Talk:Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number

Engine

While the Engine is credited as GameMaker Studio on the wiki article, I noticed that the sourced link in the comments field of this edit says the game is actually built in GameMaker, but they use a tool to convert the GameMaker game to a format they then use in their own engine. This should be updated. 72.192.152.172 (talk) 02:33, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

How many endings are there?

I think there are at least 2 endings. One for normal mode and one for hard mode. But there may be a third one. The safe file savedata.vfs contains a lot of other files. One is named ending.dat. Within this file there are three values. In my opinion the values can be 0 or 1 meaning TRUE or FALSE. If there are three endings, how do I get to number 3? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.227.211.181 (talk) 00:20, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Character names

So, this is a screenshot of the upcoming level editor, and it got me thinking: where did the names of "The Soldier" (young Beard) and "The Son" come from? Was there a source or is this the Wikipedia doomsday scenario of us making something up, and the thing we made up getting legitimized by reliable sources that are later used to justify the original edits? Were these fan names from other sites? --Lenin and McCarthy | (Complain here) 00:07, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Soundtrack

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number's offical soundtrack includes 49 songs from various artists including artists who had previously been included in the original Hotline Miami soundtrack including M|O|O|N, Scattle, EL Huervo, Perturbator and Jasper Byrne as well as numerous new artists including Magic Sword, Carpenter Brut, Mitch Murder and MegaDrive. The soundtrack was included in the Collectors edition of the game.

No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Untitled"	The Green Kingdom	5:46
2.	"DETECTION"	Sean Evans	3:55
3.	"Blizzard"	Light Club	3:10
4.	"Voyager"	Jasper Byrne	3:34
5.	"She Meditates"	Light Club	2:20
6.	"Dust"	M|O|O|N	5:02
7.	"Disturbance"	Endless	3:59
8.	"Technoir (Feat. Noir Deco)"	Perturbator	3:50
9.	"Guided Meditation"	Old Future Fox Gang	2:11
10.	"Simma Hem"	Riddarna	4:01
11.	"Divide"	Magna	4:16
12.	"Hollywood Heights"	Mitch Murder	3:06
13.	"Richard"	Life Companions	2:12
14.	"Chamber of Reflections"	Sjellos	3:12
15.	"Decade Dance"	Jasper Byrne	4:39
16.	"Interlude"	Chromacle	5:26
17.	"New Wave Hookers"	Vestron Vulture	3:50
18.	"Around"	Modulogeek	2:53
19.	"In The Face Of Evil"	Magic Sword	4:12
20.	"Untitled"	Dag Unenge	3:04
21.	"Remorse"	Scattle	3:18
22.	"Frantic Aerobics"	Mitch Murder	3:48
23.	"Sexualizer (Feat. Flash Arnold)"	Perturbator	5:02
24.	"Java"	Old Future Fox Gang	2:29
25.	"Rust"	El Huervo	4:55
26.	"Delay"	M|O|O|N	8:17
27.	"We're Sorry"	Life Companions	2:05
28.	"Bloodline"	Scattle	3:12
29.	"Roller Mobster"	Carpenter Brut	3:34
30.	"Keep Calm"	Endless	3:20
31.	"Run"	iamthekidyouknowwhatimean	4:53
32.	"Ghost"	El Huervo	3:37
33.	"Hotline Theme"	Benny Smiles	3:39
34.	"Quixotic"	M|O|O|N	5:46
35.	"The Way Home"	Magic Sword	4:15
36.	"Richard"	Dubmood	4:24
37.	"NARC"	MegaDrive	4:44
38.	"The Rumble"	CiniMod	6:08
39.	"Le Perv"	Carpenter Brut	4:16
40.	"Miss Minnie"	Auto Delta Time	5:06
41.	"She Swallowed Burning Coals"	El Tigr3	4:39
42.	"Acid Spit"	MegaDrive	5:00
43.	"Slum Lord"	MegaDrive	5:00
44.	"Future Club"	Perturbator	4:49
45.	"Fahkeet"	Light Club	2:52
46.	"Abyss"	LipPi Sound	4:59
47.	"Abyss Intro"	LipPi Sound	1:39
48.	"Black Tar"	Nounverber	1:35
49.	"Escape From Midwitch Valley"	Carpenter Brut	6:44
Total length:			3:18:28

A remix EP was included in the Digital Special Edition and the Collectors Edition of the game.

