Dec. 24, 2022, 5:50 a.m.   (Last edited: 1 year, 10 months ago)

Days after Sensut, the OG fan mission castle-builder, comes out of the woodworks to announce his retirement from FM making, this one comes out. It is in a very different style than the Dracula-themed tho, and I couldn't help but compare them with Mystic Gems 2: Heart of Bohn because of it's aesthetic on some parts, but mostly with Cosas Mission X and the second mission of the Scarlet Cascabel, specially because the greatest achievement of this mission is an incredible architecture with not a single quickly-added room. It feels so alive, every single room has a purpose in existing and you immediatly can imagine the people going about in their days. In a very classic Thief style, the mission prompts you to a level by level scavenging before going to the next one upstairs, with Garret only having a proper map of the first two levels. And the puzzles reflect that, having many of them being solvable without having to go up or down.

I play in a potato PC, so don't get discouraged if FPS fall at the beggining, before getting into the castle. Another achievement of this FM is how massive it is and how smooth it plays once you're inside. I have been particularly struggling with FPS during the last FMs I played so double merit for Vortex.

Every readable is worth of your time. The loot is plentiful, never too hard or too easy to get, with optional objectives not that obscure. And it's a very easy mission to ghost (maybe someone would even find it too easy), if you're interested in trying!