There are also a lot of instances of enemies shooting you from off-screen, which is annoying, but something you can get used to with trial and error (though it does get tiring after a while). Still, just like the first game, dying is not a huge deal, with you being thrown back into gameplay half a second later. This does lead to some frustration if you have a perfect run up until the some enemy decides to break up their routine at the end and you're repeating an entire two minutes of gameplay. It's just that this chain of kills is a lot longer. The second game is no different in this regard. You'd eventually build up this chain of kills by adapting to each previous run, leading to this perfect controlled chaos where you are a master killer. You'd kill an enemy, get killed and repeat. I've always thought of the first game as somewhat of a rhythm game, and this shines when going for a good rank in each level. The controls are snappy, the weapons are creative and enemies are functionally dumb. Still, the story that I did understand did build this messed up, nihilistic, dark world that perfectly complements the extremely violent gameplay.Įverything I liked about the first game's mechanics is here. I have read all the dialogue, I understand some of the characters' relations to one another, I know what happens to all the characters, but if you were to ask me to sum up the story, I'd tell you to refer to this nifty website called Wikipedia because there's no way I'm saying anything useful. Thanks to me technically playing the game over a span of a year, and how weirdly it's structured, I have no clue what the story in Hotline Miami 2 is.
After a few days of intense Hotline Miami 2 sessions, I can say that I really like the second game, but that the criticisms were valid and that it is not as pure of an experience as the first one. This made me want to give the sequel one final chance, and it finally stuck. Last week, noclip released a Hotline Miami retrospective video and realised that I was wrong, and that I in fact loved Hotline Miami.
I thought the game just wasn't for me and that maybe the first one was just right place, right time. I played a few levels, but ultimately bounced off for one reason or another. It wasn't until last year that I decided to try to give the game a go.
These criticisms were enough to keep me away from the game, seeing as how one of my favourite things with the first one was how focused and compact it felt. With the main complaints being that levels were both too big and too long. That and the fact that the game popped on the Vita's OLED screen.įast forward two years, and Hotline Miami 2 is released to a more mixed reaction than the first game. The game was one of my Vita highlights, with the quick-paced, relatively short levels being perfect for a portable.
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It's a game that definitely stands amongst the tops of indie games, and is now one of those games that's always used to describe other games, which is a feat only a few other series can claim. The graphics, the extremely fast-paced gameplay, and that soundtrack. Being one of the seven people who got a Vita around launch, I was enamoured with the first Hotline Miami when it came out for PlayStation in 2013.
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