One of the things i like about this game's plot is that, while the government is obviously corrupt and needs to be stopped, Vlad isn't exactly the most virtuous of people either. His goals are noble, sure, but he also seemed to be pretty fine with his friends drug abuse and the rewriting of history when it served to help the revoluion. Would definatelly want to see this expanded upon if there's ever an sequel.

The MCs beat their drug addiction so hard, they brought the Nekro hallucination into the real world after killing him

You finally covered this game. Personally, I think that Mother Russia Bleeds deserves more attention, as it is a modern (and more violent) version of Streets of Rage. Fixions also deserves a lot more praise for the incredibly unique soundtrack that he composed. I hope that you cover and play RUINER at some point, since it is my favourite game published by DD. Remember to stay safe and always prioritise your health.

one thing about this game's story is that i wish the player characters' personalities were actually reflected in their dialogue, instead of just being told about their personalities in the loading screens. boris is supposed to be a crazy wild card but if you're playing as him in single player he has the same dialogue as everyone else. i still love this game, though, glad to see somebody make a video about it!

Fun fact: Bratva - "(organised criminal) Bro-hood" In Russian movies "Shark's Tale" and "Over the Hedge" translated as "Underwater Bratva" and "Forest Bratva" :D

Sorry for how long this one took to make! I've had a rough go of it as of late, so it was difficult to stay on top of this as much as I would have liked, but I hope you still enjoy! I have another video I'm going to make on this game (A Theory video talking about a possible shared universe between Mother Russia Bleeds and Hotline Miami which will be completely filled with ideas of my own and no one else's), but it's probably going to be towards by the end of December because Blasphemous has a DLC that's coming out on 9-DEC that I'd like to do a video on, and I'd like to take a little bit of break instead of putting pressure on myself to try and rush to get both videos done. So that's what's coming down the Pipeline. I have some vague ideas for things next year (Dead Cells DLC, maybe Risk of Rain story summary since Deadbolt was so popular), but I don't have anything definite as of yet! If you have any recommendations or requests, feel free to share them! I'd be happy to hear them!

Your narration really do a good of both tense and soothing tone. Really makes the videos shine especially because you're handling games where story take a big part

This game really did go hard. Especially on the difficulty, but it was still fun. Glad it's getting some love.

It's really impressive how, despite shooting up drugs being a main mechanic of the game, the atmosphere and visuals of the game (and of course everything about the final boss fight) still give it a "Drugs are bad" message that actually works. I feel like in a lesser game the message would fall flat on its face.

Getting the best ending via never using Nekro is one of the most challenging yet satisfying moments in games ever, period.

Ah, Mother Russia Bleeds. A great yet sometimes frustrating game. Though it was fun with a friend. The good ending was hard to get too. But the adrenaline during the Nekro fight was huge. Greetings from Ukraine. Your videos are amazing.

I'm glad you contextualized a lot of the worldbuilding for people like me who didn't pay too much attention to the meaning behind the exquisite backdrop before which the action happens. Great video.

Totally underrated game, pick this up ASAP if you haven't tried it yet(+bonus points if you LOVED Hotline Miami like yours truly). I have gotten 100% Steam Achievements and this game was a BLAST to playthrough. Thanks a lot for the video, Dustin. Greetings from city of Baku, Azerbaijan :D

I love the hotline miami 2 easter egg in this game at 23:20

Words cannot describe how hard it is to get the true ending in this game, guess it adds more to the message huh?

As a Russian, hearing the first few minutes made me question whether you're describing the alternative reality or the one we actually live in. These things about the entrepeneurs, the elites, etc. are undeniably true. The drugs too..

Love the Hotline Miami reference at 23:19 with the fans in the background with their masks on

