Reflections In Red is a new Thief fan level based on a very stupid castle from the Arkane Lyon dev behind The Black Parade

Inspired by "some of the stupidest vanity architecture you'll ever find"

Arkane Lyon level decorator and Thief: The Dark Project modder Romain Barrilliot is backmost with different instrumentality instauration - a Thief 2 castle heist Barrilliot calls "by acold my astir ambitious enactment successful the Dark Engine to date", presumably including his erstwhile radical task The Black Parade, contempt being "purely based connected vibes". Called Reflections In Red, it's a sequel to Barrilliot's Winds Of Misfortune, though it works good arsenic a standalone release. It's besides based connected a real-life castle truthful preposterous I person nary prime but to instantly bargain the deeds from what I presume is simply a heavy fortified slope vault wrong a creepy upland somewhere.

Reflections In Red has nary slope vaults, nor creepy mountains, conscionable majestic amphibious architecture. It sees light-fingered snarkyman Garrett heading to a manor built implicit a water connected the outskirts of Wychwood. He's present to pinch a look for immoderate posh wine, by immoderate means necessary. "Swim, sneak, oregon climb, the prime is mine," explains the intro, below. "Front gate's a decease trap. Guards successful plate, a skipper and 2 sergeants keeping watch. The lord hates electricity, sticks to torches and gaslight. Perfect for idiosyncratic similar me. A fewer h2o arrows should bash the trick."

Long communicative short, it's a mansion raid with galore points of introduction and superb accumulation values, wrong and outside. Posting connected Bluesky, Barrilliot concedes that it followed "a precise antithetic improvement cycle" and "wasn't adjacent expected to beryllium a existent ngo astatine first, conscionable a testbed for my ain textures and a doodle based connected this etching by creator Nicolas Delort." (For clarity, I've added the nexus to velocity the concatenation of notation here. Can't person you moving disconnected to Google them similar a sap.)

Barrilliot says helium "had nary papers for this ngo whatsoever. I conscionable built it and it yet coalesced into the last result." The castle takes inspiration from Chenonceau Castle successful France, "which has immoderate of the stupidest vanity architecture you'll ever find", successful Barrilliot's estimation. I consciousness similar rather a batch of videogame level plan tin beryllium filed nether "vanity architecture", though it's not a examination I've thought astir before.

Up for it? You volition archetypal request Thief 2 mentation 1.28, which whitethorn mean you person to upgrade utilizing T2Fix 1.28, arsenic elaborate alongside the download nexus connected TTLG. While Reflections In Red appears to person been Barrilliot's favored project, the mod features contributions from a fewer different Thief instrumentality assemblage members, including dependable actors, writers, scripters and instrumentality developers - find a afloat database successful the Thanks conception successful the TTLG post.

Ah, Thief. I've benignant of forgotten everything astir the archetypal 2 games, bizarrely, though I tin punctuation definite bits of Hammerite scripture successful my sleep. The 3rd remains vivid successful my caput acknowledgment to the efforts of Kieron Gillen, co-founder of this parish, who erstwhile dedicated a full PCGamer diagnostic to its Shalebridge Cradle level. I retrieve Eidos Montreal's 4th Thief mostly for that clip I choked retired a defender and helium carried connected humming, though I thought it was coagulated capable arsenic stealth games go.

If you telephone yourself a Thief enthusiast and you've yet to play Barrilliot's erstwhile The Black Parade, you should get that wiped disconnected your ledger pronto. Here's an interrogation of our ain with Barrilliot astir its creation, successful which writer Lee Seymour confesses that "the happening is truthful jammed with amusive surprises that thing much than a sketched overview feels similar a spoiler."