This is a good compromise as it always hurt me to allow the game to play through
the tougher sections of the game.
Not exact matches
While the four -
game stretch to close the season is the
toughest section of the schedule, these two stand out.
This
section can be
tough to judge only because the
game can be quite frustrating at times due to the high amount
of simulation that is involved in the
game.
A save - anywhere system is all thats needed to make hordes
of Hotline Miami players stick with it through the
tough sections — though we're guessing that wont be a feature in the
games upcoming PS3 and Vita port.
In the developers defense it's clear that this style
of checkpoint system as intended to complement the survival - horror nature
of the
game by making it
tougher on the player, which would have been great, except that the checkpoint doesn't make the
game tougher, it just makes it more bloody infuriating when you've got to replay an entire
section because your lead pipe passed through a zombie, or because
of some other daft thing.
In
tougher fights against stronger enemies, this can be a real hindrance and be the cause
of many harsh spikes in difficulty in early
sections of the
game.
You can go back and find all the collectibles, opt for a
tougher difficulty, or play through again with Autobots that you previously didn't use in certain
sections on your first play through, although there's still no getting away from the brevity
of the
game.
Sure, having to take care
of Ashley is rather frustrating, especially when you get through a
tough section only to accidentally knife her and get a
Game Over.
We have a new launch trailer detailing some
of the 3D focused gameplay, including some
of the
tougher level
sections that you'll be encountering in the
game!
That
section of the
game is a tutorial, there aren't any
tough bad guys to face, and it would have been a solid introduction to the mechanic
of durability and the notion
of swapping your weapons around.
Some are rewards for
tough sections - it wouldn't be a Mario
game if it didn't get hard - but many more are well hidden or seemingly placed out
of reach.
When you load up a particularly
tough section in a
game, you can invite a more experienced buddy from your friends list to take control
of your console remotely and do the dirty work for you.