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[Catastrophic lolcats]

Casualties is kicking my arse like there's no tomorrow. Couldn't even finish the bastard.

Use the sniper rifle to take out the fatties/troublesome AK troopers and shank the lesser Ruskies while using the buildings/environment as cover.

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[Cowboy Colt]

I feel like way to often I have to kite enemies so I don't get shot the moment I enter a room.

It's not exactly spoiling the experience, but it is making it increasingly frustrating.

[nenjin]

It's just because you're almost required to die 10 times in levels like those to get a sense of where the gun patrols and shooters camped at windows are.

I think I broke 1000 deaths before I was even halfway done with the game.

[nenjin]

Found what seems like a pretty tight analysis of the storyline, as far as the non-mystical elements go. It should go without saying it contains ALL TEH SPOILERS, but there, I've said it. Be prepared for a critical lack of paragraphs when you need them most.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/274170/discussions/0/617330227194121372/#p6

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The deconstruction of what the game's sub-title means makes a lot of sense. The game is about the aftermath of Jacket (rather than Helmet) going to the wrong address and allowing 50 Blessings to pull off its plan. If the guy's analysis is correct (and fuck if I'm going to try to verify it), I probably should find Dennation's cryptic delivery of the story masterful. But I don't really feel that way. Maybe partly because the game's ending leaves such a vacuum of consequence. And again, if he's accurate in his assessment, it's just sort of reaffirms the game has been trying to teach the characters/players to abhor violence as both pointless and ultimately self-destructive.

Though I've kinda swore off reading RPS, their RPS Verdict chat did kind of soften my position on the game mechanics. Not by much, if I'm honest, but a little. Whether you like Hotline Miami 2 kind of comes down to whether you prefer the free form style of the first game, or the exacting execution requirements of the second.

[NobodyPro]

The first floor of Demolition, now that's an action puzzle.

[Cowboy Colt]

Overcame those final few levels and while I think the original was a tighter experience, they tried more interesting stuff this time around.

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OH AND ENDING ON BLOOD! SWEET MOLEY!

[Rolan7]

Yeesh, I forgot how awful the level design in this is.  Just replayed Moving Up (the fans rescue the girl) on normal.  It's... guess and check and remember.  The flow from the first is gone.

Which is awful because the music is excellent, I love the characters, and the plots are pretty good.  And a lot of the game is still fun, but just...  Long hallway with gunman at the end is just bad design.  Baiting people around corners gets so tedious, compared to the first.

Still really glad I played this.  And I actually don't regret completing the hard mode, but only because it felt good to get really angry at a thing (instead of people).  Same reason I played more than 5 minutes of slippy fuck repetition, I mean Super Meat Boy.

Also, I played the Reporter's first mission first (the mission before Moving Up).  It was pretty easy on normal, and I just love how he unloads the guns.  Reminds me of this: http://www.doctorshrugs.com/foxhound/comic.php?id=294
Ah, Last Days of Foxhound...  I still consider it more canon than any of the actual MGS games.

Anyway yeah, HM2 has a rad plot with great trimmings and fresh mechanics.  But the level design makes my head hurt.

[Fniff]

So, I've been screwing around in the alpha level editor (If you want to check it out yourself, which I recommend you do if you have a copy of the game, Reddit can help!) and I really enjoy making levels. It's annoying how long the final version of the level editor seems to be taking, though.
Anyone else made any levels in it?

[Rolan7]

Sorry, I haven't.  I wonder if the user-made levels are less BS than the included ones?

Damn, the music is incredible though.  "The Way Home" could have been called "Forlorn Hope" instead, but it works either way.
https://youtu.be/my1vupvCgwA?t=7954
Holding on to hope that you know is fake...  Somehow taking comfort in it.  I think the track captures that.