Have you guys ever heard of the term “burned out older brother films.” It's a term to describe a sub-genre of movies that your brother would watch, but your parents wouldn't let you hang out with him in order to watch it. Stuff like Natural born killers, Jarhead, The man who stares at goats, and Etc. basically just movies of your brother trying to remember the glory days of his past but seems to forget and wants to talk about them with you and how shit it was living in it. This includes Hotline Miami 2 wrong number which a game like itself, reminds me of it. Anyways not to bore you, but here’s my honest thoughts on this game.
For one the gameplay stays the same but with a few interesting gimmicks to it. Which I truly fucking hate about it. The idea of levels/stages having gimmicks to him feels weird and off but I can see why the dev wanted to include them. But honestly some of them fall flat or just ruin the flow of the game. I can see why I felt like this since coming from replaying Hotline miami 1 and now playing hotline miami 2 for the first time. It feels off. The only levels I wish they would only keep the gimmicks were probably Evan and the twins. Especially Evan since quite fits his character. Another thing I wanna point out is some of the stage or level design goddamn sucks. Hell some of the levels are just reused and just slapped with a different texture all together.
I for one... I’m not the type of person who plays hotline miami for its story but after replaying it. It’s nice to know the creator generally wanted to write an actual story that is not something that happens left out of the field. Heck the dude made character’s who died in the first one a flesh out story and backstory for all of them in the second, which I gotta respect. But that ending feels like a cop out from the creator, which in his own words just wanted to end the series after two. which is fine. But sad for the fans of this game just wanting more. But hey at least got some fun mod for it.
Hotline miami 2 wrong number, is a game that is a big disappointment to me especially after getting back into it. But do I hate it…No. There's quite a lot of things I see from the fandom that talk about this game. Ether being a big improvement or just one big disappointment. Which is fine. But if there's one thing I hate about this more then.. What I just talked about is forcing my pinky finger on shift from almost the game. Hotline Miami 2 is probably of the the greatest torture game ever made for your pinky.
For one the gameplay stays the same but with a few interesting gimmicks to it. Which I truly fucking hate about it. The idea of levels/stages having gimmicks to him feels weird and off but I can see why the dev wanted to include them. But honestly some of them fall flat or just ruin the flow of the game. I can see why I felt like this since coming from replaying Hotline miami 1 and now playing hotline miami 2 for the first time. It feels off. The only levels I wish they would only keep the gimmicks were probably Evan and the twins. Especially Evan since quite fits his character. Another thing I wanna point out is some of the stage or level design goddamn sucks. Hell some of the levels are just reused and just slapped with a different texture all together.
I for one... I’m not the type of person who plays hotline miami for its story but after replaying it. It’s nice to know the creator generally wanted to write an actual story that is not something that happens left out of the field. Heck the dude made character’s who died in the first one a flesh out story and backstory for all of them in the second, which I gotta respect. But that ending feels like a cop out from the creator, which in his own words just wanted to end the series after two. which is fine. But sad for the fans of this game just wanting more. But hey at least got some fun mod for it.
Hotline miami 2 wrong number, is a game that is a big disappointment to me especially after getting back into it. But do I hate it…No. There's quite a lot of things I see from the fandom that talk about this game. Ether being a big improvement or just one big disappointment. Which is fine. But if there's one thing I hate about this more then.. What I just talked about is forcing my pinky finger on shift from almost the game. Hotline Miami 2 is probably of the the greatest torture game ever made for your pinky.