The problem this game has is that it doesn't understand why the things it's aping are cool.
It claims to have been inspired by Hotline Miami for its combat, and these types of retro graphics games usually give up visual fidelity for gameplay, but you spend 80% of the game shooting the same basic enemy and the gameplay never reaches the frenetic highs of something like Hotline.
It clearly also takes inspiration from the noir genre and the hardboiled detective films of the 80s, but the writing here is so bad it sounds like parody. Every disgruntled word out of the protagonist sounds like sophomoric nonsense. It's like the writer didn't understand that Max Payne's name wasn't chosen because it sounded badass.
Finally, the music here is inspired by someone who likes to listen to rap for the beats. It's actually almost impressive how badly this game misinterprets the art it tries to emulate. It's a painfully long seven or eight hours to finish, and it's a functional product, but it's not worth playing for anyone outside of a Max Payne diehard who is curious about trying the dollar store version.
In summary,
"He's the one who likes all our pretty songs, and he
Likes to sing along and he likes to shoot his gun, but he
Knows not what it means"
It claims to have been inspired by Hotline Miami for its combat, and these types of retro graphics games usually give up visual fidelity for gameplay, but you spend 80% of the game shooting the same basic enemy and the gameplay never reaches the frenetic highs of something like Hotline.
It clearly also takes inspiration from the noir genre and the hardboiled detective films of the 80s, but the writing here is so bad it sounds like parody. Every disgruntled word out of the protagonist sounds like sophomoric nonsense. It's like the writer didn't understand that Max Payne's name wasn't chosen because it sounded badass.
Finally, the music here is inspired by someone who likes to listen to rap for the beats. It's actually almost impressive how badly this game misinterprets the art it tries to emulate. It's a painfully long seven or eight hours to finish, and it's a functional product, but it's not worth playing for anyone outside of a Max Payne diehard who is curious about trying the dollar store version.
In summary,
"He's the one who likes all our pretty songs, and he
Likes to sing along and he likes to shoot his gun, but he
Knows not what it means"