Hotline Miami 2 is a bad game

~~~General~~~
-Weapon pickup mechanic is faulty and breaks when near walls for seemingly no reason
-Camera control near the edges of some screens is forcibly taken away from the player, disorienting both their aim and movement
-The delayed checkpoint system makes restarting certain screens significantly more dangerous than others
-The delayed checkpoint system can potentially softlock the game on numerous screens
-AI response times, while more consistent, disapprove of any use melee throughout levels over using a firearm
-AI gunmen walking away from the character when too close commonly pass through them, making their movement difficult to predict
-AI's consistent reactions to gunshots make using melee or low ammo count/ silenced weapons even less viable
-All firearm accuracy has been significantly reduced
-All bullets were slowed down making peeking out from corners the dominant strategy against gunmen in all circumstances
-AI respond so fast to gunshots that if on the other side of a door they will pass through it and get shot before it's finished opening
-Guns generally fall into two categories: the two good guns (AK/ Mendoza), or guns you use when you don't have the two good guns
-Fat people's rebooted health system only makes them more obnoxious in dealing with
-Terrible hitboxes make getting around certain corners/ through certain doorways needlessly difficult
-The significant nerf to the corner pushing system makes the game play feel far more clunky than the original
-Most executions have been needlessly elongated making knocking down enemies more time consuming and risky than ever before
-Executions still CAN be useful depending on the weapon drops you get in a level, making some strategies luck dependent
-Some firearms outperform others in all circumstances, meaning that certain strategies are significantly effected by weapon luck
-Certain corners allow for melee enemies to pass through them and attack safely from any incoming attacks from the player
-Hotline 2 has a tendency to not shut down correctly, needing you to open task manager before opening the game again
-Thrown weapons do not bounce off of walls and instead will immediately stop midair on their invisible hitboxes
-The player and wall's hitboxes at corners regularly allow you to be shot around them after taking cover
-The developers even slightly encourage the concept of unironically using a controller to play Hotline; unforgivable

~~~Characters~~~
-Corey's roll is semiuseless against melee enemies as they'll continue to follow you until your roll wears off and then kill you
-Corey's roll can't turn so it's useless at approaching any enemy who is behind something
-Corey cannot roll when standing over a knocked down enemy
-Tony has zero ranged options and, coupled with the heavy reliance on gunplay and wide open areas, is effectively useless
-Mark's smgs cannot be dropped until empty, so they must be used before any other option
-One of Mark's greatest strengths, shooting through walls, is just an unintentional glitch
-Alex suffers from the same problem as Tony, except she has a mentally handicapped swan following her
-Ash's AI consistently breaks and prevents him from moving through certain areas
-Ash's AI only loosely follows the player; coupled with him randomly stopping makes precise control of him nearly impossible
-Jake received heavy nerfs because of the changed thrown weapon physics, rendering him significantly less useful
-Jake's thrown weapons now stop when they kill an enemy and are only able to kill one enemy per throw
-Irvin is a nerfed version of Richter from the first game
-Dallas is a gimmicky version of Tony and as such is still completely useless
-Richter has a decreasingly slow rate of fire with pump shotguns for no reason
-Richter seems to have lost his silenced uzi from the first game
-The Soldier's rifle is just a worse version of the machine gun
-The Son's executions tend to take even longer than normal
-Evan's blood rage mode takes a long while to activate for very little benefit since most enemies can just be lured at corners
-The Pig Butcher, Mark, and Jake are fat, so they have larger hitboxes, use weapons differently, and have different executions

~~~Pilot~~~
-The tutorial is irrelevant once the controls are understood, but significantly longer than in the original
-Hotline 2's tutorial has no option for skipping it like in the original

~~~Down Under~~~
-Poor prop placement at corners
-Large open areas with random roaming gunmen
-Useful weapons placed in non-useful places

~~~Homicide~~~
-Doors in tight corridors on the second floor constantly knock enemies down unavoidably
-Patrolling gunmen in open hallways outside your vision

