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Hotline Miami
04-10-16 07:56 AM
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Do you like killing people? (HLM Review)
Hotline Miami is an indie game from 2012 made by Dennaton games, which is based in Russia. It's known for its difficult, fast-paced gameplay and having a killer soundtrack. The devs loved this game so much, that they released a patch for the PIRATED version of Hotline Miami. I bought this game on sale along with Hotline Miami 2 and here's my opinion on it.
Graphics - 7: Yes, I know it's a purposely retro game, and thus has 16-ish bit graphics.But sometimes it isn't the cleanest, and they can get in the way sometimes. If you kill multiple enemies at once, you could have missed on, and they would be stunned instead of killed. Then, they'd rise up and sneakily kill you. But other than that, it looks pretty good. The Disco level, in particular is one of the better looking levels (because of all the colors).
Sound - 10: If I could give this a higher grade, I would. The soundtrack for Hotline Miami is infamous for being extremely good, and is one of the main reasons to keep going after you keep dying every few seconds. Some of the best tracks for me are:
Hydrogen - M.O.O.N Miami - Jasper Byrne
Paris - M.O.O.N Miami Disco - Perturbator
Inner Animal - Scattle Electric Dreams - Perturbator
There's other good tracks, just you have to find them yourself! Some of the songs (in particular Scattle's and possibly Perturbator's Miami Disco) were made directly for Hotline Miami, with Scattle releasing all of his HLM songs as an EP and Perturbator making 4 other songs to go with Miami Disco in an EP. Strangely enough, one of the tracks off of that EP got into Hotline Miami 2.
Addictiveness - 6: Given you are going to die frequently, it has to have some sort of addictiveness. Again, the fantastic soundtrack really help with that, and having a simple keypress to restart also makes it easier ... Read the rest of this Review
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AKIBA'S TRIP: Undead & Undressed
01-02-16 11:15 PM
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Akiba's Trip: Undead and Undressed Review
Am I even allowed to be doing this, I mean it was in the retro game room so I suppose so
So, like most of you, I got a massive haul from the current Steam Sale for the Christmas season. Neptunia 1-3, Valkyria Chronicles, Killer is Dead, Saints Row IV, LA Noire, and LEGO Star Wars, and of course, Akiba's Trip. I originally wanted to to buy Akiba's Trip when I simply found that it was a) made by Xseed, who did Senran Kagura, and b) John Cena. Strangely, While I went into this expecting this thing to be basically a console version of Senran Kagura, because you strip people and there's massive amounts of fanservice, with ridiculous jiggle physics and pantyshots and the like. Was I right?
GRAPHICS - 7: So this game came out in what, 2013? And for the PS3? in terms of other games that came out by then, this doesn't look that graphically advanced. It reminds me of a more advanced version of the graphics from Jet Set Radio. Well, they both take place in a busy Japanese urban area. The only difference is that JSR actually takes place at night. I would have loved for the game to have some sort of time progress shown, because its always 12 noon. Maybe some battles at night? Or some cutscenes at night. The places look very samey after a while, even though there is about, 10 or so areas you can see. It is based on a real life area in Japan, Akibahara (2012-2013), so it gets a pass on that.
SOUND - 5: I... didn't spend too much time listening to the music, mostly because I was too busy getting back on track because the PC version crashes in very inopportune moments... a lot. I listened to mostly No More Heroes music which is pretty top-notch. But from what I heard, its nothing special. just a bit of rock, techno. I wouldn't doubt that its mostly Japanese inspired music, because this game loves to throw Japanese culture at you. Then again, this game is based on a real life location, so its kind of hard to not do that.
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