Party Hard 2 Reviews
There is a lot of brutality in the world and we do not like it. But game with party killer is entertaining... at first.
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Party Hard 2 isn't a bad game, but it's not for everyone.
Party Hard 2 is definitely a step up from the original but it's still plagued with dumb AI and gameplay that can be rather tedious at times.
There are undeniably some issues that need to be ironed out, most entertainingly highlighted by NPCs gleefully ignoring murders in one stage so long as they’re performed with a forklift, but the underlying promise here really shines through when everything is working as expected. The biggest issue is that things don’t always work as expected; during one stage that begins by forcing you to kill four bikers with your “ultimate” attack, a randomly-wandering NPC was placed close enough that the police were chasing me seconds in through no fault of my own. You can forget about evading police in Party Hard 2, as well, with the pairs of officers that show up having a preternatural talent for knowing where you are and boxing you in.
I’ve got a laundry list of other minor complaints, like how dumb the “boss fights” are, but the randomness is my biggest issue. It turns what could be an interesting, thoughtful sort of puzzle game into a series of pulls on a slot machine. That’s not necessarily entirely bad, and you can get some fun out of it regardless, but it’s a mixed bag.
I found Party Hard 2 lacking in anything to keep me interested. There are only so many times and so many ways you can kill people to end a party. The whole idea and concept of the game just felt generic and contrived in an attempt to be edgy. I find it very hard to recommend. Party Hard 2 is anything but a party.
In conclusion, Party Hard 2 presents us with a very simple game in mechanics and very, very fun, that yes, it may come to frustrate us on more than one occasion, since it is very, very easy to die (the slightest mistake and goodbye ) and lose tooooodo what we have done having to start again from the beginning, but that is nothing that the first one didn't already have, right? ;) Lastly, the game has a local cooperative mode for two players, but I have not been able to test it since I have no real physical friends to play.
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