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Hotline Miami (2012)

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You guys suggested I play it so here it is! This my first time playing Hotline Miami so let's see how I do! If you have any other games to suggest I greatly appreciate your involvement with my game choices and you are definitely appreciated! Thanks so much for supporting me, everyone!

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Song(s): 'Can't Go Home Again, Baby'
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Hotline Miami is a 2D top-down action video game by Dennaton Games, a team composed of Jonatan Söderström and Dennis Wedin, who had previously collaborated on Keyboard Drumset Fucking Werewolf.[a] The game is being published by Devolver Digital and was released on 23 October 2012 for Windows.[1] The game has been described by Eurogamer as "a top-down fuck-'em-up",[2] blending top down perspective with stealth, extreme violence and surreal storytelling, along with a soundtrack and visuals influenced by 1980s culture. The game itself was heavily influenced by Nicolas Winding Refn's neo-noir crime drama film Drive (2011); the director is specifically thanked in the credits.

Hotline Miami is divided into several chapters, each of which is further broken down into several stages. At the start of each chapter, the unnamed protagonist wakes up in his apartment and listens to cryptic messages on his answering machine. These messages tell him to perform an arbitrary task at a certain location, which in each case is inferred as a metaphor for killing every person at that location. Prior to commencing a new mission, the player is asked to select an animal mask to wear; each of which provides unique advantages or handicaps. In each stage, the player navigates a building from a top-down perspective, and the goal is almost always to kill every opponent therein. Occasionally the player must also defeat a boss at the end of the chapter or find key items as they explore, but most levels are very straightforward. The player has access to a wide variety of melee, thrown, and ranged weapons, and will need to handle challenges through either stealthy tactics or overwhelming force. The player character is no more resilient than the enemies, however, so any mistake is usually fatal. Enemy AI varies slightly, causing them to occasionally move unpredictably, making it difficult to plan a perfect approach. To make up for this, the game allows the player to restart each stage the moment they die, allowing them to quickly fine-tune their approach over several attempts. The game grades the player's performance at the end of each chapter based on a number of factors, also granting them points that unlock more weapons, and may also unlock additional masks depending on their score.

Hotline Miami employs an unreliable narrator and events are sometimes presented out of chronological order. The player takes the role of an unknown man; he is frequently referred to as "Jacket" by fans due to his distinctive letterman jacket, but he is never referred to by this or any other name in the game. He is plagued by visions involving three masked strangers who discuss Jacket's identity and his actions. Jacket wakes up in his apartment on April 3, 1989. He receives a message on his phone about a delivered package of cookies and how he should read the list of ingredients. Jacket finds the package outside which contains an animal mask ('Richard') and instructions to retrieve a briefcase at a certain location while eliminating everyone there. After completing this task, Jacket continues to get more of these messages and follows their orders. After each 'job', he stops at either a bar, pizza place, deli, or video store. He finds the same bearded man working at each store and Jacket is given everything he wants free of charge along with praise and encouragement regarding the murders; over time, these encounters become increasingly surreal and distorted. Following a voicemail directing him to the estate of a movie producer, Jacket rescues a prostitute and brings her home. Jacket begins a relationship with this woman and continues to murder mobsters at the request of the ominous messages.

While clearing out a condo of mobsters, Jacket receives a phone call insisting he come to the phone company's office. When he arrives, he finds everyone in the building dead except for a man wearing a biker helmet, investigating the company's files. The two fight; at this point, the story splits along two paths.

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