To be honest it isn't actually that haunting or scary to me. Its a rare moment of Richard being caring. He told him what would happen and how there was no way to stop it. He was comforting him.
@@thesolidestsnake Since Richard as a character is essentially a manifestation of Jacket's thoughts, while also being a supernatual angel of death type being, this is the way I look at it: Jacket never knew what Richter was going through in his personal life when Richter went to assassinate him and killed Girlfriend. It's hinted at in the intro to the hard mode that Richter is sorry for what he did to Jacket, but he never got the chance to apologize to Jacket himself. (I'm going to go out on a limb and assume Jacket and Richter never spoke in prision, either because they didn't know the other was there or Jacket refused to talk to Richter or maybe the guards wouldn't let them talk because of their history, idk). Richard, on the other hand, knows that Richter is sorry for what he did, and knows that Jacket never got the apology from Richter. This could've been leading Richter on and on inside his head, knowing that he'll never make peace with it. Going back to the intro to hard mode, Richard thanks Richter for his apology, but undercuts and doesn't really accept it since he's not Jacket. All this to say, at the end of the game, Richard knows what's coming and knows that Richter is still feeling guitly about what he's done up until this point, so Richard decides to comfort him and only him in his last moments so he feels at peace, knowing that he's done everything he can do and there is nothing more to worry about, almost as a way to say: "I know I'm not Jacket, but if he was here right now, he would forgive you for what you did. You can let go of it now and make peace with yourself, there isn't a point to fight your thoughts any longer." But that's just my theory
>takes russian percs >kills basically everyone >kills a bunch of huge ass animals who are actually mass murderers(?) >jumps off a building Maybe he was 10 steps ahead of us this whole time.
The main menu is Miami getting nuked but when I first started playing I thought it was a storm or hurricane and now that I think about it it’s so disturbing
@@kentuckyfriedchildren5385 yeah they're already maniacs so they'd fit well with the rapists, bandits and people just trying to balance peace/stay alive
Something a lot of people don't realize is that the game's ending also reflexes on one of the most controversial parts of the story, which is the point of view of each character. For example we all feel sympathetic about The Henchman even though we spend a lot of time killing hundreds of other Russians who also must have a backstory each, but we don't care about them because we couldn't see things from their POV. In this case, the ending can look pretty forced and unrelated at first, but quickly makes sense since it implies we are watching the consequences of a group of unknown people's actions on the rest of the cast, and those actions would make sense if the game was about the General's crusade up to that point, just like the second game heavily relies on telling the consequences and influence of Jacket's actions in the life of everyone else. It all wraps up in the end
Plus in the end, no one cannot escape Fate, no matter how much they Kill or commit genocides The game does have violence or murder but doesn't glorify it if you look deeper into the story Because no matter what, no matter how much we Wanted to change each of their fate, they'll just.. Die, No more restart, Just a simple death in the end
It hits you like a train, doesn't it? The fact that the title screen and the cover art of Beard have different meanings after completing the game, it's just a genius emotional touch.
when you realize that all of this couldve have not happend if biker killed the 50 blessings guys (Edit after 2 years): Nah looking back to this comment that gets a reply like monthly, biker couldnt have stopped shit, cuz the 50 blessings guys were just 2 cogs on a giant operation that was already being carried out
There were so many moments where 50 blessings could've been stopped, but the ones who could've stopped them were either too weak, too frightened, or just plain too stupid to realize it. So they were always going to get their way sadly.
@@etan7852 well, he doesnt quite kill jacket, they both got really hurt and thought they killed the other on Their minds but both stayed alive. But, if biker canonically chose to kill the janitors 50 blessings wouldnt exist so the chance of the nuclear war happening would be pretty low since they are the managers of jacket's killings, and with less people following jacket's steps (like Jake or the fans), it could be less probable that the incident with the president would happen
So you mean to tell me in the two branching timelines. Jacket either dies in prison from a nuclear bomb, or gets his head smashed in by Biker in the alternate story... G r e a t
It’s actually not two timelines, it’s a simple answer but if you want you can think it’s that. The actual way it went was pretty much drugs and dreams and shit, during that part Jacket was still in a coma, and for the Biker he was in heavy drugs just before he left to go there, and when playing the second game you can see that biker has a large scar on his face, pretty much implying that jacket mostly won but he was in a coma and didn’t remember it that well
There are two possible Evan endings. Not doing anything with Evan's storyline to reunite him with his wife leads to the ending displayed in this video. This is a sweet bit of irony, as _not_ caring about the story had Evan working more on his story about the Miami Mutilator and Jacket. Too bad either way it's all for naught.
I never knew Evan had alternate endings. I got the one where he was with his family. I thought it was nice, in a dark kind of way. He's happy, enjoying his time with them, then they all instantly get glassed. They didn't see it coming. They weren't worried at all. Just living in the moment.
I prefer the ending where he works on the book. It may be worse, but it makes Richter's choice at the end better i think, he was the only person to finally realise he couldn't fight his fate, and Richard is glad
I used to have a grave fear of death, like it would often keep me awake at night and breathing heavily in fear and stuff. When I reached the ending of hotline Miami 2, richards words gave me some kinda peace. He’s right. Leaving this world is not as scary as it sounds.
