This game was sold to me as a 2D Hotline Miami. It is certainly not that. Not a Hero is a 2D gunner. Each level opens with Bunnylord giving a very long speech about what you need to do for the next level. In a random "Monkey cheese" type of humour he'll explain how you'll need to explode a building in a bad part of town while collecting something random like a carrot or kittens or fairies left behind. Out of the four things Bunnylord wants you to complete, you only need to complete one main one to end the level. The other three are optional and only exists to add extra challenge for replayability for that level. Aside from the jokes that I personally find annoying, the game itself plays really well. All the characters play differently to where you'll find a character that lines up with your playstyle and will play with almost exclusively. Shooting through a level the way you want is very fun and funny, with watching the bodies fly around or listening to your character scream at you to reload their gun. but once you've beaten the level you have to sit the the excruciatingly long recap from Bunnylord to have some idea what's going to happen in the story of trying to get a bunny from the futurt elected world leader (random!) Probably my biggest gripe with this game is it's comparison with Hotline Miami. Maybe it's because it's from the same publisher or a marketing idea but from the trailer it looks like both games were about the play the same. You enter a building and use grit and confidence to clear out a whole building and leave. Only with the extra objectives added to each level and longer loading times it takes to restart a level makes it feel like something I'm supposed to come up with a plan to attack this level at it's optimal efficiency. It no longer becomes about which character you like playing as but which character you can play as that'll complete the objectives. The only comparisons I can pull toward it's being like Hotline Miami is it's downgraded graphics and hyper violence, but it lacks the twitchy replayability and story that takes itself seriously but not really. I'd recommend this game when it become on sale for like half off.
