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pretty good game! i'm not a stealth head by any means but i think this game doesnt require you to be a genius of sneaking and stealthing, and it also doesn't necessarily want you to have bucket loads of patience either to get stuff done. like for sure if you want the perfect, most quiet playthrough it would require lots of patience and smart thinking, but for my purposes of beating the game on a low chaos ending, i was able to fumble and goof my way through it.
the level design is good! i enjoyed how many little open windows and rooms there are and how everything connects to everything else. it has well designed maps all over it, if a little too "video-gamey" at times, the amount of ventilation shafts on the sides of buildings you can climb up was quite comical and took me out of it a little bit. a lot of the abilities in this game have so much utility, blink, seeing through walls, and stop time are king. because i tried to kill as few people as possible however i didnt end up using like, half my toolkit? no gun, no crossbow, no grenade, no razortraps, half of the magic abilities like rats and shadow kill i didnt use. i didnt money for anything other than upgrading my crossbow ammo amount to max and buying sleepdarts so i just ended up with loads of money and nothing to spend it on! that felt kinda weird! i havent played enough stealth games to say this with confidence (MGS almost doesnt count) but i think once you get the confidence to know what's going on in a game like this it does get kind of easier? you know that can kinda do stuff in front of someone as long as that person is like, kinda facing away, or like, 15 meters away? it's not very punishing. daud's assassins were definitely more challenging because they can teleport, and daud himself being immune to stop time was also very funny "Nice try, Corvo" although i wish some characters were more surprised at seeing me.
speaking of characters and story, they're alright! game definitely should've had british voice actors, i constantly struggled to invest in this london/glasgow world when everyone sounds like that. the repeated NPC lines got very tedious by the end of the game too, and the gangbangers who when you start combat with them immediately breathe fire in your face are not fun at all, they are just annoying lmao! i already knew when this game came out that havelock betrayed you so i can't talk about if it's a good twist or not, I guess I just didn't super care about it? I did like Samuel and Emily though which was nice! and the last, most important character in some ways, the outsider. i'll be real with you chief. i think the outsider sucks lmao. i hate dudes who show up and go "maybe you're doing this for evil reasons? or maybe for justice? who knows" like bro why are you even sying this to me? makes me think of when you fight daud and he goes "what do you fight for?" like shut up? what a boring ass question lmao
yeah game's alright
the level design is good! i enjoyed how many little open windows and rooms there are and how everything connects to everything else. it has well designed maps all over it, if a little too "video-gamey" at times, the amount of ventilation shafts on the sides of buildings you can climb up was quite comical and took me out of it a little bit. a lot of the abilities in this game have so much utility, blink, seeing through walls, and stop time are king. because i tried to kill as few people as possible however i didnt end up using like, half my toolkit? no gun, no crossbow, no grenade, no razortraps, half of the magic abilities like rats and shadow kill i didnt use. i didnt money for anything other than upgrading my crossbow ammo amount to max and buying sleepdarts so i just ended up with loads of money and nothing to spend it on! that felt kinda weird! i havent played enough stealth games to say this with confidence (MGS almost doesnt count) but i think once you get the confidence to know what's going on in a game like this it does get kind of easier? you know that can kinda do stuff in front of someone as long as that person is like, kinda facing away, or like, 15 meters away? it's not very punishing. daud's assassins were definitely more challenging because they can teleport, and daud himself being immune to stop time was also very funny "Nice try, Corvo" although i wish some characters were more surprised at seeing me.
speaking of characters and story, they're alright! game definitely should've had british voice actors, i constantly struggled to invest in this london/glasgow world when everyone sounds like that. the repeated NPC lines got very tedious by the end of the game too, and the gangbangers who when you start combat with them immediately breathe fire in your face are not fun at all, they are just annoying lmao! i already knew when this game came out that havelock betrayed you so i can't talk about if it's a good twist or not, I guess I just didn't super care about it? I did like Samuel and Emily though which was nice! and the last, most important character in some ways, the outsider. i'll be real with you chief. i think the outsider sucks lmao. i hate dudes who show up and go "maybe you're doing this for evil reasons? or maybe for justice? who knows" like bro why are you even sying this to me? makes me think of when you fight daud and he goes "what do you fight for?" like shut up? what a boring ass question lmao
yeah game's alright