EDIT: After 1.5 years I have finally finished this game! I enjoyed it very much in the end and am doing much better mentally now. Still think it may be a bit too sprawling at points, though.

Is it weird to really like a game, think it's incredibly well-made, but just have no desire to finish it? I absolutely adore the Hitman series, to the point where I've played Blood Money & Contracts countless times and have even forced myself to beat Codename 47, but this one... I don't know. I've been playing it off and on for months, and half the time, when I load up a level, I take one look at how gigantic the map is and just close the program. I was already feeling some similar pangs of fatigue by the end of Hitman 2016, but thankfully most of those levels were more reasonably-sized. Every map in Hitman 2 (2) is a mammoth. It overwhelms my poor brain. Yes, I could just beeline straight for the targets or turn on waypoints to get things over with, but that's not how I enjoy games. The levels here are all massive and intricately connected, which is extremely impressive, but my insatiable desire to explore every nook and cranny has proven to be my downfall. Maybe it's just the headspace I'm currently in, because I've been too depressed and exhausted to really commit to games since it started getting hot in April and my fucking workplace still doesn't have a functioning air-conditioner in fucking Texas even though they've been promising to fix it "next week" for months oh god please kill me. But even if that wasn't the case, I think I'd still prefer something a little more manageable when it comes to stealthy/explory gaming. I do intend to return to this one someday; I don't want to give up on it forever, but right now I have such little drive to continue that it's impacting my desire to start other games I might have a better time with.