With a cursed ship.

30-40 minutes long. Unfortunately, it lacks challenge and interesting game design. It's a very relaxed experience. Simple geometry, but not without charm. The island itself is quite neat. There's a small dig site with a twist as well. Among memorable things - golf yard and the lighthouse that you need to fix.

The missio...

This one requires a dml fix. But it's not entirely clear what you're supposed to do. The mission ended when I killed everyone.

Overall, it feels like a little experimental playground. You have no tools and need to find everything to deal with enemies. One after another. Some interesting mechanics here and there, but it's not a mission I can r...

On the surface it feels rather by-the-book, not particularly a looker, mansion robbery. But it's the little things and secrets that make this mission work. It's a mission with a false bottom. The premise already sounded interesting, since you need to meet ex-lover inside the mansion, who will assist you. Meeting her made me LAUGH out loud. Her n...

It's an OK attempt, yet it doesn't offer anything beyond what was done in the very first Thief mission. It's a bit larger as a map. It has the same friendly and non-friendly guards. Small sewers section. Several floors. The only new thing is the alarm system. But it's quite primitive - some buttons summon guards from particular barracks. That's ...

Given, that it's one of the absolute first Metal Age FMs, I want to be kinder with my scores. It's well made, game design is competent. But there's just nothing particularly memorable about it. Well, perhaps outside a swimming pool.

Skippable.

Freeform gameplay at it's finest. You're tasked with a quite unusual (for a thief) mission - to assassinate and frame someone without stealing anything or touching anyone but the target. Couple of times I even grabbed stuff on autopilot without thinking - pure reflex, trained after many "standard" missions. You basically need to ghost, but witho...

The author has a knack for creating challenge. This mission is a sequel to Mages Area, which is among the most challenging missions in the early days of FMs. This one isn't an exception. Yet it's significantly superior to the previous work.

Really great beginning of the mission, where you're ambushed by a haunt. You have multiple ways of deal...

Around 10 rooms. Each one progressively more challenging. Some challenges are decent, other - not so much. Since you don't have a sword or a blackjack, it's mostly about avoiding guards and activating levers.

Not worth it.

It's a fairly large early city mission. Without much verticality. There isn't much to say about it, since it's fairly unremarkable, but one thing stands out. The crates puzzle. Why on earth the author thought that going back and forth 100 km through the sewers to solve it was fun? Ugh.

The thing I liked about it is that the missing lockpick t...

At least, I got an impression the movie was a heavy inspiration with it's imagery and atmosphere. And also the fact that it was done in pre-NewDark age is mind-blowing and inspiring. I bet it made an impact on everyone in 2000.

Atmosphere. Is. Amazing. Animated intro and outro boost the presentation. Careful use of color and light. Great cust...

Gameplay. It's solid. It has a bunch of interesting rooms where straight bonking isn't easy. You need to think a bit. The riddle is confusing, since it implies you need body parts and there's a bunch of walking corpses nearby that you can blow to bits. But in actuality you need specific body parts from a different room. A few bugs aside where g...

The story setup for this mission is wild, lmao.

As for the mission itself, it's streets + sewers. The city part is rather plain with neat moments here and there. The sewers part is mildly frustrating. It's not Thieves' Guild kind of hell, it's less disorienting, but I wouldn't call it fun. I don't know what attracts people to smelly and wet p...

I enjoyed this one quite a bit. It's a nice finale of the mini-campaign and shows growth of the author. Large mission with all kinds of locations. From roofs, bars and storages, to monstrous depths of hell. One particular part repeats The Dark Project, but other than that, the mission has a nice flow, if lacking challenge. Exploration, which I t...

Despite bugs and probably poorly tested design, it's creative and fun. And even visually it has it's flair despite modest general appearance. It has two major highlights and one of them will be a spoiler. The other one is choosing your equipment at the start. It will affect the point of entry and general experience. For easier time I recommend t...

1) I wish there was some proper context why you need to get the second lockpick in some doctor house and the blackjack in the coal miner house.
2) After a twist nothing really happens and you just return as you came. It feels a bit anticlimactic.

Other than these, it's a neat mid-sized mission, especially considering it's age, with interesti...

First impression might feel like it's something super-beginner and uninspired, due to ugly blocky street section and the monastery outskirts, but inside it's much better. It's a multi-floor structure with A LOT of guards, an alarm (that you can't disable once it goes off, as far as I know, so be aware) and many rooms, where you will be searching...