Silver Tongue utilised a stupidly small part of the map where it felt like it missed huge potential.
A Bitter Pill at least made sense to focus on one house, and was the best of all the SA
Hawke’s Bay - Nightcall [16]
Miami - The Finish Line [28]
Miami - A Silver Tongue [3] -1
Santa Fortuna - Three-Headed Serpent [20]
Mumbai - Chasing a Ghost [25]
Whittleton Creek - Another Life [24]
Whittleton Creek - A Bitter Pill [5]
Isle of Sgail - The Ark Society [21]
New York - The Golden Handshake [27] +1
Maldives - The Last Resort [25]
Himmelstein - The Last Yardbird [14] -1
Hantu Port - The Pen and the Sword [4]
Siberia - Crime and Punishment [6]
Hawke’s Bay - Nightcall [16]
Miami - The Finish Line [26]-2
Miami - A Silver Tongue [3]
Santa Fortuna - Three-Headed Serpent [20]
Mumbai - Chasing a Ghost [26]+1
Whittleton Creek - Another Life [24]
Whittleton Creek - A Bitter Pill [5]
Isle of Sgail - The Ark Society [21]
New York - The Golden Handshake [27]
Maldives - The Last Resort [25]
Himmelstein - The Last Yardbird [14]
Hantu Port - The Pen and the Sword [4]
Siberia - Crime and Punishment [6]
So this is this thread’s version of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and SF is Poland now… I’m curious whether there will be a Barbarossa-like move in the future
Hawke’s Bay - Nightcall [16]
Miami - The Finish Line [26]
Miami - A Silver Tongue [3]
Santa Fortuna - Three-Headed Serpent [21]+1
Mumbai - Chasing a Ghost [26]
Whittleton Creek - Another Life [22]-2
Whittleton Creek - A Bitter Pill [5]
Isle of Sgail - The Ark Society [21]
New York - The Golden Handshake [27]
Maldives - The Last Resort [25]
Himmelstein - The Last Yardbird [14]
Hantu Port - The Pen and the Sword [4]
Siberia - Crime and Punishment [6]
Hawke’s Bay - Nightcall [16]
Miami - The Finish Line [27] +1
Miami - A Silver Tongue [3]
Santa Fortuna - Three-Headed Serpent [21]
Mumbai - Chasing a Ghost [24] -2
Whittleton Creek - Another Life [22]
Whittleton Creek - A Bitter Pill [5]
Isle of Sgail - The Ark Society [21]
New York - The Golden Handshake [27]
Maldives - The Last Resort [25]
Himmelstein - The Last Yardbird [14]
Hantu Port - The Pen and the Sword [4]
Siberia - Crime and Punishment [6]
Mumbai is a great map, but the main mission just takes too long. Way too much going on.
Boring Targets, Retcons, boring Setting, the fucking clue-hunt. Its also just a rehash of A new Life, obviously in Name and Setting, its like the devs pat you on the head and say ‘you remember Blood Money, right? Everyone likes Blood Money, right?’. I’m probably just bitter because they cater too much to BM Fans
I don’t expect anyone else to understand this, but thats how i feel about it
Hawke’s Bay - Nightcall [16]
Miami - The Finish Line [28] +1
Miami - A Silver Tongue [3]
Santa Fortuna - Three-Headed Serpent [21]
Mumbai - Chasing a Ghost [24]
Whittleton Creek - Another Life [22]
Whittleton Creek - A Bitter Pill [3]-2
Isle of Sgail - The Ark Society [21]
New York - The Golden Handshake [27]
Maldives - The Last Resort [25]
Himmelstein - The Last Yardbird [14]
Hantu Port - The Pen and the Sword [4]
Siberia - Crime and Punishment [6]
Hawke’s Bay - Nightcall [17] +1
Miami - The Finish Line [28]
Miami - A Silver Tongue [3]
Santa Fortuna - Three-Headed Serpent [21]
Mumbai - Chasing a Ghost [24]
Whittleton Creek - Another Life [22]
Whittleton Creek - A Bitter Pill [3]
Isle of Sgail - The Ark Society [21]
New York - The Golden Handshake [27]
Maldives - The Last Resort [25]
Himmelstein - The Last Yardbird [14]
Hantu Port - The Pen and the Sword [4]
Siberia - Crime and Punishment [4] -2
Hawke’s Bay - Nightcall [15] -2
Miami - The Finish Line [28]
Miami - A Silver Tongue [3]
Santa Fortuna - Three-Headed Serpent [21]
Mumbai - Chasing a Ghost [24]
Whittleton Creek - Another Life [22]
Whittleton Creek - A Bitter Pill [3]
Isle of Sgail - The Ark Society [21]
New York - The Golden Handshake [27]
Maldives - The Last Resort [25]
Himmelstein - The Last Yardbird [15] +1
Hantu Port - The Pen and the Sword [4]
Siberia - Crime and Punishment [4]
Out of curiosity, what’s the retcon?
