.

There was also a new garbage collection job that was pretty easy, and I could afford to get the treasure hunting accessory for the katana. Unfortunately you only get $1000 per treasure you find, so it’ll take me 30 treasures just to have it pay for itself… Finding Luvikov balls is easier now though, since they appear on the minimap now.

And finally, I stopped by the gym to do a little training. The trainer is a little disturbing though, insisting on my getting naked on previous visits (in text only, thankfully), and greeting me this time with:

Ah well, let us forget that unpleasantness by playing with a cute little kitty…