Monday, 9 May 2022

Thief: The Dark Project (1998)

 I'm not sure I'll like it as I've never really played stealth games. I've played a tiny bit of the first level. The controls feel a little fiddly, but I might just need to re-bind until I'm comfortable. And the map only highlighting which section I'm in doesn't bode well for someone who gets lost as often as I do.  We'll see how I do with my first heist...

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I think I'm happy with my bindings now. I'm quite enjoying putting out torches and blackjacking guards so far, even though I feel a bit like I'm kind of fluking my way through and missing lots of stuff. I like the steampunky vibe - medieval setting with lots of dials and lifts and stuff. I just got to a mines level with giant spiders and zombies, though: a combination of three of the most annoying things in FPSes!

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I'm now on the Bonehoard level and am on the verge of uninstalling. Zombies, death-traps and poison-cloud enemies - my shitty FPS tropes bingo-card is nearly full.

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Ech, now it's turned into a shitty maze with shitty platforming full of shitty zombies. Fuck this.

(edit: I guess I should say a little more. I liked the medieval setting, although after the first level it was a bit dreary - mines and prisons, ugh. I also quite enjoyed stealthing around, though I felt it was pretty unforgiving - lots of guards surrounded by light and noisy floors. Having said that, I checked the manual and was doing a couple of things wrong, so if this particular level hadn't pushed me to uninstall I might have gotten a bit more adept. A minor thing to mention - this is another game with opening titles inspired by those of Se7en, despite the setting!)

Rating: Red.

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