In fact, as I started searching up some of the artist, I started to realise that the album also deals with psychedelic genres that sets the listeners in a more surreal and trippy mood. The game also presents many surreal moments, with the game’s soundtrack orchestrating the emotions even further.īefore I go through some of the tracks, what I am about to tell you may surprise most of you but not every artist in this track is associated with Synthwave. Threatened with the fact that he is being watched and that failure is not accepted, Jacket becomes tangled with more complications as he continues to answer to the jobs of killing and other roles. Taking place in Miami, 1989, the character finds himself tangled in a web of violence, mystery and insanity via a mysterious message and a package that contains a rooster mask and cryptic instructions to steal a possession and hit the Russian Mafia. To briefly sum up the game’s story, Hotline Miami lets the players play as an unnamed character who is only known as “Jacket” for his iconic jacket during its time. Hotline Miami stood out for its top down brutal violence, surreal moments, story and most importantly, a soundtrack that elevated each stage and climax into an exciting and intense moment. These days, Synthwave is more well-known to the world with TV shows such as the Netflix hit “Stranger Things” as well as The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” helping to bring the genre into the light but back then, Synthwave was nothing but a small community that wanted to use the modern productions of electronic music today to recreate the 80s and 90s music.

To this day, Hotline Miami stands as a cult classic in terms of indie games and an important corner stone that gave rise to a new genre as well as another sub-genre: Synthwave and Darksynth respectively. I bring this up because my music taste changed once I was exposed to Hotline Miami. People’s taste in music tend to change from time to time and let’s face it, change is going to be a common part of my life.

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