Party Hard was an ok game dogged by unfortunate design decisions. Party Hard 2 took all those bad design decisions and made them even worse. Theres still no mid-level saving or quicksave mechanics, you still can be working on a level for over an hour only for a random bodyguard to look at you incorrectly and OOPS right back to the start. The traps still vary from gamebreaking to absolutely useless and the line of sight of people still is a pain to gauge properly.

But now theres even more problems! Theres a stamina system that runs out ridiculously fast, random people you cant kill for no reason (but you can still attempt to stab them and they'll call the cops on you super fast), theres new ways to finish levels but all these ways are dogged by awkward controls, unclear objectives and random events that feel intrusive and annoying and to top it all off, you have a new 'Super' move which is never properly explained and only seems to work to get you arrested in twice the time. Oh boy.

Also the levels are somehow even worse than the original. The original levels were not great but they at least felt workable. The levels here feel dull, full of dead-ends and have barely any traps or features in comparison to the previous game.

What a total mess.

Reviewed on Jun 26, 2022


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