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Max Payne Replay |
Max Payne is still a great game to play even 23 years later. However, it was a lot shorter than I remember. It barely took 5 hours to get through. But this was after fixing the broken “adaptive difficulty” in the Steam version which reverts to the hardest mode after a few deaths. I thought it felt more difficult than I remembered. Once this was fixed I blew through the last act in no time. Another thing that differed from what I remembered was that his shoot-dodge jumps were much lower and less epic than I expected. But I guess they just ramped them up a lot in the sequels. It felt like I was just sliding across the floor most of the time in this one. I also understood more of the Norse mythology this time round like the death of Detective Balder kicking off Max going to RagnaRock. Alfred Woden has one eye and is all-powerful. Despite this and some mild early 2000s PC game jank, still one worth revisiting.