The jank genius of Hotline Miami

[@JoeMama-ob4cr]

Fun fact: almost nothing on the soundtrack of the first game was actually made for the game. Dennaton just browsed Bandcamp looking for good tracks for the game.

[@slizer452]

God tier taste, then.

[@grimreefer9324]

Thats funny then, that Hotline Miami's soundtrack is actually mislabeled an "Original" game soundtrack when it's called an OST

[@Saver310]

​@@grimreefer9324 If it really was Original then it would only consist of Scattle's tracks

[@gremlinman9724]

"you just can't convince me that this is a person" is a very clever recontextualization of a line previously in the video

[@cyberpigeon]

This, especially considering that it seems to both reflect the narrator’s view of the character, and almost reflect the character’s view of his victims.

[@paintedpig3021]

This game taught me that being 300 pounds makes you bullet resistant

[@blehh_mae]

but only for a couple seconds and not shell resistant

[@shadou1234567]

Thats why i am working on getting there

[@TheHortoman]

Damn im 300 pounds apparently (i use kg so i didnt know at first) i didnt think it was that much lol

[@shadou1234567]

@@TheHortoman you are bullet resistent!

[@empanadasfordays4324]

Unless you are racist

[@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009]

I need the 20:23 "he smoked too tought, his swag too different, his bitch too bad" as an separate clip seriously

[@xuruiyu]

I need it on a t-shirt, frankly xD

[@theproducers1967]

OMG that’s a huge meme on tumblr and i love it lol

[@GoddessOfMisfortune]

Even after the hundreds of hours I've sunk into these games, I never realized, the military levels were DESIGNED to give you ptsd... it all makes sense now...

[@Constable.Chauvin]

YOU WEREN'T THERE MAN

[@PacmanPac-m8y]

This doesn't forgive them for being the worst levels in modern gaming. Blight town doesn't compare.

[@kuirivito]

​@@PacmanPac-m8y blighttown is absolute shit tho

[@RealAsaikento]

@@PacmanPac-m8y blight town wasnt bad bc of eesign, it was bad because of the rendering distance glitch that made it run at 6fps on the original

[@shaliir]

​@@PacmanPac-m8yblighttown is a master piece get outta here with that. Its only fault was horrid frame rate issues in the original release.

[@gidyspy]

i liked both. hlm1 for its linearity, hlm2 for its, well, non-linearity. got all achievements too. i could say "booo yall got skill issue" but then there has to be a sweet spot like "easy to learn, hard to master". unfortunately the series is officially dead, but whenever i see a new vid on hotline miami, it just feels good to know that these two games from 2012 and 2015 are not forgotten. the community lives. and with it my personality the vid is undeniably top-notch

[@MHAL]

Over the course of beating the game multiple times for footage, I eventually got to the point that wrong number honestly isn't that hard for me anymore. Or at least, none of the levels take more than 10 minutes to beat at most. And while that lets me see some of what they were going for with the level design a bit more clearly, I personally still don't find those harder levels particularly fun. The way you have to play to beat them just feels kinda frustrating, though it's cool to see it found its audience eventually. And as far as dead series go, I'm glad HM at least got to go out on its own terms. Like, the reason we're never getting HM 3 isn't a rights issue or anything, the devs just said their piece and closed the book on it.

[@The_Courier1998]

​@@MHAL nah keep playig it you're going to end up loving the hardest levels like relase i used to HATE THAT LEVEL but i when i wanted to get an S i ended up loving it qnd is my favorite level and kinda easy for me

[@ultimateinternetman4335]

i had no idea the series was dead god damn it

[@The_Courier1998]

@@ultimateinternetman4335 yeah it's a shame

[@catmaksimus]

u the writing king 🏅

[@D4n0w4r]

3:40 the real reason is because wearing a rubber animal mask really, really sucks. I've cosplayed Tony a couple of times for cons, and you don't want to stay in those things for more than a few minutes at a time (which might also explain why the levels are so short).

[@FlameSoulis]

Fans help. Every fursuit I've had I always add one, because air is kind of important... especially not hot sweat-sauna air.

