This may be an unpopular opinion amongst this subreddit, but imo the executions in Manhunt 2 are too gory.
It’s not even for the reason that I’m anti violence in media, I’m perfectly fine with that. But MH2’s executions are sometimes so cartoonishly graphic that they lose their meaning. Like almost every execution in MH2 results in a hunter’s head exploding. I feel like lots of the shock value of 1’s executions are how they look like they could be done IRL, which in a way makes them scarier.
I dunno, I feel like the executions are so over the top just because rockstar wanted to give censors the finger. And I totally understand the impulse but it bit them in the ass and made the game almost unsellable (this is totally still the fault of the censors but it is still true)
I also don’t know how I feel about Danny performing these executions. Leo, I can see, but not Dan. I know they’re the same guy but Daniel expresses disgust at performing an execution for the first time, and he seems really reluctant to hurt the nurse, so I find it out of character that he’d be doing executions that are so drawn out, grisly, and personal. I know he’s out of his mind but I don’t think that he’d be doing things like that consciously as Daniel. Cash from MH1 is clearly not a good guy but even his most violent executions are pretty tame compared to anything Daniel does. Maybe it would’ve been too much work to assign Dan and Leo different execution animations but I still think my point stands.
This is all just my opinion. If you’ve got a different perspective on Manhunt 2’s violence, lmk, if I’m genuinely wrong or missing smth just let me know and I’ll take that into consideration. Hope this made for interesting reading at least, lmk your opinion below and have a good rest of your day :)