Moral of the story..........Don't do drugs...or at the very least...don't overdo it like the son did. Remember....don't do drugs, it's bad for you M'kay? :P
I laughed my ass off when I saw the Hotline Miami 3 start menu XD... But damn I wish that this game was longer... I hope there is more in thins game that we have to dig out...
Sadly, Dennaton Games already mentioned that this was going to be the last Hotline Miami game.. But the good news is that they're going to add a mission/level editor so people can "continue" the game sometime in the future when it comes out. :P
If you ask me, I would say that the Hunter saga by TheLEGOMack is the closest thing we got to a 3rd game. It offers an amazing parallel story and a design that pretty much simulates the original game's play style. It's highly recommended for anyone looking for a third game
What creeps me out is how the emergency broadcast cuts out randomly, most likely implying that they got nuked in the place they were going “live from.”
I think Evan, The son, Richter and Pardo got a "happy ending" Evan either completes his book, or his wife and kids return. The son, was on drugs. The only thing he remembered was walking towards Valhalla. Not aware the russian mafia has now completely collapsed, so in his memory. He accomplished his goals. Richter got to live his remaining days in Hawaii, with his mom, and as you heard. He accepted his death, he was happy, Fullfilled. While Pardo was in a stressful situation, he was very drunk. He never got caught, never faced punishment. In its own twisted way. He won.
I disagree that Pardo "won". If you think about his motivations, which were to get famous as the miami mutilator, he failed miserably. It wasn't about if he got caught. In fact, that should've been at the least of his worries due to everyone's attention being focused on Jacket and his trial. Judging by how we never see a headline about the Miami Mutilator anywhere during news type segments of the game, it's safe to assume that no one gave a shit about what he did. In all honesty, I'd say Richter was ultimately the only one with a happy ending, because he knew of his fate and accepted it without fighting. Pardo died a paranoid, drunk, and cowardly man. Even though Evan spent his last few moments with his family, he never had the same knowledge of Richter about his fate, so he ultimately died ignorant. So overall, I'd say Pardo completely lost in terms of achieving what he wanted.
And Son was depressed from the beginning so he never could have won, he didn't even like the mafia thing he was in just for his father, the only thing that may have given him relief was avenging the Henchman but he didn't know that he did.
@@marialuke2116 th-cam.com/video/N9qGdwg9oGM/w-d-xo.html There is far more we must travel, but I can't do it alone. We're in this abyss but we're distantly together for the better for the worst.
I heard about this game a looong time ago and it wasn't until december 2023 that I started playing, now I have finished both and wow... this was such an unique experience
Biker is already dead sadly, remember that he was looking grim in that one bar? The bar is called "The bar of the broken hero" I think, and it's an optional zone, also, everyone else at the bar are already dead (Like the previous Russian leader and his dad) so yeah, biker is 100% dead before the bombs went off
Same. The song at the end, the visuals and just the emotional shock of realizing what just happened hit me like an emotional train straight into my eyes.
While the nuke always came from left to right, it's interesting that Pardo seems to be guarding the door, looking at the right side of the screen, all while the nuke came from the left side.
@@zerus3271 In reality something else would bust down his door...and windows.....and house....and neighborhood.....and city.....and the entire fucking country.
I remember searching this video up & watching the whole thing, without understanding the context of the ending. I've never played Hotlime Miamis, so seeing this ending looks visually aesthetic, while also mysterious. 🤔
I think Evan and to a lesser extent Jake were the only ones that could've changed this Jake canonically died in interrogation with the Russians, but if you beat the last screen of his last mission without dying, you can collect a floppy disc that will be on Jakes body after being shot by 50 blessings. When Evan finds it, he gets the address of a nuclear vault that 50 blessings build If these events were canonical and Evan got out of the bunker, he could've had substantial evidence about the conspiracy that goes on. Something could've been done, before things were too late
In my honest opinion both Hotline Miami 1 and 2 are the greatest indie games ever made. Nothing comes close, anyone else that tries it will be labeled as copiers of Denaton. Absolute masterpieces!
I like to think that after the events of Hotline Miami 2, a new America was born from a couple of survivors that didn't die from radiation poisoning after the initial blast(s), and Jacket somehow was one of those people. This eventually ended up leading to the modern-day America, and since Jacket became essentially isolated from everyone he knew, he went completely off the rails and returned to his violent lifestyle, which in turn lead him to knock at Bain's door to become a member of the Payday gang.
Un detalle que nos e si habrán dado cuenta es que en la intro de first blood cuando vas a hablar con la madre de Richter está dice que estaba soñando que ella y su esposo estaban en la playa y que sentía que algo muy malo iba a pasar. Un muy buen detalle.
My ending had slightly different text. Nothing major at all, it was just that the richard spirit thing said "good times never last instead of guy who wore the richter mask. Also the writer was eating dinner with his family instead of typing. If Hm2 is a sequel, then Is the guy who took care of his mom the same guy who tried to kill Jacket in Hm1, or did they just reuse his face and hes a different person? I thought he died in Hm1....This ending left me confused.
