Ritual in Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
"Isn't that pretty much what we did last time? I didn't hear any complaints back then..." There's a certain accepted cultural narrative about the difference between the two Hotline Miami games. It generally goes as follows: the first game, Hotline Miami , is a surreal story that leaves several questions wide-open, interested more in its presentation and mood than in lore. Conversely, the second and final game, Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number , is understood as being a more grounded story that explains the mysteries of the first game in an understandable way. This seems outright wrong to me. It presents a mythic view of the surrealism of the first game when really, the first game's story is rather self-explanatory; there wasn't much there to explain (other than, perhaps, what happened in San Francisco, and the contents of Jacket's photo). Conversely, the second game's story is sprawling and many of its threads don't really go anywhere in par