Chapter 8: WTF is going on?
Part 3 - Visitations
"Wonder what vague details will they give us this time," Blake thought. Weiss spawned inside the bathroom again and the room looks even more trashy with bugs flying all over the place. Weiss walked out of the bathroom and saw those three masked wearing people again.
Don Juan: So, you came back? How are you feeling? You look ill…
"Maybe because this building is giving me some sort of disease because of its disgusting state," Weiss said.
Don Juan: Maybe you should see a doctor?
Rasmus: I told you not to come back here!
"Go fuck yourself, owl. We invite ourselves to these things!" Yang exclaimed.
Rasmus: I see that my opinion of you doesn't matter… If you insist on returning here, then I should leave!
"Good!" the whole team exclaimed.
Richard: Have you thought about what I asked you last time?
"Not really, busy trying not to die," Weiss said.
Richard: I'm not here to give you any answers. Questions are all I have to offer a man like you.
"Damn, they're just dangling the actual plot over our heads, aren't they?" Ruby asked.
"They are, but I don't really care. As long as we get to see murder and action, I'm all good," Yang said.
Don Juan: If you're not feeling well, maybe you should rest? Some things work out best when you don't try so hard. No matter who you are, bearing too much weight inevitably leads to the collapse of everything.
"Why is the horse insist that we just give up?" Weiss asked.
"Maybe because he represents the aspect of our subconscious that wants to just give up, that explains his kindness towards us. The owl represents our violent nature, which explains the red light shining over him and his rudeness. Then there's the chicken. He might represents our skepticism, or curiosity. Since he just asks questions without giving any answers," Blake theorized.
"Man, sounds like you went full detective," Yang said.
"Maybe because the plot is a mystery waiting to be solved."
Richard: Next time we meet will be the last. I can see it in your eyes. Before you go, I'll leave you with three predictions…
"Isn't that sorta giving us answers?" Ruby asked.
Richard: 'Someone you know is not who you think he is.'
"Other than the girl, the only recurring character is Beard…" Weiss said. The team tries to deny that he might be someone bad, or someone who might betray you.
Richard: 'Something will soon be taken from you.'
"The girl," everyone said, and then nodded because who else would they lose?
"Take here," Yang said.
"She's practically a burden because we have to take care of her and all that. We have our own lives to attend to," Weiss added.
Richard: 'On July the 21st, you will wake up in a bigger house.'
"Wake up in a bigger house?" Blake wondered.
"I don't like the sound of that," Yang said.
"If it's not a mansion, then I'm out," Ruby said.
Richard: That is al.
The screen fades back to Jacket's apartment.
May 27th 1989
Miami - Florida
Weiss spawned in Jacket's bedroom where the girl is sleeping on the bed next to him. "Enjoy your last days, because once you're gone. We will not give a fuck!" Yang exclaimed.
"Isn't that a little harsh? I mean, this could be Richard's girlfriend," Weiss said.
"First of all, Jacket's girlfriend. Second, what makes you say that?" Yang asked.
"Just a guess. But they are sleeping right next to each other, sorta. It's in the same room so it still applies."
"Hey, you already did a handful of levels, mind giving me a go at it?" Ruby asked. Weiss tagged out of the computer and let Ruby have a go with it.
Ruby pressed the WASD keys for a bit to remember the controls. She walked up to the phone and answered it.
Message: Hi, it's 'Pat' from the club. We want you to DJ tonight. You're free to play any kind of music you want.. Beer is on the house!
"Everything is on the house for us," Weiss said.
"That's because we're the cool guy on the block," Ruby joked.
Message: We're on 212 NE 24th Street. Dress to kill!
"Ha!" Yang laughed
Message: See ya… *click*
Ruby walked downstairs and got in the car.
Chapter 8 - Push It
Ruby scolled the masks to see what Ted the dog does. He apparently make dogs not attack her. That would be helpful, but that's if the level has a bunch of them. Not being sure how much dogs are going to be in this level, she went with Graham because he'll be helpful taking out enemies quickly. Ruby puts on the mask and kicked down the door. She grabbed the bat the mobster was holding and smashed it on his face. She looked at the dance floor and saw a dead man with bullet holes all over him. Next to him was a mask.
"Damn, no wonder why they called us up for DJing, the last one died," Yang said.
"I'm actually afraid that'll happen to us, just," Weiss said. Ruby walked into the room on the left side and smashed open the man's head. She walked outside and saw the dog rushing at her. She ran at him and smacked him the baseball bat. The mobsters in the dance floor spotted Ruby and shot her through the windows.
