I don't get it

Two swedes made the game, that's why this shit

It's a throwback to arcade games based around score and gameplay rather than a narrative structure (which beard alludes to in his old-school pizza joint no longer appealing to young people anymore). Jacket is a player who just rolls with the gameplay and sets out to accomplish his goal (kill the russians and get revenge for Beard). Biker on the other hand is a storyfag who gets caught up in the reasoning behind the game, and his obsessive search leads him to the dev's chambers where they tell him they did it for fun and to fuck off.

Hotline 2 to an extent is also a reflection of Hotline 1's fame. The Fans and Jake to an extent are fans who sympathize with 50 Blessings' ideas either of nationalism or cleaning up the streets. Pardo is a rival jealous of Hotline's success, attempting to usurp it's fame through sheer gratuitous violence with shallow messaging (MM messages claiming he was "forced to do it" connecting with 90s video game moral panic).

i'm sure some democratic elections would have fixed it all

The first one was so good and had great mechanics like the "body shield" one. Why did the second game just put windows on every level?

DUDE

The second game was a pleb filter.

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Yeah, there's not much to it.

I don't think I successfully used the human shield the whole time. Still don't get it, they always just shot through it.

Out fucking skilled.

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Jacket picked up a gf as a souvenir
what a chad

It just stop one bullet. So its useless against shotguns or automatic weapons, still it was very unique

>cuts as knife knocks down last colombian
>not enough time to keep the combo going even if it did hit between leaving that screen and aggroing the first colombian on the next screen
Don't post that gay ass shit and say "pleb filter" you scumsucking faggot.

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Also the imbalance of the weapons was a bit of a flaw. If you had a hard level you could just respawn until you started next to the shotgun with 6 ammo.

The second one made guns much better.

Git gud, pleb.

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The duality of man

You cam tell me to "git gud" once your retarded baby ass is able to stop using autolock on a stationary fucking enemy. I would like to see your dumb baby ass crying as you get shot offscreen during Blood Money.

>If you had a hard level you could just respawn until you started next to the shotgun with 6 ammo.
Get pleb filtered, faggot.

she was some junky sex slave that Jacket rescued (or perhaps 'rescued'). it's implied they fell in love (or at least that Jacket became infatuated with her).

>basically you shouldn't fight
fixed. the game treated nearly everyone sympathetically, even the most completely monstrous characters like Manny or The Son. basically the only exceptions being the russians. the message is just the same old nietzche 'battle not with monsters' line about the cycle of violence.

the game has credits. it is the creation of two primary auteurs and a couple dozen other contributors, especially for the music.

It's on the house.

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I'm sorry to say that durability of man is about how humans have a good and bad side to them which allows free will to happen.
What your looking for is the state of polarity.
You don't have to thank me on this one. This one is on the house.

I have seen very little evidence that this story anons talk about is real and not head cannon. Shit just happens the whole game.

The only things I didn't like were the fact that there were not enough biker levels and Tony couldn't kill the big niggas without getting a gun, which defeats the point of the mask. I liked the concept behind the biker levels, being completely limited as to what weapon you could use so you needed to be more creative and resourceful. Though I liked Hotline Miami 1 way more than 2. People shit on 1 for being way easier, but I prefer the arcade feel of the first game. Also the rewind in the story was a really nice reveal, but they took that and made it the entire point of HM2, but without the magic.