Finally someone said it, hotline Miami and especially its sequel both do a fantastic job at instructing and encouraging the player to be violent and then chastises them for doing so.

The first game asks you “do you like hurting people?” And the player already knows the answer. If you play the second game, the question becomes “to what end?”.

The best part of the series is that in the end, it was all for nothing. I won’t spoil it but the games do a good job in making the player regret and even question if they enjoyed the violence they’ve just committed.