I once saw a cool theory on the Hotline Miami Reddit that Mother Russia Bleeds and Hotline Miami could share the same universe: In Mother Russia Bleeds, the Bratva practically run the country, having many Bratva members in high seats of power within the Russian government. The Bratva is big enough to, say, be the biggest crime syndicate in Miami, containing hundreds of members and armed with military-issue Russian firepower. The second point is the bombing of San Francisco. No matter how you look at it, there's no way the nuking of a major U.S. city would end in a peace act rather than a complete nuclear war. Unless the Russian government didn't do it. The bombing occurs on April 3rd, 1986, a little over 2 weeks after the March 22nd, 1986 Revolution in which Russia's Bratva-controlled government was overthrown, and replaced by Vlad's pacifist ideals. Russia has missile silos all over the country, and in 2 weeks is hardly enough time to completely purge Russia's corrupt government. I think the bombing of San Francisco was a last-ditch effort by remnants of the Bratva-controlled regime to bring the United States in to destroy the new government so the Bratva could return from the ashes. Of course, the American government recognizes the missile was rogue and instead forms a peace treaty with the Russians. After all, who would sign a peace treaty with a nation that has just captured one of your states and nuked one of your cities? Regardless, the American populace still sees Russians as Russians, and sees this as a surrender to Russia, causing extreme anti-Russian sentiment and eventually, 50 Blessings. The third and weakest point is Nekro. The final levels to both Mother Russia Bleeds and Hotline Miami are very similar, both protagonists experience a drug overdose and go on a hallucinogenic rampage against horrific creatures, while in reality they're just slaughtering everything around them. This is obviously the weakest point because Nekro is injected, not ingested, and Nekro production stops after the March 22 Revolution. It could be Nekro made by the Russian mob, or a different drug entirely.

Im so damn glad you covered this game, its definitely one of my favs

As a Russian the way you pronounce the names is kinda wrong, but all your summaries so far have been amazing. Also Nekro kinda reminds me of Joy (Lisa the Painful).

RIP Mikhail. He did what he saw as necessary to protect the heroes, even if his actions hurt them in the long run.

Squatch, your content is always amazing! Hope things go well for the future of your videos and your personal life.

I bought this game randomly on a steam discount sale just thinking it would be another cool beat-em-up since I knew nothing about it. But for me, this is THE Beat-em-up everyone who appreciates great gameplay and story should play.

I like how the hotline miami “the Fans.” Can be seen in the back, its cool. Timestamp -> 23:21

I only really heard about this game a couple years ago when I saw it was available on the Nintendo Switch. Seems like an interesting game

Honestly can't believe you're covering this The game is so interesting and deserves more attention

Thank you so much for covering the story of this game. I always felt like this game gets overlooked so much as well as the music artist who composed the soundtrack.

Why u said its alternative Russia? See no difference fr

I'm so glad your channel exists

Cool video, haven't heard anyone talking of Mother Russia Bleeds in many years.

“YOU KNOW WHO ELSE’S MOM BLEEDS?”-muscle man 1986

Thanks man I really needed this. All your lore videos and story summaries are so immersing and fun to watch.

23:19 HEADS UP FOR THE FANS, BOYS!

I love the little Hotline Miami reference.

I knew after watching and re watching the holiness Miami one that you'd cover this evertually.

This aint alternite history this was just the ussr in the 80s

This channel will blow up someday. Keep up the great work.

Finally! This gem deserves more attention!

Glad to see someone covering the game. And oh boi, both endings are quite depressing- you either od on nekro or get thrown into a cycle of revolution and usurpation of power, becoming a heroes who litterally didn't ask for the place.

Alright this video has me subscribed. Your voice is consistently able to keep me engaged and time has flown during this video. Wish you played this game with some friends! It would've been a worthy investment. Now I just need you to dip your toes in long format game reviews because that's my favorite kinda content even if it means I'll have to wait months between vids!

If there's one thing that I'm still wondering who was that skeleton entity. Maybe the entity was the Nekro itself, maybe it was some drug dealer that uses his own blood to make and become Nekro. One thing for sure the Nekro boss itself will always be a mystery to me.

I don't know how you do it, maybe you have a camera in my house or something, but you always manage to do videos on weird indi games I played. Good video

I love your videos! Hopefully I see more from other games as well! Keep up the good work.

I really like how i keep coming back to ur channel eversince you made the hotline miami story summary, keep it up man

I was waiting for this! This is awesome

Glad this game’s getting covered, but damn you made it sound way easier than it actually is lol

At 23:20 you can see the group from Hotline Miami 2 watching the brawl!

23:19 Haha that’s a nice easter egg 😆 Love Hotline Miami

For all Russian people this story, this game is special. Yes, its made by french guys, but it cathes mood, it show places almost perfect. And our country is ill. Corruption and poverty is still choke our country. Guys dont fear us. They trying to make us enemies. Thank you for your video. It hit right the spot.

dude. i don't know how i missed this, i am so happy this exists

What if we portray 1980s Russia as 1990s Russia

Nekro seems to basically be both steroids, amphetamines *and* krokodil at once lol

you should do more of these for more underrated gems . Great video .

Ya should just go through the whole Devolver Digital library at this point lol

yooo i played this game ages ago! i was so hyped for it before release, and it delivered! even though it was kinda short i loved it so much.

