00:00:01 --> 00:00:03 Thank you for coming back from our replay reviews.
00:00:03 --> 00:00:06 My name is Leah. And my name is Kathy. We are
00:00:06 --> 00:00:08 two friends who are here to replay, review, and
00:00:08 --> 00:00:11 analyze your favorite video games. And since
00:00:11 --> 00:00:13 Kathy has never seen the games before, it helps
00:00:13 --> 00:00:15 me view them through her fresh eyes, almost like
00:00:15 --> 00:00:17 I'm discovering them again for the first time.
00:00:17 --> 00:00:19 We hope it will be a similar experience for you.
00:00:26 --> 00:00:32 It's a new game. Episode 7. Mafia 2. Are you
00:00:32 --> 00:00:36 excited to go back to Mafia? I didn't know where
00:00:36 --> 00:00:38 it was going to go. I didn't know if it was going
00:00:38 --> 00:00:40 to be directly Tommy's Descendants or it's a
00:00:40 --> 00:00:43 prequel to it. So I don't really know what I'm
00:00:43 --> 00:00:46 expecting. And if it's a new game, I'm worried
00:00:46 --> 00:00:49 it's going to be the same plot. Or I'm just going
00:00:49 --> 00:00:52 to be comparing it constantly to Mafia 1. I kind
00:00:52 --> 00:00:54 of like where it left off and I want to leave
00:00:54 --> 00:00:58 it untouched. So I'm kind of nervous about Mafia
00:00:58 --> 00:01:04 2. Agreed. I haven't played it. I will say it
00:01:04 --> 00:01:07 took me two go -arounds to get it done. I started
00:01:07 --> 00:01:10 playing it a while ago and I was like... You
00:01:10 --> 00:01:13 didn't like it at all. Can't do it. I don't know
00:01:13 --> 00:01:18 if I've ever seen a worse remaster. Honestly.
00:01:18 --> 00:01:20 I feel like the graphics could have been better
00:01:20 --> 00:01:21 if you're going to be dumping that much effort
00:01:21 --> 00:01:25 into it. The worst thing is the audio. The random
00:01:25 --> 00:01:28 points where the audio is just at full blast.
00:01:29 --> 00:01:33 tries to break your TV speakers. It almost gave
00:01:33 --> 00:01:35 me a heart attack. I tried to edit it out as
00:01:35 --> 00:01:38 much as I could in the gameplay videos, so you're
00:01:38 --> 00:01:42 welcome, everybody. But truly, poorly done. But
00:01:42 --> 00:01:45 we can't hold that against the story, so should
00:01:45 --> 00:01:48 we do the out -of -context summary points? Let's
00:01:48 --> 00:01:52 hear it. In this episode, are those sirens or
00:01:52 --> 00:01:57 cats? Is that little Stewie's grandpa? And what
00:01:57 --> 00:02:00 is shuffling around Empire Bay because those
00:02:00 --> 00:02:04 are not normal footprints. Alright, so to summarize
00:02:04 --> 00:02:08 our first scene, we meet Vito Scaletta, born
00:02:08 --> 00:02:12 in Sicily in 1925. After struggling for a time,
00:02:12 --> 00:02:15 his family decided to move to the US, but things
00:02:15 --> 00:02:19 don't get much better. Vito ends up being arrested
00:02:19 --> 00:02:22 and sent to fight in World War II before making
00:02:22 --> 00:02:26 it back to the States. One thing we want to also
00:02:26 --> 00:02:29 include is that he's arrested because of a person
00:02:29 --> 00:02:35 named Joe, his quote -unquote friend. Oh, Joe.
00:02:36 --> 00:02:38 Are they supposed to be similar in age? Well,
00:02:38 --> 00:02:43 first of all, before we get to Joe, we see little
00:02:43 --> 00:02:45 Stewie, our guess is his grandpa. Should his
00:02:45 --> 00:02:50 name be Roteo? Okay. I was not expecting that.
