Travis Touchdown is an otaku through and through. From his anime posters and use of the word “moe” to his love of sushi, No More Heroes 3 makes no attempt to hide the fact that Japanese culture is at the heart of the experience. At the same time, logic isn’t something the series necessarily sticks to very strictly. Even the basic premise of the game is beyond the realms of possibility, but side quests also ride the line of realism in service of making a fun game. Justifying the reason Travis would go around collecting live scorpions, for example, doesn’t need a deep motivating factor.
Bugjirou, the owner of the ramen stand in Santa Destroy in No More Heroes 3, makes Travis’ favorite ramen. However, he can make what he describes as the ultimate bowl of ramen with some special ingredients. If Travis can track down all 20 scorpions, he can use them to make the Scorpion Death Ramen. There’s no way Travis can resist an offer like that, so we’ve scoured all of Santa Destroy and beyond to locate all 20 hidden scorpions in No More Heroes 3.
Further reading
How to start the Scorpion Death Ramen mission
Bugjirou’s ramen shop is conveniently located right across the street from Travis’ motel in No More Heroes 3. It will be marked by a green star icon on your map. After getting to chapter 2, talk with him to learn about the ultimate bowl of ramen and start the Scorpion Death Ramen side quest to get the details. Make sure you stop by after collecting the scorpions to turn them in for rewards as you go, not just at the very end.
Also, like the other collectible-based side quests in No More Heroes 3, getting and equipping the 80 Chip for your Death Glove will make things much easier. This chip makes a tone and vibrates the controller when any search object is nearby, including scorpions.
Santa Destroy scorpion locations
Your initial hub of Santa Destroy has six of our scorpions scuttling around.
The first scorpion on our list is just north of the Garbage Eliminator side mission on the map. Go up and into a little courtyard beside the building on the edge of the field where this critter patrols.
The next scorpion is where you would probably expect to find one in real life: The beach. Follow along the shore around halfway down from the peer, and keep your eyes and ears peeled for this scorpion roaming around in the sand.
This third scorpion is to the southeast end of the map, right by the toilet mini-game and south of the defense mission in the nearby park area. It will be in the clearing with the globe statue surrounded by rows of hedges.
Number four is way up north, just past the highest defense mission icon on your map. Dive along to where the road bends around at the very northwest point and turn around. There’s a brick building on the corner beside some vacant space that this guy has claimed as his home.
The fifth scorpion isn’t too far south of the previous one. Head to the stadium, and circle down to the south side parking lot. Enter between the cones next to the blue storage container to snag this fella.
Last stop in the Santa Destroy region is all the way down to the very extreme south of the map, in the bottom of the two beige lots on the map. Look near the north corner of this big, empty lot for the scorpion hanging around some tall grass.
