For a game that gives you a lot of freedom, it feels intent on holding your hand.

Each level is incredibly detailed, a true spectacle of level design and a veritable assassins playground, but I guess it's indicative of modern games in that it never wants to let go of the players hand and risk alienating them.

You can turn the opportunities off, and I highly recommend doing that otherwise the game becomes a paint-by-numbers challenge. But even with that off you get the NPCs playing Extras just waiting for 47 to walk by so they can loudly announce the targets achilles heel.

It's a let down but it doesn't diminish the quality of the game, everything from the design, art, to the voices are immaculate, if you can look past why citizens in Paris sound eerily similar to the ones in Marrakesh.

Hitman is a wonderful entry into the series, I just wish they would make it a bit more of a challenge, and push players outside their comfort zones rather than letting them follow a linear path, especially when they've designed such a rich series of levels to explore.

Kinda morbidly fun for like three missions but then I got bored with the repetitiveness and annoyed with getting lost all the time and just started gunning down the targets in broad daylight and seeing if I could get away with it, the answer was usually a resounding yes.

It's hilarious to me that these evil billionaires you have to kill won't ever notice you following them no matter how long you do it or how ridiculous the disguise you're wearing is but if you're dressed in a scientist costume and happen to run into another scientist they'll instantly bring the entire security force down on your ass

I slept on this franchise for too long. I never expected it to be this funny; mixing slapstick humor with the usual attempt at seriousness from contemporary western action movies really works out. While the design mainly supports the fantasy of elegant infiltration and thoughtful strategy, there is room for those "screw it, we are going loud" moments a la GTA, making failed runs actually enjoyable when you try to salvage the mission and get your targets down anyway.

The progression system has been discussed long enough at this point (yes, call it Metroidbrainia if you really want) but I really admire the amount of polish and the potential for more and more content, to me it justifies that such a thing as World of Assassination exists.

Regarding this volume specifically, all missions turned out to be neat sandboxes but Sapienza and Marrakesh do stand out in terms of level design. Also audio is incredibly satisfying.

MORRRRTADELOOOOO POWEEEEEERRRRRR

Dos jogos da série Hitman que experimentei, todos me proporcionaram uma sensação que raramente encontro em outros jogos: a percepção de que cada NPC exerce uma influência, seja direta ou indireta, na narrativa. Eles instilam um nervosismo constante, como se estivéssemos sob vigilância a todo momento, obrigando-nos a agir com cautela para evitar qualquer comportamento suspeito que possa nos comprometer. Desde a ansiedade ao entrar em um local com o traje inadequado até a tensão de parecer suspeito entre a multidão em uma festa, os jogos da série Hitman oferecem uma experiência imersiva única.

Admiro especialmente a variedade de abordagens para superar as fases, permitindo que os jogadores mais dedicados explorem múltiplos caminhos. O lançamento episódico, embora tenha sido uma proposta inovadora, acabou enfrentando desafios comerciais, visto que muitos jogadores não estavam familiarizados com esse modelo de distribuição fragmentada e relutavam em pagar por um jogo que seria entregue aos poucos ao longo de semanas. Confesso que também fiquei surpreso na época com essa decisão, só vindo a experimentar o jogo completo mais de um ano após o término do lançamento de todos os episódios.

Entretanto, não acredito que essa estratégia tenha comprometido a jogabilidade, pois cada fase é tão distinta entre si que o principal impacto recai sobre a narrativa. Ao concluir o jogo lá em 2019 (se minhas contas estiverem corretas), já percebia a história como confusa ao jogá-la de uma só vez. Revisitando o jogo através de análises em vídeo, constatei que essa foi uma questão enfrentada por muitos jogadores: a dificuldade em compreender a trama intrincada do jogo.

Apesar das falhas na narrativa, aprecio imensamente a experiência oferecida pelo jogo, pois acredito que ele resgatou o que a série tinha de melhor. Recomendo-o muito para os entusiastas do estilo stealth.

I like it, I never played a hitman game before trilogy so I think this was a good introduction for me, though I don’t think it’s the best part of the trilogy. Some targets, particularly the side targets in certain missions like ken morgan, felt a bit like “filler,” but a lot of the main targets were pretty good, Jordan Cross being one of the best in the trilogy. Also some maps look a little worse when compared to the rest of the trilogy but they actually kinda grew on me when I replayed these levels for certain gear.
Overall, yeah I like it.

Fuck the Colorado map though