Hotline Miami - Alternative Ending (With Puzzle & Without)

[@hoovenschmooven]

I love how when Biker correctly guesses The Janitors' password, they immediately stop grinning.

[@BlackMoth12]

yeah its like they're like "oh shitt...."

[@mahound9]

Out of all the main characters, Biker is the only one to get close to the truth.

[@Myst3rytwins]

evan gets quite close 2 depending on your actions in hlm2

[@Myst3rytwins]

***** jake is a main character, and he was killed because they wanted him to stay quiet, he never learned much tho

[@mahound9]

Also, Jake was different in that he was a staunch supporter of 50B to the end. Biker was in it for the action, but in the end wanted out, and thought attacking the source was the way to 'end the game.' And, as for Jacket, it's left unclear.

[@Myst3rytwins]

jacket is in it for the mad puss m8

[@andresworthenstock3630]

jacket gets the cannon ending and biker gets the fourth wall break easter egg.

[@Quantumnerd]

I regard the secret ending and the normal ending as equivalent. The game is so nihilistic that "doing it for the fun, without a purpose" and "doing it for some vague patriotic goal" seem like the same thing. It feels like a jab at modern military shooters.

[@SquirtleSquady]

I think that for the best possible Biker ending, sparing them isnt an option. They'd definitely send more agents to kill him because they know he knows about their operation. Killing those two is the only good ending for Biker.

[@souperiorart]

If those "some agents" can kill a fuckton of the Russian Mafia, Boy, This is basically the Biker bossfight except you are fighting the other agents.

[@Remix2366]

​@militarpolizei2311biker is easily on top if if doesn't keep spamming knife throw. He would have definitely cooked jacket if he had no weapons at phone hom

[@xChroniclesHub]

The first ending, it's the devs talking to you... don't you see? Do you like hurting people?

[@georgeg5979]

+AAA YAS!!!!!!!.....but only in videogames if they are a crowd in gta or evil in every other game

[@AmbivalentActuality]

Feels like it's talking about Mk Ultra more than anything.

[@aguywhodoesntexist]

First ending is dennaton “Haha were just fucking with you what did you think was going on” Second ending is the janitors proper “Oh shit we’ve been made”

[@NoFlu]

@@georgeg5979 same thing Marty Brown aka the Pig Butcher said and look where that got him...

[@marcelolausi2935]

yes

[@imvictorhugs]

"sO wHaT's yOuR mOvE?" "the pc password is 'iwasbornintheusa'" "oh okay what do you want to know"

[@jacobd3290]

After you kill Biker, the screen flickers with a note "Can't you see all of this is not real?" or something like that, from that moment the screen flickers in certain situations, meaning that all what happens afterwards must be Jacket's illusion

[@V2Joao]

Wojciech Dobrowolski everything up until trauma are dreams from jacket. you begin the game talking to richard which after you find out it was a coma realize it was a dream

[@DavidMdoC]

What so the jacked died on hotline Miami 1

[@solarashes]

@@DavidMdoC hes on trial and in prison in hotline miami 2 so nope

[@Impalingthorn]

The first ending is the developers having a direct conversation with the player. We're seeking answers, and they simply point out that there is none in this game. As long as the rewarding gameplay mechanics are there, no real story or reason is needed. This is important, because they emphasize this point in the second ending where after going on a grueling quest for purple squares, scouring each level of the game for hidden secrets, you're ultimately rewarded with an excessively cliche ending. That was entirely intentional. The developers were sure to add in little fourth wall breaking hints like, "All you gotta do to get people to do what you want them to is to make them think there'll be consequences if they don't. It's a principle our whole society is built upon.", just to hammer it in. The real experience was the base gameplay. The real ending never mattered, and there was no deeper meaning to anything that was going on. Any possible philosophical moments the game offers you is really just the creators giving you some insight on your personal experience playing it. The final ending is really just their way of being a dick.

[@cloak211]

Kappadaniel It's an extension actually. The story of the second game is built on top of the cliche secret ending, giving the player the arbitrary exposition they wanted, while still managing to throw in another disappointing ending in that game. The exception is that, in two, they're just trying to tell the player that they got their answers and there's no grand finale to it all; Hotline Miami is over and they need to let go.

