[Locke]

Just finished the main Dishonored campaign, it feels short by this day and ages standards and although there are multiple ways to discover and play levels 'playing it again' shouldn't be an excuse for a shorter run time.

That said, longer doesn't necessarily mean better and I can attest that having more focused locations allowed greater design, and more fascinating navigation. Sandboxes are great, but Rapture is still the best in game location ever and that was almost entirely linear, and you can see Bioshock was a huge inspiration for this game. The final battle around and up a lighthouse feels very much like Bioshock and Infinite got smashed together.

In terms of an actual game, powers were limited but all were useful so once again, I guess it proves more isn't better. Would ten more upgrades been worth it if you never use any of them? Of course not.

At its core it's a stealth title, but the stealth is clunky and hard to manage. The use of Blink certainly makes it more entertaining but I just found the patterns and layouts difficult to grab on the fly - which may be the point - but I still remembered how I'd clear a whole room full of enemies before they saw me in Skyrim on my first try, and personally Skyrim was a pretty punishing game at times. So I was dumbfounded by the amount of times I'd have to start over in this before I started playing with Chaos in mind because playing as a pacifist was a pain in the arse.

And considering Chaos is both much more fun to play, and something the game basically absolves you of, even with the heavy pacifistic storytelling all the way through, I really don't know why you wouldn't just murder everyone in your path.

Overall then, for a casual gamer like myself, this probably wasn't made for us in mind. And if you've never played the first BioShock or BioShock Infinite...you have little reason to play this either. But if you are a hardcore gamer, and have finished the BioShock duo (no two doesn't exist lalalala) then you might get a lot out of this, as this is less about being a rich 120 hour long epic and more about being an obsessive completionists worst nightmare as you attempt to find every nook, cranny, route through a level, way to get past guards/take them down and all the trinkets hidden through each level. And for you that'll probably be a lot of fun.