Hotline Miami

So much swimming to die at the shore. I suggest you watch a couple of Youtube videos on its gameplay. Stealth is not needed, the only "stealth" element you might employ is killing your victims with melee weapons so you don't make sounds. Even when behind enemies,they can detect you no matter the distance as if they were looking at you,sometimes you can pass in front of them really fast and you don't call their attention. If you have the reflexes and patience the game is really fun and rewarding, it even keeps track of your score in the stages, the faster and more combos you can pull off the better is your rating. The game has masks which you put on and every one of them has different effects.There are more than 20 masks with different effects. If you have good reflexes and you don't mind repeating floors until you get it right or just repeating them with different masks for different approaches, you might like this game, its near perfect but where it falters is in around Chapter 12. Chapter 12 is a dead stop, I don't know why they chose to completely slow down the game and introduce a problem that only matters here. Maybe by reading this it will help you get ready for it and you don't suffer the disappointing frustrations I went through trying to understand whats going on and enjoy the game better than I did. In Chapter 12 there is a very small element introduced you won't notice it because you are so used to enemies having eyes on their back, it will mater here. Where enemies look and their animations will matter here. Its frustrating, I thought they were detecting me randomly over and over and over but that wasn't the case, I was playing with friends watching me and they gave me the idea that maybe their animations matter now for this level. The same goes for Chapter 15, if Chapter 12 didn't frustrate you this one will take you to the limit. Save your self some time and choose the "Walk faster" mask the first time, practice and practice.

This is one the greatest games of the 2010's, a brutal and addicting single player twin stick shooter with a story that can be confusing in the first playthrough, but with repeated playthroughs unclouds itself for you more and more. With a 1980's in Florida theme it really allows itself to feel like a fever dream on cocaine, it is surreal and with the ultra-violence it really feels like you are in that state of mind, this is a game that you can't just pick out a single element and say that is what makes it good, it is the whole package that makes it all work, the theme, the music, the gameplay, the violence, the story, it all fits together perfectly, it could easily have been a kinda lame twin stick shooter with a 1980 Florida theme, but the developers really cared about this game and it shows. I have bought this game 3 times, first the PSVita, second on PC, then on the Switch, and this game has always been a game where I think that I will just play a couple of levels and be done with it, but then I beat the whole game in one sitting. I can not praise this game more, it has been tightly locked in my top 5 games since I first played it, and unlike the sequel, I really can see no faults with this game at all. It always seems like games get 5 stars if you like it and 1 star if you dislike it, but this is genuinely a perfect 5/5 of in my eyes, this game is something I will remember for the rest of my life and will recommend to my grandchildren.

Played on Linux Mint 17.3 64 bit (2016), Mac OSX Yosemite (2015), and Windows 7 64 bit (years earlier). Played with a Logitech F310 and mouse & keyboard on all three OSes. Plays great on all three OSes! PROS: Fast and furious action, stealth requires tactical thinking while keeping a quick pace, variety of abilities via unlockable masks and weapons, retro neon graphics help immerse you into the 1980s setting, psychological thriller plot, modest hardware requirements, gamepad AND mouse & keyboard support, Windows/Mac/Linux(Ubuntu/Mint) installers included, a steal at only $10. CONS: A bit of a learning curve for new school gamers. No multiplayer...yet. VERDICT: Worth owning, regardless on which OS you game on. Played on: Windows 7 64 bit, Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz, 4GB RAM, Nvidia 3100M. Windows 7 64 bit, AMD dual core 2.7GHz, 4GB RAM, ATI Radeon HD 7520G 512MB. Mac OSX Yosemite, Core 2 Duo 3GHz, 4GB RAM, Nvidia 8400 256MB. Linux Mint 17.3 64 bit, Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz, 4GB RAM, Nvidia GT 610. Linux Mint 17.3 64 bit, i5 2.4GHz, 4GB RAM, Nvidia 3100M. Linux Mint 17.3 64 bit, Core 2 Duo 2.93GHz, 4GB RAM, Nvidia GT 720.

The style is great: The music and graphics are completely oversaturated, which definitely fits with the locale. Although, coupled with the goofy characters, I'm suddenly reliving a bad acid trip from my teens, and I don't wanna be there. All that aside, however, it's just boring with a capital "b:" Boring. The difficulty level I'm fine with, but the game play can be broken down into two elements: Kill someone. Advance. Kill someone else. Advance. It's GTA on extremely rigid rails, without the sandbox. Yes, it's irritating to kill nine people and be one-hitted to death by the tenth and have to start over, but that's not nearly as big a problem for me as the lackluster game play.

this game is one of bizardest games I ever played mortal kombat is for babies compared to this, the only thing that saves it from being banned it is 8bit pixel style.