00:02:50 --> 00:02:54 He is part of the nightmare. that they that vito's
00:02:54 --> 00:02:56 family is enduring when they expected the american
00:02:56 --> 00:03:00 dream although wait sorry i completely misunderstood
00:03:00 --> 00:03:03 you i thought you're naming little stewies like
00:03:03 --> 00:03:06 his his the one that the rat we saw in this game
00:03:06 --> 00:03:10 mateo for some reason i was yeah i did ratteo
00:03:10 --> 00:03:14 ratteo okay i thought you said mateo and i was
00:03:14 --> 00:03:16 like wait a second are we talking about a human
00:03:16 --> 00:03:19 or or that i'm like i got so lost there for a
00:03:19 --> 00:03:25 minute Okay, keep going. Sorry. I feel like Vito's
00:03:25 --> 00:03:28 complaining about the state of this neighborhood
00:03:28 --> 00:03:32 they're in, but I kind of want to talk about
00:03:32 --> 00:03:36 his dad, who seems shitty, right? He blew all
00:03:36 --> 00:03:39 of his money. Every penny he earns, he spends
00:03:39 --> 00:03:43 on alcohol. I think we found the problem. Yeah.
00:03:43 --> 00:03:46 I did have a question, though. Was he an alcoholic
00:03:46 --> 00:03:51 before immigrating here or into the U .S.? Or
00:03:51 --> 00:03:54 was it a recent thing? Because if he was then,
00:03:54 --> 00:03:57 then, I mean, they should have seen the issue
00:03:57 --> 00:04:01 with them going almost homeless back then in
00:04:01 --> 00:04:05 Italy. That's not going to change. Right. You
00:04:05 --> 00:04:09 can't sail away from alcoholism. So you mentioned
00:04:09 --> 00:04:12 Joe, who Vito meets in school, and they start
00:04:12 --> 00:04:14 a life of crime together, which leads to Vito's
00:04:14 --> 00:04:17 arrest and time in the military, which takes
00:04:17 --> 00:04:21 place in 1943. He says he's 18 when he gets arrested.
00:04:21 --> 00:04:25 He looks at least 27, if not 37. That's something
00:04:25 --> 00:04:27 else I want to complain about that graphics is
00:04:27 --> 00:04:32 everyone looks so old. Even the children. Right?
00:04:32 --> 00:04:34 The children, like he looks like he's wearing
00:04:34 --> 00:04:38 a mini tuxedo, but Vito, and you'll see this
00:04:38 --> 00:04:41 later, but like at one point Joe just looks 50
00:04:41 --> 00:04:45 and like Vito looks 40. They are like... The
00:04:45 --> 00:04:48 age and the graphics is something that's bugging
00:04:48 --> 00:04:51 me a lot. Yeah, like, they're supposed to be
00:04:51 --> 00:04:53 similar age, right? Because they met in school,
00:04:53 --> 00:04:55 so at least within, like, five years, I would
00:04:55 --> 00:04:57 assume. He looks like he's at least 15 years
00:04:57 --> 00:05:00 older than Vito. I don't understand age in this
00:05:00 --> 00:05:04 game. So we are now at Chapter 1, The Old Country.
00:05:04 --> 00:05:09 Sicily, July 1943. Reteo, we see Reteo again.
00:05:10 --> 00:05:13 And, of course, I have to use a Gatling -type
00:05:13 --> 00:05:18 gun. which we all know I despise. Anything before
00:05:18 --> 00:05:21 that portion or before the tank blows up Vito?
00:05:22 --> 00:05:27 No. So basically we're fighting, right? And then
00:05:27 --> 00:05:30 a tank blast throws Vito and some other soldiers.