I actually didn't know there were different versions of this ending. That's pretty interesting. And as for the bald guy who took care of his mom, that was Richter , in Hotline Miami 1 when you go to the police station and kill all the cops and face Richter, you could either kill him or let him live by simply walking away after talking to him. I guess in Hotline Miami 2 made it that Jacket spared Richter's life. The game's story still confuses me but i'm going to try to beat it again from the start to understand it a bit more. And hopefully to get a slightly different ending like yours.
Dodo Bird I think it depends on what you do as Evan. When you find the letter from the wife you have the option to go to the phone or the typewriter. If you pick the phone evans sits there with his family, when you pick the typewrite he will write at the end. Also the text from the TV wil be slightly different
***** Ah, I see. I remember picking up the letter from his wife but I didn't know I could go to the phone and talk to her, that's good to know though. I thought it had to do with not killing anyone when playing as Evan since it's an achievement in a game or something. Thanks for the information, Christian!
HM2 is kinda weird with regard to who's alive from HM1. It's actually an option whether or not you kill ritcher in HM1, and even if you do hit him he just says I DESERVED THAT nd doesnt like explode into blood and guts like a corpse. I assumed he died too but HM2 assumes he doesnt. Also, to muddy shit even worse, biker is out front of jacket's trial, so BOTH biker and jacket lived through HM1 apparently.
HM2 is both a sequel and a prequel. You play both after and before the times of the first game. The times with Ash (the guy who killed jacket's girlfriend) is before he did that because Jacket killed him afterwards
@@cowboypete2201 the 60’s isn’t that long ago man. Humans have existed for hundreds of thousands of years. The second we stepped in the nuclear age we have been at the whims of powers much much greater than us. “We must love each other, or we must die.”
Every once and a while in the game during intro and outro scenes's it will flash white and you will see movie people look VERY carefully on the homicide outro to see. does that mean its all a movie?
I think pardo used to be an actor. You can see him with some other cops on martins death scene and someone replaced the blanks with real bullets when martin died. I think pardo did it
Well, kinda. It may be a representation of Richard watching everything happen. So at the end of the game, on that cutscene. When he turns on the projector it means that he's restarting the story to try to fix everything again. But really, no i don't think it is a movie.
This still to this day confuses me who is Richard he was a subconscious in hotlineMiami 1 but all the characters in hotline Miami 2 saw him at least once.
thanks for putting a spoiler warning on the video titled "ENDING". I would have been so surprised that there were spoilers for the story's ending otherwise.
you can see in the background of hotline Miami 3s background has ruined buildings -Update I just realized hlm1 hlm2 and hlm3 are stages in a nuclear explosion 1 is before the explosion 2 is during the explosion and 3 is after the explosion if a hlm3 ever happens I think it would be is like a wasteland and rn I just realized someone had the same thought as me good minds think alike I guess.
@@LooMilzo I think the Abyss bonus level was possibly a bunker for 50 Blessings for something like a nuke being dropped, so there's the possibility he's still alive through hiding in a bunker.
This ending... When the nukes fell and Castanets rolled is the only time in my life i felt truly empty. All of this senseless violence... What did it brought in the end?
@@scooble_ i don't think it is necessarily nihilistic personnaly i see it more as a message about how being rich, famous and powerful ultimately don't matter as it can just fade away in second because of something out of our control. What matter is the simple things, being with your family, doing what you like, being happy. I find it almost heartwarming in a strange way.
You are the blood Flowing through my fingers All through the soil Up in those trees You are electricity And you are light You are sound itself And you are flight Rest in Power, Ray
Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip
One thing I noticed at the end of the game is that when Rosa Berg puts on the Richard mask, the song does not play. you hear the thunder, but you don't hear the song that usally plays alongside. see for yourself. note every time you see Richard, and when that theme plays. It starts with quite a sting, then lets off.
It completely fits the entire game for me…endless violence only leads to more violence. Every single character is on their own path of catastrophic self destruction and inevitably (told through a very literal sense) they all met their destruction one way or another. Every character dies in a fiery nuclear explosion (which could be symbolic of hell also) In Hotline Miami there simply is no redemption for the sins you have committed.
"leaving this world is not as scary as it sounds"
that is truly haunting
To be honest it isn't actually that haunting or scary to me. Its a rare moment of Richard being caring. He told him what would happen and how there was no way to stop it. He was comforting him.
@@thesolidestsnake true but if you take that out of context it could sound scary
@@thesolidestsnake he is get personalty of people who he posseses
I found it oddly comforting.
@@thesolidestsnake Since Richard as a character is essentially a manifestation of Jacket's thoughts, while also being a supernatual angel of death type being, this is the way I look at it:
Jacket never knew what Richter was going through in his personal life when Richter went to assassinate him and killed Girlfriend. It's hinted at in the intro to the hard mode that Richter is sorry for what he did to Jacket, but he never got the chance to apologize to Jacket himself.
(I'm going to go out on a limb and assume Jacket and Richter never spoke in prision, either because they didn't know the other was there or Jacket refused to talk to Richter or maybe the guards wouldn't let them talk because of their history, idk).
