It’s a slightly unfair advantage, but serves to balance out the leap in difficulty that comes with Hotline Miami 2’s more sizable maps. Pushing the lock-on button instantly targets the enemy closest to your cursor if the enemy is outside your range of vision, a red arrow appears to point you to him until you either undo lock-on or track him down. What saves it from being overly frustrating are a few new ways of dealing with distant threats: most notably an improved lock-on system. There were several points when clearing even half an area became a painstaking task, and in a game where all of that progress can be destroyed in an instant by an off-screen enemy with a shotgun, it’s really tough. These large-levels can end up feeling a little too imposing for their own good.
This is an interesting change of pace that demands a new, more cautious approach. Where Hotline Miami 1 had you shooting, stabbing, and bludgeoning enemies in a series of small rooms and hallways, Hotline Miami 2 isn’t afraid to drop you into vast, open areas, where danger lurks outside the boundaries of your screen. What’s changed most is the scale of the levels. Hotline Miami 2 carries on the same top-down twitch-shooter gameplay and ultra-violent retro art style of the original, shifted only slightly to make things feel fresh.
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