Magic Sword - The Way Home

Magic Sword Volume 1 available on iTunes

[Alex_Guy]

This song is the definition of Beard's last mission, just one more and then he's free.

[Rad-Dudeandathird]

No need to thank me, kid. It's on the house.

[Ducksen]

This has always been one of my favorites from HM2, it really feels like beard's last stand. To me, the song sounds like he's expecting to die at any moment, and yet somehow he's still pressing on.

[birthkatana]

Its honestly amazing how much this song conveys with out any

[claustrophobicmole]

i love how every hotline miami character has its own themes that represent their personality through the theme itself
both in combat and in non combat situations (like the transitions of every chapter in their own houses)
jacket has a very psychodelic ost in his house and an energetic ost in battle showing how decided is jacket to eliminate all of his oponents
beard has charming and gentle ost in his bar or when resting with the rest of the ghost wolves, and unlike jacket his battle soundtracks arent really murder-inducing as jackets soundtracks are, they sound more strategic and encouraging
the list goes and goes since there are a lot of characters in the hotline miami saga

[vibri_]

We seriously need more "fantasy" synthwave.

[TargetedPersona]

You can really feel Beard's tiredness in this song.

[rufus]

This song made me so emotional first time i played the mission, because i legit thought it would be beards scripted death at the end.

[jonadrimpys]

I've played many impressive videogames in my life...but this is the first time I'm crying while playing... what a powerful theme!

[loveshankme]

2:30

I get chills every time here as I remember fighting my way through the doors to the power plant.

[Halucygeno]

Man... The wind slowly fading into the track at the start gives me chills for some reason... Such a melancholic track.

[TheOneUntakenName]

It took me a while to figure out why I liked this song so much above the rest of the soundtrack, but I realized it has a tone that you find nowhere else in the game, or the first one.

It's heroic.

This isn't the selfish bloodshed that everyone else goes through. You're on a suicide mission, but it has to be done, and if wasn't you it would be someone else. Just this once, you are doing the right thing.

[robotputty]

this is only song that makes me cry of how good it is.

[namesurname]

Room 1: Manageable
Room 2: Manageable
Room 3: *dies*
Room 4: Manageable

[patrickkevinmelia]

Man, this song makes me want to play that painstakingly difficult level again..

[tripplejaz]

My art teacher was the artist behind the comic to Magic Sword. Mr. Plummer was the man!

[dough]

"Casualties" is the best Hotline Miami 2 level because of this song.

[warriorchemist]

Came here after finishing the campaign on Pistol Whip. Listening to this after doing all 5 missions is a hell of a reward.

[LostSnowdrift]

Obligatory Beard comment here but -- Casualties -- it really is his last stand, his way home; one last mission, just one more time he has to see people die. Just one more moment in this hellish place, and then he's free.

And I really like that, in this music. It captures the feeling of being battered and nearly broken; nearly dead, but still alive, still fighting back, and carrying a thin spark of hope with you.

[Fuqyootube]

This song always makes me think of those moments when you reminisce about the past and better times long gone...