And I couldn't even make it to that jumping location without her dying.  So I grabbed MASK; ditto, and I was pretty sure I wanted a character who could fire more than once without reloading.  Coyote, though, I was perfectly happy with, so I stuck with him through the first part of the level.

One thing I noticed about the game was the way it rewards you with more blood for streaks of critical hits; and, for better or for worse, I leveled up Coyote's power enough that, if my aim was particularly sloppy, I would kill too many enemies without landing a critical.  So, in the second half of the level, I decided to give Kevin a try, and avoided leveling up power more than once; the result is that I ended the level with Kevin's critical hit skill maxed out and with over 700 units of blood that I couldn't convert because the blood bank was broken.

So that was a good strategy; of course, that just adds to the weirdness of the game, because it's about the only place so far when trying to think like a normal video game player has actually been useful!

Still haven't tried Con; maybe I'll work on leveling him up next.

On a different note, I was surprised by MASK's voice - he's a huge masked wrestler, whom one would assume is Hispanic (both because of his job and because his name is capitalized, which I guess must be a way of indicating foreignness somehow), but the voice they use is somewhat high-pitched and accent-free.  Yet another expectation subverted.