00:05:30 --> 00:05:33 Soon some Italian soldiers come to make sure
00:05:33 --> 00:05:36 that he and the others are dead, but he's saved
00:05:36 --> 00:05:38 when someone distracts the attention of the Italian
00:05:38 --> 00:05:43 soldiers. This person is Don Cullo. the head
00:05:43 --> 00:05:46 of the Sicilian mob. He told the Italians to
00:05:46 --> 00:05:50 surrender. Vito says, why? Because he told them
00:05:50 --> 00:05:54 to. So what kind of reputation does Don Carlo
00:05:54 --> 00:05:57 have that like even US soldiers would know about
00:05:57 --> 00:06:01 his reputation? How is he so important? I don't
00:06:01 --> 00:06:04 know. Yeah. I feel like we need to know some
00:06:04 --> 00:06:07 like Italian World War II history that we're
00:06:07 --> 00:06:09 missing. Yeah, we're definitely missing some
00:06:09 --> 00:06:14 of that. I just don't know if, He's going to
00:06:14 --> 00:06:17 be important because Vito is going to join his
00:06:17 --> 00:06:21 mafia or Vito is going to go against him? I think
00:06:21 --> 00:06:24 it impacts Vito. Yeah. We'll say that. I think
00:06:24 --> 00:06:30 it impacts Vito and his view on the mafia. Okay,
00:06:30 --> 00:06:33 so Chapter 2, Home Sweet Home. Two years later,
00:06:34 --> 00:06:38 Empire Bay, February 8th, 1945. Some injuries
00:06:38 --> 00:06:41 that Vito sustained. lead to him being given
00:06:41 --> 00:06:45 a month's leave at home. Joe is waiting for him
00:06:45 --> 00:06:48 at the train station. Vito questions how he knew
00:06:48 --> 00:06:50 he'd be there, and he says, I have my sources.
00:06:51 --> 00:06:54 I don't know if I like that. I don't like Joe
00:06:54 --> 00:06:57 being back in the picture. I don't either. Joe
00:06:57 --> 00:07:00 is what got Vito here, and Vito still trusts
00:07:00 --> 00:07:03 him? Right. And why is he here? What are his
00:07:03 --> 00:07:07 sources? And this is maybe one of the worst audio
00:07:07 --> 00:07:10 issues. Vito comes walking up and Joe's like,
00:07:11 --> 00:07:16 Hey, Vito! So loud. And even Vito actually screamed
00:07:16 --> 00:07:20 that into the microphone, Leah. I screamed it
00:07:20 --> 00:07:22 with my body, but not my voice. Too bad we don't
00:07:22 --> 00:07:27 record ourselves. They get in Joe's car and Vito's
00:07:27 --> 00:07:29 like, nice car. And Joe says, comes with the
00:07:29 --> 00:07:33 territory. Joe is seeming kind of iffy so far.
00:07:34 --> 00:07:37 Thoughts? I don't like Joe. He's not good news.
00:07:38 --> 00:07:42 He was a bad idea back then, and he's going to
00:07:42 --> 00:07:45 be a bad idea right now. They chat in the car
00:07:45 --> 00:07:48 when Vito references Don Calo, and Joe says he
00:07:48 --> 00:07:51 knows guys like him over here. You work for them,
00:07:51 --> 00:07:55 you're set. You fuck with them, you die. So is
00:07:55 --> 00:08:00 Joe working with Don Calo's US branch of his
00:08:00 --> 00:08:03 mafia? I think there's a tie, I just don't know
00:08:03 --> 00:08:07 what it is. He says guys like him, so I don't
00:08:07 --> 00:08:10 think... I think he knows who he is based off
00:08:10 --> 00:08:13 of his connections here, but I don't think that
00:08:13 --> 00:08:16 they're related necessarily other than just being
00:08:16 --> 00:08:21 in the Italian mob. So they grab a drink where
00:08:21 --> 00:08:23 Joe is surprised to hear Vito has to go back
00:08:23 --> 00:08:26 to war. I don't feel like that should be a shock
00:08:26 --> 00:08:30 to anybody. Yeah, which my next question is then
00:08:30 --> 00:08:33 why is Joe not going to war? I feel like there
00:08:33 --> 00:08:37 was probably a draft and a lot of... young men
00:08:37 --> 00:08:40 had to go to war so how did joe get out of it
00:08:40 --> 00:08:43 well veto wasn't drafted he was just it was that
00:08:43 --> 00:08:46 or prison basically okay because he got arrested
00:08:46 --> 00:08:52 but still how has he evaded arrest yeah but joe
00:08:52 --> 00:08:54 makes a call while veto makes weird faces at
00:08:54 --> 00:08:57 a woman at the bar joe however uh has pulled
00:08:57 --> 00:09:00 some strings to get veto to stay home they just
00:09:00 --> 00:09:03 need to pick up his forged discharge papers Which
00:09:03 --> 00:09:05 is bad news, because I think it's going to bite
00:09:05 --> 00:09:08 him in the butt. Vito questions it a little bit,
00:09:09 --> 00:09:12 but not enough. And this is something I have
00:09:12 --> 00:09:15 to say more about later, but I don't like how
00:09:15 --> 00:09:18 naive Vito is with just going with the flow,
00:09:18 --> 00:09:21 not questioning things, not really relying on
00:09:21 --> 00:09:25 integrity of being like... Hey, I can't do these
00:09:25 --> 00:09:28 forged documents. I'm just going to hope I don't
00:09:28 --> 00:09:30 get shot again. I know there's some hesitancy.
