So im sitten here waiting for trick or treaters to show up and i see a facebook photo of a costum with lady boyle in it. and it got me thinking

Did you think the puzzle to find out who she is was to easy?

When i think about it, i think it was. I found out who she was within something like less than 10 minutes. Maybe i just got lucky and happened to walk by the right people. But i didnt even need to search upstairs at all on my first playthrough.

Idk, just a thought.

happy holloween

Meh, it was a little too easy if you actually go to the party. Searching their rooms is supposed to be an alternate way of doing it, I guess. Still was an awesome mission to me.

And happy halloween!

I always search the rooms because I figure Corvo would want to be sure. Plus, you get stuff, and an important key.

Yeah, I was so surprised by the fact I got the current identity so easily that I felt the need to go heck upstairs for additional clues. I think one of the patrons say something along the lines "you can never be sure with the Boyle Ladies". I assumed Miss White had wrong informations...

Well she hadn't, but still, I guess you can unlock some dialog options only by sneaking around in the rooms upstairs. Like the fact that Emma Boyle absolutely wants to get laid as much as possible, that Lydia would love to meet a musician, and Waverly... Well I never got that one so I don't know.
I'd be surprised that you could ask Emma to speak in private in her room even without reading her journal, thus getting the chance to be alone with her in a private place. That would svck !

You can. She was my target in my last game, and I only read her journal after she brought me up to her room.

Oh my, what a letdown. I was hoping that at the very least those would be options we only unlock after reading the journals...
Well definitely a mission that looked cool but is plagued by being too easy. Corvo is no Batman, but a bit more emphasis on investigation couldn't have hurt.

I think it's good to see what's going on, plus sometimes it seems like he might want to check unless perhaps it's a high chaos corvo and he just kills them all or something. but the stuff and key is nice.

As for investigation while it sounds like a lot of fun it's tedious after the first few play-throughs, like any puzzle yes it's fun the first even second time but on the 10th it's more like hurry up and let me by, and if you haven't played the game in a while and forgot how to solve it, it can also be a pain. I think they have their place in games but dishonored strikes me and more action than puzzle and I just want to veg out and kill pixels.
Not that others won't enjoy a good puzzle.

Well, I'd agree that investigation can be tedious as hell after the first or second playthrough in any other game, but... This specific level served a lot of marketing purpose, with arguments that prove to be true like the randomization of the Boyle lady we are after. Both in term of name ( and by such how we can convince her to go somewhere she'd be alone ) and in term of dress color. The investigation here would have been randomized each time, which would have given a nice replay value relying on some refreshing mechanisms in a video game.
Instead they kind of half-did it, two characters who aren't even randomly placed in the level ( or at the very least I always found them in the same place ) will give you what you seek in a bit less than 2 minutes. 75% of mission done.
The art is still gorgeous in this mission, but it really feels... Short.