I don’t necessarily think it’s a bad level, but it’s pretty underwhelming when you realise only about 6 houses are explorable. Plus it was the map that made me take my PS4 apart and reapply thermal pads, because I couldn’t hear the dialogue over the fans going into overdrive
Hawke’s Bay - Nightcall [15]
Miami - The Finish Line [28]
Miami - A Silver Tongue [3]
Santa Fortuna - Three-Headed Serpent [21]
Mumbai - Chasing a Ghost [24]
Whittleton Creek - Another Life [22]
Whittleton Creek - A Bitter Pill [4] +1
Isle of Sgail - The Ark Society [21]
New York - The Golden Handshake [27]
Maldives - The Last Resort [25]
Himmelstein - The Last Yardbird [15]
Hantu Port - The Pen and the Sword [3] - 1
Siberia - Crime and Punishment [3] - 1
I really hope I’m not the only one who is super super annoyed at having so many missions just so close to elimination but just not quite getting there.
Hawke’s Bay - Nightcall [13] -2
Miami - The Finish Line [28]
Miami - A Silver Tongue [3]
Santa Fortuna - Three-Headed Serpent [22] +1
Mumbai - Chasing a Ghost [24]
Whittleton Creek - Another Life [22]
Whittleton Creek - A Bitter Pill [4]
Isle of Sgail - The Ark Society [21]
New York - The Golden Handshake [27]
Maldives - The Last Resort [25]
Himmelstein - The Last Yardbird [15]
Hantu Port - The Pen and the Sword [3]
Siberia - Crime and Punishment [3]
I don’t think it is really fair to treat Whittleton Creek the way you do because of a cutscene which happened before the mission.It would be just like saying Run for your life is a bad level because the cutscene before the mission was one of the dumbest things in the whole franchise…
Trust me,you are a bit too bitter about this homage to A new life and it feels like you are clearly overreacting.
It is not like IOI treated the other games differently.(Almost) All the other games except Absolution,which according to Diana,took place in an alternate reality received their own homage(s) too:
Codename 47:Chongqing Silent Assassin:Sapienza(homage to the Sicily levels-I have some detailed explanations about this if anybody is interested),The Vector(St. Petersburg Stakeout) Contracts:Dartmoor(Beldingford Manor),Berlin(The Meat King’s Party to some extent and Rendevouz in Rotterdam),Chongqing(Even though the easter eggs are straight from C47,the atmosphere feels like the one in the Hong Kong levels from Contracts,especially Slaying a dragon)
If we compare now what Blood Money fans received with what Contracts’ fans received I would say you are wrong because Contracts has got 3 homages while Blood Money only one.If you want to consider The Farewell a BM homage too(even though I have really strong reasons not too because the atmosphere in A vintage year and in this level are very different and because I actually cosider it an homage to the WOA triology as a whole-If you want more detailed thoughts tell me),then BM has got 2 homages while Contracts still 3 showing how Contracts is the superior game.
So,my advice would be to judge the level on its own instead of focusing so much on the game it was inspired from.