[@dealerman5955]

I liked hotline Miami 2, but those military levels were nightmarish. I’ll never forget the time I was having such a skill issue on the last one I went to the steam community and made a post asking for tips. I’ll also never forget the guy who told me to use the flamethrower, the weapon you unlock after beating the last military level. I instantly became enlightened

[@Nikolas_Noseman]

*Engulfed

[@Zentailium]

Designed to give me ptsd and it fuckin worked

[@mattkidroske]

They tried to nerf the Tony mask but they just gave us exactly what we wanted lol. Lethal Doors is fun too

[@guillermof1821]

All Hotline miami reviews in a nutshell Hm1 : good Hm2 : good but i have skill issue

[@manchuriaaaaaa]

Some of these reviewers dont use the shift button and wonder why they dont see the enemy from far away

[@kyrazz128]

Hotline Miami 2 ia good But i like the more "cramped" levels from 1 They are Fun to rampage trough with Just a knife (or any other fast melee weapon)

[@manchuriaaaaaa]

​​@@kyrazz128personally the gun rushing and dodging bullets gameplay is what made me have more hours in hm2 cuz its so damn addicting, cramped floors are too easy man

[@straferthesluggo3096]

this! some of the gameplay looks like the person playing just doesn't even acknowladge the entirety of their screen and when they die by something they could've seen they complain about not expecting it also "to play good you need to know the maps very well" damn what a criticism that is

[@manchuriaaaaaa]

@@straferthesluggo3096 "ehrm to play good you need to spend time getting good at the game..."

[@silverkettle6818]

The editing in this is so top notch it goes through the god damn roof, going to the farthest depths of cosmos. Fucking incredible stuff my man

[@1MidJam]

Calm down it aint all that good (although still very good)

[@WAFFENFABRIK]

The glizzy globbler

[@spherefriendyellow8872]

the editing: 27 minutes of a dude scrolling pngs from his meme folder onto the screen

[@LudovicoPetroleumScallywagVII]

@@spherefriendyellow8872That’s blatantly a lie.

[@city5000]

Do your legs hurt

[@hackcubit9663]

To this day, I can't get over how Hotline Miami gets into the player's head. It's like you have no choice but to be Jacket even when you're just playing a video game.

[@ZeroDurability]

If I recall correctly, the dev didn't really *want* to do a sequel, so I feel like some of the more egregious issues with 2 was basically them venting about it. Spoilers past here. The true finality of the ending for everyone except maybe Biker (which can be debated) with everything being nuked to hell especially feels like they were venting and making sure there wouldn't be another sequel.

[@hack3rm4n13]

I actually always thought about how the nuke was the final judgement, how evil people (pardo) and good people (Evan) face the same fate, because nothing really matter in the end right? I love the nuke ending as a theme for the story

[@dawixd2678]

hotline miami prequel

[@TheTrashyboi]

The fakeout hotline miami 3 screen certainly doesn't help lol

[@redactedoktor]

My favorite mask in the first game is Richard, because for my first whole game A+ run I thought it was the only mask the could get an A+ and was required, so I went the whole game A+’ing every Jacket level with Richard, because I thought that’s what you were supposed to do. The real reason I could seemingly only get A+’s with Richard was because using Tony lost a lot of score you can get with punch-down to execution combos and really Tony’s the only other mask aside from Richard.

[@Zentailium]

I A+ed every level the game with richard and only used the other masks for the achievements, aside from the fox one cus the shootings way better or just speeding round at the speed of light with brandon because its fun

[@LulledNull]

13:12 As the #1 Carl fan, I will not be tolerating this slander. I will be seeing you in court

[@TheOrangeMan13]

i love these games so much, and every time i see hotline miami 2's ending i get tears in my eye

[@Jacket50Blessings]

same

[@dawixd2678]

yeah, the music makes it 10x stronger

[@KingofDpirates]

After you beat HM2 in hard mode the normal game becomes genuinely 100x easier and more enjoyable.

[@CAMSLAYER13]

Yea, it also starts to hurt less if you punch yourself in the nuts enough

[@gaminginthelincolnyears]

True, ever since finishing hard mode, Ive been playing Dead Ahead for fun (and also to do the goddamn Genocide achievement)

[@ekSil0]

I subscribed to the idea that the game's level design is intentionally "bad" that doesn't mean people will like playing through the levels any more, but I adore how it plays into the theme

[@kevinwillems8720]

Yeah like it's not bad it's just different.

