Well, it’s finally time to dive into the hole. When it comes to indie games, it isn’t long before Ты find yourself playing a Devolver game. From Ruiner to Red Strings Club to The Swords of Ditto, a completely different game by them. But we’re talking about their most Популярное game. Starting as a company that worked on Serious Sam games, Devolver managed to really make a name for themselves as the indie publishing company when they released their biggest hit, Hotline Miami. And today is the день we finally talk about this over violent, difficult and insane вверх down action game



Hotline Miami is set in a very 80s Miami where Ты play as Jacket. Everything is all neon and synthwave and the Музыка sounds like a club party after the owner just finished enjoying a nice ten pound bag of Tony Montana cocaine. Ты play as Jacket, a typical man who does an honest work and does it good. And by that, I mean he is a relentless serial killer who murders as many Russian mobsters he can with extreme violence because a voice on the phone told him to. Throughout the game, Ты will be дана very subtle hints to what’s going on in the story, but most of the time, you’ll just be going along with the flow of the game, killing all the enemies in the room before moving on to the Далее area. At the start of each level, Ты have a choice of masks to wear. Each one can really help Ты out in a level if Ты are getting messed up relentlessly by enemies. Some of my избранное are the ability to kill an enemy with a door, или firearms that are silenced so enemies don’t hear. Once Ты start, the game already shows it isn’t messing around. Ты got your fists, and whatever weapon Ты can pick up from melee weapons to guns. Hit an enemy once and they are еще than likely dead. But Ты die in one hit as well, so make sure they are really dead by smacking them with your weapon или just beating them relentlessly until they drop. For a game with a 16 bit style, it is insanely gory. Heads getting cut off, people’s guts getting shot out. It’s nasty stuff, honestly. But it works well, and the visuals themselves are really nice. Every area and every character just radiates with style and flare from the 1980s. I look at this and my mind immediately goes to games like Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. It just needs some classic 80s Музыка like Hall and Oates and RATT and it’s perfect.
I hear a lot of people talk about the difficulty of the game and how it can be unfair at times. Challenging… yes. Unfair, however, is a bit much. Ты have the masks that can help, and hell, if Ты use the one that makes doors lethal, Ты can wait for an enemy to walk to the door, burst in quickly to kill them with сказал(-а) door and then run out before others see and then continue the process until they die. But most of the time, you’ll have to plan your moves. Ты can’t run in and expect to win. Enemies are armed and are prepared to kill on sight. Ты gotta take out everyone quickly and effectively and keep on moving to the Далее one. No slowing down. That said, the bouncers suck and I hate them. No one should be that strong to melee attacks and Переместить that fast. And the story is something that I was genuinely interested in. When it comes to these sort of fast moving action games, most of the time, the story is секунда to the gameplay. But Hotline Miami kept both in mind and had similar effort put into both, resulting in an interesting and really messed up story about the psyche and mental state of the individual known as Jacket. Also some shit about a Biker in the epilogue that Ты can unlock to get the true ending by finding puzzle pieces in the game… but I got other indie games to play, so go and do that if Ты want.
Hotline Miami was such an addictive Название that left me wanting more. And in a rare instance for some indie games, Hotline Miami did get a sequel made that opened up new possibilities and answered a fuck ton of questions. Will I be reviewing Hotline Miami 2 in the future… I dunno. But what I do know is that if Ты want an addictive and bloody action game that doesn’t treat Ты like a child and gives Ты the real kind of challenge Ты are looking for, Hotline Miami is the game for you.

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