[@revensona8637]

Crucillus Thorn nt anymore bruh

[@supahjT]

Crucillus Thorn in the last level for jacket, he throws a picture off the balcony that wasn't shown throughout the entire game and it confused the hell out of me. when i played hotline miami two, i it shows the scene that the picture is taken in, and then the scene that jacket receives the picture. it took me awhile to figure that out and when i did it made me realise how much story there is behind the entire game. so basically my response to you is that the ending DID matter. it helps explain the second game so much, like how america and russia were at war that whole time. i sure as hell didn't know that, and i also didn't know that the dude that works at the stores that jacket goes to was his war buddy that saved his ass and gave him the picture either. those motherfuckers had the whole story planned out from the beginning, but the way they told it with all the metaphors and non-chronological events, it made every little piece of the puzzle seem special, and when it tied back to the first game you get that feel of nostalgia. i dont know if the second game was out by the time you posted that comment, but im gonna assume it wasn't. and if you played it by now then im also gonna assume that you changed your mind.

[@L0LWTF1337]

Crucillus Thorn There is no deeper meaning... that's really deep man!

[@ultimatesonic2037]

interesting

[@pupupuppuu]

Gotta be honest but Biker is the most badass character in the game

[@MrEquusQuagga]

Why do you have to be honest about that?

[@andre-li7qo]

Jacket

[@thundercocku]

but the hardest to play with

[@benyammiinn]

@@Manisfast i bind my keys reversed when i use nigel

[@trainhobovegas2]

In case if no one notices, the Biker is actually the true protagonist of the story since he's actually the one who looks through on the phone calls

[@VirgilSollozzo924]

I thought that Biker and Jacket just had shady memories and pretty much just fucked each other up.

[@vipunen11]

You need to collect all secret letters. They'll be these purple dots if you wear the owl mask. Once you collect them spell "I was born in the usa" in the puzzle screen.

[@GopherpilledTunneler]

Sparing the phone guys at the end is like putting milk before cereal

[@lucyanne9626]

Was forced to watch this because my progress got deleted when I had 2 pieces left.

[@jackshephard5405]

F

[@laylover7621]

F

[@st0mp331]

same here lol, lost all my progress twice in the span of a week

[@KiwiFishLu]

F

[@yaboijebus1418]

F

[@UltimateFeudEnterprise]

jacket dying and biker dying are two seperate ways it could've went down if jacket killed biker he kills the rest of the mafia and lives the dream but has lost his mind and the janitors make millions. But if biker kills jacket then he finds the janitors and ends the phonecall shit for good leaving the russian mafia existing and him back to his normal life.

[@RadMan224]

biker was heavily wounded but not killed

[@thepoperat5841]

Harou Mensah but didn't he get his head smashed in by a golf club afterwards

[@RadMan224]

Christopher Blandon yeah but apparently he survived it since hes in the second game

[@joaobispo2602]

Harou Mensah the second game isnt based on the frist ending (i think)

[@RadMan224]

joao bispo yes it is the Russian boss is dead that only happens in the jacket ending it looks like what happened in that fight isnt what jacket believed was happening in that fight

[@RyanKaufman]

God this game was an experience.

[@AlrikMetalhead]

-"All you gotta do to get people to do what you want them to is to make them think there'll be consquences if they don't." -"It's a principle our whole society is built upon." 2 of the cleverest video game quotes, ever

[@DiamondShocked]

not rlly lmao.

[@domireland405]

If you're 12 years old

[@TechNoirMK]

lel fucking casual

[@mimszanadunstedt441]

Its just an implied threat. Nothing more.

[@pedobearsensei2]

So true man Slavery

[@linuslillen01]

wow... in the normal ending they are assholes, but in the secret ending they are serious... but that might be because they don't have such a smug smile.

[@aguywhodoesntexist]

Normal ending you’re just greeted by Dennaton Second ending lets you confront the Janitors proper

[@SlingingHashSlasher]

jacket who didnt care what he was doing only the rush of killing people was actually defeated by biker at the phone company place. wall jacket was in his coma he had a flashback of the past months. the three personas who were in the room in his mind were representations of 3 people don juan (horse woman) the hooker, richard (rooster) himself and, rasmus (owl) the gangsters he has been killing. the biker unlike jacket found what he was doing "boring" and wanted answers.

