Hitman GO: Definitive Edition Reviews

good

god damn good game

A lightweight puzzle game that entertained me during short breaks. I took me 20 hours to finish and I enjoyed it.

I love the Hitman universe and have all the old school games. This is a piece I picked up on the way. Gameplay is quite unique. Was able to 100% in about 6 hours. Simple casual game.

Hitman Go is a quaint and fun puzzle game with a surprising amount of content. It's level of challenge is scaled well over time, and has a good head scratcher here and there. I think the price point is solid for the amount of content, the graphics are charming and polished, and it's overall satisfying to play.

It is a fine game, but has a few major flaws; the first being broken achievements. In my 7 hours of playtime, I could only get 6 achievements, and the rest simply refused to unlock. This makes hundred percenting the game irrelevant. My other complaint comes from how the objective system works. Hundred percenting a level requires you to do two optional objectives. The problem is that the level design only allows you to complete one at a time, forcing you to play the same level twice, only in a slightly different manner. This made the game infinitely more boring for me, so much so that I stopped perfecting it altogether, making my experience much more enjoyable. Incentivising replayability can work for a mainline Hitman game, where tonnes of content is available to explore, keeping each replay fresh and interesting. But, forcing players to replay levels from a board game which is already so linear, was a step in the wrong direction. I think the worst type of objectives were "complete the game in x turn or less". They turned the experience into a slog. In addition to this, the game does not even show how many turn you have made in a level, making these challenges even more annoying. Providing this information would have turned them much more tolerable. The missions where you could complete all the objectives in one go were actually fun, and the entire game should have been like this. Coincidentally, these levels also did not contain that aforementioned "x turns or less" challenge. Another minor criticism I have is that you have to manually check the objectives in a level by going to the menu. I would have preferred if they were directly displayed on the screen, or at the beginning of each level. I know that the I sound extremely negative in my review. But, most of my problems are only relevant if you are looking forward to hundred percenting the game. If you do not care about that, it just "clicks", especially its sound effects. They add so much to the experience, and it would have been a somewhat of an inferior product if not for them. Every action is punctuated with so much weight, that you can almost forget for a moment that you are not actually killing people. The music too, while used sparingly, fits the tone of the experience.