Has it ever occurred to anyone how odd nekro is (more specifically the collection of it). The entire game, we’ve basically been injecting either blood or vomit into our bloodstream, and nekro seems to take over the body or something, since certain enemies are green, being described as “being full of nekro!”, implying that it’s so potent that even diluted by blood, it can be used. This also makes me wonder how it’s like when raw, unless they’re collecting the actual thing and not just contaminated samples.

such a underrated beat em up. thanks for the vid

You are a really good storyteller with your descriptive wording of everything.

I've been waiting long enough for this video

Loved the Fans from Hotline reference at 23:19 just kicking back watching the violence.

I was obsessed with this game when it came out

23:19 in the background you could see some characters from Hotline Miami

This is practically all eastern European countries summarized.

This is one of my favorite games of all time. Nobody ever talks about it, thank you so much

Okay, so i'm really intrigued right now about the HM - MRB shared universe theory and i'm eager to see your take on it. I know it'll be great!!! Love you, Squatch. Your vids too

I just started playing and uploading this game a few days ago and I’ve really enjoyed it, it’s really underrated and I hope it can get the attention it deserves

always a pleasure watching your videos, thank you!! :))

It is very more fucked up when you found out it was a actually experiments just with out the whole zombie vibes

I just played and beat it today. Got both endings too. ITS SO GODDAMN FUN! After I played HLM 1 and 2 last year I've been playing more indies published by Devolver and have been having one hell of a time! Hoping we can get a sequel to this someday!

A new game just dropped called "FIGHT KNIGHT" and it's definitely worth playing.

Came back here because of Wagner attempted coup on 24 June 2023.

A game about a Gopnik Revolution becoming true? Im sold

Ah man I'm so happy you covered it ! watched all of your videos about hotline miami and now this ! Christmas before it's time ! it's just so obious you're playing with bots haha, The bots are kinda bad in this game too, they're mostly here to get killed a lot it seems, and if you enable friendly fire they end up killing you more often than not lmao. I'm replaying through it rn to try and get all achievements, if anyone wants to play this game btw I could use the steam play together feature and have us all play together, as it is pretty fun in multiplayer. Feel free to hit me up on steam for that (but not like in 2 years if you're reading this comment at this point)

I legit didnt know this was a game, I just listened to the music.

At 23:20 you can see the group from Hotline Miami 2 watching the brawl

Can you make a story summary for Hotline Miami 2 editor level the Hunter series? The story is so awesome you should cover it some time in the future

So basically there is 100% no reason to NOT use Necro!!!!! Because if you use necro you get the happy ending. This is the ending where you actually don't lie to people and the history books will learn the truth THE ENTIRE WHOLE TRUTH!!!!!!!!!!! I'm glad I syringe the living hell out of my character when I passed this game

I like to think that Hotline Miami and Mother Russia Bleeds are part of the same universe

As a Romani person this is one of the few games that represents us well. The characters are well written and the devs didn't cop out with some BS stereotypes.

Saw you uploaded this, and i bought the game just so i could watch this video without spoilers

Hell yeah man I was just thinking about this game the other day

bought it at 6:00 am, finished it 4 times at 4:00 pm with my younger brother haven't enjoyed a beat em up game this much in years

You should cover the lore of backbone. I would love to hear all the story behind that game.

YES! I LOVE THIS GAME, AND I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!

23:20 love the little easter egg in the background

So I have managed to get to the final boss fight and I was wondering what the deal is with Nekro is it ever explained why they were even dosing people to begin with?

The thumbnail is me seeing someone took the last if my ice cream out of the fridge

*People fighting for their lives* The Fans: Imma just sit here if that’s good.

Holy shit I love this game, thanks for covering it

It's funny and ironic that the developer's next game is the complete opposite of their first title, not just in terms genre, art-style, and graphics, but in terms of tone.

Somebody please tell me they saw the hotline Miami reference in 23:19

Damn, finally somebody talks about this game

yesssss i was waiting sooo long for you to make avideo about this

this game should seriously be turned into a movie.

23:19 That a god damn hotline Miami reference?

Hey buddy keep doing great videos like this 👍

The story sounds more like a day to day in the current world, in most countries, especially in 3rd world countries.

22:32 This part and your commentary were quite entertaining as they don't match up with each other lolololool. only one fighter survived and not with a lot of health.

New Squatch upload, you love to see it

23:20 that group kinda looks sus in the back