Hotline Miami

I have so many memories.

It's Hotline Miami

on the Vita.

Again, available other places.

But if you're looking for stuff to play on your Vita, Hotline Miami is awesome.

I wouldn't recommend playing it before bed because it gave me, like, I could see Hotline Miami in my head as I was sleeping.

I don't recommend that.

The next one is, again, available elsewhere.

But if you're into Souls games, check it out.

I'm not into something that's very close to Hotline Miami.

I'm good.

I don't need that much rage in my life again.

But you know what I found out? There's a little bit of Easter eggs of other indie games within this.

They had, what was the game with the masks, the top-down? Hotline Miami.

They had the guys, like this gang that came out with the masks on, with the owl mask and the clown mask and stuff.

I

mean, the fact you can die with one hit is very Hotline Miami.

well yeah it's very similar it's very similar to Hotline Miami but it's like it's

fun it

has environmental kills it has it's very like it's very much like Sifu also where it's like you can fight everyone at the same time I miss Sifu and you pick up weapons you can take the weapons out of the other people's hands and stuff

Up now and at number 8, we're quickening the pace.

Jackal is unashamedly a hot Miami like and it nails the movement and combat mechanics.

Every hit feels precise and the weapon variety is a joy from guns, knives, swords, even chairs and tables.

Chaos here that's been carefully designed so you end up moving almost poetically across the screen.

You can only see the top of their head, their shoulders, their little feet, and the gun that they are holding.

A little bit like Hotline Miami.

And it's set in an alien movie-style setting, so it's like a horror sci-fi game.

And I remember loving it at the time.

Certain games give publishers a, a, unintentionally maybe like a brand or a vibe, oh, this is the publisher that, you know, Team17 'cause of Worms for ages or this is the publisher that does sort of quirky multiplayer games.

Devolver because of maybe Hotline Miami is the one that does edgy sort of, um, those sort of games.

It's not true 'cause they do lots of different types of games.

But have you found that, uh, you're getting approached by certain developers [laughs] who make certain types of games?

Hmm

...

Devolver feel like the Hotline Miami company, 'cause they know all the other things they do.

But you can't necessarily help how people will perceive you, and for a lot of people, the only thing they will know Playstack for is Balatro.

And, and they're...

You know, like, Hotline Miami was the first big hit we had made up by a tiny team that kind of, uh, rang that bell in the same way that Doom did back in '94-

Such a great game

... '93, was, uh-

We're paying you the same day." And that just...

A- and we were giving them the vast majority of the profits because we weren't spending that much money.

Now, instead of going from the 2 million to 10 million for Gamecock, now we were spending, I think we spent 35 grand to get Hotline Miami out the door.

[laughs] Or fi- finished anyway-

I think it was called...

Something Miami.

I want to say it's called Hotline Miami.

I don't know why that's popping in my head, but that could be the name of a song or something else.

I don't know what that is.

Let me Google it.

Hotline Miami.

Oh, it's a game.

remember kung fu being easier than that which i'm pretty sure that game is based on

um another one i really love is um instantaneous revival um that to me kind of to what you were talking about trev like you know being able to hop immediately back into action can really actually keep me engaged in the game like uh Hotline Miami, both one and two.

The reason I enjoyed those so much is because it's almost impossible to be frustrated because you're back into the phrase so quick that you just don't have time to even process failing at the last moment.

um you know even a game i talk relentless shit about neon white um you know as much as i hated parts of that game um i really loved how quickly that snapped you back to the starting line if you failed or died you know fell off a cliff i should say you don't really die but you know what i mean like like that instantaneous reset is like such a key thing especially if you add really good music to it to where like you're almost like forced into Yeah.

I guess if you look at the list and kind of pick one thing here...

Granted, Mark doesn't necessarily do the podcast with us anymore, but Mark picked Hotline Miami.

If you know Mark, that is like his baby.

Which makes...