
The Right Number: A Review of Hotline Miami 2
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
Devolver Digital/Dennaton Games
March 10th 2015
I was gifted the first Hotline Miami game ages ago and adored it. Beautiful colors, intense gameplay, unnerving artwork and confusing narrative + story theming, and the most amazing soundtrack to a video game I’d ever played. I was looking forward to the sequel but was horrified by news of the its tutorial featuring a potentially triggering sexual assault sequence. It was cut short and revealed to be within a fictional narrative within the greater fictional narrative, but I was still not impressed by the justifications, even within the final game. (more…)
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