[@ripadblock]

Intentionally bad as In they had no idea what they were doing lmao

[@K4GELBLLTZ]

i have an amazing clip from hlm2 of an enemy walking through two or three consecutive walls, loops around, walks through ANOTHER wall and then shoots me

[@shadou1234567]

Post it!

[@rokcris7313]

@@shadou1234567 bro did NOT post the clip

[@codyvangogh8111]

The problem with the Tony mask is that you can't collect points for finishers, cutting your score in half. The only mask that's useful for getting an A+ rank in all levels is Zack.

[@biomanoray]

Not true, I got A plus on most of the maps with using the Carl Mask and the drills special takedown for 1100 points each. That adds up quickly.

[@ArkayeCh]

It's crazy when you think about how many cultural connections this game has now. Drive, Payday, Synthwave, Ryan Gosling, John Wick. All these have an underlying vibe of Hotline Miami helping their popularity.

[@archerymidnight3422]

Fun fact, Hotline Miami and John Wick TECHNICALLY exist in the same canonical universe, through payday 2

[@LudovicoPetroleumScallywagVII]

@@archerymidnight3422That means that it technically exists in Dragon Ball, because John Wick leads to Fortnite.

[@Pigmachine2000]

​@LudovicoPetroleumScallywagVII no, payday 2 DLC is specified to be canon within the story of payday 2, and has major plot points revolve around John Wick and Jacket

[@SBA_poiko]

You just can't keep dracula flow out of your videos. Love it

[@derain95]

Why would he? *They must have amnesia they forgot that I am him*

[@eliotsausage]

A friend of mine, being a swedish game developer himself, told me a quite funny story about how the sadistic reaction times of the NPC’s in HM2 was due to the developers computers not being able to handle the game they developed. Basically it ran way slower and wasn’t as much of a challenge lol

[@reverbthevocal421]

That’s really funny.

[@Frostile]

"Source, dude just trust me" After the massive success of Hotline Miami they didn't have computers to even test the game at high frames despite it being an incredibly easy game to run even for when it was released. Cool lie bro.

[@ArclightStorm]

@@Frostile i mean, he did say, "a friend told me this" like, I can see what your pointing out but it's so fucking obvious, your just being a dick about it for no good reason.

[@sam57396]

Tony just got that dog in him

[@mongodroid4842]

no, it's a tiger

[@hypelock1474]

Murder... It's G-G-G-G-Great!

[@AugustRx]

Tony's in the dog again

[@xneon_xavier6397]

yes you, you the content creator, you've done a great job. keep up. I watched it all, and believe it or not - I enjoyed.

[@Soroosh.S83]

Agree 👍

[@PrettyPinkPersephone]

Exposure is when you’re literally not in coverand killing an enemy in sightline of another enemy. It can stack ridiculously well when you understand that. I’ve had it stack x56 and get an s+ despite literally not doing anything other than shotgun in doorway it’s VERY funny

[@kirabean5441]

The fact that I've managed to sit through this video, be entertained and watch it in one sitting speaks volumes about the quality and how interesting it is. Good job, well done.

[@xFluing]

It's just 30 mins long do you have tiktok brain?

[@kirabean5441]

@@xFluing yeah, I admit I do. I've tried to steer clear but KZbin shorts clearly shortened my attention span. Whatever the science people say about this form of content they're definitely right, it's harmful as heck

[@xFluing]

@@kirabean5441 hey acknowledging the issue is the first step towards fixing it. its now up to you to consciously stave off, or set healthy limits for shorts/tiktoks /whatever

[@LudovicoPetroleumScallywagVII]

@@xFluingJust tell us you spend your days doing crosswords and move on.

[@Nalhy]

I thought it was a meme man, wtf?