"I could tell that harder levels would include a lot of windows," Blake commented
Ruby respawned and decided to knock out the guys in the dance floor. She walked into the floor and left it right before she got shot. The three mobsters in the dance floor chased after her and she knocked them all down with the door. She smashed their heads open and grabbed the mask once she was finished. The name Carl appeared on screen when she picked it up. Team wonders what could be Carl's ability.
"Wasn't he the one who starts with a drill?" Ruby asked, remembering the trailer.
"Yeah he is, I remember seeing the blood spewing out of the head like a fountain," Weiss answered.
"Ooooh boy, can't wait to see heads spray out blood," Yang cheered. Ruby walked into a small room to the left and the dog instantly jumped on her and gnawed on Jacket's face. She could've sworn that she she swung the bat at the dog, but they guess she swung it a bit too early.
"That's a load of bull!" Ruby exclaimed as she respawned. She killed the guy in the first room, aggressively pushing the execution button. She ran into the room that she just died in and smashed the dog's skull wide open, but the mobster in the room stood up and blasted her with the shotgun. Ruby's eyes twitched, as if she's going crazy. She restarted again and kicked down the door, grabbed the bat and smashed his head. She then walked into the room to the right and lured put the dog and the man on the couch. Ruby then killed both of them. She then went into the small room on the right and killed the only guy in there. then she lured out the mobsters in the dance floor and killed all of them.
"Most of our strategies seems to be luring out the mobsters to the corner and kill them all within a few swings," Weiss said.
"It's gonna be harder when the fat guys come in," Ruby said. She killed the dog wandering around the hallways and the enemy that charged right into her. Yang noticed the DJ in the booth ignoring the violence around him.
"Guess the music's so loud that he can't hear the pain of people screaming," Yang said. Ruby walked past the DJ booth and killed of the last man. She quickly grabbed the gun from one of the dead mobsters and walked up the stairs. she decided to do the luring tactic on the four enemies around her and she fired a single shotgun round. Three of the four mobsters rushed to Ruby's location and she quickly threw the weapon at them and executed them all in rapid succession.
The only mobster that didn't noticed Ruby was one that was patrolling around the room on the right. She waited for him to get a bit close to the door and slammed the door into him and executing him. Ruby ran through door and was instantly meet with a shotgun blast to the face. Ruby groaned as she face planted on the keyboard.
"Hey, it's on you for just running in their," Yang noted. Ruby got back on the keyboard and killed the first four people and lured out the mobster with the shotgun and two dogs and killed both of them in quick succession. She walked through the windowed hallway and was shot through the glass.
"I had a feeling someone was on the other side," Blake said.
"Then why didn't you tell me!" Ruby whimpered loudly. Ruby respawned and did the same thing, but this time she lured in the enemies on the other side of the floor and knocked them all down the door and executed them all. Ruby quickly grabbed the shotgun and blasted the last of the mobsters in one room. Ruby went downstairs to the next floor and went to the East side of the dance club. She walked in a long hallway and was shot from an enemy far away. She respawned and quickly killed the mobster down the hallway and killed the two mobsters in the dance floor. This attracted a few mobsters around her and she quickly grabbed the double barrel shotgun left from one of the enemies and shot the enemies coming in from the left. She quickly grabbed their guns and she made quick work with the remaining enemies.
"Boy, that mission was way more intense than the last time,"Yang noted as Ruby approached the car and drove to Beard
Chapter cleared C+
Masked Unlocked!
Rufus!
Rufus was an elephant, from what the team saw, he can survive a hit. But since Earl is practically the same thing, he isn't useful.
Carl!
Carl was a locust and the team does remembered that he starts with a drill, and they don't know what to expect from the drill.
New weapon unlocked!
Scorpion!
The scorpion was a basic sub-machine gun, which left a bad taste in Ruby's mouth. Speaking of which, she respawned in front of the convenient store and walked inside. Inside was Beard and next to him was a decapitated Biker.
"What the Hell?" Yang pondered.
"Did he just crawl out of the grave or something?" Blake asked. Ruby talked to Beard hopefully to get an idea on what is actually going on.
Beard: Hey, man! I gotta tell ya something important…
"Did you just rob this man from his own grave?" Ruby asked.
Beard: This… all of this is not really happening?
"What, the body of a recently deceased asshole or the entire game?" Blake asked.
Beard: Take a look.
