Finding that inner Tiger

So this next game that I'm about to tie this post into is fairly new; however, it has a retro look as well as an 8-bit feel, so I figured it would be appropriate. So about a week ago, our English class read a short story called Child By Tiger. It was very...unpredictable to say the least. In short, it was about this seemingly harmless man of African descent named Dick living with a White family. He didn't really do anything unusual, except for the fact that he was portrayed as having a stalking-like movement and that sometimes his eyes shined at night. He was ordinary in every other aspect though- he went to Church, did chores, and played with the kids. But then the story went for a sudden turn and the next thing you know, Dick is killing everyone in town. So that had me thinking, what kind of games could I tie in with this? The story was interesting and the plot twist was pretty crazy. Then I remembered that I stumbled upon a game a while back called Hotline Miami. Hotline Miami was published in 2012 for the PC and was created by Dennaton Games. In this game, the character that you play as is anonymous and known only as "Jacket". The character wakes up one day with a Mask and a little list of objectives that you must complete to advance. These masks come in different animals, like the Tiger mask and Unicorn Mask, and they each give the player a different personality. The objectives usually involve killing large amounts of people as well as planning assassinations. So this got me thinking-what's a deeper connection between these two creations other than the obvious that they both have something to do with killing people and tiger personalities. And then I realized there may be a connection to why the characters did what they did. Both the characters were affected by this Tiger-like personality and I thought of it as a symbol for the human consciousness. It's our thoughts that drive us to do what we do and it's affected the characters in similar ways. Tigers are thought of as hunters, predators, killers, and that's what the characters were portrayed as. These people may have started off as the average person, but once they got connected with their other personality,whether it be in the form of a physical material like a mask or maybe just a feeling, their beast-like nature took over. This made me realize that this also applies to real life in that everyone contains a beast-like nature; it's just that people may not realize that they have it and that its affects vary from person to person.