I’ve started playing Hitman and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
I very much enjoyed Blood Money and spent a longass time getting the perfect stealth kills for each mission, but I found Absolution to be much less interesting. Hitman (or as it’s officially named, HITMAN™) seems to basically be a larger game in the vein of Blood Money, with Absolution’s graphics engine and online features. The episodic format works alright and is priced fairly, and it encourages you to get the most out of each episode’s extra content. It’s such a satisfying game if you enjoy stealth and subterfuge, and especially if you enjoyed Blood Money.
MGSV is the first mainline MGS game I’ve played, since I’ve found the previous entries to have disagreeable control schemes and gameplay styles – I’ve enjoyed them through Let’s Plays instead. V seems to hit the sweet spot for me between easy to pick up and deep enough to be really fun; the open world, variety of loadout options and the number of ways you can approach missions because of that is exactly what I hope for in this sort of game. It’s missing a lot of the weirder MGS nonsense, but I don’t mind since it works in favor of the more serious tone Kojima was going for.
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