Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number

The first Hotline Miami was very enjoyable. Weird, trippy story, action-heavy gameplay, not much unnecessary clutter, little frustration potential. With this second one, the developers pretty much made everything worse. They added a story that is so fractured and pointless that I never even bothered to care. They added missions that you are forced to play on a certain way, stripped from all the stuff that made the first game fun to play. They made lots of the levels so long and frustrating that it drains all the fun. Huge open spaces that will get you killed from enemies walking offscreen or even hidden below overlaid decorative stuff. Most maps feature glass panels everywhere. They managed to make the controls WORSE. Your mouse control gets distorted at the boders of the map, whoch will cause you to miss important shots. There are also lots of instances where your bullets get caught by doorways and walls, while it looks like you are already standing in the open. I had lots of fun in the first game with dying again and again, because you always managed to get a bit better and and further. But in this game, it's just frustrating, because the levels tend to be extremely unforgiving and all the issues explained above will cause you to fail again and again. This isn't fun for me. I'm towards the end of the story missions right now. No idea of I manage to finish the game. I got the game pretty cheap, so I won't complain, but... yeah.. no recommendation.