I not too long ago spoke with No Extra Heroes creator Suda51 a few beforehand unexplained second in Travis Landing historical past. Particularly, I came upon the story behind Travis’s distinctive look within the 2019 reveal trailer for No Extra Heroes 3.

Raveled, bearded, and sporting a neck brace, this middle-aged gamer enjoying Ape Out wasn’t the identical man No Extra Heroes followers had grown to like. At the very least, not for the primary jiffy. Shortly after this scene within the precise recreation, Travis hits a button on his Change-esque Demise Glove and fits up into Iron Man-style mecha armor earlier than returning to his prior well-coiffed, fresh-and-clean look.

It’s one in every of many surrealist, high-flying moments which can be thrown at No Extra Heroes 3 gamers with little-to-no clarification. Followers of the franchise have kind of realized to only go together with it when stuff like speaking cats flip up, or beforehand buxom scientists flip into bushes. Personally, I assumed the neck brace was there to assist Travis heal from the beheading he acquired in Travis Strikes Once more from John Winter, a personality based mostly on famed recreation developer Jeff Minter. Because it seems, there was much more to the story than that.

In accordance with Suda:

“Oh yeah, I meant to say this in Travis Strikes Once more or afterwards, however within the years between that recreation and No Extra Heroes 3, Travis acquired jumped by Kimmy Howell. You understand how she was stalking him in No Extra Heroes 2, and mentioned she’d be again to kill him after she acquired stronger, earlier than Travis spared her life. Effectively in some unspecified time in the future between these two video games, she hit him with a shock assault, however he acquired away alive, and was therapeutic up again on the No Extra Heroes motel. You’re truly the primary individual from the press to ask me about this.”

At this level, Suda’s translator and buddy James Mountain let me know that he’d truly requested Suda about this some time in the past, however on the time he mentioned “I don’t keep in mind.” So I wasn’t truly the primary to ask, however I used to be the primary to get a solution, which is enjoyable.

It’s additionally good to get slightly additional context for why Travis finally ends up having a remaining confrontation with Kimmy afterward in No Extra Heroes 3. The 2 interact in a fierce rap battle, amongst different issues, earlier than drawing their laser swords for one final time. I used to be personally saddened to see the best way issues turned out between them, as I at all times hoped Kimmy would develop into a playable ally within the collection sometime. I see now why Travis wasn’t feeling as forgiving.