The good: Very engaging concept. If you enjoyed the Thief series and always wanted an open world thievery game with interesting heists added here and there, you're gonna like this game. Between sneaking through balconies, taking the bathroom windows, disguising and waltzing through the front door, etc... You can steal everything that isn't nailed down to the ground (literally), clean out shop inventories, pickpocket everyone in the world. Everything can be stolen if you have the patience. If you are one of those people who somehow ghosted the entirety of Shadow Tactics, you're gonna want to get this game as a matter of principle. This game borrows a lot of the design from ST, like vision cone, enemies reacting to sounds/light level/heights, time of day. There are endless ways to complete the objectives. You may find yourself climbing the fence into a warehouse to disable the security system just to get out, have a beer at the pub, come back two days later to crash land onto the roof from a nearby building and get in that way. The bad: On one hand, Teriel (Basically a cockier Garrett) and the voiced cast are done fairly well. On the other hand, the rest of the town NPCs are bland and lifeless, and I feel like they're just there to eat up framerates. For an open world thievery game with a day/night cycle, there should be an active economy and life simulation, so as a practiced thief you can plan your pilfering accordingly, which would make the experience more immersive. The AIs literally have their memories on a timer. If you went through their tip jar, they stare at you for a few seconds then forget you exist. Performance... My laptop is no powerhouse, but I can run Witcher 3, Dying Light, and Prey on a comfortable Medium with minimal CTDs and no massive framerates drops, but I cannot run this game on Low without stuttering everywhere I go and CTD every half hour or so. Turning AA to Temporal helps. I love the game so far, but please patch the performance issue, it's sucking the fun out of the game.
