I’ve played this before.
Strapped gang members guard the doors. I’m unarmed. I wear a mask. I wear a pig mask.
It feels familiar. I hit the first guy with my bear hands, and then I’m prompted to execute him, and his body explodes in a fountain of blood. I’m told to pick up a hammer and I instinctively threw it at another gang member’s head, and then I’m prompted to pick up a shotgun. In another room, a prostitute is giving the gang leader a blowjob. That’s when I shoot the guy. Then I shoot his guards. There’s blood everywhere.
But the game isn’t over. The game doesn’t want to be over.
The prostitute is crawling away. The game tells me to do something terrible.
“Cut!”
Nothing was real. It’s all artificial. The in game prompts were coming from a movie director. This was a movie set in the world of the first Hotline Miami, and the fiction in the world full of white jacket gangs and hyperviolence is even more violent.
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