Richard, on the other hand, knows that Richter is sorry for what he did, and knows that Jacket never got the apology from Richter. This could've been leading Richter on and on inside his head, knowing that he'll never make peace with it. Going back to the intro to hard mode, Richard thanks Richter for his apology, but undercuts and doesn't really accept it since he's not Jacket.
All this to say, at the end of the game, Richard knows what's coming and knows that Richter is still feeling guitly about what he's done up until this point, so Richard decides to comfort him and only him in his last moments so he feels at peace, knowing that he's done everything he can do and there is nothing more to worry about, almost as a way to say: "I know I'm not Jacket, but if he was here right now, he would forgive you for what you did. You can let go of it now and make peace with yourself, there isn't a point to fight your thoughts any longer."
But that's just my theory
>takes russian percs
>kills basically everyone
>kills a bunch of huge ass animals who are actually mass murderers(?)
>jumps off a building
Maybe he was 10 steps ahead of us this whole time.
Refuses to elaborate
>Dies.
the fans, yeah
''leaving this world isn't as scary as it sounds."
I know, because it's much worse
@@alienfuck6940 why
@@kestanecihasanpubg it just is
No more cruelty action by human ANYMORE.
I'm not afraid of death I'm afraid of after death.
HOTLINE MIAMI IS FUN, THEY SAID. ITS FULL ACTION, THEY SAID
They never told us the story is way more depress than the colour of the game
It was man. It was a good time. You know what they say about good times right?
@@lifeofjeffrey2447 Yeah... Good times never last.
mwhhahahahahahahahaha
@@lifeofjeffrey2447 Yeah.
Good times never last
The main menu is Miami getting nuked but when I first started playing I thought it was a storm or hurricane and now that I think about it it’s so disturbing
I felt the same but the music was too depressing to be that so kinda assumed that in my mind.
Thought about that too when the trees start to move and after the ending there is a hard mode press that and everything is in ruins
Yeah it's really brilliant foreshadowing, you see the ending before even playing the first level.
And the hard mode menu is the aftermath
So Im right there was a nuke
Thus creates Fallout New Miami
I want it. tbh
Just thaught how cool a crossover would be lol
@@kentuckyfriedchildren5385 yeah they're already maniacs so they'd fit well with the rapists, bandits and people just trying to balance peace/stay alive
/watch?v=aPtAjvtJhf8
Being modded
It would be nice if they will add some kind of Russian Mafia in this mod.
Atleast a reference.
The most sad part was jackets and ritchers because they both accepted death and they fought for the ones they loved
One of the saddest things was Richard showing Richter some pity by telling him dying isn’t so bad.
Ritcher killed Jack's girl. He can go to hell.
He was doing it to protect his mom
If he didn't his mom will die🤦
@@steampunkastronaut7081 did you just not pay attention during the second game or?
Due to Payday 2 it is now canon that the members of h3h3 Productions died
Sam Hyde confirmed for the ring leader of the coup d'etat?
@Marek Tužák "what a shame"
Rad
Good riddance
@Top Hat Mann how can he keep getting away with it
Something a lot of people don't realize is that the game's ending also reflexes on one of the most controversial parts of the story, which is the point of view of each character. For example we all feel sympathetic about The Henchman even though we spend a lot of time killing hundreds of other Russians who also must have a backstory each, but we don't care about them because we couldn't see things from their POV. In this case, the ending can look pretty forced and unrelated at first, but quickly makes sense since it implies we are watching the consequences of a group of unknown people's actions on the rest of the cast, and those actions would make sense if the game was about the General's crusade up to that point, just like the second game heavily relies on telling the consequences and influence of Jacket's actions in the life of everyone else. It all wraps up in the end
Plus in the end, no one cannot escape Fate, no matter how much they Kill or commit genocides
The game does have violence or murder but doesn't glorify it if you look deeper into the story
Because no matter what, no matter how much we Wanted to change each of their fate, they'll just.. Die, No more restart, Just a simple death in the end
u typed this on two different videos
@@MaxStasis and he was right on both of them
@@MaxStasis he must be one of the fans. Seeking fame.
@@Bog8686so what that he did? He was right.
When I was younger and played this I completed it at night and I started crying because of all of this
It hits you like a train, doesn't it? The fact that the title screen and the cover art of Beard have different meanings after completing the game, it's just a genius emotional touch.
@@Retrostar619 one small correction: the cover art is of Beard, it's the nuke on San Francisco of '85
@@anotherchanneliguess2335 Much Obliged :-)
@@anotherchanneliguess2335 então foram dois ataques nucleares?
@@fypsfd yes
Seeing jacket for the last time gave me chills...
All have begun with Jacket and all have ended with him
That ending scene with nuke and the music always gives me goosebumps.
The way the nuclear explosion sound transitions into the song is beautiful
That's not how a nuke sounds
@@garysimmons3166no way
@@petrwarthursty2011 yes way
@@garysimmons3166 prove it
@@petrwarthursty2011 watch Oppenheimer ya nimrod
when you realize that all of this couldve have not happend if biker killed the 50 blessings guys
(Edit after 2 years):
Nah looking back to this comment that gets a reply like monthly, biker couldnt have stopped shit, cuz the 50 blessings guys were just 2 cogs on a giant operation that was already being carried out
he just dissapeared after HM1 right?
