Midnight Animal 

A decent, promising mod that was to be made for Hotline Miami all the way back in 2015. It caught the eyes of many fans who were eager to play something that could be considered a follow-up (or even an unofficial sequel) to Hotline Miami 2. Bloody, top-down action with unique dialogue, portrait sprites, gameplay, gore and most of all, it's story.

Upon release, it had disappointed and pissed of the once optimistic fanbase that had grew from watching trailers and updates. The reason was because the creator had suffered a hardship and went off the grid for a bit. During this time, he had been playing the Persona games to cope with this, and they ended up changing his outlook on his life and how the game's direction should be headed.

The game was changed from "Midnight Animal" to "Midnight Animal: a Story of Love and Forgetting in Four Parts"

The criticism was directed at the change in story and the direction of the once unique art and gameplay, turning it into a cheesy novel-esque game with occasional adrenaline-induced levels full of everyone's favorite high-octane action. The creator had started to reference many Persona sprites for the characters and the hatedom documented every slight "change" to the game, even if it was as minute as the above.

It gets worse from here. The creator basically got slurbombed to death just because he changed a few aspects of the game.

tl;dr fanbase get butthurt over small changes and tell the creator he's worthless

Midnight Animal had a lot of bias and unwanted criticism because "waahh weeb garbage >:("

Midnight Animal by trollface moment November 7, 2022