I’ve been down with a nasty flu bug for the last few days and consequently have accomplished very little. I had completed the Prologue and Chapter 1 of Thief but I wasn’t satisfied with the shots. I got sick at the same time and so I haven’t been able to recreate them yet. By this weekend, I’ll be traveling and expect to be further interrupted for at least a week. I’m disappointed at how little I got done before I leave town, but life happens so… *shrug*
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Dishonored complete! Long live the Empress!
Woohoo! Missions 07, 08, and 09 are up and the Runes and Bone Charms pages are done. With most of Dishonored complete, I plan to come back later and record all document locations. Since that is not a statistic tracked by the game, I’ll save it for a rainy day when I’m in the mood to Blink across Dunwall again. The DLC are also on my to-do list but I’d like to expand into other games a bit first.
Next up, robbing the City blind in Thief!
And since this is one of my favorite games, also containing some of my favorite characters, I feel no shame over a little eulogizing. Okay, maybe I’m fangirling just a little bit here but Arkane did good. Just the fact that they managed to create a likable child character with depth and development–who didn’t annoy the crap out of you–is an achievement in itself. (Shut up, you think she’s adorable too. How could you leave without giving her a proper farewell, you monster.)
So, long life to Emily! May she benefit from her mother’s wisdom, her people’s affection, and Corvo’s devotion. A rough start can forge a little girl into a world-shaker, if only she has even a single person to believe in her. (And if she really is a playable character in this upcoming sequel, I am going to vibrate with excitement.)
Dishonored Update (Return to a Tower too small)
Getting closer to the end… Mission 06 and Hound Pits 06 in today’s Dishonored update. I’m glad Return to the Tower is a comparatively short level since I found out last night that my family (myself included) is attending a wedding today! I hate pausing in the middle of any project. This level breaks my heart every time with so many reminders of just how good a woman, an empress, and a mother Jessamine had been. I do wish the level was larger so there was more backstory to explore, more peeks into that happier daily life now lost.
Only three levels to go! The Flooded District is quite long but the The Loyalists and Light at the End are very, very short. I hope to have them all done before Monday!
I’m leaning towards either of the Thief games to start next, but I’d love a request.
Dishonored Update (Royal Physician feeling poorly)
The Royal Physician complete in this Dishonored update. Good Lord, this level was unusually annoying! It certainly seemed as if every time I got juuust the riggghht shot, some guard would turn around and screw it up or an in-game announcement would throw nearly a minute’s worth of subtitles across the screen. (I turn the voices and music off so I can listen to an audiobook or the radio while I work, but I do need to know what they’re saying sometimes to anticipate their movements.)
Hound Pits 04 should be up by the end of the day, and Mission 05 in the next two days.
P.S. I was thinking of doing Thief Gold, Thief (2014), or Alice: Madness Returns after finishing Dishonored. Any thoughts?
[EDIT 9:00pm] Hound Pits 04, Mission 05, and Hound Pits 05 are up! That was far easier, since most of the loot was concentrated in only two areas: the guests wandering on the first floor and three bedrooms on the second held most of the goodies. It’s the Regent’s last sunset from Dunwall Tower, I think.
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Trying things out. Finished the House of Pleasure today. Royal Physician should be up in a day or two.