@@Daniel-bu6hx Yep, he went into hiding, You can see him on hm2 in jacket's trial and in the bar of broken heroes
There were so many moments where 50 blessings could've been stopped, but the ones who could've stopped them were either too weak, too frightened, or just plain too stupid to realize it. So they were always going to get their way sadly.
So Bikers seperate kinda timeline where he kills jacket and then kills the janitors is the best possible ending?
@@etan7852 well, he doesnt quite kill jacket, they both got really hurt and thought they killed the other on Their minds but both stayed alive.
But, if biker canonically chose to kill the janitors 50 blessings wouldnt exist so the chance of the nuclear war happening would be pretty low since they are the managers of jacket's killings, and with less people following jacket's steps (like Jake or the fans), it could be less probable that the incident with the president would happen
-dad: why you crying so god damn loud-
@Zygimantas Bielskis oh you mean payday 2
Spoilers lol
“Leaving this world is not as scary as it sounds” has really stuck with me
So you mean to tell me in the two branching timelines. Jacket either dies in prison from a nuclear bomb, or gets his head smashed in by Biker in the alternate story...
G r e a t
It’s actually not two timelines, it’s a simple answer but if you want you can think it’s that. The actual way it went was pretty much drugs and dreams and shit, during that part Jacket was still in a coma, and for the Biker he was in heavy drugs just before he left to go there, and when playing the second game you can see that biker has a large scar on his face, pretty much implying that jacket mostly won but he was in a coma and didn’t remember it that well
That and the entire reason the Janitors sent Richter to kill Jacket was that he failed to kill Biker.
Turbo Tastic exactas if you read into every little thing it all just unfolds in front of you
Yeah... you’ve got the story completely wrong.
Or somehow survives both and robs banks like in payday 2
For context
Everybody dies except Biker.
End of evangelion type of shit
Biker is just too cool to die.
How?
@@Kaosxca plot armor
@@Kaosxca Biker hides in the desert, so it's very likely he wasn't in or around anything that the russians would try nuking.
There are two possible Evan endings. Not doing anything with Evan's storyline to reunite him with his wife leads to the ending displayed in this video. This is a sweet bit of irony, as _not_ caring about the story had Evan working more on his story about the Miami Mutilator and Jacket. Too bad either way it's all for naught.
Personally, I think the one where he spends time with his family is better
@@atomnum9 yeah, even though I knew that everyone were about to die, I felt happy for him
I never knew Evan had alternate endings. I got the one where he was with his family. I thought it was nice, in a dark kind of way. He's happy, enjoying his time with them, then they all instantly get glassed. They didn't see it coming. They weren't worried at all. Just living in the moment.
@@SofaKingStupid Yeah when you have to call his wife, there’s another option to go to the typewriter instead and get back to his work on his book
I prefer the ending where he works on the book. It may be worse, but it makes Richter's choice at the end better i think, he was the only person to finally realise he couldn't fight his fate, and Richard is glad
I used to have a grave fear of death, like it would often keep me awake at night and breathing heavily in fear and stuff.
When I reached the ending of hotline Miami 2, richards words gave me some kinda peace. He’s right. Leaving this world is not as scary as it sounds.
Moral of the story..........Don't do drugs...or at the very least...don't overdo it like the son did.
Remember....don't do drugs, it's bad for you M'kay? :P
drugs are bad, mkay
Mandalore BSF he only did drugs cuz henchmen left
Mandalore BSF or just get a grip?
Mandalore BSF or don't get nuked
Son could have not died but ㄕﾚ◊ɬ
I laughed my ass off when I saw the Hotline Miami 3 start menu XD... But damn I wish that this game was longer... I hope there is more in thins game that we have to dig out...
Sadly, Dennaton Games already mentioned that this was going to be the last Hotline Miami game..
But the good news is that they're going to add a mission/level editor so people can "continue" the game sometime in the future when it comes out. :P
@@100KillStreak suuureeee....
If you ask me, I would say that the Hunter saga by TheLEGOMack is the closest thing we got to a 3rd game. It offers an amazing parallel story and a design that pretty much simulates the original game's play style. It's highly recommended for anyone looking for a third game
@@mirko7767 "suuureee" what? It's already in the game.
@saintpepsi Don't tell him what? What happened?
What creeps me out is how the emergency broadcast cuts out randomly, most likely implying that they got nuked in the place they were going “live from.”
I think Evan, The son, Richter and Pardo got a "happy ending"
Evan either completes his book, or his wife and kids return. The son, was on drugs. The only thing he remembered was walking towards Valhalla. Not aware the russian mafia has now completely collapsed, so in his memory. He accomplished his goals. Richter got to live his remaining days in Hawaii, with his mom, and as you heard. He accepted his death, he was happy, Fullfilled. While Pardo was in a stressful situation, he was very drunk. He never got caught, never faced punishment. In its own twisted way. He won.