00:09:30 --> 00:09:32 I understand why he doesn't want to go back to
00:09:32 --> 00:09:35 the army. Yeah. And we'll get into this throughout
00:09:35 --> 00:09:38 the episodes for this game. But my biggest issue
00:09:38 --> 00:09:43 is I don't like Vito. Really? Already? Yeah.
00:09:43 --> 00:09:47 I just don't care about Vito. I could see that.
00:09:47 --> 00:09:49 At this point in the game, I can't really say.
00:09:49 --> 00:09:55 But it starts to form my opinion. Vito finally
00:09:55 --> 00:09:57 says, oh, I guess I should go home, you know,
00:09:57 --> 00:10:01 see my mother, my sister. Should have done that
00:10:01 --> 00:10:06 immediately, Vito. Strike one. But he's like,
00:10:06 --> 00:10:08 it's okay, Jo, I don't need a ride. I want to
00:10:08 --> 00:10:12 walk. Cut to a cab that Vito climbs out of. They
00:10:12 --> 00:10:14 force you to ride the cab. Or they're just story
00:10:14 --> 00:10:17 writing. It's not very consistent. I do have
00:10:17 --> 00:10:20 a problem with the storyline, which, again, we'll
00:10:20 --> 00:10:23 go into some more later. Yeah. I mean, could
00:10:23 --> 00:10:25 Joe not have dropped him off there? Anyway. So
00:10:25 --> 00:10:29 he walks a little bit through the alleyways to
00:10:29 --> 00:10:33 his home, his family's apartment. Someone throws
00:10:33 --> 00:10:36 a vase out of a window or something. And then
00:10:36 --> 00:10:40 a cat hisses at us. Anything before he reunites
00:10:40 --> 00:10:44 with his family? I forgot to add this. So this
00:10:44 --> 00:10:47 was during the bar scene. I guess we can cut
00:10:47 --> 00:10:51 it over. I don't like the look between Joe and
00:10:51 --> 00:10:54 that lady at the end, which that lady looks 50.
00:10:55 --> 00:10:57 But there's something, and I don't know what
00:10:57 --> 00:11:00 it is. I'm worried that she's going to be either
00:11:00 --> 00:11:05 a witness or help Joe blackmail Vito in the future.
00:11:05 --> 00:11:10 I know she ends up being a prostitute, but still,
00:11:10 --> 00:11:12 I don't like that look between the two of them.
00:11:12 --> 00:11:16 She looks like she's scamming both Joe and Vito.
00:11:16 --> 00:11:20 I have to wonder if there were some cut content
00:11:20 --> 00:11:23 or cut scene with her because she'll pop up a
00:11:23 --> 00:11:26 couple times, but she doesn't matter at all.
00:11:27 --> 00:11:29 Okay. She could not be here and the game would
00:11:29 --> 00:11:35 be exactly the same. Okay. But they set her up
00:11:35 --> 00:11:37 a couple times where you think that there's going
00:11:37 --> 00:11:39 to be more. And maybe there's side content I
00:11:39 --> 00:11:43 didn't do. I don't know. Why is she here? Vito
00:11:43 --> 00:11:46 reunites with his mother and sister, Francesca.
00:11:46 --> 00:11:50 They sit down to some plates of soup. Is that
00:11:50 --> 00:11:53 what you saw? At first, I thought it would be
00:11:53 --> 00:11:56 like really thick soup or like a stew that you
00:11:56 --> 00:11:58 just eat the meats off, but then that didn't
00:11:58 --> 00:12:02 look like it. And so, yeah, I think it's plates
00:12:02 --> 00:12:05 of soup. Also, is that Chef Boyardee hiding in
00:12:05 --> 00:12:12 the background at 1845? Open, open. Look at him.
