The Hotline Miami Mod That Went Too Far

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• PI

  @Pi0h1 · 1 year ago (edited) · pinned

  Pi0h1 here.<br>The version of Midnight Animal you reviewed with all the shit dialogue and ugly title screen is not made by Spencer Yan. It was made by some russian modder who wanted to remake Midnight Animal. The writing of that remake is entirely original and had nothing to do with Spencer&apos;s plans for Midnight Animal. There were tons of copycats since the source code was publicly available. (This is what Spencer referred to when he said on the Eurogamer article that people were scavenging his code).<br>The one you briefly mentioned at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPignjJSGbs&amp;t=1419">23:39</a> is the legitimate Document of Midnight Animal. I was in the same chat as Spencer when he came up with Document of Midnight Animal and I can confirm the &quot;This isn&apos;t for you&quot; message was, in a sense, directed towards the people making Midnight Animal copycats.<br>Document of Midnight Animal has no dialogue or story. Exegesis is where all the story elements went in. He was tired of people misinterpreting his work through the copycats so he separated the gameplay and story elements into two different games to show what his true intentions and abilities were. Exegesis is a reflection of his actual writing skills whereas Document is a reflection of his actual skills as a game designer.

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• CB

  @CBRT-s8j · 1 year ago

  &gt;&quot;How Hotline Miami Ruined a Man&apos;s Life&quot;<br>&gt;*looks inside*<br>&gt;its Persona....

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• IM

  @imnothereanymore-e8f · 1 year ago

  The absolute irony of the people leaving angry and hateful comments about the game&apos;s directional shift... when you take a second to look at their names and steam avatars...

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• CY

  @CyberpsychoSid · 1 year ago (edited)

  I love how so many of the commenters calling him a degenerate weeaboo have anime character avatars.

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• AW

  @AWESOMEGUY7325 · 1 year ago

  No one forced him to make Midnight Animal, they just pressured him into making it how they wanted it

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• PU

  @punishedchug3626 · 1 year ago

  I remember speaking to Spencer Yan a while ago, when I was trying to create my own mod for Hotline Miami. This was a little bit before the whole Midnight Animal backlash from the HLM community, and he was a super nice dude and helped out a lot. I wish him all the best.

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• NI

  @nikto7297 · 1 year ago (edited)

  I feel so bad for Spencer, poor guy had to go through the hate and shame. Anime or not, midnight animal had great potential

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• HO

  @homacritic · 1 year ago

  a real shame...the visuals looked pretty good

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• MA

  @majinriley9776 · 1 year ago

  those people don’t deserve a hotline miami 3

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• X.

  @X.V.P · 4 months ago

  The only positive thing in this is that he didn’t get to work at Ubisoft

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• AW

  @awesome19ssbb · 1 year ago

  i personally say Yan was on to something with the idea of a life sim and Hotline Miami being mix. it really would had been interesting to see both chaotic fast nature and quiet slow peacefulness play out. it sucks that it didn&apos;t come prominence but regardless i hope Yan life is better now.

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• ER

  @ErrorCodePrometheus. · 1 year ago

  Poor dude, I was super hyped for Midnight Animal. It&apos;s sad to see him like this :(

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