Still hits! Mechanically simple but still feels really good to kill 4 dudes in one slow-mo dive. Stylistically a lot of Remedy's tricks are already here - genre pastiche, little bit of 4th-wall-breaking, moody environments, storyline that keeps you moving from one setpiece to the other and performances that straddle the line of intentionally over-the-top (I didn't really catch how funny this game was when I was younger) and legitimately good. You can see the beginning of the Ashtray Maze in this game's nightmare sequences (which are absolutely awful and the main reason I never finished this game back in the day, so thank god they got better at this sort of thing). Shout-out to the comic book cutscenes which are so fun and stylish as well as an incredibly smart cost-cutting measure. Some bullshit levels and the plot gets really goofy but confident and impressive overall.

Reviewed on Feb 09, 2024


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