A good mission that feels like a leftover/spin-off from The Black Parade that did not fit narratively into the campaign by some of its authors in disguise (the overall level of craft in all aspects but also the amount of similarities/references is such that it's hard to believe this is really a beginner effort) - even the formulae/mannerisms and...

Is this mission supposed to play without lockpicks? Because I don't get them at any difficulty but every other door and chest is locked so I suppose it is not meant to be viable without them?

Simply put: this is an absolute classic of a long-nearly-forgotten adventurous campaign set in the ore-rich mountains of Margroth that does its own world building thing and a must. It combines Thief with the vibes of the likes of Ultima Underworld and Arx Fatalis and feels both quaintly archaic with at times dated designs (the first and best mis...

Come on guys this is not a revelation but also not THAT terrible. By far the most terrible thing about this (author's first and only T2) mission is the amount of technical glitches that are far too numerous to go into in detail, but it nevertheless works mostly in the vein that the most bizarre early T1 missions did - even in the fact that you n...

Imagine a mission that gets you hooked from the first moment and then tears you about that you cannot give it a higher rating. Or in other words: a mission that excels bar none in one specific area though all else is just OKish. Lorgan's Web shows specifically what can be done with NPC behaviour and NPC interactivity that can and should be part ...

Nicked's missions often contain what I suspect is metacontent. This could be interpreted as a slight parody of the extremely vertical (to the nth) FM fad of late.

An exquisite example of German surrealism where fallen civilians dutifully raise from the dead to run and report to the guards before they finally kick the bucket, people get locked in their own master study by unknown pranksters (presumably disgruntled employees for skimping on THEM) who throw away the only key into where it should normally ru...

The problem with this mission is that it plays like an obstacle course unfortunately paired with environment solving puzzle, i.e., one precludes the other because to thoroughly explore the environment one has to get rid of the obstacle course first. But once you remove that the puzzle part becomes thin and trivial and the whole mission comes cra...

I must say I am surprised at the number of the highest accolades this mission pack has initially garnered because this is clearly a beginner effort although with sparkle and many clever ideas. The pack gives heavy nod to some of first Thief's most loved missions of which I would specifically point out Cragscleft and The Sword and especially the...

Here we have another case this time of the mechanists lusting for experiments and the perpetual question of knowledge: What could possibly ever go wrong with attempting to create a wormhole to the Outer Dark Void?

In stead of a typical review just know ye this: Garrett dabbles here* involuntarily as Gordon Freeman in a top-secret underground Hammer research facility where nothing never ever goes wrong. Never. Ever.

*in the 2nd and main mission

A mission with a classical beads-on-a-string structure of very different areas that is interesting to compare with author's last previous one, which was the first part of the same campaign, and feels like either they are definitely making progress, or they spent all their bullets and cramped ideas for several different missions into a single on...