The pixelated design of the game transports me back when I was playing games as a child (early 90s) on the classic Sega Mega Drive, and this gives me lots of pleasure and great memories. The graphics for Hotline Miami Collection are of an old school 90s game and I love the retro look to it. It should take you roughly 4-5 hours to complete all of Hotline Miami ’s chapters and 7-8 hours to finish Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number. These actions are calculated by your kills, your combos, the weapons you use & how quickly you complete the mission etc. After each chapter/scene is complete you are given a performance-based “grade” (e.g B+) which is based on your actions during that level.
Hotline Miami has a total of 20 chapters and Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number with 27. Or if stealth isn’t your thing, you can go hell for leather and attack everything on site, but of course, remember not to get hit.Īnother helpful tactic is you can change your animal mask at the start of your missions, which grants a wide variety of effects – like making attack dogs friendly. An obvious bonus to this is that the enemies won’t be able to hear you, so you can sneak around the levels & make silent kills as another way of helping you complete the mission.
You can during your missions, however, choose to not use guns but instead use knives, baseball bats and beer cans etc. Once all the enemies are killed, the mission is complete. Your aim in the game is simple, kill everyone by any means necessary and of course don’t die, obviously. Let’s say straight off the bat that both games are difficult, both “Jacket” the protagonist and the Russian Mafia can be killed in just a single shot, so stealth plays a huge part in these games. When the opportunity was there to review the Hotline Miami Collection on the switch, I didn’t think twice. I do though have it on my steam account so I must have picked it up at some point, maybe in a humble bundle deal or something, but all I have heard is great things about the game and I knew I wanted to pick it up at some point down the road. Now I am not gonna lie to you, I have never played a Hotline Miami game EVER. Let’s see how both games played on the Nintendo Switch and if it still stands the test of time!! Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number which originally came out in March 2015 takes place before and after the events of the former, and focuses on the backstory and aftermath of the hitman, “Jacket”.īoth games contain extreme violence, a compelling soundtrack and Hotline Miami received critical acclaim which made it evolve into a cult video game.
The premise of Hotline Miami is set in 1989, where you take control of a hitman named “Jacket” where you walk about in his apartment, but receive an answerphone message every day offering “Jacket” to do various jobs, aka go out and kill lots of Russian Mafia. The game was originally released back in October 2012 on PC, but was released on August 19th on the Nintendo Switch as the Hotline Miami Collection, which includes the sequel Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number. Hotline Miami is a top-down shooter game developed by Dennaton Games & published by Devolver Digital.