Posted on: May 25, 2020
CharlieLima79
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Frustrating, yet addictively brutal game
As someone late to the ‘Hotline Miami' hype, I was often wondering why this top-down action game that reminds me of the first ‘Grand Theft Auto’ got so much attention. So I got the game at a sale and gave it a try. Pretty soon, I was sucked into a trippy gorefest of masked assassins and gangsters. The brutality in ‘HM’ rivals that in the early ‘GTA’ games, but the game is nowhere as colourful or humourous. In fact, the art style and colour palate highlight the ugliness of the world of ‘HM’. Even with the precision of keyboard and mouse controls, ‘HM’ is challenging. Like many of your enemies, one hit from a melee weapon or a bullet is enough to kill you. The masks you earn and find throughout the game can grant you bonuses for your attacks, defense and movements. Yet in the end, it’s all about your finesse and familiarity with the game. That’s when I realized why ‘HM’ is so popular. It goads you to keep trying until you beat a level, by having you simply press R to try again. I died frequently in ‘HM’, but eventually learned the patterns of my enemies and the best masks and weapons to use. Your victories are definitely hard earned. It’s not a game you’ll breeze through – you have to get good at it. I found myself cursing at the game and at myself for failing, especially after having made much headway in a level. But the moment you finally succeed, you can feel the endorphins kick in from your achievements, despite how unpraiseworthy, brutal your actions are in the game. I get it now. Whether you can complete ‘HM’ or not, and whether or not you can get a high grade for a level doesn’t really matter. It’s the thrill of succeeding, the addictive cycle of repeated failure and brief moment of triumph, and those mindless moments of highly pixelated brutality that you commit because you’re simply told to. ‘HM’ appeals to the animal in us – I can totally understand why it got the accolades that it received.
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