The other cores aren’t slouches, either, though I must admit that I wasn’t too keen on CHARGE overall, it requiring a lot of foresight so you don’t teleport into a bad situation. It’s hard to describe just how satisfying the katana is to use in MIND CONTROL DELETE, especially when you have a bevy of hacks backing it up. For RECALL, the best core of the lot, you can unlock a hack that will send your katana hurtling through multiple enemies, while another hack lets you recall the katana while striking every red guy on its way back to your hand.
Luckily for you, random hacks appear at intervals throughout nodes and they range from simply refilling your hearts right the way up to completely changing the effectiveness of your cores. It’s more than a little tense when you are crawling your way to the finish line of an especially long node with just one heart left. While the extra comfort blanket might sound like it makes the game easier, it really doesn’t when these gauntlets get longer and with wilder stipulations than the original. You are given two hearts by default to make your way through a series of levels in a node with, and should you fail, you will then have to start the gauntlet over, this time with different levels. In perhaps the most substantial change from the formula, SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE isn’t a one-hit kill game for everyone involved any more. CHARGE pretty much teleports you to an enemy and punches them in the face, RECALL lets you return a thrown katana to your hand, HOTSWITCH returns from the original and sees you changing bodies with a red guy, while MORE gives you more hearts to get through the gauntlet of levels with. These cores mix things up in a huge way, each basically acting as a different superpower that you need to tactically use due to their cooldown. Where MIND CONTROL DELETE changes things up most dramatically is in the new skills it gives you, coming mainly in the form of cores.
It takes a minute to get used to and understand the beats of the action, but it’s hard to step back once you do, dashing around after planning your digital murder spree way in advance. Enemies move very slowly while you are static before speeding up when you do anything, making each level feel like a chessboard in slow motion. Even though I have already played SUPERHOT to death on Xbox One and Switch, as well as a worrying amount of time in VR via PlayStation VR, the bullet time brilliance never really gets old for me. The main hook of SUPERHOT remains as potent and addictive as ever.
It’s not quite a full-fledged sequel, it instead being a continuation of the first game where you try to stop being assimilated by an AI all while enjoying the new skills said AI gives you. SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE is the follow-up to that madness, a standalone game that maintains the empowering spirit while also adding some roguelike elements on top of new powers and scenarios. Backed by a quietly excellent story about the dangers of immersive technology, it’s a game with almost infinite replayability, especially if you’re dashing around and slicing heads in its VR version. Time speeds up when you move, leading to rooms becoming violent puzzles as you look to clear every red guy standing in your way. There haven’t been many indie games this past decade that have nailed their concept quite as well as 2016’s SUPERHOT, one of the most innovative shooters in years.
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