[@parusmajor7105]

Fuck what anyone says, I LOVE Hotline Miami 2. Yes, it has problems, but is OOZES style, the soundtrack is incredible and I listen to it a lot, and the story stays with you. I don’t know if I would recommend HM2, but it’s one of my favorites

[@stemki]

HM2 > HM1 in terms of gameplay imo, feels so much more quick and responsive

[@natethegamelord]

Hotline miami will still always get me for the first moment and mission, being on April 3rd, my birthday. Nothing can replace that shock at all

[@impermanentLucidity]

Jake's response to "Do you like hurting other people?" being "You can't convince me these are people." is actually such a good summation of his character

[@XpertGreekGamer]

Man i wish i could find that WALL OF TEXT someone wrote in a track of Wrong Number stating how how all the mindless violence felt good in the first game and in the second game instead of bashing him over the head with "do you like hurting other people" it just "showed" or "explained" (i don't remember his comment but it was long) that phrase, he felt like he was being understood or seen or not being mocked for liking violence and instead it was comforting...perhaps even peaceful in the end/main menu. I'm probably misremembering a bit but if he reads this comment, remember Ludwig the Accursed/Holy Blade final words my dude: "Even in this, darkest of nights. I see...the moonlight"

[@TheKidsAreSOnotOkay]

The editing is amazing man! Also spotting screenshots or clips from channels I have seen the videos for was fun.

[@RolandTheJabberwocky]

12:48 I think it's brilliant be cause it mirrors the entire plot of the first game. Jacket killed people, learned and accomplished nothing for himself, and died for it.

[@sandorbence2067]

I remeber Wrong Number getting bad reviews fof levels being too big, but it's such an overall improvement compared to the first that I didn't really played that one since then. It's mindless fun and faster paced action, but when Wrong Number works, it's unparalleled. Especially if decide to push through on Hard Mode (or whatever it's called).

[@chegnarok]

Honestly, the moment "jacket" tells you *Leaving this world is not as scary as it sounds" will live with me forever. I too hope, those can be my final words, but it also felt like a goodbye, an ending, it was done, a side of everything that we didn't see... Perhaps even contextualising jacket as a force that tried to steer everyone in the right way, but it only knew violence and so it only showed them that, but in the end, you're glad he's there, that he understands...

[@Nagmaconha]

i NEVER hear someone talk about deadbolt since its such an indie game, but i play this since i was a kid and it holds a place in my heart so for that you got a subscribe

[@EtherealSandwich]

My friend, the stars aligned and we somehow both posted a hotline miami video that performed really well in the same time frame. Good on ya lad, nice vid!

[@Stefano_Gaming]

5:20 Brooo the quick flash of Dio after killer the dog 💀💀💀

[@quintuple_lained]

18:49 the best line in the video

[@crowgrabber_former_er5bb8yb2t]

0:57 crow spotted

[@Antonwalnuts]

19:07 i accidentally reset the game and THIS WAS ONE OF THE LAST LEVELS??? I COULD HAVE BEATEN HOTLINE MIAMI 2 BUT I ACCIDENTALLY RESET?

[@MHAL]

If by reset you mean you clicked on new game instead of continue, then the levels you beat should still be unlocked if you went into continue after the fact.

[@Antonwalnuts]

@@MHAL i ended up replaying it

[@budwieserofnowhere9993]

Honestly, I'm just glad to see both a new content about something I love and from something I am starting to love(seriously dude, u making some good fucking content and making me anxious for the next videos) Keep it up, good quality and sincere content and usual. Just thanks for the video!! ^^ Will be here waiting for your new stuff.

[@budwieserofnowhere9993]

DAAAAN i was writing this by the end of the video and when the "you are the blood" started playing...all those familiar emotions from when I finished this game back in 2010-something came back. Shieet Going to make me cry out here buddy

[@middas7337]

Fun fact about the writers first level... You dont have to KO or kill everyone... If you somehow manage it you could end the second floor without killing anyone just by opening the door to the guy you want to interview.... The rest will come and aim guns at you but wont kill you since the guy gives you the go ahead to leave alive

[@bbrainstormer2036]

Yeah but what about the dude out front?

[@middas7337]

I should have specified that on the second floor you don't have to kill or KO anyone... But the guy in the front was an unfortunate victim of circumstances.... He will be missed

[@tyresr]

That 30 minutes went by really fast, amazing work dude.