[@mirko7767]

The Virgin Jacket. He could not figure the truth He couldnt be bothered to question why he did such terrible things. He got beat up by biker. Vs The Chad Biker He's the only true Hotline Miami protagonist that knew the truth He got sick of murdering He beat the absolute shit out of Jacket

[@somehowimstillhere]

I think the chicken masked man is coming for you-

[@integralcialbay4633]

Lol biker didn't beat up Jacket, it was the other way around.

[@k_nito7954]

​@@integralcialbay4633 both of them fucked the other up, when we play as jacket we seem to kill biker but that's just a coma dream. When we play as biker and we kill jacket, we're high as fuck, so it's no clear if we killed him. They're both unreliable narrators

[@gabrielvb678]

​@@integralcialbay4633 they both beat up by the other But both of them got out alive

[@HideNZeke]

awesome game but too damn lazy to play again looking for little purple squares

[@cheesecake8620]

Weakness disgusts me

[@JustinDown]

@@cheesecake8620 I got a job and bills to pay, ain't no way I'm replaying the game and searching for tiny purple squares, wasting the little amount of time I get to play videogames lmao

[@skullthrower8904]

@@JustinDown ye u just wasting it on yt comments big guy lol

[@JustinDown]

@@skullthrower8904 shit took 5 seconds to write lmao, grow up lil boah

[@EYCualquiera]

@@JustinDown just evade taxes

[@travoedoi]

As one user pointed out, Jacket was asking himself questions, while Biker was looking for answers

[@PinkOrangeOrangePink]

"All you gotta do to get people to do what you want them to Is to make them think there'll be consequences if they don't." gud quote ten outta ten would copy paste again.

[@superxmario128]

honestly i like to look at it this way. the biker and jacket had their fight but the biker came out as the winner but didn't kill him as he did give him a chance to walk away. i think this because after that battle with jacket after killing the biker is when he starts to see all the dead bodies, pretty much going crazy, then again you can argue he's going crazy from seeing all those dead bodies and brutally killing people in general. you also see the biker's dead body in the video store and the clerk says "none of this is real" if i recall, followed by the screen flashing and the biker's body disappearing (jacket was in a coma as you played the game leading up to that point after all). both of them end up in the final stage building with the biker getting there first finding out the truth and sparing the two while jacket is focused on getting his revenge but blinded by rage until the end. jacket is still alive and in part 2 so the main question for most to look at is whether the biker was killed in that battle or not as there are many different ways you can look at this story, including with the 2 endings for the biker

[@Neogears1312]

Inigo Montoya i find it interesting he dies because he was being flashy as fuck during the fight, but when your in charge of biker, its a pathetically easy fight if you just run towards jacket and shank him there

[@Gakulon]

shadowshredder89 It's because Biker is a badass, more so than Jacket is.

[@superxmario128]

Inigo Montoya Oh well since someone replied to this comment. Biker is still alive in HM2 (you can see him in the court room early in in the game) so apparently neither of them got their ass kicked

[@bougabou1]

Inigo Montoya both are alive, because in the introduction of the fifth scene of HM2, it's Jacket's trial (you can see his jacket and his rooster mask on the table), BUT Evan meets Biker in the "Bar of Broken Heroes"

[@tuila]

Yup. It means 'official'. It's used in the comic/anime-community to differentiate between fan-fiction and the original storyline aka canon storyline.

[@TheEryk24]

Inner Animal

[@andreegl27]

canon is a term that means that something that happened did actually happen or is just a entertaining scene, if you will. for example, let me use the game Tekken: you can win the tournament with every character and see every ending for it, but only one was the real winner, which makes that ending the canon one. got it?

[@MrEquusQuagga]

no. explain it again.

[@HankVenom]

omg, this game is awesome

[@frogman4789]

*How the hell did you figure that out?* *Let's say i used a bit of magic.* *savage biker*

[@FeaturedPixel]

wow i didnt know there was another ending

[@poludameio]

I must be missing something, because..when do you play as the biker? I thought hotline ended with the original protagonist killing that guy in the wheelchair.

