It was all very trippy and beautifully put together. As the game progressed, the players met more and more difficult challenges, eventually uncovering the truth behind the phone calls. The first time around, two men living in squalor received mysterious calls at home telling them to go to various addresses and murder everyone there. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number deviates from its predecessor and forges a slightly new trail. And now, Swedish developers Dennaton Games are out to give us the rest of the story. Most people playing this game would reply, “No, I don’t like hurting other people.” Then why are you playing? Why are you still charging through apartments, night clubs, and police stations of 1980’s Miami, pummeling every vagrant to death and putting bullets through Russian mafia men? That’s the contradiction that the first Hotline Miami laid out before us. A mysterious man in a chicken mask asks this of the main character, and by extension, of the player. So goes the tagline for the 2012 top-down brawler released on PC and Playstation Network.
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