Hitman 2: Isle of Sgàil Review (tallwood13)
This level is so poorly polished, the challenges can be way too specific to the point I doubt many would find them and some challenges are so poorly described you'd assume they are/were broken.
This feels like leftovers from a level not good enough for Batman Arkham Knights or whatever the heck it's called. Sloppy seconds at best as Warner Brothers was involved in this game. I mean sure it's the last level in the standard game and it's supposed to be hard but this isn't some 14 year old rage quitting getting spotted or not advancing from trying to knock out the first two guards they see. No. Firstly the targets look like "woke" bloggers and not bad guys, they are so dull. Typical rich people who grew up rich and try to look down on the "poor" how original. I wonder who suggested these enemies as the cast of enemies has always been diverse, were they someones old boss, someones girlfriend or wife at the time. I don't know.. They look like youtubers or activists who find everything racist. Their voice actor sounds like Tanya from Saints Row 4 or very similar so nails on a chalkboard.
Well.. why is this so unpolished? I knocked out one twin, she was somewhere secluded. Then I proceeded to get spotted murdering the second twin with the battle axe with the suit of armour on. The constant is somehow alerted and runs to the helicopter. The countdown STILL goes down where the constant can be murdered. I'd love to know how an knocked out target can possibly do that. To see what happened I somehow beat the constant down to the helicopter and he runs into the chopper and flies away. No idea how Lucas is going to capture him. I was expecting him to sneak up and grab him undetected or something clever such as when you first start Hitman Blood Money and in the white house level you get to see Mark Parchezzi (the final target) knock someone out and take their disguise. But no. Nothing like that. I found it way too tedious to get the real costume how you have to climb up the side of the building as you follow the tour guide and finally get to go into the batman leftover castle. Then when you go up all the hills and sneak past 6-8 guards before you can finally grab a good disguise. I am so glad after you beat the level you never have to do that nonsense again.
the switcharoo challenge is way too specific, does it lead up to anything? nope!
7 minutes in heaven needs the description fixed or is broken, thank you youtube or I would never have got it. You have to kill both Sophia and the old man in the same room. I had to shoot them when they were both awake as a security guard in that room
king of a castle, seems to only work when it wants to so fix it IOI. You can cut back on the cut scenes but not the challenges. This is usually just a blood bath from point A to B to get Zoe (white jacket sister) to get up there. I'd rather skill without exploiting the game,
the butler easter egg should have been an achievement at best
the canon is just like sniping Jordan Cross, way too specific, it's like landslide in Sepienza where you have to take out the politican with a sniper rifle or back to Jordan there's plenty of other places to hit Jordan but only one window counts. Well the cannon is the same way. You have to hit her while she's doing her speech. I can just hear the arguments now in the board room trying to figure the level out.
Next a typical hitman trilogy since 2016 trope. Put an obnoxiously far or cryptic distance between Agent 47 and a weapon for a challenge or hide it really well. In this case the shovel! You've got to knock 10 people out with a shovel that there's only two in the entire level. I HATE collectathons, if i wanted one i'd play spyro which i adore but when i want to play hitman i don't want to collect that much stuff however in this case you need to find 30 coins. I got so annoyed I mowed down the entire crowd of people with some cheat codes on and found just enough in total there's about 32 I found but seriously the 10 is enough!
Taking out the targets for the most part is dull. The interrogation was satisfying, the canon was lazy, the exotic weapons were too much work. Dressing up as janus was a highlight to do some. The atmosphere was great, the level is memorable. Just incredibly rough around the edges if you plan to 100% this level you'll need the patience of a saint.