The Tragic Beauty of Dishonored 2 | A Lengthy Retrospective

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What do you do after you've achieved your dreams?

In 2012, Arkane Studios launched themselves into the spotlight with their visionary immersive sim masterpeice - Dishonored. It transformed a team known only for niche action RPGs into an industry heavy hitter and meant that all eyes were on what they would do next...

Could they stay true to their artistic ideals while the industry shifted towards endless open worlds and predatory live service? Would the studio survive the outside pressure and create something that could compete with Elder Scrolls, Resident Evil, Dark Souls and Zelda?

This is the story of the beautiful chaos that is the sequel they created - Dishonored 2 - a mixture of soaring ambition, strange mistakes, once in a generation ideas and long held wounds.

It's part critique, part retrospective, part review and part history lesson - obviously full of spoilers and obviously full of my opinions

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Source and Bibliography -
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B...


=== Chapters ===
00:00:00 – Ambition, Heights and Depths
00:03:00 – Most Advanced, Yet Acceptable
00:15:58 – A Cold Day in Dunwall
00:27:36 – The Jewel of the South
00:40:38 – The Doctor Will See You Now
00:50:55 – The Glorious Clockwork Mansion
01:04:22 – Repeating the Past and Present
01:17:07 – The Whale and the Hound
01:30:03 – Of Dust and Riddles
01:38:17 – A Glorious Crack in the Slab
01:52:27 – The Double Duke Problem
02:02:32 – Morality in Technicolour
02:15:44 – The Birth of a Spin Off
02:26:29 – Lurking in the Shadows
02:33:37 – Open World, No Eyes
02:45:23 – The Glorious Bank Job
02:56:54 – Nameless in the End
03:12:56 – The Death of Dishonored

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