~~~Hard News~~~
-Windows everywhere
-Very large rooms and lines of sight coupled with random roaming/ patrolling gunmen
-Large closed off rooms with room for random roaming AI to be too far away to respond to gunshots
-Large amounts of bullet stopping props that are basically worthless
-Long lines of sight through multiple windows with multiple gunmen behind them
-Numerous props placed in the centers of rooms limiting movement to just the perimeter

~~~Final Cut~~~
-Very large hallways with random roaming gunmen
-Potential to crash to desktop on the final screen
-Plants that completely visually cover enemies in the middle of a room

~~~First Trial~~~
-Bushes that can cover the random roaming AI around corners

~~~Moving Up~~~
-Cramped corridors lead to numerous knockdowns in doorways and numerous lures from a single gunshot
-Final floor renders melee completely unplayable and forces strict gun use the entire way through
-Unless rationing shots with Mark, the final floor's fastest strategy is luck dependent on getting multiple uzis

~~~No Mercy~~~
-Misaligned doorways make walking through the first floor significantly

~~~Execution~~~
-The layout of both floors require backtracking to clear each floor

~~~Ambush~~~
-The positions of random roaming AI can make knockdowns in some doorways unavoidable

~~~Into The Pit~~~
-The entire level just gets skipped because of awful programming
-The rest of it consists of very large open rooms connected by very large hallways with numerous gunmen out of line of sight

~~~Dead Ahead~~~
-The layouts of the levels require hopping from gun to gun, making the level very dependent on weapon luck

~~~Death Wish~~~
-http://pastebin.com/JL1wYs9r

~~~Subway~~~
-There's a chance the very first enemy will be knocked down flat instead of against a wall, wasting time
-Random roaming AI can negatively effect some routes through the level

~~~Stronghold~~~
-VERY large levels with no way to effectively kill enemies at range makes clearing them out take forever
-Open areas/ long hallways with gunmen out of your vision

~~~Withdrawal~~~
-Has the potential to soft lock on the final floor
-Explosions on multiple floors are more visually distracting than in the original as well as not killing many enemies
-Enemies get lured during the explosion and immediately run through the room while it's still combusting

~~~Casualties~~~
-VERY large open areas with numerous random roaming/ patrolling gunmen

~~~First Blood~~~
-Gun luck significantly changes the opening of the first floor
-The random roaming gunman on the first floor cannot be safely approached with melee, only with a gun or thrown weapon

~~~Demolition~~~
-Random roaming AI on the first floor can make the fast strategy impossible to do
-Inconsistent AI sometimes see you through small gaps and doorways; other times they don't

~~~House Call~~~
-Large windows and hallways make knockdowns and gun luck infuriating

~~~Release~~~
-Prisoners regularly grab and kill you through walls
-Contains the Biker 2.0 boss fight; almost as poorly handled as the first
-https://www.twitch.tv/dingodrole/v/8571453

~~~Seizure~~~
-Black enemies on a black floor with dimmed lights
-Bushes covering potential hiding spots for random roaming gunmen
-Very long hallways with plenty of random roaming AI nearby

~~~Blood Money~~~
-The largest rooms in the world with white tile flooring making keeping track of your cursor a pain
-The entire level focuses 100% on guns and discourages the use of melee at literally every point of every screen

~~~Caught~~~
-Random roaming AI can make getting a gun on the first floor very tedious and luck dependent

~~~Takeover~~~
-Very large screens with large open areas
-Lots of windows and large hallways filled with gunmen
-So long that playing through it can feel tedious nearing the end since you have to scour every corner to clear every level

~~~Apocalypse~~~
-Reversed controls were needlessly removed because entertaining gameplay is not the focus of Hotline 2

~~~Editor~~~
-Not done
-https://www.twitch.tv/snowfats/v/29341549