Thief is boring. For all of its plus points – and there are a fair few – it feels like something is missing.
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I was as it dragged me from one cutscene to another.
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I experienced a guard brushing right past me, his arm clipping through half of Garrett’s face, who somehow didn’t notice I was crouching there.
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on the mid-range difficulty setting they're rather short-sighted, even as you stroll through broad torchlight.
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they seem to betray a misunderstanding of what Thief is ideally supposed to be about
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Thief feels erratic, a stealth game that often forgets its business and lapses into mindless, action-based tomfoolery.