It’s not so much Hotline Miami had a good story as much as that it had a story so vague and sparse that it allowed players to fill a lot of the blanks. Hotline Miami was praised for its story, but I feel that the acclaim wasn’t entirely accurate. Then, rather than fade to black and go to the next level, the music stopped, replaced by a single low note, and you are tasked with walking back to your car, passing the mangled bodies of your victims as you walked away. You died, and died a lot, but with a press of the button you can restart the level so the rhythm, fueled by a fantastic techno soundtrack, did not slow down until you finished the level. Save a few exceptions, enemies die with one hit, as does the player. The gameplay consisted of racing through the level in a top down view, picking up weapons and trying to plan and improvise, and dying a lot. Hotline Miami was a game in which the main character murdered entire buildings filled with Russian gangsters under the instructions of cryptic phone calls he received. To talk about Hotline Miami 2, I feel it is necessary to speak a little bit on what made the original game so popular. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is a worthy successor to the original game, even though there were some missteps in the design. So how did they do? Well, in general they did well. Triple A franchises lose sight of what made their games great all the time.
Once the high of the game’s initial success and acclaim passed the pressure was on them to deliver a sequel that would live up to the hype created by their first game while still making something that was bigger and better and that remains true to what made the first game great.That is a hard balance to keep. A game started by a team of two programmers, it quickly gathered attention and a dedicated following due to its fast-paced, old school arcade game play and highly stylized and intense violence. Jonatan Söderström and Dennis Wedin quickly became indie darlings as Hotline Miami became one of the many examples of what the indie scene was capable of. The original Hotline Miami was released during the beginning of the indie surge of 2012.
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