Very good stealth game that is just about as good as I remember it being the first time I played it. Levels are very large and give you a plethora of options in traversing. Lots of lore to find in notes and books that nicely flesh out the world. All the powers are fun to experiment with, and you can do some crazy stuff with them. Baiting someone to shoot at you, possessing them, then moving them in front of their own bullet is still one of the coolest things you can do in a video game.

My biggest issue if anything is that the game feels like it pushes you a little too hard into killing people. Many of the skills you can use and bone charms you can find are more for a build that involves killing and combat. If you're going for a nonlethal run, there isn't much of a reason to go out of your way to collect things. The game also has a bit of an anticlimactic end. There's a pretty big twist followed by an extremely long and difficult level, then the last two levels are pretty simple and straightforward. I remember that last level being a lot harder than it ended up being.

Regardless, still a fun game to go through even years later, although I don't think I'm ever going to do a "never detected" run ever again. Abused the hell out of my quicksave/quickload keys.

Reviewed on Apr 15, 2023


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