A truly disgusting experience from start to finish, an actual commendation for this case since K&L2 manages to surpass the original (a pretty mediocre "squad" shooter about heists fucking up and you having to haul ass to escape the fallout) by becoming basically a snuff film simulator.
The idea of contextualizing the whole game as a found footage is honestly brilliant and full of little details, like the way it censors the corpses of the enemies you kill via headshot. I remember watching that trailer that was just them running naked, covered in blood and running away from police and police dogs (an actual mission in the game, and a macabre one) and Lynch killing one with a tray from a fast food place and feeling completely blown away by it. The way this game captures the grease and disgust of both the protagonists and the setting. There are segments in this game that the camera isn't covered in blood, but filth and grime, making you feel truly disgusted.
Coming from a game that gave it's protagonists barebones motivations and personalities, playing Lynch in the sequel feels like playing an actual criminal. His "insanity" used in K&L1 to make him look like a monster is now recontextualized here as another crack in a broken man trying to live his life in the only way he knows, finding love in the process and dooming it to fail in a world of crime and perversion.
Overall, an incredibly interesting story about two horrible people doing horrible things to others and in turn receiving an even worse treatment for it. You will feel uncomfortable playing it, lost and nauseated by most of the maps, but frankly that's a really admiring thing to aspire to do and actually pulling out. If you can get past the "meh" shooting (sidenote: I barely use shotguns in most tps or modern military shooters because I find it really boring, but this game managed to get me to play it almost always favoring the semi automatic shotgun over assault rifles) you'll find an actual hidden gem.

Reviewed on May 04, 2021


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