[Mafia: The Old Country]
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classicswim1904 Sicily.
Dialogue was supposed to be completely Italian. I guess the playthrough I’m watching is the English dub. Not bad.
The knife fight looks to have returned a sense of Mafia II’s combat which is nice. Mafia II was also going to have knives.
The theme sequence that plays after riding the first horse was done so well. I was hoping for a theme to really kick just like Mafia II, and I think they did it.
”On my land, you own nothing.” I love Don Torrisi already.
The hospitality shown to Enzo by the Torrisi family wouldn’t happen in Empire Bay or Lost Heaven. To let him live on their property, anyway. Paulie & Sam held Tommy at gunpoint when they first met.
Don Galante? Oh boy. I know what that means. Of course you got an old liverspotted fuck to look at lol.
Mafia I’s reboot had its highs and lows with the new interpretation, but my favorite of the revamp was Tommy and the guys driving out of town into the country. I get a similar good feel with Enzo & Luca riding the horses.
I don’t care for the durability with the weapons. That mechanic sucked in Red Dead 2 also and why I never bothered with it. For a game it’s not realism. Just an annoying mechanic. But I get this was an era without automatic machine guns, so you need a challenge or whatever...
The dodging of Luca’s strikes took me back to that bullshit during Vito’s Shawshank chapter.
The score’s pouring heart and love into it just like Mafia II’s track, and you can hear it with just the horse race.
Isabella having a “thousand uncles?” Yep. Goodfellas.
An hour and a half in and this is the single best thing Hangar 13 has done in their career since they’ve taken over this franchise. I gave them shit before but I really have to admit they’ve done well and have earned respect. A real turnaround from when they first started.
To be continued...
Dialogue was supposed to be completely Italian. I guess the playthrough I’m watching is the English dub. Not bad.
Mafia II had it where shitty dock work at Derek Pappalardo’s port was what reeled Vito into the mob. Rather than be the sucker of a working man.
Outside of America, Enzo’s already got it way worse with Il Merlo and the sulfur mines.
Enzo and Gaetano had a good thing going immediately. I think the Mafia games no matter the quality do a stellar job with buddy banter.
There’s a definite cultural shift as “fucks” so far aren’t thrown around like crazy. Mafia II would’ve had 20 F bombs by the first hour, and Don Spadaro is the only one so far to mutter it once out of intimidation.
The knife fight looks to have returned a sense of Mafia II’s combat which is nice. Mafia II was also going to have knives.
The theme sequence that plays after riding the first horse was done so well. I was hoping for a theme to really kick just like Mafia II, and I think they did it.
”On my land, you own nothing.” I love Don Torrisi already.
The hospitality shown to Enzo by the Torrisi family wouldn’t happen in Empire Bay or Lost Heaven. To let him live on their property, anyway. Paulie & Sam held Tommy at gunpoint when they first met.
The playthrough’s speeding through all the notes to read, one of them happened to be cooking directions.
Torrisi’s got his own Reverend. Father Ciccione.
Don Galante? Oh boy. I know what that means. Of course you got an old liverspotted fuck to look at lol.
Mafia I’s reboot had its highs and lows with the new interpretation, but my favorite of the revamp was Tommy and the guys driving out of town into the country. I get a similar good feel with Enzo & Luca riding the horses.
I don’t care for the durability with the weapons. That mechanic sucked in Red Dead 2 also and why I never bothered with it. For a game it’s not realism. Just an annoying mechanic. But I get this was an era without automatic machine guns, so you need a challenge or whatever...
The dodging of Luca’s strikes took me back to that bullshit during Vito’s Shawshank chapter.
The score’s pouring heart and love into it just like Mafia II’s track, and you can hear it with just the horse race.
Isabella having a “thousand uncles?” Yep. Goodfellas.
An hour and a half in and this is the single best thing Hangar 13 has done in their career since they’ve taken over this franchise. I gave them shit before but I really have to admit they’ve done well and have earned respect. A real turnaround from when they first started.
To be continued...
