Dishonored was shit. Fair enough that it was a good looking game and reactivity sounded like a promising feature, but the game was just too easy and the story was just too fucking stupid. It has a distinct Power Rangers vibe in the same vein as HL2, geared towards kids who haven't yet lost their naivety and in fact trying desperately to reinforce it with Disney logic. The frame-up, the escape, the 'loyalists', the fucking kid that was kept as a prisoner in a brothel rather than, say, raped to death in a dungeon; what a waste of a world, using it to sell this type of bland garbage. How about the broadcast station, placed in the charge of an obvious loyalist sympathizer who not only knows the truth about big bad, but also that he keeps a recorded confession in his safe and the combination? Security in this game is a fucking joke, no wonder breaking in is so boring.
Liked the trinkets and runes and the outsider/occultism bit, could've been developed into something quite interesting. A shame that it does not go beyond pointless monologues, hinting at something greater that just isn't there. The skills don't particularly complement each other, just take up space on the radial inventory *puke* and make an already easy game even simpler. I mean, it really comes off as a Bethsoft game in terms of formula and execution, but without being able to ignore the main plot in favor of exploration, the world, and your place in it turns futile and uninteresting faster than you can say Oblivion.
In the interest of honesty I have to admit to uninstalling the game before completing the final assignment. I just couldn't muster the strength to care about any obvious plot-twist that awaited my return to the compound. It probably involved the child in some way and other generic nonsense, and that would've made the 3-4 hours spent on this turd even more regrettable. I like to think that Corvo, after having caused some brutal, high-profile accidents, spreading plague and pestilence, rats and disease, decided to disappear and give not a single shit as the world fell to chaos and ruin.
