Hotline Miami is the first time I can think of a game’s violence’s made me say “Holy shit” out loud.
One of the new enemies, a police commando, combat rolls around the level in his body armour, pointing two Magnum revolvers ahead of him wherever he goes. You have to shoot him to the ground with gun fire and then execute him where he lies - you pull and tear at his head, listening to the ligaments pop before the skin rips and the head comes free, trailing about a foot of spinal cord.
It’s more bloody, more ambitious, and more experimental than its predecessor. But is it any good?
