Hotline Miami 2 will have playable female characters

[Erttheking]

In the latest article about Hotline Miami 2 (Please do not discuss that article here, the current thread about it is still very hot, please go there if you want to talk about it). One thing I was surprised that no one was talking about in the post was this.

Wedin also said that players will learn more about the characters involved in the scene as the game progresses and noted that there will actually be a number of playable female characters in the full release.

I actually found this to be very interesting. The only female character in the original Hotline Miami was Hooker, now they're going to be playable female characters? I guess both genders are equally capable of being murderous psychos. Any thoughts on this?

 

[nogitsune]

I think that's some pretty cool news. I'm a bit surprised as to the brutal nature of the Hotline Miami franchise but in the end being a murderous psycho is a personal thing. Still I think it's a cool move of the devs to include female cahracters. It actually is news that moves games up on my radar. I do hope one of the girls gets a fox mask^^

 

[Terraniux]

The only female character in the original Hotline Miami was Hooker, now they're going to be playable female characters?

Spoiler: Hotline Miami spoilers

Actually, in the final level as Jacket in the first game, before fighting the mafia boss you have to kill his bodyguard, nicknamed 'Ninja girl.'

I don't mind playing as a female character. Given the choice, I probably choose to use female characters half the time, anyway.

 

[Link_to_Future]

Man, I don't even really consider the protagonists of Hotline Miami to be characters. Merely avatars.

We don't explore their deep seated emotional issues. We don't really understand what makes them tick. We just play them for the fast paced action and the strange surreal setting. It's a game where play and feel come way before the story.

So the fact that female characters will be playable in the sequel? Admirable, but irrelevant to the tone currently established. If they want to give a more personal look in the next game then it might come into play but based on the first game alone I'm pretty sure absolutely no one will give a shit.

 

[Lennie Briscoe]

Cool.

Now people won't flip their collective shit when it comes out and start pushing the developer for answers, like they did with that Puppeteer guy.

"Hey man, why aren't any of your playable mass murderers female, huh? Huh?!"

 

[Absolutionis]

The only female character in the original Hotline Miami was Hooker, now they're going to be playable female characters?

Spoiler: Hotline Miami spoilers

Actually, in the final level as Jacket in the first game, before fighting the mafia boss you have to kill his bodyguard, nicknamed 'Ninja girl.'

...and Don Juan.

Spoiler

Whether or not the Horse-Headed Woman is "Hooker" or not is up for debate.

 

[Longstreet]

First things first. You created a topic to discuss part of a new article, on this very site, only to ask us not to discuss the news article since that topic is still very hot. And then at the end asking us to discuss it.

Just wanted to point that out. [sub][sub][sub][sub][sub]disclaimer; no offence meant, just wanted to point it out[/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub]

And honestly i do not care at all. The reason Hotline miami was so fun for me, was due to the wacky violence, colorful screen and music to match. So basically how fucked up the whole experience was.

It was different, that was its greatest plus.

As long as they make the next Hotline more of the previous (plus some improvements here and there) i couldnt care less who i play as.

 

[Zhukov]

Yay?

I'm all for female protagonists, but I'm not exactly about to be impressed over one in a game like Hotline Miami. It would be like saying the Doom marine is now female.

Then again, it occurs to me that I'm assuming HM2 will essentially be a giant map pack for HM1. I could be wrong there. Maybe they'll change things up a bit.

 

[Mossberg Shotty]

The only female character in the original Hotline Miami was Hooker

Spoiler: Hotline Miami spoilers

Actually, in the final level as Jacket in the first game, before fighting the mafia boss you have to kill his bodyguard, nicknamed 'Ninja girl.'

...and Don Juan.

Spoiler

Whether or not the Horse-Headed Woman is "Hooker" or not is up for debate.

This is something that's always bothered me. Why does everyone think the blonde woman/possible Don Juan is a hooker? It always seemed to me that she was a victim, and as many times as I've asked this question, nobody has ever been able to give me an answer. I'm not saying she isn't, I'm just curious how people draw that conclusion.

But before I derail things further, I think the addition of playable female characters is great, I'm going to enjoy the added perspective.

Man, I don't even really consider the protagonists of Hotline Miami to be characters. Merely avatars.

We don't explore their deep seated emotional issues. We don't really understand what makes them tick. We just play them for the fast paced action and the strange surreal setting. It's a game where play and feel come way before the story.

So the fact that female characters will be playable in the sequel? Admirable, but irrelevant to the tone currently established. If they want to give a more personal look in the next game then it might come into play but based on the first game alone I'm pretty sure absolutely no one will give a shit.

