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Alright, it's time to be a massive WMG fag and try to discuss the ending.
Spoilers, obviously.
So, the ending was pretty bullshit, and could've been done a lot better. Events happened that weren't even onscreen, and everyone who didn't already die in an anticlimactic manner AKA literally everyone except Beard, because we all figured something bad happened since HM1 gets killed off by lolnukes, including Jacket.
However, after replaying a good two or three playthroughs, my mind woke up and started noticing some pretty crucial details, namely on Jacket's fate and the chances of Hotline 3
So, assuming you've beat the game, you might be aware of two scenes. The Bar of Broken Heroes, and the Hard Mode intro. Both scenes contain the entire cast of characters, even those that shouldn't chronologically be alive (in the case of the Bar). This could mean they're a type of "limbo" where all of the dead characters are residing. However, there's one important detail. Jacket isn't in either of those scenes.
>But Richard is in the Hard Mode intro, and Richard = Jacket, right?
Not necessarily. Richard appears to several characters in the story, even when Jacket isn't directly related to them. He has a recurring theme of showing up whenever a character is about to get killed off, too. I've always considered him as a "Grim Reaper" entity of sorts, or any typical messenger of death, really.
So, moving back. Jacket's not in either of those, but he "does" get caught in the explosion in the ending. What's that supposed to mean? While, reflecting back on history – namely to the bombs that took out Hiroshima and Nagasaki – we know that the detonations weren't necessarily massive, but gathered a large death count due to the area's population. So, people died. Big whoop.
However, people survived, too. A woman named Akiko Takakura was actually only a mere 300 meters away from the hypocenter, and she managed to live. The Miami area is a lot larger than the Hiroshima explosion, so there's a chance Jacket was at a reasonably far distance away from the hypocenter.
Lastly, after the credits of HM2, we get a "teaser" of a Hotline Miami 3 menu splash, showing the now-ruined Miami city in the background. Who do we know is possible of still being around after a city-melting explosion? Besides Manny, clearly.
>tl;dr Jacket doesn't show up in the scenes where all of the established deceased characters are, and history has proven that atomic explosions aren't magical kill-every-single-life weapons.
Or maybe I'm just really pissed off that HM2's ending was so shit that I'm trying to pick at useless clues/evidence in order to make it better.
Also yes I'm aware that Devolver said they weren't making a third and that the ending was probably just an asshole move.
Also general theories thread?
Alright, it's time to be a massive WMG fag and try to discuss the ending.
Spoilers, obviously.
So, the ending was pretty bullshit, and could've been done a lot better. Events happened that weren't even onscreen, and everyone who didn't already die in an anticlimactic manner AKA literally everyone except Beard, because we all figured something bad happened since HM1 gets killed off by lolnukes, including Jacket.
However, after replaying a good two or three playthroughs, my mind woke up and started noticing some pretty crucial details, namely on Jacket's fate and the chances of Hotline 3
So, assuming you've beat the game, you might be aware of two scenes. The Bar of Broken Heroes, and the Hard Mode intro. Both scenes contain the entire cast of characters, even those that shouldn't chronologically be alive (in the case of the Bar). This could mean they're a type of "limbo" where all of the dead characters are residing. However, there's one important detail. Jacket isn't in either of those scenes.
>But Richard is in the Hard Mode intro, and Richard = Jacket, right?
Not necessarily. Richard appears to several characters in the story, even when Jacket isn't directly related to them. He has a recurring theme of showing up whenever a character is about to get killed off, too. I've always considered him as a "Grim Reaper" entity of sorts, or any typical messenger of death, really.
So, moving back. Jacket's not in either of those, but he "does" get caught in the explosion in the ending. What's that supposed to mean? While, reflecting back on history – namely to the bombs that took out Hiroshima and Nagasaki – we know that the detonations weren't necessarily massive, but gathered a large death count due to the area's population. So, people died. Big whoop.
However, people survived, too. A woman named Akiko Takakura was actually only a mere 300 meters away from the hypocenter, and she managed to live. The Miami area is a lot larger than the Hiroshima explosion, so there's a chance Jacket was at a reasonably far distance away from the hypocenter.
Lastly, after the credits of HM2, we get a "teaser" of a Hotline Miami 3 menu splash, showing the now-ruined Miami city in the background. Who do we know is possible of still being around after a city-melting explosion? Besides Manny, clearly.
>tl;dr Jacket doesn't show up in the scenes where all of the established deceased characters are, and history has proven that atomic explosions aren't magical kill-every-single-life weapons.
Also general theories thread?
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>tfw dead ahead on hard
Why does hard mode have to be such a pain in the ass. It's not even challenging, it's just artificial difficulty. It's bullshit.
>tfw dead ahead on hard
Why does hard mode have to be such a pain in the ass. It's not even challenging, it's just artificial difficulty. It's bullshit.