RPS Asks: When To Be Forgiving
And when to complain.
I've been playing the Hitman beta. It's good! It contains only the two prologue missions, which also serve as a tutorial, but they offer freedom of multiple kinds. Freedom to ignore the tutorial advice at certain points, freedom to approach the assassination missions as you please just as you will in the main game, freedom to replay those missions to attempt different routes through.
This freedom also necessitates something else: forgiving the game certain flaws.
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