This game was free during summer sale of 2020, and I still didn't get it. It is bad as a stealth game, it is bad as an action game, and boring as a story driven game. The only good thing that came from me playing this is that hopefully someone will read this review and not waste their time on this. Only for those heavily invested into experiencing the lore of the Hitman series themselves.
Before I talk about my experience, check Sseth's review if you already haven't. Quite certain he's the reason this game went up in sales rank on both GOG and Steam, and he's certainly the reason I bought it at full price. WARNING. Potential hints/exploits ahead. I started out as a slave. My days consisted of failed escape attempts and subsequently feeling Okran's love at the hands and boots of his wrathful, zealous servants. I was crippled most of the time so I never actually did any of the mandatory labour at the labour camp. At night, I'd escape my cell to just beat all the other slaves. This kept going until I realised that I had gotten strong enough to knock out the weakest of the Holy Sentinels. RNGesus blessed me and he was out like a neglected child on his stepbrother's Benadryl. Before his body even hit the floor, I had already swapped out my inventory and his, making him look like a slave, shackles and all. Then, I lock him up and while I wait for the heat on my head to die down, I watch his old opressor-in-arms tell him that "Only heretics disobey their masters, only heretics defy Okran's will..." I kept going and did the same thing to two other guards. I was very bitter about the beatings. I swear I will gather an army and I will make every single guard a slave. I am still bitter. Soon after I escaped the Holy Mines, I ran into a skirmish between two groups, one of them being cannibals. The cannibals lost on their home turf, so after the other group left, I snuck over and chained up every single cannibal using their own constructs at their own camp. Then I spent an entire night beating them to level up my skills. Now I'm onto bigger better things. Before you start, atleast get the following mod from Skymods: Nice Map [Tpg + Grid + Zones + Zone Names + Roads]
You have to go through 6 elemental dungeons in a gauntlet fashion with a boss at the end of each. Then I assume you go straight to the final boss. There's a wide range of spells, accessories, and armours to buld your loadout from and it'll be a good while before I find that perfect fit for me. You can choose whether you want to fight close range while debilitating your foes, or whether you prefer to deep foes at a distance with speels with huge knockback and long range. You also earn money at a good pace, letting you gradually unlock the other armours, accessories, and spells. Sometimes the attention to details comes as a pleasant surprise, and at other times it is a disappointment. For example, wind or water spells will put candles out where fire spells will light them back. That's neat. But then I don't really get a bonus by wrapping an enemy in water then shooting them with a ilghtning bolt. I also personally would have preferred more of a board game layout instead of a gauntlet. I bought the game to enjoy a co-op dungeon crawler and I got what I wanted. From what I understand, this is Contingent99's first game. I'll be looking forward to what they'll bring out next.
I'm in the woods, hacking away at trees for firewood. The trees clearly had different plans because one of them decided to sprout leafy limbs, uproot itself, and make its way towards me. Playing as Wilson, a man of science with a staggering 105 IQ, I make the wise decision to flee. After running just short of what would make others call me a coward, I stop to catch my breath and equip what I thought was the ideal weapon for this scenario (a crudely assembled spear) and what I hoped would pass as camouflage (a grass skirt I managed to appropriate from a culture that did not prioritise on defence). I muster up my courage and heroically charge at the vengeful forest spirit. Bad idea. Now my heart is cracked, my stomach is shrivelled up, darkness is creeping in on me, and I’m on the run again. New idea. I whip out my torch and I set an entire forest on fire, trying to kill that thing. Heck, I even plant trees just so I can set those on fire and maybe damage the tenacious treant. I successfully set it on fire but that does nothing to stop it. If anything, it is angrier now and when it catches up to me, it burns like cheap Mexican food. I narrowly manage an escape and camp at a fire pit right in between spider and pig-men territory. I’m about to die of starvation, but with the eponymous mantra motivating me to move forward, I kill some spiders and eat them. But then my health goes down because I'm eating spider meat without seasoning like some savage. So I march right into a pig-man's garden, tear through his flower arrangement, and eat the petals to gain some health. The pig-man wakes up, rightly horrified, and chases me towards the spiders whose friends/lovers I not so long ago killed. They attack me. I die a villain, but I die without regrets. This happened in 2013. Since then may updates have been added. Pretty fun game but I’m not a fan of starting over from the beginning after the 35th time.
