Completed Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number this week.Its very intensive, frustrating and rewarding all at the same time. But: why can enemies kill you off screen when you can’t see and respond to them!!! Good sound design and music, the sudden stop of the level music once its complete and a change of track is a good feature. I guess it grounds you into realising what you have done to complete the level; sure its a video game and the violence is fictional but its almost as if what you’ve done is impacting the story progression.

I don’t quite understand the story but its seemed interesting and has some depth that’s probably worth delving into when I go through again on Hard mode.

I also went back to the Splatoon series this weekend. Was Splatoon 1’s 11th anniversary so I hopped into the Pretendo servers for a bit. Seems to be a reasonable amount still playing and possibly new players judging from the player levels. Though it could be long-term players trying a new save instead of porting their old one over, though others have (including me). I had my Splatoon 3 muscle memory after over a year after not playing, was nice to see that my skill level didn’t drop. Though the issue of being on a losing streak when playing with a less aggressive gear-set is still there. Will be good to just hop in Splatoon 3 every now and then for some intensive matches and it was also nice to re-remember all the lore that honestly got me fascinated with the series. Though looking back into it raises some questions into how the English localisation severely differs and portrays some of the world differently, some of it worryingly.