00:12:12 --> 00:12:16 Look at him. Oh, right there in the back. They've
00:12:16 --> 00:12:22 got the Chef Boyardee raviolis. Yeah. So after
00:12:22 --> 00:12:27 they eat soup plates, Vito heads to bed. Any
00:12:27 --> 00:12:31 other notes from scene one for you? Nope. Okay,
00:12:31 --> 00:12:34 so scene two, to summarize it, Vito learns his
00:12:34 --> 00:12:37 father left the family in debt, and he's desperate
00:12:37 --> 00:12:40 to pay it off as soon as possible, which pushes
00:12:40 --> 00:12:43 him deeper into unsavory activities, despite
00:12:43 --> 00:12:46 his mother's warnings. So to start off the scene,
00:12:46 --> 00:12:50 some Vito hate for me. I just hate that he wakes
00:12:50 --> 00:12:53 up in the morning and his first thought is, this
00:12:53 --> 00:12:55 isn't going to cut it. I have to find my own
00:12:55 --> 00:13:00 place to stay. Buddy should be ecstatic to be
00:13:00 --> 00:13:03 home. Other men are dying while you're deserting
00:13:03 --> 00:13:06 and complaining about having your own bedroom
00:13:06 --> 00:13:10 in your family's apartment. Shut up. Right. And
00:13:10 --> 00:13:12 it looks like Frankie doesn't even have her own
00:13:12 --> 00:13:15 room. And so what are you complaining about?
00:13:15 --> 00:13:18 You're alive. This is the start where I'm like,
00:13:19 --> 00:13:21 OK, maybe he's going to redeem himself. But I'm
00:13:21 --> 00:13:25 feeling some ungratefulness coming from him already.
00:13:26 --> 00:13:30 And I know he's young. Come on. Everyone is suffering.
00:13:30 --> 00:13:33 Like the fact that your sister has to deal with
00:13:33 --> 00:13:37 owning a loan shark. And here he's just. I mean,
00:13:37 --> 00:13:40 he was in war. I get that. But coming back into
00:13:40 --> 00:13:42 it and just like, I need to move out too. Maybe
00:13:42 --> 00:13:45 save up money to help your sister out. And he
00:13:45 --> 00:13:47 was not, you know, it was not innocence that
00:13:47 --> 00:13:51 got him sent to war either. Yeah, let's not forget
00:13:51 --> 00:13:53 he was the one who earned himself some prison
00:13:53 --> 00:13:57 time. Yeah, you should be in prison, not at home.
00:13:57 --> 00:14:02 So shut up. Quit complaining. Anyway, let's calm
00:14:02 --> 00:14:05 down. While Vito's mother is glad that Joe...
00:14:05 --> 00:14:09 Took care of it, as Vito says. She's still wary
00:14:09 --> 00:14:12 of him spending time with Joe. She asks him to
00:14:12 --> 00:14:14 go a different route and ask for a job where
00:14:14 --> 00:14:17 his father had worked with someone named Papa
00:14:17 --> 00:14:20 Lardo. She says, promise me you'll go talk to
00:14:20 --> 00:14:26 him today. Does he, Kathy? No, because he's just...
00:14:26 --> 00:14:32 He doesn't listen. And it pisses me off. Okay,
00:14:32 --> 00:14:35 the guy. The guy in the hallway. Mike Monty,
00:14:36 --> 00:14:39 Mike Monte, however you want to say it. He's
00:14:39 --> 00:14:43 snooping on us, or somebody. His reaction to
00:14:43 --> 00:14:46 just slamming the door is not the best. I don't
00:14:46 --> 00:14:49 trust someone who quickly slams the door. Me
00:14:49 --> 00:14:51 neither. You're feeling guilty about something,
00:14:52 --> 00:14:55 Mike. So he leaves to meet up with Joe, and on
00:14:55 --> 00:14:59 the way, he witnesses a man hassling Francesca.
