Really good. Love the noir writing, even if it does get cheesy at points. The comic-book style for cutscenes added a ton to the atmosphere, and the loading screens are beautiful. The spattering of white paint/filter to look like snowflakes was a genius idea. Movement is kind of janky though, it's difficult to keep running in a totally straight line. Whenever I walked on a narrow pathway, Max seemed to like tripping on his shoelaces and plummeting to his death. The first baby maze turned from "oh sweet cool set-piece" to "this fucking sucks" because of the movement and constant lag. The sight of him flopping around on the ground after a shoddy bullet time is pretty funny though.

The PS2 port, however, is a piece of garbage. I am not a 69 terashits per megafart type of gamer, but man does this game turn into a powerpoint presentation sometimes. It runs at 30 fps except when you're around fancy lighting or whenever you're in a fight, the latter being nearly every 10 seconds. The Lupino fight nearly made me nauseous because of how laggy it got and I was incredibly worried my 23 year old PS2 was going to shit the bed right then. I couldn't be bothered to keep restarting the final level because of the combination of terrible lag, console aiming, and the adaptive difficulty not adapting so I just turned on infinite health and blasted through it.

Besides that though, I enjoyed this game and I now understand why people love Remedy's games. Not sure if I'll play 3 though because I reallyyyyy do not like Rockstar's games. 1 star off for the horrendous PS2 port and wonky movement.