[@s_callahan]

this was a really nice video.. the only way i can describe it was a really pleasant funny watch, thanks for mentioning deadbolt i rarely hear it talked about. subcribed >:3

[@GameJam230]

I just came to say, it took me like 15 seconds of staring to figure out that those were NOT in fact Garfield's mangled nuts in the thumbnail.

[@falloutworldrecord]

Damn, the editing on this is incredible

[@calliejustwont]

holy shit this video is so good how do you not have more subs the writing, the editing, fucking banger video. looking forward to what you make next

[@viliussmproductions]

A great review. Love the style, love the humour, love the points. You've earned a new subscriber.

[@Valfezant]

Good vid. Not only good points, but also effective humor, which is admittedly hard to come by.

[@refitdan]

'In The Face Of Evil' is my ring tone and at 17:03 I actually looked to see if my phone was ringing.

[@Atkion]

Damn, dude. This channel has way too few subscribers to be putting out content of this quality lol Love it, keep up the great work man

[@HussainAhmed-wg3jx]

These vids just keep getting better and better

[@AHDBification]

My favorite detail in videos like these is having to pause and skip back ten seconds, then hit pause at the perfect time, so I can read the text on screen.

[@ripleyandweeds1288]

Honestly the black enemies just being normal Russian enemies wearing blackface is so fucking funny and I'm lowkey mad that was patched out.

[@kavindesh]

This is the best hotline miami video I've seen personally. I was just in it for the soundtrack to be honest.

[@harmlesstherobot7181]

Zack made my A+ run, and by extension my 100% run, possible and as such, I will always love that dumbass frog.

[@JakeSnakeDrawing]

Coming from one of the 5 still alive hotline Miami fans, thank you for this video. You can tell you put genuine effort into this and I always love to consume any content I can from this game even if it is years later

[@epictrollmanmoment]

The AI either doesn't shoot/hit you or it reacts 20x the speed of light and hits you while you're hiding

[@puckfigs9902]

Thanks for being a shining beacon in the dark... 1 is better than 2 I've always felt this

[@patrickgritton8025]

Critically underrated channel your dialog is f* hilarious

[@gianlu4357]

Am i the only one that genuinely prefers the more methodical, trial-and-error gameplay of the second one?

[@err0rc0degames]

Same here, first one gets pretty easy once you learn peeking and door slamming. If HM2 kept same thing up you could speed through it

[@Guile_The_Exile]

12:01 Dust is still my number 1 track from this series. That sunset results screen with that track playing... My god. What I'd give to be able to drive IN that area in real life with that song blasting...

[@Kriegsploink]

Amazing video, i thought this video had like a 100k+ views, keep going

[@bh4462]

"Leaving this world is not as scary as it sounds" is, indeed, a line that hits hard.

[@bingobongo6258]

I’ve never seen anything about hotline Miami. I’ve heard the name and all good things about it. But in this video. When I first saw the gameplay with music over it, I felt like frank from always sunny; crying, softly saying, “I get it.”

[@Superabound2]

I honestly thought that Hotline Miami 2 was supposed to be a parody of the popularity of the first game. Like an intentional trolling of the fans

[@smoothbrainchumak7278]

How to win Hotline Miami 2. Hold shift. There you have it.

[@konradzukowski213]

While Hotline Miami 1 is a better and more repeatable game with a story that's interesting, but not important to the overall experience,. Wrong Number is this odd and yet intriguing story that adds more detail to everything from the first game while leaving more questions than answers. This game feels like what would happen if you had a movie filmed and directed by Quentin Tarantino with a writing and storytelling of Hideo Kojima

[@artcrime2999]

exposure is when you risk being shot by peeking out of cover recklessly

[@BurningM]

You should release the companion video on youtube now. It's been a while since this video and I think it'd be super interesting. Plus I'd love to see more Deadbolt, god I love that game!

[@RomaniPidorasi]

Honestly great job you did here 👍 Such level of editing and care put into a video just earned you a sub and a blessing from the algorithms. Im sure if you keep this up it's only the question of "when" you will hit 7 digit subs count

[@Jacket50Blessings]

super underrated video, love this 💯

[@JaelaOrdo]

Say your prayers Burt 😂 He’d probably be more concerned about whether or not someone filmed him dying than death itself.

