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Topic	Top 25 games of the decade, period. Exclamation mark!
HaRRicH 01/01/20 11:11:50 PM #35:	<b>#16: Hotline Miami Released on 10/23/2012 Steam</b> (written in 2017) I cant decide if Hotline Miami aspires to have a higher meaning or not. Im too busy being lost in my trance of emotionless inner turmoil. The soundtrack here is madness and complements the intense twitchy gameplay required to succeed here. You burst into peoples homes with an animal mask on and are expected to kill all the armed enemies inside. As hard as this can be and acknowledging how fast you have to react to your situations, the music keeps you in a sort of spell where you can do this without thinking. Its psychedelic techno-rock with a dark twinge, and the game experience would not be the same without it. Its a little horrifying to describe the game like this. The good news is its just a game, and a top-down 2D game with sprite graphics at that. The bad news is that theres still a weird troubling narrative to fight through as if youre the good guy. The storyline calls you out as a player along the way, asking things like if you like to hurt people. This plotline doesnt go as deep as some other games, but you can still feel the cognitive dissonance of the games goals against your morality. Hotline Miami has some nice subtle storytelling as well -- its not all character-says-this and man-kills-panthers-with-that. Theres a woman you save who eventually starts to live with you before the enemies enter your home and kill her; during this time, you see how your house changes to become a nicer place to live. You get newspaper articles along the way about some of the crimes youve committed. Its not all brilliant -- I cant tell if the secret ending enhances or diminishes the plot -- but ultimately its all about the gameplay here. The plot just directly and indirectly sets up your world along the way. Ive heard Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number misses the point of this game, so I dont know that Ill bother with it. Even if I never do though, this is quite the experience as is. NOW IN 2020: I still haven't played HM2, but i see it bundled with HM1 on sale sometimes so I'll probably commit one day. --- O P E R A T I O N O U S T : Nominate SHEIK! https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/ssb/images/0/0d/Sheik-Victory3-SSB4.png <cite>HaRRicH posted [p:932347472] in Top 25 gam... [t:78297021]...</cite> <quote><b>#16: Hotline Miami Released on 10/23/2012 Steam</b> (written in 2017) I cant decide if Hotline Miami aspires to have a higher meaning or not. Im too busy being lost in my trance of emotionless inner turmoil. The soundtrack here is madness and complements the intense twitchy gameplay required to succeed here. You burst into peoples homes with an animal mask on and are expected to kill all the armed enemies inside. As hard as this can be and acknowledging how fast you have to react to your situations, the music keeps you in a sort of spell where you can do this without thinking. Its psychedelic techno-rock with a dark twinge, and the game experience would not be the same without it. Its a little horrifying to describe the game like this. The good news is its just a game, and a top-down 2D game with sprite graphics at that. The bad news is that theres still a weird troubling narrative to fight through as if youre the good guy. The storyline calls you out as a player along the way, asking things like if you like to hurt people. This plotline doesnt go as deep as some other games, but you can still feel the cognitive dissonance of the games goals against your morality. Hotline Miami has some nice subtle storytelling as well -- its not all character-says-this and man-kills-panthers-with-that. Theres a woman you save who eventually starts to live with you before the enemies enter your home and kill her; during this time, you see how your house changes to become a nicer place to live. You get newspaper articles along the way about some of the crimes youve committed. Its not all brilliant -- I cant tell if the secret ending enhances or diminishes the plot -- but ultimately its all about the gameplay here. The plot just directly and indirectly sets up your world along the way. Ive heard Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number misses the point of this game, so I dont know that Ill bother with it. Even if I never do though, this is quite the experience as is. NOW IN 2020: I still haven't played HM2, but i see it bundled with HM1 on sale sometimes so I'll probably commit one day. --- O P E R A T I O N O U S T : Nominate SHEIK! https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/ssb/images/0/0d/Sheik-Victory3-SSB4.png</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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