This mission is simple and quite short, but enjoyable and nicely detailed.
You are robbing an old miser that are amassing wealth and treating the local population badly. In the spirit of Christmas, you are to make sure that he can't buy any more of the houses in the area to evict the population, and you are to distribute the wealth stolen from him to some of the townsfolk (the ones who have forgotten to close their windows properly anyway).
The mission is nicely detailed, if a bit cramped in areas. The narrow streets feel cozy and the houses you can enter have some light reading that ties together the lives of the people living there. Most of them have been dealing in some way with the greedy man in the area, and are feeling the hard economic times in their own ways.
There is a small puzzle, but it was pretty straight forward, and I kinda liked it. Other than that, the challenge is the cramped nature of the streets where you try to avoid the guards unfortunate enough to be on duty for the night. And of course to find your way between the different apartments you can enter!
If anything negative needs to be added, I would say that the hidden goal of not killing/knocking out any guards is one. It makes sense in the map, given the length and size It also adds a lot of fun having to sneak around them in narrow spaces and having close encounters here and there. But the objectives are hidden until you actually knock someone out and they are immediately failed once you do so, which I found a bit odd. At least they are optional on the easy difficulty (which I played on) so you won't fail the mission because of it.
All in all, I like this a lot, and it did a good job putting me into mood for the holidays!
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