No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Quixotic (Scattle remix)"	M|O|O|N	3:52
2.	"Dust (Carpenter Brut remix)"	M|O|O|N	4:58
3.	"Bloodline (M|O|O|N's Extra Cheese mix)"	Scattle	6:53
4.	"Roller Mobster (Scattle remix)"	Carpenter Brut	3:58
5.	"Le Perv (M|O|O|N remix)"	Carpenter Brut	4:23
6.	"Remourse (Carpenter Brut remix)"	Scattle	4:23
Total length:			28:28

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References

I've had this section lying around in my sandbox and might as well just leave it here Micro (Talk) 09:34, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, I've added it. It looks good enough to publish to me. AtlasDuane (talk) 15:45, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Per my revert, track listings are outside WP:VGSCOPE, and don't belong here, frankly. Furthermore, out of the 7 sources provided, only one is reliable (The guardian), while the others are store listings, SoundCloud or blogs from unreliable tertiary sources. Unless the soundtrack independently received a lot of reliable coverage (from gaming mags and considered-reliable website, that is), we can include it with sourcing present. The version here-above, however, is insufficient. Lordtobi (✉) 16:01, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Jaguar (talk · contribs) 13:34, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

I'll take this. ♦ jaguar 13:34, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

Lead

• "It takes place before, during, and after the events of Hotline Miami, focusing on the backstory and aftermath of the previous protagonist Jacket's massacres against the Russian mafia in Miami at the behest of anonymous tips left by his answering machine" - this is quite a long sentence which will surely flow better if split into two, or condensed somewhat
  • Done.
• "The events are told from the perspective of several different characters in numerous different locations" - I'd remove the repetition here
  • Done.
• "A localized version released in Japan on June 25, alongside the first game in Hotline Miami: Collected Edition" - does this mean this game was released as part of Hotline Miami: Collected Edition? Was it a compilation? If so I'd rewrite it as It was also released in Japan on June 25, as part of Hotline Miami: Collected Edition.
  • Done.
• "while the narrative and changes to gameplay and level design received a mixed response, and a scene depicting sexual assault triggered largely negative feedback from critics" - this can easily be split into two sentences to improve flow
  • Rewrote that bit.

Body

• "the objective in most chapters is to defeat every enemy inside" - redundant word
  • Done.
• "and the masks mechanic returns for certain characters as well" - the mask mechanic is note described
  • I don't see the note describing the mask mechanic, so I'm not sure what this means. I might still be half asleep.
• "were still focused on patching the original game. Similarly to the original game" - repetition of 'original game', replace the latter with its predecessor
  • Done.
• "The game was created with the fans of the original game in mind, not concerned with expanding into a larger audience" - this doesn't read well. Replace with The game was created with the fans of the original game in mind. The team was not concerned with attracting a larger audience and instead prioritised...
  • Done.
• "Upon the release of the Nintendo Switch Hotline Miami Collection in August 2019" - missing word here? port between 'Switch' and 'Hotline'?
  • Done.

Haven't done a GAN in a while! I've made a few alterations, but nothing major. Once all the above are addressed it should more or less meet the GA criteria. I've put it on hold for now. ♦ jaguar 13:53, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for reviewing this as I said in the FNAF 3 review. I believe I've addressed everything above except the mask mechanic note, in which I'm not too sure what that means. Everything else is addressed however. NegativeMP1 15:22, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

No worries, I'm content this meets the GA criteria so will be happy to promote. ♦ jaguar 18:23, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Freedom4U talk 18:59, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

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• ... that the developers of Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number suggested that Australian customers pirate their game? Source: https://www.pcgamer.com/australians-should-pirate-hotline-miami-2-following-ban-says-dev/ https://www.ign.com/articles/2015/01/20/devolver-on-hotline-miami-2-devs-message-to-australian-fan-to-pirate-banned-game
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Improved to Good Article status by NegativeMP1 (talk). Self-nominated at 19:27, 28 October 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• Article promoted to GA on time and I didn't find any close paraphrasing. Hook is interesting, cited inline, and verified, but I wonder if it can be revised: the hook says the developers encouraged Australian customers to pirate the game, but the article instead says they suggested that they do so. Either the article or the hook will need to be revised to resolve this. Finally, QPQ checker is showing you have less than five QPQ credits: can you confirm that you have less than five nominations? Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:13, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
  • Hi, thanks for reviewing. The hook has been changed, and yes I have only had two nominations, this being my third. The previous two were Inferno (Counter-Strike) and The Last Hope: Dead Zone Survival. NegativeMP1 00:22, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Thank you, that should work. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:37, 5 November 2023 (UTC)