it ruined the entire series, but in hindsight, it was no where near as bad as 5 or infinite, and could have been somewhat well regarded if it wasn't a mainline halo entry.

Imagine if, when Anakin started to strangle Padme, he stopped when Obi-wan arrived. Then Obi-wan just lightly chastises Anakin verbally for trying to murder his fucking wife, and Padme says "I-it's okay, you had to right? Let's just put it behind us."

There is a scene unironically worse than what I just described in this STORY-FOCUSED video game. Tanimura is a hack.

60% cutscenes (in which snake just gets his ass kicked)
25% menus
10% absolutely dogshit gameplay
5% good music

"Thank you so much for saving me! I still need some help, if you don't mind..."
>You're very welcome, happy to help!
>You're very welcome, what else do you need help with?
>Give me all your money or die
NICE RPG

The last two levels lowered this game's ranking significantly

Level deisgn is very hit and miss, and the last few levels are atrociously bad. Do yourself a favour and just play Thief 2.

Atmosphere is insanely good though. Missing a bit in Thief 2, but not worth slogging through the game to see.

the true punishment is trying to get this to work on modern pcs

One of the most unique and interesting settings in all of fantasy absolutey wasted on a 2/10 """rpg"""

>Nioh is shit dark souls
>Lo wong is shit sekiro
>Dead or alive is shit tekken
>Rise of the ronin is gonna be shit ghost of tsushima
modern Team ninja only makes garbage copies of successful games

this game isn't 5 stars but it deserves a higher ranking on here.

2012