I'm writing this right after finishing this FM, and I'm gonna have to chill for a few hours, to let my mind wear off and relax. That's how this FM wore me out. It's HUGE, GARGANTUOUS. It's like The Sword OM, but made into a City mission 2 times as big as Life of the Party OM or Down in the Bonehoard OM. It's big, too god damn big. It was scary, ...

Great exploration opportunities, multiple ways around locked doors (which are numerous), lots of indoor rooms/flats, easy-going progression through the mission (though surprisingly linear), it's one of the best layouts when it comes to City mission I've played so far, and these are the ones I go for, my "type" of FMs. There is also some nice sew...

While it is a City mission, it is not the kind of City mission you'd expect nowadays. City mission became synonimous with a Thieves Highway mission. This ain't it. This is more of a TG/T2X City mission, meaning none of the verticality, none of Thieves Highway, marginal/nonexistant usage of rope arrows. The progression here is horizontal, with so...

Ink & Dust does NOT get better than ANiR 2: Discovery, oh boy it does not. Despite all the visual splendor, great scripts, lots of custom stuff added, and a huge area to play, it all falls flat... because of the gameplay, again. DrK really did his trilogy a disservice, by opting for the most excruciating, frustrating, annoying, slog-ish and time...

A Night in Rocksbourg 1 - A New Beginning was an absolute slog, horrible, excruciating slog, full of metal, clanks and horrifically numerous and long lockpicks (literally every locked door was locked 3 times, and it took AGES). And so... this returns here, to a lesser extent, but it does.

Metal, metal, metal, clank, clank, clank, triple lockp...

Mr DrK, may you please find God (or maybe found already, haha), so you never have any kind of urge, or encourage in others, to do the same kind of pixel-perfect key hunt you imposed on our fellow Thief enjoyers (and me now too), in your A New Beginning mission.

Half joking of course, but really - it wasn't a nice experience. Especially when ...

I say mostly, because one final objective kind of requires you to use the full power of your brain, and remember that one single lock/door/thing, at the exact opposite end of the map, where you learn you are supposed to do that, and gain the means to get in there. A complete backtrack. That's... maybe just a tiny bit too unclear to figure out fo...

Whispers Below the Cobblestone, unsurprisingly given the name, focuses on a chunk of the City, and all the weird, creepy, and rouge-y stuff beneath its streets. It really feels like this mission has been cut into about 3-4 parts really. One being the tunnels, second being the thieves' hideout, third would be northern part of the map, including t...

This is not a mission for casual Thief players, not for beginners, not for newbies. This one is HARD-CORE, both in terms of AI's overt awareness (I do believe it's cranked up harder than usual on Hard), and when it comes to progressing through the mission. The jumps, the ropes, the awareness to know where you should try going upwards, when to go...

Short mission, with nothing too grand going on in it, low-scale sort of job, despite the somewhat scary in-game map that might tell you otherwise about the scale. It's all quite linear, and you are being lead in one direction, and one direction only, at least that's what I felt. I knew where the "endgame" would be, quite fast. Could be a positiv...

That's basically the whole mission described in one sentence. It really is a freakin' mess, the layout of this mission. Kept going around too many times to be "my fault, skill issue".

So, when you finally get to where you're supposed to, and you can forget the stress of trying to find your way around the vertical maze, and the holy-fokin'-sh...

The first mission, the City mission, is absolutely great, visually beautiful, expansive, full of multiple ways around, and multiple interiors to get into. Except maybe the serwers, they're mighty generic and nothing to write home about. I guess tho there is not too much you can do to a sewer level to make it anywhere close to interesting, or non...

First things first - I've played a bit of Thief in my time, but I'm not an expert. I'm just "a bit experienced". I don't try Ghosting, or Supreme Ghosting (cheers Klatremus, hehe), I blackjack anyone that is certainly going to make my life hell or be an obstacle difficult to avoid. So it's not like my gameplay is about making my life and my walk...