You’re going to play out exactly what’s going to happen in your head. Before you go into each room you’re going to stop and come up with a plan. If the likes of Super Meat Boy and Dark Souls make you want to throw you keyboard/controller out the window, Hotline Miami probably won’t be an exception. If you’re the type that enjoys difficult games with a lot of repetition, you’ll like Hotline Miami as long as the pixelated gore doesn’t bother you. You’ll die frequently, but levels are short and reload times instant so it’s rarely frustrating. Dying means just starting the building floor you were on over. This is the kind of game where you’ll die repeatedly and part of the experience is learning from your mistakes. “I swear! They were like that when I got here!” Both games require fast reflexes and some thought. Both games have short levels where it’s very easy to die. It reminds me of Super Meat Boy more than anything else. The game is unforgiving any bullet or melee attack kills you instantly.

Guns make noise so it’s often best to kill with melee. Each enemy can kill you in one hit, so carefully moving from room to room plotting your next action is essential.

It’s a puzzle game that requires fast reflexes. It’s a twitch based action game with strategy. The game’s also been compared to Grant Theft Auto, but Hotline Miami doesn’t have the open world sandbox that made Grand Theft Auto nor does it have Rockstar’s trademark humor. Its been compared to stealth games, but you can’t sneak up behind guards (they’ll just turn around and murder you), so you have to quickly run up and bludgeon them before they have time to turn around. It’s one of those games that’s hard to pigeon hole into any one genre. Hotline Miami is a PC indie game by Dennaton Games. The first guard tries to crawl away and you crush his head between the bat and the floor. You toss the knife into his head and he drops his baseball bat.

You pick it up as another guard turns the corner. He falls to the floor and drops his knife. You kick in the door and it swings open into one of the guards. Your job is to go into a building and kill everyone.

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