November Assassination #2
Hotline Miami was among the Top 3 highest score backlog games on my list for a while, so it felt like a cool little project to tackle between playing my SG Wins and after assassinating the monster that RDR2 is. And it did not disappoint.
To be honest, I would have beaten it earlier/faster had I chose to play on K+M - the way the controls are laid on the gamepad not only makes the gameplay a bit more challenging and slower, but it also hurt my hand after an hour or so of play.
Regardless of that, it's clear to me why this game became such an indie classic. Pleasant visuals (if you don't mind the gore), neat music, and a rewarding gameplay loop where experimentation is encouraged but skill never ceases to matter. There's also a story that I don't really connected with, but the gameplay was always good. The masks are all so different and introduce a lot of replayability as well.
I've beaten the main game and I'm now at the epilogue, but I can see myself coming back to it every now and then. It's such a good game. Play it!
Hydrogen definitely wakes something in me when I hear it years after playing the game.
It’s so visceral - it is literally the only song in the OST I went looking for on Spotify. But to be frank, there are many other good hits on the OST, the soundtrack is a gem by itself. It really captures the vibe they were going for, synth-vaporwave-gore lol