message   The Turning of the Leaves
topic about The Turning of the Leaves
author:   SPIDIvonMARDER | April 8, 2021, 12:36 a.m.
Gra w tę FMkę była zaszczytem. CO ZA KLIMAT! Absolutny powiew świeżości! I choć kilka misji "leśnych" pogańską siłą rzeczy widzieliśmy, to tak klaustrofobicznego przeciskania się przez zarośla chyba jeszcze nie widziałem. prawdziwy labirynt, w którym nieraz się zgubiłem. Wspaniała atmosfera, ziel...

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message   Review - Blackgrove Manor
topic about Blackgrove Manor
author:   Frag0holic | March 26, 2021, 12:49 a.m.
Blackgrove Manor is ddaazzaa's first mission, and it's a fairly ambitious one, at least in scale. The player is hitting an abandoned manor that is quite large, and fairly typical horror game things ensue. This is not to say it is bland or predictable by any means, and people who enjoy locations w...

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message   Winter campaign
topic about Death's Cold Embrace
author:   Lord Taffer | March 13, 2021, 5:35 p.m.
Death's Cold Embrace has a very strong story all the way. Every mission in this campaign is interesting but for me the most exciting ones were: Waking the Dead and The Ritual. I think these two missions had the most thrilling atmosphere. Waking The Dead has a nice plot twist when the dead in t...

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message   Great idea, hampered by design choices.
topic about Thief's Rising 2
author:   Bikerdude | March 8, 2021, 2:14 p.m.
Clearly a lot of effort went to create this campaign, but some design decisions inexplicably hampered gameplay where it became a chore in some missions. As everyone is fully aware the mantling in this engine seriously flawed, compared to any other Thief game/s. And this created a lot of frustrati...

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message   Best abuse of space
topic about Alcazar
author:   Melan | March 1, 2021, 4:31 p.m.
“Strange things lurking underfoot” is the basic idea behind this sequel to last year’s Into the Odd, by the same two-author team. ItO was a rambling masterpiece and a punch to the face difficulty-wise; Alcazar is more player-friendly, and its constraints give it a more precise focus. Staying at a...

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message   FM mimicry
topic about Recipe for Turmoil
author:   Melan | March 1, 2021, 4:30 p.m.
At first sight, this is a fan mission whose provenance looks clear: its style is similar to multiple well-known FMs set in dark city districts with a strong vertical element, and using assets which might as well be an author’s signature. However, the signature is false, and the mission isn’t buil...

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message   Smooth mansion heist - and a homage to a Wille classic
topic about A Midsummer Night's Heist
author:   Melan | March 1, 2021, 4:28 p.m.
Welcome back to the Fan Mission Homage Contest! This mission is built in the style of Mystic Gems 2: Heart of Bohn, and is set in the same city instead of the default Thief setting. The mimicry is pulled off flawlessly – this is an original mission, but the assets, brushwork, atmosphere and lore ...

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message   Excellent horror mission on Mechanist ship
topic about The Perdurance
author:   Melan | March 1, 2021, 4:25 p.m.
In the Thief mission ecosystem, Mechanists occupy the same evolutionary niche as Nazis do in film: they build elaborate facilities where something goes wrong, and they mess with forces that are not to be messed with. They are, also, not particularly missed when something inexplicably starts massa...

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message   Survival horror tropefest
topic about A Sinister Night
author:   Melan | March 1, 2021, 4:23 p.m.
One common survival horror setting is the “basement horror”, where you are trapped in a horrible basement filled with flesh-eating zombies or mutants, and your only equipment is a feeble light source which is as likely to draw the monsters to you as it is to allow you navigate. Themes of hubris a...

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message   Moody forest mission flattened by contest constraints
topic about The Turning of the Leaves
author:   Melan | March 1, 2021, 4:21 p.m.
Thief is not well suited for building forest missions, and most previous attempts have created what seem to be forest-textured corridors with the odd cylindrical tree stuck in to liven things up. This FM is one of those which come close – but if you look behind the façade, the paths still look li...

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message   Good Sliptip homage
topic about The Cinder Notes
author:   Melan | March 1, 2021, 4:18 p.m.
In what seems to be an unintended pattern for this contest, this FM is an homage to Sliptip’s Ashen Age: a Mediterranean city at dusk (or dawn), a prominent use of waterways, and a very high-res aesthetic. This mission uses the available space well, seeming larger than it is. There are multiple w...

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message   Something is missing
topic about Sabotage in Eastport
author:   Melan | March 1, 2021, 4:17 p.m.
A very vertical city mission centred around a towering Mechanist facility you must infiltrate, surrounded by equally towering high-rises you must plunder. The most successful aspect of the mission is how vertigo-inducing it is – yes, it goes HIGH, and it is a long way down when you slip and fall....

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