I disagree that Pardo "won". If you think about his motivations, which were to get famous as the miami mutilator, he failed miserably. It wasn't about if he got caught. In fact, that should've been at the least of his worries due to everyone's attention being focused on Jacket and his trial. Judging by how we never see a headline about the Miami Mutilator anywhere during news type segments of the game, it's safe to assume that no one gave a shit about what he did. In all honesty, I'd say Richter was ultimately the only one with a happy ending, because he knew of his fate and accepted it without fighting. Pardo died a paranoid, drunk, and cowardly man. Even though Evan spent his last few moments with his family, he never had the same knowledge of Richter about his fate, so he ultimately died ignorant. So overall, I'd say Pardo completely lost in terms of achieving what he wanted.
And Son was depressed from the beginning so he never could have won, he didn't even like the mafia thing he was in just for his father, the only thing that may have given him relief was avenging the Henchman but he didn't know that he did.
Pardo died in fear and with nobody on his side, while Son died for something that never mattered. Don't know if you can really call that "happy".
Whaddup homies, we ready to play hotline miami in 2022?!
Hell yeah brother
Fun fact: I re-played HM2 some weeks ago and then we have this situation. It was fking weird.
We playing HTMI 3
**SCREAMING INTO THE VOID**
@@marialuke2116 th-cam.com/video/N9qGdwg9oGM/w-d-xo.html
There is far more we must travel, but I can't do it alone.
We're in this abyss but we're distantly together for the better for the worst.
Gotta get a grip!
That Dude Guy What is Grip btw
@@mertcakr1741 what? It's a quote from the son
He was right, good times never last
Indeed they don’t.
Bad times don't last either
Good times never last. Tough people last. Bleublrerbulru
Good times never last
thanks, peacock
I've only just picked up the game recently and Holy hell what an ending.
I'm surprised I never had anything spoiled.
I just finished the game like two hours ago I thought the ending was sad but what a twist of a ending about a game killing people
I feel bad for Evan
Uno de mis personajes favorritos lo entiendo
I heard about this game a looong time ago and it wasn't until december 2023 that I started playing, now I have finished both and wow... this was such an unique experience
It was hard but so fun
he never got the grip he wanted
I think biker is alive. I mean if they showed jacket dying then they should’ve shown biker dying too.
Biker is already dead sadly, remember that he was looking grim in that one bar? The bar is called "The bar of the broken hero" I think, and it's an optional zone, also, everyone else at the bar are already dead (Like the previous Russian leader and his dad) so yeah, biker is 100% dead before the bombs went off
@@mk-ul5tv I don’t think Richter was there either.
@@jacket98 Well yeah, Richter died when the bombs went off, we dont visit the bar of the broken heroes after the bombs, that scene happens way before
@@mk-ul5tv he doesn’t appear at the table scene. He rode off into the desert before the bombs fell.
@@andrewmorilloVS Neither did Jacket, but he's also dead
Leaving this world is not as scary as it sounds
I cried like a baby watching this ending
Same. The song at the end, the visuals and just the emotional shock of realizing what just happened hit me like an emotional train straight into my eyes.
I like that the level editer was made to be an alternate timeline but several other people decided it would be used for interactive shitpost and memes
The level editor has some bangers
The ending scene with Richter and his mom takes place in Hawaii, yet the title card (at 4:20) says Miami, Florida.
Don't even worry about it broh
420?
While the nuke always came from left to right, it's interesting that Pardo seems to be guarding the door, looking at the right side of the screen, all while the nuke came from the left side.
He was waiting for police to come in since he was the miami mutilator and he thought the police got him
@@zerus3271 well yeah, that much is obvious. Point being, he had something bigger to worry about.
@@XradicalD And he was kinda wrong cause they wanted to talk with him about the nuclear thing
@@zerus3271 In reality something else would bust down his door...and windows.....and house....and neighborhood.....and city.....and the entire fucking country.
I remember searching this video up & watching the whole thing, without understanding the context of the ending. I've never played Hotlime Miamis, so seeing this ending looks visually aesthetic, while also mysterious. 🤔
Am I really spoiling myself? 🤔
Well, if you will play it by yourself, it will be fine. The ending's not sad without context
You should try it, it might not all make sense even then until you re do it
@@Mii.2.0 not quite. More of a spoiler if you only played midway through the second. Richter story most hard hitting.
@@Mii.2.0no shit you spoiled it for yourself. Play hotline miami 1, then wrong number
press r to restart!
Press F to pay R E S PE C T S
Press to restart!
hey where did my r key go? wait why do I hear sirens
You know...things couldn’t have gone any other way...
We love hurting other people don’t we?
You are like my grandma's basement table that has super sharp edges.
I think Evan and to a lesser extent Jake were the only ones that could've changed this
Jake canonically died in interrogation with the Russians, but if you beat the last screen of his last mission without dying, you can collect a floppy disc that will be on Jakes body after being shot by 50 blessings. When Evan finds it, he gets the address of a nuclear vault that 50 blessings build
If these events were canonical and Evan got out of the bunker, he could've had substantial evidence about the conspiracy that goes on. Something could've been done, before things were too late
Richter is such a drama queen he just needs to press r goddamnit
this is still the most fucking bittersweet ending ever, sad shit
Thanks, my pc crashed, just before the woman out on the chicken mask, and i didnt feel like playing that scene again
6:15 me and the immortal snail after billions of years in future as the dying sun closes in on the earth be like:
Lmao
9:48 That Jacket?