[@maxshef3554]

That's after main Story.

[@aatehscc3747]

You see, Jacket never killed the Biker. End of 9-15 are what would have happened, had Jacket killed Biker. 16-19 and 1-9 happened, just that the Biker sliced Jacket up in like 2 seconds.

[@aglorifiedtoasterwithlegs3207]

+i'm done haha no. both alternates ending are fake, what actually happened jacket beated the shit outta biker but he spared him after that, biker then escaped to the desért and after "showdown" jacket is arrested

[@Glace1221]

i'm done

[@justanotherguy1122]

I saw an explanation video bringing up the idea that, since we know that Jacket and Biker walked away from the fight alive, their points of view are flawed. Jacket, because all the events before Richter shoots him are essentially memories, but were probably warped because of Jackets coma-induced state. Biker saw the fight incorrectly because we see that he had previously had a wild party, so he may have been hungover during the fight, which messed with his perception and memory of the event.

[@EVILTRICKZ29]

The bass are amazing, what software do you use ?

[@turtleguymcturtle4303]

You'll have to ask the composer Eirik Suhrke or the other composers.

[@turtleguymcturtle4303]

You'll have to ask the composer's themselves

[@a.k8185]

Remember that the biker can kill the janitors.

[@Sir-Prizse]

Scattle - It's safe now... thats a perfekt song for this part...

[@MagatsuCloud]

Sequel is being made. Secret ending should be canon then. Which would mean you are wrong.

[@youcantleavethisempty8872]

Having to watch this because Fun & Games finally made me ragequit for good.

[@Atomastos]

Could someone help me? I can't access the pause menu to piece the puzzle together. When I press either Start button on a controller or ESC on a kb the game immediately closes. Anyone else have this problem or figured out a solution? I've tried searching for a solution to no avail. Idk how you would remap the keys/buttons in that game, so if anyone knows how to do that it could help.

[@Merf_Gaming]

Been a very long time since I last played, but I think enter might be the right button

[@Atomastos]

nope, tried it

[@MrEquusQuagga]

enter is the right button

[@aguywhodoesntexist]

Basically, you wanna talk to dennaton or the actual janitors?

[@crueltyuponus]

What's the name of the song when he's talking to them before killing them?

[@GnomeChomski]

If you want to know about the sequels basis I would advise watching /watch?v=3HQshGnjpo0 This video is the trailer for hotline miami the film and in the trailer says based on a true story, the true story being what happens in this game, In the sequel the story is of the directing and making of this film but things go wrong.

[@TheStrangeN]

That's a good way to look at it.

[@TheBIadesman]

I think the first ending (as other poeple already mentioned) is the developers talking to the biker as if it were us the player. But in the secret ending, it's like they're talking about the development of the game or their company or something haha. Also, it's safe to say that Biker did survive and that he most likely killed Jacket because in HM2 you only play as Jacket in the past so it all happened before HM1.

[@calitherolls]

My theory is that Jacket and Biker did fight, and that Jacket had heavily damaged Biker, but not kill him. Then we saw that he was left with the scar we see in Hotline Miami 2 when The Writer interviews him.

[@shanefowlstone]

Biker and jacket probably did fight and Jacket got his ass kicked. The reason why jacket thinks he won is because everything before the chapter trauma is his imagination while he is in a coma and he thinks he won.

[@MrTherandomguy42]

Shane Fowlstone Yes. And everything that happened in and after Trauma did indeed happen (it is also worth pointing out that you have the choice of whether or not you want to kill Richter with the latter being canon). I still don't get what the whole deal with Richard was, especially in HM2. I also don't get the whole deal with Martin Brown and what he had to do with the story of HM2. He never crosses paths with anyone in the game (maybe he did with the Detective, but we never get to see that).

[@lonelypotato520]

Actually jacket beat the shit out of biker, explaining his injuries in the bar of broken heroes.

[@Raphie009]

+MrTherandomguy42 Initially, Richard was just in Jacket's head...a manifestation of his conscious. In HM2, Richard becomes a sort of zeitgeist...being able to appear in front of any character to offer cryptic insight to their futures. He's something like a harbinger of death.

[@kruskovacs]

What program did you use to record the vid?

