Sony by accident launched Hotline Miami 2: Fallacious Quantity in Australia final 12 months regardless of the sport being banned there, and everybody who purchased it has all of a sudden been refunded as the sport disappeared from the PlayStation Retailer.
As reported by Press Start, Australian players acquired an electronic mail notifying them of the removing of Hotline Miami 2 from their sport libraries and the PlayStation Retailer. Why? It was by no means allowed to be launched there in the primary place.
The Australian authorities famously refused to provide Hotline Miami 2 a classification upon its launch in 2015 as a result of a “visible depiction of implied sexual violence,” stopping it from being legally bought in the nation.
This truth someway slipped by the cracks in October 2023, nonetheless, when a local PS5 model of Hotline Miami 2 was launched the world over, together with in Australia. It remained there for a complete 12 months, even being added to the PlayStation Plus Video games Catalog, earlier than a problem was seen.
“We have now change into conscious that the product Hotline Miami 2: Fallacious Quantity has not acquired a correct score from the Australian Classification Board and have due to this fact taken steps to refund prospects who’ve bought the sport,” Sony mentioned in an electronic mail to homeowners of the sport in Australia.
Hotline Miami was a fan-favorite indie title of the early 2010s, with the primary sport arriving in 2012 and the sequel coming a number of years later in 2015. It featured quick and livid high down gameplay as gamers mowed down baddies in myriad morbid methods.
In our 8/10 assessment of the newest, IGN mentioned: “Hotline Miami 2: Fallacious Quantity is a relentless, rhythmic, and brutal sport of killing quick, and sometimes dying even quicker.”
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll discuss The Witcher all day.