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Greetings and welcome to an LGR Thing.
And you may have noticed this box in the background of several of my more recent videos.
In fact, I know quite a few of you noticed
because you've asked me about it or pointed it out in the comments
and sent me messages wondering:
Where could you get it? Is this a Hotline Miami box?
Well, yes. I'm happy to say
this is indeed the special edition
Hotline Miami 1 and 2 collector's box set
by Gamer's Edition,
a site that is a little different
from others that I've kind of covered in the past that
put boxes to independent PC games,
as opposed to something like Indiebox, which is a subscription service.
They send you things every month.
This is a one-off special edition
really niche product
made for the people, the gamers, the collectors, whoever,
that really wants these games.
There's a limited amount of them made for each one of these games to–
that they're trying to get done.
2161 of these Hotline Miami boxes. I've got number 1072 here.
And this costs $60,
back when I ordered it
in March of 2015.
It took about a year to get here, and it got here.
It looks great. I am very happy with this.
And I'm very happy with these games.
I'm a huge fan of the Hotline Miami series of games.
Especially the first one. I just think–
I mean, it's very close to being just like a perfect game.
For what it set out to be and what I got from it, I just had no complaints.
It was wonderful. I loved every minute of its over-the-top,
gory, challenging in many ways gameplay.
It was a wonderful game.
The second one was great, too. It just didn't quite grab me in the same way.
I have some weird issues with some of the places that it tried to go, but other than that,
I was really happy to see that they were getting this in a boxed form because
while there were other releases that you could get,
like say on the consoles,
there were no physical editions
for the PC version, and
that's of course the one to play, if you ask me.
"Press R to restart." Yes, indeed.
That's a very common message in these games.
You know, I kinda wish there was a little bit more going on here in the back,
but it's artistic in its own way.
And then, of course, the front there with its 50 Blessings logo going on.
That's just– that's really neat.
And then it's got some quotes here:
"Do you like hurting other people?"
Well, yeah, probably. At least in this game.
And so, you know, whatever. Things from press.
I will say that as cool as this outer sleeve is,
I'm rather... I don't know, kinda let down by the actual box itself.
I mean, this just like your generic, like...
anything-could-be-in-here router kind of box.
I was hoping for something a little more specialized
like I see in certain other boxes for collector's editions and things.
But that's okay because the contents
are really what it's all about here.
Especially this. This is a cassette tape album
containing...
soundtrack selections from these games.
In fact, I think they're all on here from both games.
I *love* the soundtrack. It's actually what's been playing in the background here
faintly.
Give it a listen if you have it.
One of the single best reasons to play these games is the soundtrack.
You know, you'll come for the soundtrack and stay for the game, trust me.
You stick around, it's worth it.
And then right here,
we have another really big meaty portion
of what's in this package.
And that is... the games.
In this really neat little case here.
I like this.
It's, um, kind of disturbing. [laughs]
It's filled with artwork that makes a lot of sense with the rest of the game.
Hotline Miami and Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
Love the art style.
This is just a sleeve, of course,
so we get this
coming apart here,
revealing more of that kind of art
in a DVD case.
So, we've got, uh...
some trailers and things, some like game kind of–
almost reminds me of like a press kit, this whole thing really.
So you got trailers and stuff right here. Um... I'll show this here in a moment.
Hotline Miami 1 and 2 on this disc.
And then we have the Notebook.
This is really cool. It's got a lot of stuff
from the games. You know, the characters you meet,
just all sorts of artwork. I mean, just really cool stuff.
And that scribbly sort of odd art style that the game makes excellent use of.
It's all in here.
I like it.
This is just cool.
Inside of this little slip here, we have
some cards.
These are actually all musicians that did some of the music for the game.
And they ended up as, well, cameo characters in the games.
So that's pretty cool.
Nice little way to give some extra props to people that made amazing tunes.
I mean, it's cards. *pfft* You know
There's a lot of cards and stuff stuck in packs like these.
Indiebox does cards and things. I'm not a really big fan of
collector's cards at all, but you know, some people are. That's fine.
They're in here.
And yes,
even more down in the bottom of the box here.
So, we got, uh...
this little bit of artwork which is pretty cool, I think.
It's, you know, got this cut out part here and... yeah.
You got, uh, people who shall not be named [laughs]
right there.
Just kind of an interesting little–
almost like a postcard, but not really,
because you've got more of the sprite
artwork here on the back.
And then,
let's see here. This...
it's awesome, okay? [laughs]
It's pretty much a graphic novel, right?
I mean, I guess it is.
Graphic novel, comic book, you know, whatever you wanna call it,
of Hotline Miami 2.
And so, there's an awful lot of story in here.
In fact, it tells you quite a bit more [laughs]
than what maybe you'll get from the game.
And while it does follow a lot of it, I mean, it's not exactly it.
I mean, you get some extra side story stuff here, but it definitely all relates.
And it's really cool after having played the game
going through here and seeing sort of another translation/expansion of what's been going on.
It's a very high quality book, too,
other than the fact that it's stapled together.
I would have preferred something bound.
But you know, whatever.
Uh... I...
This just whole package
is really neat.
I mean, cards...
these things...
and other stuff. Whatever.
Honestly, though, the cassette tape!
The cassette tape and the games on CD–
well, DVD, I suppose–
I mean, this is all I really wanted right here.
But to get all this other stuff and then a cool box on top of that,
I mean, really cool package.
I'm happy with this.
It was $60, which, you know, is fine.
I mean, it's two games and a lot of extra cool stuff.
I wasn't too disappointed with the price, to be honest, but
it took a really long time to get here.
And– [chuckles]
you can't buy 'em now.
Like, they're gone! They're sold out, and I guess that's it.
Like that... that sucks!
I hesitated to even do this video because I wanted to, like, show you something that you could get, you know?
Like, I don't wanna just be like,
"Hey, look at this cool thing you can't have."
But, then again, I guess a lot of my videos are like that when it comes down to it.
Oddware and such.
But, yeah. They're trying to do– or they tried, rather–
to do some other boxes for things like "Kerbal Space Program," "Papers, Please."
I backed those as well, or ordered them,
But if they don't reach their minimum amount of orders to go into production,
it just doesn't happen. Nobody gets it. So...
While this one went through, this got enough orders to go into production,
those others didn't. I would love to have a boxed "Kerbal" and "Papers, Please," but
who knows if that'll ever happen.
Maybe Indiebox will get on that someday.
Or maybe these guys will come around to do some more stuff.
Because I think after this, pretty much all they've done is like, um...
prints, like lithographs and maps, but...
This is the only game box, as far as I know, to have come out of Gamer's Edition
so far.
So, uh... yeah, man!
Go check 'em out and maybe they'll do some more in the future. I don't know.
I can't promise that.
But anyway, thank you very much for watching.