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#62. Hotline Miami (PC, 2012)



Hotline Miami is trippy and digs in hard to the '80s aesthetic, which is a style that I personally very appealing. I'm sure it has to do with being born in the '80s with just enough experience to reminisce and be fond of it, but not enough to have gained the full experience. It kind of hits with a sensory overload at times, but it's a fun and confusing ride.

The speed at which Hotline Miami moves is one of the best parts to me. You open the door, there's deaths and blood and guns, weaving in and out of a hallway, and you either die or move up a floor, and it's all happened in 15 seconds. If you die, well, you'd already be back at it by the time you finished this sentence. It's tough, and almost like a puzzle game in some rooms, but one that moves with twitchy reactions and split second choices, and there's multiple ways you can get through all of it. The speed and design really reward encourge you to just attempt things and experiment, because you're not wasting much time and you're likely to learn something new. It lets the player kind of take their own personal playstyle through areas too.

The sequel is a great game as well, and has bigger levels and more characters. But they tried to up the difficulty, and some of those levels feel more linear and require things to be done in a specific order. I think I preferred the flow of the first game a bit more.

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