Thief -11- Chapter 3: Dirty Secrets

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Published on March 16, 2014 11:26:28 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qrq_1teOZY

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Thief (2014)

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CHAPTER 3: DIRTY SECRETS
Garrett is looking for a book somewhere below the city where the House of Blossoms, the classiest whore house in The City resides. Garrett just needs to find this brothel, then the book, and finally leave.

100% loot and collectibles.

You can just as well enter the House of Blossoms through the front door by pulling the lever since it leads to the same place the "sneaky" route does with one extra sleepy guard you can simply walk past, but it takes around the same amount of time because the doors (there's another one after the first one) open very, very slowly, hiding a loading screen and I just figured it's more entertaining to watch a character move and climb and sneakily use a "secret" entrance than watch a character stand in one place for a minute while doors open.

On easier difficulties with no optional challenges selected you can make the brothel part ridiculously easy by knocking everyone out in one fell swoop. In the locked room behind the opium tank is a passage that leads to a box you can deactivate with the wire cutters, and then all you need to do is pull the lever next to the opium tank where one of the girls is working and there you go, everyone's unconscious. This doesn't work on Master difficulty or with the "no harming civilians/guards" extra settings since the opium will knockout civilians and guards, but no matter. I mean, what kind of sneaking game would it be if there was nobody to sneak by? It is, however, the easiest way to get that one trophy for environmental knockouts.

Usually I record runs of levels that even a complete amateur could just copy outright and successfully complete the same way as I do, but the brothel part in this video is not possible to be played out the EXACT same way I did with the EXACT same timing because there was a slight AI error that forced me to change my plans on the fly, but the error worked in my favour because my original plan would've taken half a minute longer and looked dumber.

That one peep hole I didn't look through? Through it you can see one of the blossoms riding cowgirl on a client. I figured it's a bit too risque to show on YouTube, that's why I skipped it. It's a shame I'm not a sad teen learning new things about my body without the Internet anymore, or this game and that peep hole in particular might've felt like God sent on the quieter evenings. Unfortunately I grew up at some point, don't exactly know when.

That one glowing bit on the wall in the secret room in the library is a focus point, an upgrade for focus powers that I don't use for the obvious reasons. Maybe if the passive power of increased zoom works regardless of the extra settings I could upgrade it, that could be of some use, but I doubt it.

I don't care what some people say, the towers are NOT a maze and those stairs are NOT a puzzle! I mean, there's three of them stairs in total, they're numbered in the order you have to turn them, there are only two possible settings on them and if you accidentally turn the third one before the second one you simply have no place to go and will ultimately try it the right way anyway.
I'm bringing this up because when I looked online, there are apparently GUIDES to how to work the stairs in correct order and where to go around the towers. I can't believe those guides are anything but a joke, since while the area could potentially seem complex at a quick glance, it's actually a VERY restricted tiny pipe level. Nobody who is capable of starting the game and playing up to this point is going to get stuck here, absolutely nobody. Maybe that amnesiac from Memento if he loses his polaroids, but nobody else.

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