[@TheStrangeN]

Not necessarily. It's only a theory, but a damn good one, even though it's been done before. I don't claim to know anything, but for all we know, the sequel could have nothing to do with the "true" ending. So he's not wrong or necessarily right, he's just pointing out an interesting theory. Either way, can't wait to see what's in store for the sequel.

[@piotrsz8356]

Well, what do you think of Hotline Miami 2 now?

[@TheStrangeN]

@@piotrsz8356 Thanks for responding to this ancient comment with something actually productive, because that's a great question! Hotline 2 was insane. It ended up doubling down on the story-beats of the first game by trying something extremely ambitious, being the multiple different playable characters and their respective story-lines. It's also WAY harder for right and wrong reasons, but I like it overall. I find it interesting that they played on both endings of the first game, like the fans who idolize jacket and take his mythos and the hotline a little too seriously by being copycat killers, and the son of the Russian mob boss from the end of Hotline 1. It's truly all over the place. It can get confusing really fast, but I feel like it's almost meant to be that way. Like "Oh, you guys wanted a deep story huh? Alright, you fucking asked for it. We warned you." I feel like critics were a little too harsh on it at first as it wasn't quite the darling that the first one was. Still, I feel like others are coming around to it, and the soundtrack and art direction are to die for, of course.

[@Bournesax]

can someone explain whats going on in this game ? i hoped to answer all questions when i finish the game but theres even more now :s

[@thomastrain2838]

I THOUGHT THIS WAS A YAKUZA UPLOADER

[@GoofyPandaBears]

Anyone know the name of the song, in the first 27 seconds of this video?

[@januss645]

GoofyPandaBears It's Safe Now by Scattle

[@BlackMoth12]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6fdfZx-fdt-Ztk

[@chair8588]

I collected all the puzzle and i didn't pay attention to the text...so i become upset and yelled because it took me a long time to collect them

[@OneTofuJake]

I think biker is as close as it gets to a "good guy" in hm1 he's more in a grey area compared to characters like Evan in the second game

[@xxxx59xxxx]

this games story is 2deep. 10/10 GOTY

[@timothytosser288]

Song at the end?

[@baranguvenakturk3570]

i got all of them but 1 didnt show i need help i cant get the secret ending

[@kingcobbra51]

who are the group of people in mask that ask him questions....i dont get that part?

[@svrona7696]

those are different personalities living inside jackets head. But the guy he plays as in this video is biker.

[@user-fz9uf5jf5v]

- You're nationalist scumbags... - We like to call ourselves patriots. Heh. Just like in real life.

[@JenemiMoon]

his face was mest up

[@tony-dah]

The ending music hits 🔥🔥🔥

[@robervalschissato8103]

0:00 music?

[@Stormyano]

I dont remember either of these endings lmao

[@PNTHRFKR]

Fraps.

[@potch1049]

brain destroyed!

[@tangowiththerango2693]

I can't assemble the puzzle!!!!

[@hotrunescapegf2229]

+Thefightingwhale IWASBORNINTHEUSA

[@danniro8888]

2deep4me

[@yungvet]

theres no difference?

[@moisesmoreno6233]

I want the song

[@synthnation9857]

"Inner Animal"

[@gamingshiba24]

i didt do the puzzle and killed the janitors. it was so funny

[@alvaro.martinez]

I don't like this ending, it kills the mystery.

[@RevolutionaryLoser]

I think thats the point

[@Meximan925]

Wtf is the puzzle

[@Irenk0u]

5:20 whats the ost?

[@Cachipunk]

A new morning hotline miami

[@Crap_Head]

Disappointing Ending..

[@xChroniclesHub]

Not if you think about it.

[@blakecj1]

AAA I think I am an alcoholic

[@slushi267]

I love how the Janitors Grin goes away apon learning that Biker knows the Password

[@buttwrecker6516]

ending that i loved is jacket alive

[@buttwrecker6516]

***** ye i know i wonder what next franchise their gonna do

[@buttwrecker6516]

***** or the could have survived (some of them) and trun into mutants like jacket turning into a half human half chicken

[@buttwrecker6516]

***** meh but they said it's over

[@gumiwurm]

not every game needs to be a trilogy.

[@angrysari6576]

gabem