Intravenous

Понравилось, даже несмотря на свою нелюбовь к играм с видом сверху.

[i]asterisk signs are used for minor details and notes[/i] ---{ Graphics/Design }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Masterpiece ☑ Beautiful ☑ An original artistic direction ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ normal ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS + interesting artstyle +- while I really like the graphics and artstyle, I sometimes had issue with seeing some things I can interact with and the level "structure" ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Won’t ever touch any other game anymore ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Tic Tac toe is better ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't + pretty nice weapon variety, although I'd appreciate more (completely) silenced options + being able to choose your own loadout is pretty nice BUT (point below) +- don't know if it's just me, but I felt like some of the maps were a bit too big, especially felt like that in the first few missions and generally because of the top-down camera would be kinda cool to have like a rough sketch of the map available during the breefing, and possibly add some kind of intel on lower difficulty levels +- no matter if you're going against junkies, average people or trained gang members/hitmans, they'll always have pretty great aim and all of them are apparently marathon runners at the same time, their behaviour can be quite smart at times - if they know you're somewhere close, they might back off into a better position and wait for you/backup - some of the more "modern" stealth mechanics don't really transfer as well into the top-down style - the goals are pretty much always the same: get to X point, kill X person, exfiltrate There are only 3 levels that kinda change the formula and are basically the "John Wick" levels, but at the same time, they're the hardest to stealth through (especially on Masochist difficulty) - once you're spotted, there's basically no way to go back undercover except for reloading earlier save/restarting mission * pretty minor issue but while doing stealth and using throwing knives: if you throw them, you'll automatically equip the next tool when you pick them up, you won't automatically equip them * being able to use your mic to make noise is interesting, but feels kinda useless * would be nice if you could have two equipment slots - one for weapons and one for tools (grenades, taser, etc.) instead of it all being in one slot ---{ Replayability }--- ☐ A one-time experience ☑ For achievements ☐ If you wait a few months/years (or with mods) ☑ Definitely ☐ Infinitely replayable (or almost) + definitely a lot of replayability with how many tools (weapons) you get, how many ways you can approach your goal(s) AND workshop support ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf + pretty much each weapon has its own unique sound ---{ Music }--- ☐ Just filling noises/No music ☐ Trivial and uneventful ☐ Decent Soundtrack ☑ Good and/or fitting the game's artistic dispositions ☑ Great ☐ Memorable ☐ Peak ☐ Transcending whispers of a forgotten world +- the music is pretty great, but if you're going to go stealth like me, you'll probably miss most of the "action" tracks ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma + strong language, violence and overall quite high difficulty ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☑ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ average ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer + should be able to play it on anything ---{ Game Size }--- ☑ Floppy Disk (<1gb) ☐ Old Fashioned (1-9gb) ☐ Workable (10-49gb) ☐ Big (50-99gb) ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an enitre hard drive to hold it + 534mb ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ My 90 year old grandma could play it ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Medium ☑ Hard ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ☐ Team Ninja games + probably the "best way" to experience the game is to play on the "True" difficulty and go with stealth approach + there's quite few elements that can make the game harder (mostly in a good way) lighting level, walking noise, cameras, enemies wearing different armor, dead bodies leaving blood trails or weapon noise +- generally going loud is definitely the easier approach on any difficulty, but the gunplay is also pretty nice ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☑ Required for achievement hunting ☑ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Minor grind ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second live for grinding ---{ Story/World }--- ☐ No Story ☑ Some lore ☐ It's there for people who want it ☐ Bizarre ☑ Average ☐ Well written ☐ Good ☐ Very Good ☐ Leading to more in-depth researches/thoughts ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life +- pretty much just a classic revenge story ala John Wick with few twists, but it works well enough ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee (<2 hours) ☑ Short (3-10 hours) ☐ Average (11-25 hours) ☐ Long (26-50 hours) ☐ I have to ask my boss for vacation time (51-99 hours) ☐ To infinity and beyond (100+ hours/doesn't have an "end") + first (blind) playthrough took me 6.5 hours (steam playtime) ---{ Achievements }--- ☐ No achievements ☐ Obtainable just by playing ☑ Requires multiple playthroughs ☑ Minor grind ☐ Some grind ☐ Significant grind ☐ Too much grind ☐ Requires co-op/multiplayer ☐ Requires DLC(s) ☐ Can't be obtained anymore ☑ Hard to obtain (specific playstyle/challenge) ☐ Completionist ☐ Missable ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Fixable ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ☐ Hollow Knight +- the only "kind of" bugs I've experienced was: I was in prone under a window and the enemy still saw me Some enemies (unconscious/dead bodies) couldn't be interacted with ---{ 7 / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☑ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10 ☐ 1̷̤̃1̸̢̤͗̓ Hotline Splinter Solid - combination that works surprisingly mostly well. can be rough around the edges with some of the mechanics, difficulty and design choices, but it's still a pretty nice game if you want to try some a bit new/unusual genre combination.

Amazing game.

I finally took the time to play this game and as an absolute fan of the original splinter cell PS2 games I didn't think I would come across a game that has the same feeling in the stealth options. Apart from some issues with wild doors and some AIs who just seemed to have developed a spider sense ( added at the very frustrating combat parts on some mission where you are forced to knock / kill ), it still was a great experience and I will surely take the time to do all the remaining achievements and play the next as well as the third upcoming title !

It's hard but still love this game! :)

this game is simply amazing, i think i first pirated this game but decided to buy it later to support the goated devs

has a good difficulty to it always have a "agh" moment.

Played on Linux using Steam Proton 10.0-4. Estimated completion time between 20 and 25 hours. Both a nervous and stealth-oriented game depending on your playstyle. Both challenging and forgiving, the campaing isn't too long, and the difficulty levels makes this game quite replayable with a New Game+ feature. Overall, a nice little game to play when you have 1-2 hours of free-time.

this game is hard if you suck ♥♥♥♥ at hotline miami and suck ass at stealth games in general, 10/10 expereience

very fun game, the stealth is amazing and honestly the game just looks great and plays great, the stealth is very thought through on each map and you dont always need to be stealthy, one of the best parts of this game is you get to choose your playstyle yea you can be really stealthy or you can be loud and kill everyone or if you wanted to you could literally not kill a single enemy, game is easily in my top 5 as of now its simply an amazing game.