"We were really sad that some people were so affected by it, because maybe they had been through something like that of their own." That's Dennaton's Dennis Wedin speaking to Rock Paper Shotgun about the controversial scene in the forthcoming "Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number," and their plans to remove it from demos while they decide whether to make changes to the sequence.

Back in August, PC Gamer writer Cara Ellison was the first to speak up about the scene in question, where the player-controlled character, Pig Butcher, drops trou in front of a powerless woman, every indication that he's about to rape her. The scene then pulls back to reveal this is, in fact, a film being shot within the game, the sequence nothing more than an elaborate feint.

Wedin says that the sequence stops where it does because the Dennaton team didn't want to follow the trend of one-upsmanship in horror,...