I don't see where you get that from. When you take a good, long look at it, Hotline Miami is all about the characters and their descent into madness, they have conflicting motives, and nice character moments. It's all in the sub-text buts its there.

 

[Erttheking]

Yay?

I'm all for female protagonists, but I'm not exactly about to be impressed over one in a game like Hotline Miami. It would be like saying the Doom marine is now female.

Then again, it occurs to me that I'm assuming HM2 will essentially be a giant map pack for HM1. I could be wrong there. Maybe they'll change things up a bit.

Actually yeah, they said they're actually going to change things up a bit.

Spoiler

Apparently there are going to be two groups of characters that you switch between in the game. The first is not actually a real murderer, but actually guys filming a movie about the events of the first game. The second is a group of four fans who actually view the main character of the first game as a hero and are trying to replicate the phone calls that he got. Unfortunately, the janitors aren?t exactly calling considering that the MC in the first game pretty much took care of the job they wanted. So what they do is go out, wear the same masks that he did and murder as many thugs as possible to get the media to focus on them in the hopes that the calls will start happening again. Apparently it is possible to play as all four fans and each of them use masks that give very different abilities to them. It?s possible the playable female character will be one of the fans.

Overall it looks like the plot is going to be more coherent this time around.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Characters in Hotline Miami were borderline genderless. Okay, they were obviously male, but they were barely attached to any human identity. They were murdering psychopaths whose identities and characteristics were hidden, save for an animal mask. I'm not wild about character design, I'm more wild about the backstory and the creepy decent into ultra violence.

This is something that's always bothered me. Why does everyone think the blonde woman/possible Don Juan is a hooker? It always seemed to me that she was a victim, and as many times as I've asked this question, nobody has ever been able to give me an answer. I'm not saying she isn't, I'm just curious how people draw that conclusion.

It is speculated that Don Juan in the Masked Figure scenes is actually Hooker, as she is the only one that cares about Jacket and knows he is a killer. This is supported by the box art for the game. Also, the Don Juan mask is unlocked by getting a high score in Decadence, the mission she first appears in.

From the Hotline: Miami wiki. That's just about as much proof as you'd ever get, specifically from a game like this.

 

[Mossberg Shotty]

From the Hotline: Miami wiki. That's just about as much proof as you'd ever get, specifically from a game like this.

That's just it though. If there's no evidence to support the claim, how did people initially even come to the conclusion that she's a hooker? Seems like jumping to conclusions, but I guess we may never know.

Actually yeah, they said they're actually going to change things up a bit.

Spoiler

Apparently there are going to be two groups of characters that you switch between in the game. The first is not actually a real murderer, but actually guys filming a movie about the events of the first game. The second is a group of four fans who actually view the main character of the first game as a hero and are trying to replicate the phone calls that he got. Unfortunately, the janitors aren?t exactly calling considering that the MC in the first game pretty much took care of the job they wanted. So what they do is go out, wear the same masks that he did and murder as many thugs as possible to get the media to focus on them in the hopes that the calls will start happening again. Apparently it is possible to play as all four fans and each of them use masks that give very different abilities to them. It?s possible the playable female character will be one of the fans.

Overall it looks like the plot is going to be more coherent this time around.

I could've sworn I saw a video somewhere that said Jacket would still be a protagonist for the second game. That's not to say there can't be more than one, but that first faction you mentioned, the film guys, it seems like that would be difficult to flesh that out into an entire half of the game. Especially gameplay-wise.

My personal prediction is that they'll just be a small bit-part. Like the infamous scene with the "pig butcher".

 

[Not Matt]

awesome! that was exactly what i wanted i thought as i was banging a guy's head on the kitchen floor splattered in brain goo from two other guards i had bitten the throats off. i really wanted to have tits while going on my psycho rampage.

honestly. it depreses me that this is news. the gender of the protagonist shouldn't be some sort of grand announcement. i am mortified over the pathetic way the cod girls were introduced and received. the thing you should be asking is "can he/she/it do what ever he/she/it are supposed to do" not "can he/she/it pee standing up".

 

[gyrobot_v1legacy]

Well Jacket's fanclub also had women who probably had been the victim of the Russian Mob and loved how he turned his targets to paste.

 

[Pink Gregory]

Having more than one playable character at all is an interesting development in itself.

 

[Maximum Bert]

Er great I guess Ive seen a few threads now saying female protagonist in such and such a game and I honestly dont get it we have had female protagonists for a long time but I guess this is a way to get your game mentioned more by riding on the back of the female depiction in videogame debate now that the violence in videogames has cooled down for a bit.

Never played Hotline Miami though so maybe its has a significance in this game that I am not privy to but I doubt it. Come to think of it 2 of the last 6 games I have played I was/am playing as a female protagonist.