Static covered the screen as the body is gone and there's someone in the bathroom sink The blood is still on the floor.
Beard: Hey man! Nice to see you... Friendly faces are few and far between these days. Just take what you want, my treat. Have a good night, man! See ya!
Static continued to plague the screen and Ruby booked it to the car.
"What was that about?" Weiss questioned.
"Trippy…" Yang muttered.
May 31st, 1989
Miami - Florida
Ruby respawned in Jacket's bedroom and ignored anything going in the background and picked up the phone in the living room,
Message: Hi,this is Rick from the real estate office. There's a showing for an apartment down town 's at SW 121st Street Apt. 35 Open House. Just swing on by when you have the time.
Ruby walked downstairs and got into the car and drove to the next location.
Chapter 9 - Crackdown
"Since the title is called, does that mean it'll relate to the police?" Weiss asked.
"Possibly because after a month of bloody massacres, you'd think the police would be all over this," Blake said. Ruby looked at the selection of masks, Rufus is practically the same as Earl, except it's only one hit, but even two hits aren't helpful. Ruby discarded the mask and decided to pick Tony just to have a bit of variety. She remembers that Tony is one-hit kill punches.
Ruby walked in the apartment and a dog rushed at her. She punched the dog instantly killing. She walked into another room and cleared out the two mobster there. In the room right above, two mobsters are armed with shotguns. She lured one close to her so she could ambush him in the next room. She tried to lure another mobster in, but the spread shot from the shotgun caught up to Ruby when she walked into the same room.
She respawned and did the same thing again and she lured in the enemy she died from to the next room. Another dog walked passed and Ruby grabbed the knife and slice him open. She looked down the hallway and noticed two mobsters with lead pipes. She threw the knife at one of them and punched one in it's pixelated face. She quickly grabbed the lead pipe and killed of the final dog. She waked into another room and killed off two mobsters and lured two mobsters into an ambushed since they are, well, armed with guns. She picked up one of the guns and proceeded to the next floor.
She walked down to next floor and saw three mobsters walking closely next to each other. Ruby threw the gun out of her way and kicked down the door and knocked down one of the mobsters behind one with the shotgun. She quickly took him out, but there was one mobster who stood idle and rushed at Ruby the second she entered the room. The mobster sliced her open and Ruby restarted, she threw the gun, killed off the two mobsters, and before the third mobster laid the tip of the knife on her, she punched him right across the face.
She grabbed a shotgun and saw a mobster down the hallway, she shot him from the distance and it alerted two mobsters and a dog. Ruby hid behind a wall and fired the shotgun until all three mobster were killed. Sirens were heard wailing in the background. The police were here,
"About time the cops show up!" Ruby exclaimed.
"Jeez,, wonder how many stars we'll get," Yang said. The mobsters put down their weapons and got on theirs knees. The music changed from techno to said level complete and Ruby had to make a run for it. A red line was going through the windows and Ruby quickly avoided it as she runs downstairs. The SWAT team were patrolling through the hallways. Ruby just had to get to the car and make it out alive. She avoided the cops and once she got outside, no one was in sight.
"Are they seriously going to let us escape?" Weiss asked.
"Seems fishy," Blake said.
"IT'S A TRAP!" Yang exclaimed. Ruby quickly ran to the car and drove off. Weiss' eyes twitched.
"Miami's cops are way worse than Cuban and Los Santos police combined!" the heiress exclaimed.
Chapter completed!
B-
New mask unlocked!
Rami
Rami was a camel. The team scratched their heads, wondering what could Rami do.
"Camels are known to transport stuff through the desert since horses cannot traverse easily in sand," Weiss said.
"So does that mean we carry two weapons then?" Yang asked.
"That would be helpful so I don't have to throw it on the wall all the time," Ruby said.
New weapon unlocked!
Hammer
The team really isn't impressed with the weapons in Hotline Miami. They seem so basic, the only exception is the katana. Ruby spawned outside the pizza parlor and saw a bleeding man and his dog. Ruby tried to approach the man and a frame of his face appeared.
Bleeding mobster: We don't like strangers around here…
"What's up with people in white suits not liking us?" Weiss asked.
Bleeding mobster: Don't we Parker?
The game cuts to a bleeding dog aggressively barking at Ruby. She quickly walks into the parlor and saw Beard dead on the floor and someone taking his place.
Stranger: What do you want? Can you hurry up?" We're closing.
"What the fuck?" Yang scratched her head. Ruby quickly left the scene before things get too weird.
