Thief 1 / Gold Fan Mission
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Patch (5.5 MB)
CalendrasCisternWalk.htm
CalendrasCisternLoot.rtf
Other:
Klatremus' Calendra's Cistern Lootlist.htm
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By: Purah, Totality, Thumper, Loanstar, & Deep Qantas
Plot Description: This is your city. A black-caped lord, you survey your domain from the rooftops with pensive, cynical eyes. They are analytical eyes. Like camera shutters, they
slice and assess every footfall on the midnight cobbles below. You time every pendulous swing of the lanterns and evaluate every fitful throw of shadow from one end of the street to the other. Your ears unconsciously decipher the sullen echoes of voices, machinery and wind. This is a city of metronomes where chimney pots sway to the ancient gurgle of pipes whose forlorn songs rise from throats of incurable decay. You gauge the lonely armored scrape of each city watchman as a matter of habit, for there is machination in thievery. And timing is everything. You have internalized the rhythm of movement and non-movement, the play of shadows, down to your very own pulse.... (more)
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Hammer Score: 8.5 of 10
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Comments by Reviewer:
Comments by Alex Thomson:
Pros: Sound story on the whole, good architecture, lots of places for the explorers to find and many technical feats.
Cons: Some areas of the story seem rather weak, the new tech is bugged, some of the areas are just too convenient.
Bottom Line: Calendra's Cistern is certainly worth the download. It is large and highly technical mission, a fact which may have allowed many people to overlook its shortcomings, the most notable of which are the bugs in the safe and the shop and the irrational reason for Garrett's undertaking the mission in the first place. As is often the case with the better missions, it is often the small things that let the mission down, and Calendra's Cistern is no exception.
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Hammer Score: 8.5 of 10
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Comments by Second Opinion Reviewer:
Comments by Marecki:
Pros: Good story with occasional peaks of excellence, impressive tech features, generally pleasant appearance, well done AI skins.
Cons: high mush content within the story, general feeling of emptiness in most areas, a few tech bugs, layout forces player to do roof mountaineering, many sections that wouldn't make any sense weren't they to provide more challenge for a thief, one objective that can seriously annoy even the most patient players.
Bottom line: As it is well known for movie buffs, a project's size doesn't guarantee its quality; furthermore, the bigger the thing the greater the chance of screwing up somewhere. And one of these seemingly irrelevant shortcomings may become a drop that fills a cup... While for some people the general impression and the easily noticable good things might completely dwarf the bad ones, a thorough look into details shows clearly there would much to improve or redo if the designers of Calendra's Cistern wanted their mission to achieve Gold.
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