classicswim | [Mafia: The Old Country] Ending

You briefly see Torrisi smile upon knowing Spadaro is gone.

Enzo’s gifted the business opportunity of running the sulfur mines he was once a slave in. No matter the money that comes with, who’d be happy to return to that?

The remaining Spadaro men wait in the forest to be slain like dogs. Father Ciccone, someone who spent years offering service and company to these people... presumably killed by consigliere Tino for offering refuge to the stripped worthless rival mob associates.

Enzo only wanted Isabella and their secret, soon-to-be child safe, away from the land.

You get a moment that shows Leo Galante & Frank Vinci setting their sights for Empire Bay. Both honoring the fallen Don Galante.

With the unnerving thought of Cesare & Don Torrisi down Enzo’s neck, Leo offers different. He gives Enzo the option to escape with them.

Driving outskirts to take Isabella to the boat. Empire Bay postcard taped by Enzo in the car... Mafia II’s pause menu audibly seeping its way out in the transition.

Isabella makes it out. Enzo does not.

I’m appreciative that Enzo spared Cesare, even when Cesare in fact did not spare Enzo.

”Filthy carusu.”

”That’s all I ever was to you!”

I’m glad that was finally said in the battle between Enzo & Torrisi.

I don’t know what it was for Cesare that made him take the knife to Enzo’s back. He had to watch everything burn, nothing left. The last words his uncle had given to him were the same berating he had received the entire story.

Enzo surviving would mean exactly as it did for Tommy, in most cases. Someone would be after him. Except by that logic, same could be said for Isabella. But, who would want to? What family would be hired for this? Everyone’s gone, lost. Valentina took Sam and her newborn to Lost Heaven.

If Enzo had made it to where Galante and Vinci wanted him to go... he’d be in company with what would become the most powerful crime family in Empire Bay. So in theory, it would never end. They’d want Enzo to play along.

Fucking terrific lead up to Mafia II’s 15th anniversary on the 24th. If this is gaming’s only representation of Sicily’s rise into infamy, it’s done well.