Beautiful, Immersive and connected World, with Characters that grow on and with you. A Story with nice voiceacting and plenty of Dialog Options, letting you play your very own version of the story. I made more meaningful decisions in this game than in all others I've played so far combined. It is a true RPG. The only thing that could be better is the combat. I hate percentage/probability based combat. Either I one hit an enemy, or miss entirely, and so does my enemy.
After some Reviewers on Youtube I watched hyped up this game for me, I bought it and hopped right in, but was rather disappointed for the most part. To name the positive stuff; -The Sound was good and clear. -The Sprites of Enemies and the Weapons looked well made and I also can definetely say that shooting stuff is fun in this game, with exception of the trident which was the only weapon I did not use. Now for the not-so-good and the negative stuff. -The music wasn't that remarkable for the most part, I couldn't get one track in my head after I was out of a level. -The level design was bad up to the fourth episode, there were mainly small and thight corridors leading into small rooms, sometimes a bigger one, all with the same wall texture. They also felt like labyrinths at some part because I could not even remember one room, since they all looked the same. The small thing in the top left corner called a minimap did not help very much. This only got better in the fourth episode, and only the fifth and final episode I would call "good" design. -The playstyle with a base and upgrades was too forced for me. Why do you let me have a base in which I cant even choose what episode to play in? I can only look at the already played levels with mediocre black-red sprites. I cant choose the episode, the next one is forced on me. Just let me play it like the old games, without breaks and with quicksaves. Even after I completed the game, I can only stand in the base and can't do shit, not even grind the last upgrades for my equipment. -There's no twist in this game. It feels bland, after you played the first episode, there isn't anything interesting being added except new enemies and level looks. I think the main problem is me after expecting too much from the game. It was presented to me as fusion of many retro game, but it felt more like a better looking wolfenstein 3d and nothing else.
The game is good, but is falsely advertised. It is not as story focused, but more of a resource manager. A really hard one. Not really what I expected, but okay. The graphics are ok, I really like pixel art, but this one did not look that good to me. But I think that the game is a bit too random (on original difficulty), and the player can not make save states or change the difficulty after starting a new game. I do recommend this game for people that like that like resource managers and are able to resist frustration.
My first real twinstick shooter ever. I didn't think I'd like this genre, but it seems like I need to catch a up with a few more games.
I am really disappointed by hotline miami 2. And, as I said, it is a true downgrade; -The levels are too big, with off screen gunfights and loads of enemies -There are now only few levels in which you can choose your mask, also, there are way less than in the first game. This limits how you want to play through a level -Too much story, every level has a dialog longer than any dialog from the first game. The cool thing in the first game was that you did not exactly knew whats going on and also needed to complete the secret in order to know what's happening. In this game the story is brought to you on a silver plate, and also is not as interesting as the first -They didn't fix well knows "bugs" like enemy AI not sticking to their path randomly, spinning around, dogs hearing you from the other side of the map even though you did not make a sound, and, in particular DOORS The nice things in the game were the usual blood, gore and the killer music (except for the sewers that was shit). I can recommend Hotline Miami 2 only to the ones that really really really can't get enough of the first one, and for people that were already frustrated in the first one, the problem which made you frustrated, probably did not get fixed.