Indeed so.
Zen1th Yes, He was in the prision
Oh oof
Has anyone noticed that Jacket is masturbating in that scene?
@@ramen8759 Hes playing with a coin.
spoiler:
Makes it all the more depressing for me cause the day all the nukes were detonated was 28th December, which is my birthday 😞
happy birthday in 2 days
hbd man
Mine is on December 29 ☹️
Happy Birthday to you! *distant nukes in the background*
Hey, you are better than these people. The day is worth celebrating here.
"... okay.
No need to fight it then."
11:10 Hotline Miami 3
*Hotline Miami* : There is no Hotline Miami 3
Noooooooooooooo
It has no any story to told,it can't be continued cuz everyone died after nuked Miami
@@vaff3k post-apocalyptic hotline miami?
@@clawzx1195 Hm i'm going to make custom campaign about this
@@kermit4036 credit me as "random guy who commented the idea"
@@clawzx1195 Allright
Damn what a tragic ending...
In my honest opinion both Hotline Miami 1 and 2 are the greatest indie games ever made. Nothing comes close, anyone else that tries it will be labeled as copiers of Denaton. Absolute masterpieces!
I like to think that after the events of Hotline Miami 2, a new America was born from a couple of survivors that didn't die from radiation poisoning after the initial blast(s), and Jacket somehow was one of those people. This eventually ended up leading to the modern-day America, and since Jacket became essentially isolated from everyone he knew, he went completely off the rails and returned to his violent lifestyle, which in turn lead him to knock at Bain's door to become a member of the Payday gang.
I like to think that the USA was bombed and people died
I’m sorry to burst your bubble but Jacket is dead Payday 2 is non canon to the actual Hotline Miami Universe even the wiki list Jacket as deceased
@@oscarlopez7198 I said "I like to think". Never said it was the reality of what happened :/
Everyone is dead. Payday is the third timeline where Jacket survives if you bought the Digital Deluxe Edition.
@@moister3727 Hotline Miami is a videogame in the Payday universe and the person we know is jacket is implied to be simply a fan of it.
one of the most saddening games.
Saddening?
@@octavioneitorgamer
The story is depressing, mega depressing.
just the way I like it, grim and depressing
my mom at 3 a.m.:
-Why are you crying?
me:
7:45
Bruh irl me rn
We all cried during this
Anyone else notice the message "Don't do it! Please STOP"? before starting the mission?
Un detalle que nos e si habrán dado cuenta es que en la intro de first blood cuando vas a hablar con la madre de Richter está dice que estaba soñando que ella y su esposo estaban en la playa y que sentía que algo muy malo iba a pasar.
Un muy buen detalle.
I FUCKING LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH
This game is like no other it was a uniquely different experience and had 1 of the best songs I ever heard.
"What did you expect? A good ending in a game where you murder people like they're animals?
Wrong game, wrong expectation."
This is happening in real life now!
7:38 Top 10 phrases said before an nuclear bomb
Here's a quote after that "Now we are all sons of bitches." Kenneth Bainbridge (Director of the Trinity nuclear test)
My ending had slightly different text. Nothing major at all, it was just that the richard spirit thing said "good times never last instead of guy who wore the richter mask. Also the writer was eating dinner with his family instead of typing.
If Hm2 is a sequel, then Is the guy who took care of his mom the same guy who tried to kill Jacket in Hm1, or did they just reuse his face and hes a different person? I thought he died in Hm1....This ending left me confused.
I actually didn't know there were different versions of this ending. That's pretty interesting.
And as for the bald guy who took care of his mom, that was Richter , in Hotline Miami 1 when you go to the police station and kill all the cops and face Richter, you could either kill him or let him live by simply walking away after talking to him. I guess in Hotline Miami 2 made it that Jacket spared Richter's life.
The game's story still confuses me but i'm going to try to beat it again from the start to understand it a bit more. And hopefully to get a slightly different ending like yours.
Dodo Bird
I think it depends on what you do as Evan. When you find the letter from the wife you have the option to go to the phone or the typewriter. If you pick the phone evans sits there with his family, when you pick the typewrite he will write at the end. Also the text from the TV wil be slightly different
***** Ah, I see. I remember picking up the letter from his wife but I didn't know I could go to the phone and talk to her, that's good to know though. I thought it had to do with not killing anyone when playing as Evan since it's an achievement in a game or something.
Thanks for the information, Christian!
HM2 is kinda weird with regard to who's alive from HM1. It's actually an option whether or not you kill ritcher in HM1, and even if you do hit him he just says I DESERVED THAT nd doesnt like explode into blood and guts like a corpse. I assumed he died too but HM2 assumes he doesnt. Also, to muddy shit even worse, biker is out front of jacket's trial, so BOTH biker and jacket lived through HM1 apparently.
HM2 is both a sequel and a prequel. You play both after and before the times of the first game.
