Posted on: December 6, 2023
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Mirrors Are More Fun Than Television
This is a BLATANT love letter to Max Payne, specifically the original game. Gruff voiced protagonist, early 2000s graphical style, slow motion gunplay controlled by a meter, dreamy locales and noir influence, you use painkillers to heal...etc. It wears the influence on it's sleeve with inside jokes in the dialogue, you find an old cop show that starts reflecting your life, and when even you quit something like the 'I was too tired to go on' question is asked before you can get to the desktop. But there's some innovations too. This isn't just hunting gangsters, it's hunting vampires and other monsters. In addition to you firearms you can actually break the environment to acquire stakes that deal a lot of damage in melee. It adds an element of practical exploration when you're looking for a table to smash for a one-shot damage booster. Slow motion and diving are not the same thing so you need to activate one then the other which is a little awkward but it does make slow motion less of a crutch when it takes an extra button press. Enemies seldom have projectiles so you're really just buying time to keep them from closing the distance and hitting you, or giving you time to negotiate the large swarms of foes you get in later levels. Also you get to rescue hostages which is gratifying (thankfully the monsters focus on you over them). A few issues crop up. Hit detection is a bit sloppy. You can't tell an enemy is injured or even dead until it rag dolls. You don't make any noise of any animation if you're injured either so it's easy to die, but thankfully death is pretty inconsequential: you just zap back a couple screens and start again. There's no map and levels can be maze like but there's almost no backtracking. The music is very high quality: jazz, original hip hop, moody techno. Almost feels like a Persona game at times. So if you're an old school Max Payne fan and always wanted to see him fight vampires, this is your chance.
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