9 Great Video Games You Didn't Understand First Time

6. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number

Both Hotline Miami games are some of my personal favourites, and the second should be praised for continuing from EXACTLY where the first left off.

That means a difficulty curve that starts with the mastery of the original, and a story that takes the idea of an individual brainwashed into killing, and then dives into their backstory.

We find out Jacket was part of a platoon from Vietnam, that his actions have inspired copycat killers around the city, that a detective is on his tale, that a crime boss is taking advantage of his opposition being dead, and then a nuclear bomb goes off, wiping everything out for good.

All of this led to the sequel being branded as incomprehensible or at least messy, but repeat playthroughs only clue you in to how much creators Jonatan Söderström and Dennis Wedin are dissecting the role of violence and repercussion in as many ways as possible.

Hotline Miami 2 isn't a masterpiece - its levels do see you torn down from across the map while you were just trying to see what was coming - but it's story might be the most underrated of the whole generation.