For example, you can use a power called Far Reach to reach ledges, balconies, and other high places with ease.
Verticality is emphasized more in Dishonored 2 than its predecessor. Runes are even more important, and spent to improve your various abilities. It’s a 100% linear experience played in sequential missions, although each mission is a very large sandbox with secrets, some side quests, and a plenty of opportunities to hunt for bone charms, runes, and equipment stashes.īone charms provide minor buffs to your abilities, and you can change them at any time to suit different environments and play styles. Sticking to its formulaĭishonored 2 doesn’t deviate far from the original game’s formula. Steampunk fantasy, Thief was more creative in its use of those elements, and added dark fantasy to the mix as well, such as ancient ruins, mysterious creatures, ghosts, and more.ĭishonored 2 offers a rich world-particularly if you take time to read the many notes and books littered throughout its very large missions - but despite the magical elements in the game it ultimately favors more realistic steampunk over dark fantasy, and at least to me this feels a bit more mundane. Although many of the trappings are similar, i.e. Dishonored 2 is no thief - creatively speakingĬreatively speaking, Dishonored 2 never quite achieves the subtly intriguing and dark fantasy of its clear inspirations-particularly the Thief franchise (I’m not counting the most recently blundered game however). No matter which character you choose to play, you’ll readily escape imprisonment and quickly embark upon your long, sneaky, murdery path to avenge the statue and rescue the throne. If fairy tales (and video games) have taught us anything, it’s that locked palace rooms well-suited to trapping ill-tempered princesses don’t hold up, particularly against supremely skilled masters of mayhem. Dishonored 2 doesn’t waste timeĪt least Dishonored 2 wastes no time kicking things off. Regardless of whom you chose to play, you are immediately captured, tossed into a locked room, and the other would-be player choice is turned to stone. You play as either Corvo-the father of the empress, royal protector, and protagonist of Dishonored-or Emily, the overthrown empress. A long lost, hitherto unknown Aunt named Delilah walks into your chamber with a couple steampunk mechs, claims she’s the real heir to the throne, and it’s a virtual insta-coupe. But it doesn’t generally detract from the thrill of sneaking and stabbing a path through Dishonored 2. The ham-fisted narrative of a dethroned empress, her dad, and the path to revenge may have taken little more than a broken pencil and a cocktail napkin to conceive.
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