Who's richard?

[Sebastian]

So I've only played hotline miami once until recently where I replayed it and grew to appreciate it more, and I started hotline miami 2. Now I was wondering how other people interpreted the story and I agreed with the op of the other thread on the hotline miami discussions.
So why am I here? The OP said that he thought richard was the manifestation of Richard's(Jacket's proposed name) present self and that richard or jacket was confronting his conscience, Raspus or the owl dude is is future self disgusted at his past self and don juan or the horse dude is past jacket who tells him to not dwell on the past as Jacket or richard is a vietnam vet. Now I finished it quick(three hours) and decided to play the sequel again. I hit new game and boom, the table scene.
Richard seemed omniscient, kind of godly, he judged everyone in the room except beard and everyone he judged died(Although including beard, he did say he wasn't so bad or something like that.), so, the idea hit me. Could richard actually be god or the devil. Could the three men that Jacket encountered be God the devil and someone representing purgatory?

[kerszer]

Richard judges them for their actions and the way how they died is how they die in the story. I dont know how to describe Richard besides mental disruption in every characters mind.

[Sebastian]

I don't know I think the only explanation is he is god? He watches the events unfold like a film and he's able to communicate with every chracter after they die.

[Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz]

he is a death

[Sebastian]

Oooooo that's a good one.

Originally posted by Da'Neil:

he is a death

[§Ratrone§]

Richard is the initial canon character in Hotline Miami (1), who is worn by 'Jacket'.
The explanation for how he can communicate to the sleeping, dead, or alive is completely unknown to me.

I feel that Richard is the basic feeling of "Paranoia", following you around. That very small part of your brain saying "Don't do it. We have to change plans" etc etc.

I've noticed.
(Actual spoilers)
IN HOTLINE MIAMI 2 -
When Evan gives the homeless person money, Richard only then appears saying "We have no money. Time is something we don't have. Your wife and children are going to leave you. You need a better job." and such as.

And I've also noticed that, while Richter is watching the television at the end of the game, Richard appears AFTER the war has been announced. No one can fix the fact there is a "war". However, Richard does 'not' say that there is specifically going to be a nuclear bomb. Or that everyone will 'die'. He says 'it is much worse', granted. But he does not specifically say 'Everyone is going to die. There is nothing you can do about that.'

All I know is that everythinhg that Richard has forseen has happened, and is true to the Hotline Miami story. , However, I do not believe that "Richard" is a god. Or death.

For this reason, I believe that Richard is simply superstition/paranoia, that eventually becomes true.

[§Ratrone§]

However...
Richard could otherwise be the "director".

I also put this forward because in the level "caught", Manny Pardo sees his nightmare as a movie. Completely scened.

[OTGwife]

he just is something we can't understand... oh! and Don Juan is a woman.

[Sebastian]

Originally posted by undefinedOwL:

he just is something we can't understand... oh! and Don Juan is a woman.

really? Damn, you learn something new everyday.

[Jess]

my dad

[Sebastian]

Originally posted by Foxy the pirate:

ritchard is the name of the mask (and presumibly jacket's real name) in hm 2 his mask rapresent's death and in the first i dont know..

-_- I know it's the name of the mask and presumably richards name I literally wrote that. You reiterated everything I said.

[Sebastian]

Originally posted by Beast of Burden:

my dad

lmao

[§Ratrone§]

Originally posted by Incensed Nightmare:

Originally posted by Beast of Burden:

my dad

lmao

This explains everything.

[Sebastian]

Originally posted by §Rat§AND HIS NAME IS JOHN CENA:

Originally posted by Incensed Nightmare:

lmao

This explains everything.

The holy trinity. Richard is adam sandler, raspus is rob schneider, and don juan is nicholas cage.

[§Ratrone§]

Originally posted by Incensed Nightmare:

Originally posted by §Rat§AND HIS NAME IS JOHN CENA:

This explains everything.

The holy trinity. Richard is adam sandler, raspus is rob schneider, and don juan is nicholas cage.

HOLY HECK.

[FaelisongTalim]

Richard is that one shaky thought everyone in 1991 has in the back of their mind about murder. I mean, Jacket killed 393 people in 1989, all by himself. That is some capacity for genocide. This is why in Richter and Jake Missions, they never get the Richard hallucinations for it was during a time where Jacket hasn't been caught yet. Pardo doesn't get a Richard hallucination as he's so full of himself he doesn't care about the masked murders.