Hotline Miami: Sociopathy Visualized 

"It takes place in an alternate history America. A politically chaotic nation in a state of rapid decay"...wa...wait a minute...

Ill go off on a bold take and say Hotline Miami downright spawned the resurgence of 80s in media. I legitimately dont remember other games/series that created such a butterfly effect in that aesthetic

As a person with ASPD I can confirm that this is how my average day goes

Just for the record, I use the term "Synth Wave" and "Neon Synth" as sort of catch-all terms for the 80's nostalgia movement. I understand that that genre of aesthetic is fairly broad and can be divided up into dozens of sub-genres (Vaporwave, Outrun ect.), but for the sake of the video and convenience, I chose to look at the movement in broader terms.

Great Video, one more time. Hotline Miami is one of my favorite game, and I think you have point why I love it : Because of his duality. In one side, it's a intense and precice game, with no place for error and a real pleasure when you traverse a level without stopping, playing a partition with no error, it's the same feeling when you one-credit a manic shooter. And then, everything stop. Just some noice, and you look at what you done, the vibrant red of the blood turning into a more dark, stainy red. It's the weird calm after the storm, almost cathartic in it's own way. The universe of Hotline Miami is the setting behind the setting. Behind the dazzling Neon lied a ugly and filthy world, and it's what the game love to show, through his gameplay, his Artistic Direction and his story. It's a duology of game that I replay a lot, and will still replay more with the time, because of his uniqueness (and it's really fun, let's be honest. It's actually do a good work as a way to let steam off, especially after one of the hardest chapter I read in Subahibi... or a bad day), and I recommand the two of them a lot.

The brutality of this game is easily the best part. When you master the game you just go on auto pilot then you look back at the room and it looks like a tiger make of razor blades on adrenaline came through.

This video underrated as hell, hotline Miami is that one game that sticks in your head for years after you play it.

"do you like hurting people?" Yes

Hearing roller mobster slowly kick in was nice.

If you keep making brilliant content like this you're going to blow up in no time, dude. Loved the vid, I look forward to bingeing your channel.

wtf this is the content youtube is missing, keep up the good shi man

I like the storyline of this game too, the politics and intrigue that can be found in it. The Cold War had heated up again a good bit in the 1980s, so it’s no surprise a game with an 80s aesthetic would also incorporate the history and politics of the 1980s into it.

It hooked me in with the gameplay and music, but came out loving it due to it's story and message.

Violence just creates more violence which creates more violence

This is why i always play jacket with his mask sociopath deck mix of pistol and melee build with a bat and duel jackets piece in payday 2

Played the game for the first time to kill in brutal inhuman ways, keep playing it to se what happens next.

The Hotline Miami games are so good from the pure perspective of gameplay and challenge but the same for the Meta narrative and The 4th wall breaking moral questions it asks the player. Hotline Miami and Spec ops the line defied all Expectation and asked questions that are extremely interesting to ponder.

Postal is interesting in the way that, while in the first game the distorted, garbled ambience and near complete lack of music, the disturbing imagery and the silence after you cleared a level make it painfully obvious that the Postal Dude's the bad guy here for killing everyone, Postal 2 makes the player the bad guy by making you *want* to kill half of Paradise, all mainly by making the characters unlikable, giving you a massive arsenal of options on how to ruin and/or end someone's life, making said arsenal actually fun to use, and most importantly, it's simply more exciting and therefore feels more rewarding. Meanwhile Postal Brain Damaged is a really cool back and forth. There's nothing quite like having an absolute blast with how fun the fast-paced violence is, and then being thrown into the game's second cutscene and realizing that, oh shit, right, this actually has some serious elements that help analyze the Postal Dude's psyche. Then imagine having such a blast with the final boss and the ending, then going to check said final boss' Codex entry and realizing that, holy shit, there's actually so serious details here. It's impressive how Postal 2 and Brain Damaged give you the kind of dopamine that makes you completely forget about most other things than killing, or the chores in 2. Hell, in Brain Damaged, I often even completely forgot what the goal actually was. If every second chapter level's loading screen wouldn'tve reminded me, I would've entirely forgotten.

a little off topic but in the main menu of hotline miami 2 it depicts a nuke exploding, check the all the options in the menu

"I don't think that's supposed to go there"

Great video. It’s not over dramatic or several hours long. You make your points with clarity and don’t over do it. Keep it up!

I love this video but I love the transition from deep cover to roller monster straight clean

you should have talked about how the music fits so well with the scenes it plays over

You have good videos dude don’t stop the grind

really interest visual content, thanks for putting this together

Fantastically articulated!---Thank you

Great video, great quality!

Not gonna watch this since I have yet to play Hotline Miami. But rest assured I’m going to come back to it

AMS: "when you finish the level and the music stops, the adrenaline rush stops and you see your actions for the horror that they are, invoking pity and sympathy within you" 99% of all players: "uuuuughhh... Now I gotta go all the way back to the car..."

The rage of fucking up repeatly probably helps u not care about killing

I like the type of game that is a complete and utter mindfuck, like the entire postal franchise and hotline miami.

Great to be here before this channel explodes

Another top notch vid ;)

I played this game throughout HS whenever I had free time. Sometimes I’d even blast the music through the classroom.

Love this series, I hope they take it to the 3D realm. It reminds me of how GTA got started.

You have a new subscriber :)

such a good video, youre very underrated!

damn im late, good video

Woah this video is amazing!!!

Cool I sub

If you're following the story in the second game, nearly all the characters will start to feel like that one character in a story that everyone hates but refuses to die, and the things they do never have any positive effect on the world around them, ultimately making their actions seem pointless. It's a harsh contrast to the exhilarating and stylish gameplay designed to make you feel like a badass .

nice

What’s the music that starts at 0:54

What is the font at 0:01

sorry to ask but how is beard a sociopath?

7:15 does anyone recall this game's name?

I’ll summarize this video for you guys: This game is so. Fucking. Good.

Hotline Miami is one of the best games but it’s replay factor is kinda low because it becomes so easy. Since it is a puzzle game by the 3rd time you play it you know all the solutions by heart. Also it doesn’t have many levels. Hotline Miami 2 solves that problem flawlessly. More levels and a hard mode hell yeah what a fucking blessing that game was

Terrible gameplay. You scuffed the video

controls in this game are fucking ass