11/9/2022 0 Comments Hotline miami ost![]() ![]() Watching those hues flow in and out, in and out can be so peaceful. The cotton candy color palette, baked in static lines, grants an entrancing, nostalgic security - one that can make it difficult to start the game. All the text floats gently, rocking from side to side as palm trees file endlessly behind. When the game opens and the title screen appears, relaxation arrives in a great wave. ![]() Included is both original soundtrack work and pre-existing tracks, many of which have enjoyed a newfound brand of cult-stardom along with the game. What has risen from that aesthetic and convinced so many to play Hotline Miami is the iconic soundtrack, which pairs the daze and carnage with a blood-pumping, sometimes-nauseating slate of synthwave and electronica. Hotline Miami capitalizes on the style’s surreal, dazing capabilities, perfectly entwining it with the mysterious story and hectic, gory gameplay, conjuring a world that can be reasonably seen as our own or as some hellish dreamland. The aesthetic isn’t gimmicky, it isn’t forced: it’s essential. Many works in the realms of film, television and gaming have tried to capture that same gorgeous, ’80s-obsessed brutality, but Hotline Miami is one of the few that hasn’t found itself lost and ultimately forgotten in all the hazy pinks, purples and blues. The game’s masterminds, Jonatan Söderström and Dennis Wedin, have crafted a truly distinct environment for the game. ![]() An ultraviolent trance that cyclically swirls in through the eyes, around the brain and deep into the heart and gut, one of seemingly endless guns, knives, bats and blood-stained neons - this is what waits beyond the lush, equally hypnotic loading screen of Devolver Digital and Dennaton Games’ 2012 top-down shooter Hotline Miami. ![]()
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