[@LasagneAlForno8297]

I always thought the guy switched to a guard's outfit cause he just wanted to start carnaging the other group of people partaking in the prison break

[@sockscav]

Agreed with all of the criticism to be honest. It was definitely a good game but it felt kind tedious compared to the first one.

[@dimpizz1525]

Never playef HM,but I really liked OTXO. The gameplay,the music - just pure fun.

[@dappercoat249]

I like to think carl got himself killed so that fifty blessings could maybe be found out.

[@Folly_Inds]

so tony is great an all but nothing made me feel more like john wick than the Jake mask. Every thing you touched is now a silenced gun with a double wide trailer for a hitbox.

[@MikePainstill]

A lot of good games were made in Sweden, that’s neat.

[@IdioticSynergy]

Fantastic video mate

[@astrabala5419]

22:09 had NO RIGHT to get me giggling like it did

[@Dwayne-h2v]

you have captured the spirit of ssethtzeentach possibly better than he himself has with this video

[@enderhunter1856]

19:40 is it surprising that you can swing a knife way faster than a fire axe?

[@Shekel-Shoveler]

God damn, the funny manga man made a jump between mediums and it was actually pretty great

[@0g0mogosepikworld31]

I love hl2 in an unhealthy, downloading bullshit difficult maps just to play more of it way

[@TheLivingOdyssey]

I played HM2 first and there's something about its holy-fuck sadistic level design that I am just enamored by and love the entire game to no end

[@jimjohn1740]

I think a part of hm2 criticism that isn’t brought up enough is how the devs only made it cuz the fans asked for it

[@Brent-jj6qi]

10:43 It’s amazing how that’s not just any person in blackface, that’s the current (soon to be former) prime minister of Canada Justin Trudeau

[@inconel7185]

17:02 I thought I heard this before , it's sampled in "Flooded district" from Ashes 2063. Slowly, I uncover the sauce.

[@pug-aloentertainment3801]

Does it? I don't think I've heard that sample there

[@strateupgamr7]

"sometimes they just leave" hit me way too hard

[@lightinabox6931]

Ouughhh this editing smooth as fuck

[@billycarr785]

Congrats on making a video I didn't have to speed up. I dropped you to .9x just to keep up, actually!

[@Resonance22Channel]

Definitely hope you do more game retrospectives

[@gambit_sfm]

10:41 I'M SORRY BUT THAT'S JUSTIN TRUDEAU, CANADA'S PRIME MINISTER, WEARING BLACKFACE, AND IT'S A REAL PHOTO FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW tHANK YOU SO MUCH MHAL IM CRYING IN LAUGHTER

[@warmongerous]

I honestly love both games, but I've put many more hours into the second. I'm a sucker for non linear storytelling and the variety of playable characters that the second game has, and there's so many good custom campaigns out there that either reimagine the ending, or just straight up tell new stories. But fuck me, casualties can go die, I still hate that level. I've beaten all levels on normal and hard mode, and while people mention Dead Ahead as being really hard, I just can't ever enjoy casualties. It's probably the point of the level, but it doesn't change the fact it sucks

[@artcrime2999]

Cactus put the game on pirate bay and I wound up using that to report a bug despite paying for my copy. You used to be able to execute people through the walls when bare handed

[@cathacker13]

I genuinely do not know it im some sort of weird masochist or what but I fully sincerely enjoyed the immesne difficulty spike of the second game. I fully understand that i am in the wrong on this as literally everyone else disagrees with me on this but that is my actual opinion and i dont know what to do about it

[@MHAL]

I mean, the game is still overwhelmingly positive on steam, so most likely you just share your opinion with people that don't feel the need to make youtube videos about it. And also the hundred or so people that kept spamming 'skill issue' and 'use the shift key' in my comments for a while, but that's not on you.

[@jeremongrel]

I just found out about Dracula Flow yesterday. How fitting

[@CursedMoistMan690]

I would literally give my Kidney for a Hotline miami 3