Gracias por pasar version en español abajo
It's already routine for me to go back to games that I haven't completely finished yet, I always want that 100% added to my library and also I wanted a game that challenged me, not because the ones I had played before didn't do it, but I wanted something more visceral, weirder or sent me on a psychedelic trip, and I think Hotline Miami has just that in large doses, especially this second installment that risks everything.
I had already played it before without completing it, I felt that it was not my style at that time and although I still do not like the type of camera that this game has too much, I have been able to slowly appreciate everything it has to offer, especially with its gameplay, Although we are also going to talk about those simple graphics that we see from above and I think they manage to convey a lot with a few pixels, just as I like in these low-budget titles.
So the gameplay is brutal, we complete missions as various characters but most of the time we will be someone who is not very well mentally and we will start a massacre against everyone we see in the building in which we are, our weapons are all the objects that we We find ourselves including the weapons of our own enemies, the more brutal the killing, the more points we will earn.
Although it also has its share of drama and history, I am not going to get into that in this post because I have noticed that I still do not understand very well what is happening, it seems that they tell it to us in parts and only in the end will everything make sense so I I reserve it, the really juicy thing is the gameplay and since we have to be an expert butcher who kills everyone without dying, with a single shot we end up dead and we will have to restart the area so it is in our best interest to know the routes of the guards and be lethal.
There are everything from sticks, baseball bats, knives, to long-range weapons, shotguns and other extra weapons, all of them kill us with one shot although they have some differentiators that are useful to us, the short range ones are an instant kill for the guards like that. It is convenient for us to use them if we are in a corner or if the room is small, while pistols or shotguns tend to leave some guards alive so we can finish them off, they also work well to attract guards to an area to finish them off in a rush.
You die more times than you can count but everything restarts so quickly that it makes you want to keep trying more than giving up. It is true that many times the deaths seem unfair to me or is it that everything happens so fast that you don't have time to react? to the bullets, there are several levels where it is like this and you have to try several times through different routes until you finally force your way to the end, in most of the missions we just have to kill everyone and get out quickly but there are some where We can't kill anyone and we have to sneak away.
A parenthesis to talk about the art of this game, from the beginning of the first mission you realize that everything seems like a dream, the scenery moves in a hypnotic way to distract us from the objective and each death seems more exaggerated than the previous one, the The massacres that we have to do here are quite brutal but the points we earn with each death flatten the journey, I think that is the point of the narrative of this game that I will say again, I don't understand it too much and I lack context of the story, but it's still fun to spend a night.
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Ya es rutinario que vuelva a los juegos que aun no he terminado por completo, siempre quiero ese 100% añadido a mi biblioteca y ademas que queria un juego que me desafiase, no porque los que habia jugado antes no lo hicieran, pero queria algo mas visceral, mas raro o que me envie en un viaje psicodelico, y creo que Hotline Miami tiene justamente eso en grandes dosis, en especial esta segunda entrega que arriesga todo.
Ya lo habia jugado antes sin completarlo, sentia que no era mi estilo en ese momento y aunque no me gusta todavia demasiado el tipo de camara que tiene este juego he podido apreciar de a poco todo lo que tiene para ofrecer en especial con su jugabilidad, aunque tambien vamos a hablar de esos graficos simples que vemos desde las alturas y creo que logra transmitir mucho con unos pocos pixeles, tal como me gusta en estos titulos de bajo presupuesto.
Asi que la jugabilidad es brutal, cumplimos misiones como varios personajes pero la mayoria del tiempo seremos alguien que no esta muy bien mentalmente e iniciaremos una masacre contra todos los que veamos en el edificio en el cual nos encontramos, nuestras armas son todos los objetos que nos encontremos incluyendo las armas de los propios enemigos, mientras mas brutal sea la matanza mas puntos ganaremos.
Aunque tambien tiene su parte de drama e historia no me voy a meter con eso en este post porque he notado que aun no entiendo muy bien lo que esta pasando, parece que nos la cuentan en partes y solo al final todo tendra sentido asi que me lo reservo, lo realmente jugoso es la jugabilidad y como tenemos que ser un carnicero experto que acabe con todos sin morir, de un solo balazo acabamos muertos y tendremos que reiniciar la zona asi que nos conviene sabernos los recorridos de los guardias y ser letal.
Hay desde palos, bates de beisbol, cuchillos, hasta armas de largo alcance, escopetas y otras armas extras, todas nos acaban de un tiro aunque tienen algunos diferenciadores que nos son de utilidad, las de corta distancia son un kill instantaneo para los guardias asi que nos conviene usarlas si estamos en alguna esquina o si la habitacion es pequeña mientras que las pistolas o escopetas tienden a dejar vivo a algunos guardias para que los rematemos, funcionan bien tambien para atraer guardias a una zona para acabar con ellos en rafaga.
Mueres mas veces de las que puedes contar pero todo se reinicia tan rapido que te da mas ganas de seguir intentando que de rendirte, es cierto que muchas veces las muertes me parecen injustas o es que todo pasa tan rapido que no te da tiempo de reaccionar a las balas, hay varios niveles en donde es asi y tienes que intentarlo varias veces por distintas rutas hasta por fin forzar tu camino hacia el final, en la mayoria de las misiones solo tenemos que matar a todos y salir rapido pero hay algunas en donde no podemos matar a nadie y tenemos que escabullirnos.
Un parentesis para hablar del arte de este juego, desde el inicio de la primera mision te das cuenta que todo parece como un sueño, el escenario se mueve de una manera hipnotica para distraernos del objetivo y cada muerte parece mas exagerada que la anterior, las masacres que tenemos que hacer aca son bastante brutales pero los puntos que ganamos con cada muerte aplanan el viaje, creo que ese es el punto de la narrativa de este juego que dire otra vez, no la entiendo demasiado y me falta contexto de la historia, pero aun asi es divertido para pasar una noche.
Game wanted to look like a rescue mission i played back den, same graphics and stats only diff is this is a masaca not a rescue phase
I have seen this videogame in many occasions in some internet pages and the truth is that it looks very interesting, it is a very retro game but it looks fun.
I actually think everyone anticipated it to be so brutal seeing as they marketed it that way.
Not going to lie one bit it is a bit gruesome but I kind of like the idea of it all! Reminds me of gangsters! That mobile game way way back everyone use to play on mobile!