The action becomes quite repetitive after just a few missions. While not as quick, a mop would've made much more sense thematically. If a police officer is within range of the noise you're making, they become alerted to your presence. Sound plays a huge role, as you make noise with every action you take, including footsteps, which is visualised by an emanating diamond shape from beneath your character's feet.
The vacuum cleaner is actually one of our first major gripes with the game the whole point is to be stealthy and avoid the cops while cleaning up the evidence, blood, and corpses. From the ringing phone at the start of each level telling you where you're going and what to expect, to the car you jump in outside of your house to drive to the job, to the methodical patrols made by the police officers at the crime scene everything can be likened to Hotline Miami, but here you're equipped with a vacuum and a body bag rather than a shotgun and an assault rifle. If you've played Hotline Miami, those are the vibes you get right from the get go. You never meet the people who cause the mess you're tasked with cleaning up, but you learn about their ways through reports of the murders through the television and radio in your house where you begin each level, along with the daily newspaper that you find lying on your porch. He receives phone calls from mysterious clients, namely one guy in particular who is working alongside a man known as the 'Echo Killer'. His job title is 'professional cleaner', but that doesn't quite do his role justice. Set in the '70s, Serial Cleaner follows the life of a man called Bobby, a 30-something fella who lives with his mother. Serial Cleaner bears so many resemblances that it could have worked nicely as a sequel: Hotline Miami: Serial Cleaner. One thing that people rarely consider in these fictional worlds though, is who's going to clean up all that mess? While Hotline Miami required a little thought and plenty of careful movements, it was largely about equipping an arsenal of weapons and brute forcing your way through each level, blowing heads off as you progressed. Hotline Miami released back in 2012, and brought a whole lot of corpses and bloodshed to a striking '80s world full of animal masks and trippy music.
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