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Dishonored 2 mission 7 statue9/7/2023 ![]() The Crown Killer urgently needs to be stopped before we can think about getting the throne back Emily really fucking wants her throne back ![]() Emily is a weak enough ruler that the Crown Killer is destabilizing her rule The essential plot points that ferry the story along seem to be this: I will also be treating the game as Emily’s story rather than Corvo’s because, let’s be honest, it really is) (I’m going to start talking about SPOILERS FOR THE ENTIRE GAME under the cut. It told me how I was supposed to feel about things rather than letting me intuit and think.Īnd it dragged me along by the lackluster plot without giving me time or reason to care about how the plot wound up. It fell into the Tell Not Show camp of writing. DH1′s worldbuilding was subtle enough that, for example, when it first came out it caught flak for being misogynist because it presented a misogynist world without explicitly spelling out in bold-font letters that this world was problematic and instead made the players realize this themselves DH2 overcompensated for this subtlety. I think it swung too far, however, in terms of how nuanced its writing was. And because I love Dishonored 1 and 2 to pieces, because I’m so disappointed by this and because they could have done so much better, I’m going to spend over 5k words talking about why.ĭishonored 2 did a very good job at correcting the mistakes of its predecessor: it had more women, more people of color (and of different orientations!), and more support for stealth gameplay. I also think it fell short in just one very unfortunate way: plot.ĭishonored 2 is a very good game with a fundamentally “eh” story. I think it’s a fantastic game and a worthy sequel. ![]() That’s why I’m so weirdly let down and frustrated by Dishonored 2. 2 seconds you’ll know that the original Dishonored has full and binding possession of my heart and I am forever shoving it at people as The Best Game I Have Ever Played. ![]() ![]() I need to start off by saying that I expected the moon from Dishonored 2. ![]()
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