The Procurers are the most interesting elusive targets regarding backstory so far in the WOA trilogy. These two could very well be a part of Hitman Contracts. A chef and an embalmer secretly working together to eat human corpses. That shit is fucking sick and I love it.
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I agree with you. I want more messed up targets in hitman. I’m fine with the occasional prideful and selfish rich person but I want to bring justice to more of these people, more of the unseen cannibals, rapists, murderers rather than the unseen rich and powerful.
I understand current hitman doesn’t have a tone that fits with these people so I hope the next hitman will go back to more of them (since the ICA is gone and 47 and Diana will start back to the basics again independently, it makes sense for them to go back to the dirty, unseen everyday villains instead of shutting down the illuminati again).
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I fell for that once before, I wouldn’t be surprised if the ICA is back again when the new Hitman is released in 6 more years.
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At first glance the ET target video had me like “Why a chef and embalmer would be related? The chef is at the morgue at Hokkaido but wh… OHHHHHHH”.
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I don’t think there is enough information to know if they were really the only survivors or just within the operatives.
I think it’s a great thing about the Hitman universe. Almost any part of the lore can be changed in the next game. And there are enough mysteries that allow the writers to fit them all somehow. Making them an additional piece of lore instead of retcon, even if it seems like a retcon. Well, maybe not 47’s barcode.
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I want to offer a counterpoint that The Procurers are just extremely generic cannibals and their backstory is just Sweeny Todd but with some occupational changes.
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Sweeney Todd is a bit more shocking since he kills people before having them turned into meat pies, while The Procurers take flesh from a corpse already dead (If I remember correctly).
I guess the more friendlier and light-hearted tone of WOA is making even the more basic targets who did bad things more unexpected and sickening, which is why The Procurers stand out.
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I am afraid you have seen a different version. Todd sells the corpses to Mr’s Lovett, a pie-baker and his neighbour to the point where he just goes “fuck it” and installs a chute to her bakehouse to save time.
But yes Todd killed them first which is a slight difference.
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Wasn’t the ICA confirmed to be active at the end of blood money? This time the ICA fell down and hasn’t risen up by the end of the game, so I am somewhat hopeful we will get to have a game without them.
If they do go back I want to see a reinstated ICA as a rival organisation instead, one that is pressuring Diana and 47 to either join back or trying to compete against them. It could possibly bring new opportunities for missions. Imagine a mission in which a rival hitman and you are hunting down the same target, and you need to either kill the target before him or kill him, that might be fun (when done well).
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I hope they use the 6 or so years to come up with a decent story, ignoring Absolution and the WoA “Plots” for the most part.
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Next game is Hitman Contracts 2 and it tells us about what 47 did during and around Silent Assassin.
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No.
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I mean with Contracts they did the best they could: minimize the actual Story because they were simultaneously working on blood money, and jam packing it with Atmosphere instead.
@EvilGeniusRo Pig Ganon > Ganondorf
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They put a day-for-night filter on it and set the weather to London mode.
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I’d agree if the music wasn’t so damn good.
Game legimately scared me as a kid and the music contributed a lot.
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To be fair I never said the music was bad. Contracts music is really good, in point of fact, and carries the tone far better than making everything foggy or having a level in a fetish club ever could.
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Contracts was my first Hitman game and I was like 11 at the time.
I felt strange and unusual feelings playing the game, it was effective at setting a tone
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I just think it is dated, it reminds me of something like Blade that also opened on an industrial rave or even The Matrix. It would be cool to a person then but it isn’t now like flared jeans or pastel suits
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I said for the most part. Just like the WoA acknowledges that Absolution happened, but it doesn’t have any impact on the overall Story of the WoA.
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