Jeez, this is a hard one. Both fit the bill depending on who is getting killed and why. Guess I’ll go with FOP option as it’s the closest to a middle ground.
The fact that it’s so easy to break in is what makes it so enjoyable, if you’re playing from a story point of view. The target is a little nobody who thinks he’s so important that he gets this specialized security system with major flaws that you can exploit so easily it’s laughable, and all you have to do is poison a glass of wine. This is also enjoyable for being the culmination of the Atlantide contract, because you took care of the guy whose face everyone knows, and now you’re going after the silent partner. If you killed AJ in A Silver Tongue with poisoned Atlantide, this is another good in-story means of finishing it, because if both die of poison, the ignorant people they were preying on will conclude that Atlantide itself is poisonous as the two guys who run it died of poisoning and they don’t know (or believe) that they don’t drink the water themselves. So from a story player’s perspective, A Bitter Pill is better because of how the Atlantide chapter wraps up.
Diana would stand in for his analytical abilities and Grey for his more emotional reasoning. If you had a target who was close to a 50-50 on whether they deserved it? That would be an excellent way to explore that. Diana is meticulous about curating the morality of 47’s contracts but Grey is down for a good rampage. Basically, I’m down for any excuse to hear Jane Perry flex her skills as Diana gets more and more uneasy with what Grey is suggesting.
In the meantime,me who hasn’t even touched these special assignments yet.
Well,theoretically I did because I played Illusions of grandeur once or maybe twice,but after doing that cheap opportunity where the target escorts me to an isolated area for his “magic” trick,I never touched it again.
I mostly look at the missions as little isolated worlds. I follow the story, but i see it as an extra on top. Its not something that makes or breaks the missions for me. At least not in Hitman. But if you look at it the way you did i guess its nicer. Its just not what i hoped it would be back then.
You probably played the worst of the bunch. The only good thing about Illusions is the daytime skybox really.
But id still recommend to try the other few. They‘re nice little hits.
I might try them out tomorrow then.I don’t really know what to say about Embrace of the serpent,but A silver tongue and A bitter pill seem quite interesting from what I’ve seen.I love Miami and Whittleton Creek in general,so why not?I will come back to give my impressions once I play them.
oh, completely. i think it could be argued either way depending on the situation. it’s an interesting debate to be had–Diana and Grey are both for justice, but go about it in different ways. you could say she was a devil during The Farewell, tempting him for one last dance…
and YES. for example, hearing her roast 47 as he lay unconscious was so amazing. so spiteful and vitriolic. Jane Perry really shined during that. would love to hear more of that kind of thing.
For all the complaining I’ve read about how Whittleton Creek would be so much better without the additional intel gathering, Bitter Pill seems like exactly the palate cleanser that everyone should like, save for the ease of taking out the target. He isn’t guarded well enough, he’s too open, and his routine is too limited.
On the surface, his routing is almost identical to Janus’ in the main mission, but there are ways to interact with Janus that take him out of his loop. This is just not as prevalent in Bitter Pill. Galen is harder to move out of his path and there are just limited opportunities to interact with him aside from the mailman.
All that said, I’ll just always prefer WC to Miami for the same reasons I would in real life. I don’t like crowds. That’s why my worst level is Mumbai (gasp!) as I’ve said elsewhere. It’s too crowded for me. WC is sparse and wide open, which is preferable for me.
Frankly, I can’t vote here because I just can’t accept Grey as a good character. He’s underdeveloped, poorly written, and just isn’t interesting. Diana as 47’s conscience? Sure. Grey as anything other than a useless side character? Sorry, not doing it.
He was more interesting when he was “the Shadow Client,” because of all the possibilities of where they could have taken him with his true identity.
I was hoping for him to be the long lost son of Ort-Meyer out for revenge, but that opportunity got squandered.
Then, after his conversation with Diana at the beginning of Isle of Sgail, I started thinking maybe he was Diana’s brother James, kidnapped instead of killed, his death faked, raised as a killer all this time (looks older than he is because of his hard life), and after having found and killed the partner of his parents’s killer (the real Subject 6), was now using that killer to destroy the organization that commanded him, before finally turning on 47 himself when it was all over, and he just couldn’t tell his dear sister who he really was because he feels guilty over what he’s become, she’d feel guilty for having gone on with her life after him, and she works with their parents’s killer. That never came to pass.
And then, like most, I started thinking after Haven that he and the Constant were both in on it, and that Grey secretly resented 47 for forgetting about him and moving on in life even before the mind wipe, and always planned to betray him, cashing in on the ominous vibe he gave off in the first game as the Shadow Client. Or, possibly that Olivia was the one who teamed up with Edwards, and Grey was going to feel the betrayal before the end. None of this was used either.
As soon as he and 47 met face to face again in H2, Grey became a softie and a side character with only expository relevance. A shame; he had such potential as a villain who could take the fight to 47 in a way that no other major villain before could have, even Parchezzi. Opportunity lost.
I would have love to see him develop more, but the curve just got down. I thought in Hitman 3 he would 1. betray 47, just like you said or 2. there would have been some Diana vs. Grey scenario or 3. Grey would have gone completely nuts over his revenge on Providence, like that he finds out that even with the partners and the constant dead, he can’t find the peace he was hoping for and becoming obsessed with the goal to free the world from capitalism- he’s a terrorist, after all.
But they cut that out completely and especially in Hitman 3 they made him so whiny even I can’t stand him there. But I love him in Hitman 2016 and Hitman 2.
That’s why I still hope for a comeback, he would make a perfect, crazy villain, with all his emotions. Or a complicated ally, who makes more damage than good- just like in Dubai in that security room.
He had so much potential but they wasted it completely
I wouldn’t really call him whiny; he wasn’t really around long enough to whine about anything. I would call him soft, sappy, nostalgic for their past and naive about their possible futures.