The times with Ash (the guy who killed jacket's girlfriend) is before he did that because Jacket killed him afterwards
Such a beautiful game
Drugs are bad, mmmkay? Don’t do drugs, mmmkay?
Well... Everything ends at one day.
We are so close to this ending becoming our reality
It's about time that bomb explodes
if America and Israel keep on as they are
That’s what they said since the 60s
@@cowboypete2201 the 60’s isn’t that long ago man. Humans have existed for hundreds of thousands of years. The second we stepped in the nuclear age we have been at the whims of powers much much greater than us.
“We must love each other, or we must die.”
Every once and a while in the game during intro and outro scenes's it will flash white and you will see movie people look VERY carefully on the homicide outro to see. does that mean its all a movie?
dave nic It's in fact, actually more of Manny Pardo's obsession with fame.
I think pardo used to be an actor. You can see him with some other cops on martins death scene and someone replaced the blanks with real bullets when martin died. I think pardo did it
Well, kinda. It may be a representation of Richard watching everything happen. So at the end of the game, on that cutscene. When he turns on the projector it means that he's restarting the story to try to fix everything again. But really, no i don't think it is a movie.
I never expected the game to end like this when I first played it
Mr Richter, I don't feel so good.
I love how in the ps5 remaster, evan is having dinner with his family instead of typing alone
9:47 im not crying your crying
Yeah, I am.
Jacket.....
This still to this day confuses me who is Richard he was a subconscious in hotlineMiami 1 but all the characters in hotline Miami 2 saw him at least once.
All, who is gonna die I think
The Grim Reaper is a chicken
thanks for putting a spoiler warning on the video titled "ENDING". I would have been so surprised that there were spoilers for the story's ending otherwise.
0:29 HEY BOOSS
you can see in the background of hotline Miami 3s background has ruined buildings -Update I just realized hlm1 hlm2 and hlm3 are stages in a nuclear explosion 1 is before the explosion 2 is during the explosion and 3 is after the explosion if a hlm3 ever happens I think it would be is like a wasteland and rn I just realized someone had the same thought as me good minds think alike I guess.
Maybe a fan made HM3 will be made in which biker finds colonel and avenges the burnt world.
But the colonel is dead
@@LooMilzo I think the Abyss bonus level was possibly a bunker for 50 Blessings for something like a nuke being dropped, so there's the possibility he's still alive through hiding in a bunker.
Thus it comes to reality
Everytime I hear the sound of that nuke go off, I get chills down my whole body
Bro Why does this game make me Feel bad about a Sociopath's Death bruh
This ending... When the nukes fell and Castanets rolled is the only time in my life i felt truly empty.
All of this senseless violence... What did it brought in the end?
The end.
Well…that’s the point, the game is meant to leave such a hollow feeling because of the nihilistic worldview it takes place in.
Responsibility is not for the weak
@@scooble_ i don't think it is necessarily nihilistic personnaly i see it more as a message about how being rich, famous and powerful ultimately don't matter as it can just fade away in second because of something out of our control. What matter is the simple things, being with your family, doing what you like, being happy. I find it almost heartwarming in a strange way.
when i finished all of the games si realised how deep this shit is
Thanks to this, I can no longer watch the ending to Link's Awakening the same way
man thank you very much, I was looking for this song for a very long time at the end, thank you
fallout 5: new miami
You are the blood
Flowing through my fingers
All through the soil
Up in those trees
You are electricity
And you are light
You are sound itself
And you are flight
Rest in Power, Ray
This song is exploding my brain.
How is called song at the credits after explode?
WheatleyMF
Castanets - You Are The Blood.
/watch?v=SDjzLH8FYR4
Sorry for the late reply, I wasn't on for a while.
RIP English
ro g you do realize that they are russian
W Jacket, he survived in payday 2
Glad to know that jacket just got sent into the payday universe instead of dying, win for jacket, nobody else.
Is that what Richard means when he says dying isn’t that bad?
Hotline miami 2 ending is where we all are rolling into IRL
*Good times never last*
Waddup homies, we ready to play hotline miami in 2023?!
Ну, по крайней мере, к Мэнни так и не успела придти полиция. Хоть это обнадёживает)
"How long do I have? You? You don't have much time. No one does." Dang thats bone chilling!
Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip Gotta get a grip
R/place white void in a nutshell
One thing I noticed at the end of the game is that when Rosa Berg puts on the Richard mask, the song does not play. you hear the thunder, but you don't hear the song that usally plays alongside. see for yourself. note every time you see Richard, and when that theme plays. It starts with quite a sting, then lets off.
that explains the body near the building after deathwish
this ending was the biggest middle finger from the developers
Nah it was perfect
It completely fits the entire game for me…endless violence only leads to more violence. Every single character is on their own path of catastrophic self destruction and inevitably (told through a very literal sense) they all met their destruction one way or another. Every character dies in a fiery nuclear explosion (which could be symbolic of hell also)
In Hotline Miami there simply is no redemption for the sins you have committed.
Okay, so the only way for 50 blessings to lose is to not finish the game? Interesting.
and the only way for us to win is not to play. War Games reference.
hotline Miami 3 new dawn
I want put this in my funeral...
Y'know what they say about good video game series?
_They never last_