Midnight Fight Expressis a new isometric brawler created by one man, Jacob Dzwinel, and revealed at Gamescom. The gameplay, and to a certain degree, the artstyle, look like they draw inspiration from theHotline Miamigames, now on Xbox.
The trailer forMidnight Fight Expressis a short one, and so the tone of the game is somewhat difficult to pin down. WhileHotline Miamihas a disturbing, surreal tone like the player is trapped in a nightmare, withMidnight Fight Expressit’s tricky to tell how much is satire and how much is serious. At least one scene, however, is definitely satire.
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The scene takes place right at the end of the trailer, and it’s a callback to an infamous scene inCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The scene,recently trending on Twitter, is called “No Russian,“for a line spoken by one of the characters. Several characters, the protagonist included, are riding an elevator and, as part of a larger plot, they step out after the line is spoken and proceed to gun down civilians in an airport. The scene inMidnight Fight Expressseemingly starts the same way, but has a very different result.
The player character, dressed in nothing but pants, shoes, and a horse mask (almost certainly another directHotline Miamicallback) enters the elevator after the line “no Russian” is spoken. He then proceeds to beat up all the gunmen inside, despite their advantage of numbers and guns. It’s almost certain that whatever massacre was planned by the men in the elevator, it is thoroughly foiled by the protagonist. Even thoughthe original “No Russian” scene was almost very different, it was probably never this different in the original draft forCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
As to why this scene is parodied inMidnight Fight Expressat all, at this point, it’s still impossible to say. If the game is more serious, it could be a commentary on violence in some way, similar toKatana Zerotalking about the horrors of war, something hopefully expanded on inthe upcoming DLC.
IfMidnight Fight Expresshas a less serious tone, this might have been included as nothing more than a joking reference to a violent scene in an already comically violent game. It will certainly be a fun task to compare which is more violent,Midnight Fight Expressor thegame revealed right before it,Cult of the Lamb.
Midnight Fight Expressis coming to PC, Nintendo Switch, PS4, and Xbox One in Summer 2022.
