» Fri Oct 19, 2012 9:08 am
LOL, I've read every book, note, etc. I've come across. And, granted, I do read fast (can finish an average novel in a day or two), but there's not all that much there, either. You don't get any warm up... there's no introductory lore, no in-between "things you should already know", which also makes it really difficult to *care* about what you're reading. Past my first playthrough, first *real* mission, taking Granny Rags' side quest, I realized that there's a disconnect between Corvo and his world. You can't care because you're not given anything to care about other than a cute little (daughter?) girl who you never get to become emotionally invested in. So, the books, notes, etc., despite their attempts to engage the player in the world, fail because, from the outset, the player is not given any reason TO care about the world. Furthermore, being the Royal Protector, most of this information SHOULD have been given in introductory cut scenes throughout a longer (skippable, perhaps a prescient dream state) tutorial. CORVO should have been given this knowledge, should have come with a lot of this knowledge, and the only REAL way to do that is to give the player that knowledge, as Corvo, before the game starts. Otherwise, you get what we got, a disconnected hero who reads stuff, the basics of which he should already know, as if he's reading it for the first time. Which all goes back to the game being too short.