00:14:59 --> 00:15:02 He fights him off, and then Frankie comes clean,
00:15:02 --> 00:15:04 saying that their father took money from a loan
00:15:04 --> 00:15:08 shark before he died. They have to pay it back
00:15:08 --> 00:15:09 by the end of the week where the debt increases.
00:15:10 --> 00:15:15 I feel like it's so unfair for Frankie and her
00:15:15 --> 00:15:19 mom to have to deal with her dad's terrible decision
00:15:19 --> 00:15:22 -making skills. How much money was it, Kathy?
00:15:22 --> 00:15:30 Was it $2 ? $2 . So, I mean, I think
00:15:30 --> 00:15:34 that this is the one saving grace for Vito, right?
00:15:34 --> 00:15:37 Like, we can understand him needing to pay this
00:15:37 --> 00:15:40 money back, and that's why he does some of the
00:15:40 --> 00:15:44 illegal activities that he will do shortly. But
00:15:44 --> 00:15:47 you could stop at any time, right? Once you get
00:15:47 --> 00:15:49 $2 . I think he ends up with at least $400
00:15:49 --> 00:15:53 by the end of this game, or this episode. The
00:15:53 --> 00:15:55 other thing is, I don't understand why he couldn't
00:15:55 --> 00:15:58 just borrow some money from Joe. It's not like
00:15:58 --> 00:16:03 Joe's in a drought of money. We get to Joe's
00:16:03 --> 00:16:05 building, and there's like a... She looks like
00:16:05 --> 00:16:08 a lunch lady, but she's like a janitor, landlord,
00:16:09 --> 00:16:11 I don't know. She's scrubbing the floor all the
00:16:11 --> 00:16:14 time. Vito asks her where Joe's apartment is,
00:16:14 --> 00:16:17 and she points the way. And she seems to have
00:16:17 --> 00:16:20 a little animosity towards Joe, which I'm going
00:16:20 --> 00:16:23 to take her side on this without even... Yeah.
00:16:23 --> 00:16:25 Not even asking questions. And then when Joe
00:16:25 --> 00:16:30 lets Vito inside, like, okay, the lady is a little
00:16:30 --> 00:16:34 unpleasant, but do we need to pretend to jerk
00:16:34 --> 00:16:37 it at her? Joe just pisses me off. Everything
00:16:37 --> 00:16:40 I know about Joe I don't like, and I will always
00:16:40 --> 00:16:45 be on Joe's enemy's side. It's back. The elusive
00:16:45 --> 00:16:51 FBM. The full booty moment. It's literally the
00:16:51 --> 00:16:55 definitive edition. FBM definitive edition. Why
00:16:55 --> 00:16:57 do they need it? I don't understand. Why do we
00:16:57 --> 00:17:02 care if we get booty in this game? Why write
00:17:02 --> 00:17:04 it into this game? Just open the door, Joe. You
00:17:04 --> 00:17:06 don't need to make the jerky motion. You don't
00:17:06 --> 00:17:11 need to show that you're able to get to prostitutes
00:17:11 --> 00:17:15 with you. And why does Vito walk in and just
00:17:15 --> 00:17:18 pick up the underwear that's on the floor? Why
00:17:18 --> 00:17:20 would you touch that? Keep your hands to yourself,
00:17:20 --> 00:17:26 Vito. Anyway, Joe asks the ladies to leave so
00:17:26 --> 00:17:29 that they can chat. Joe says Vito can stay with
00:17:29 --> 00:17:31 him as long as he needs and that he'll hook him
00:17:31 --> 00:17:33 up with higher paying work. The two then head
00:17:33 --> 00:17:37 out to get the discharge papers. Joe just needs
00:17:37 --> 00:17:40 to shut his mouth. Well, one, he has a joke saying
00:17:40 --> 00:17:42 like, oh, do you know what time it is? Time to
00:17:42 --> 00:17:45 get your own car. Dude, Vito just literally.
00:17:46 --> 00:17:49 Came back to the U .S. And his family has debt.
00:17:49 --> 00:17:52 Right? Getting a car is not at the top of the
00:17:52 --> 00:17:55 list. So they're heading to this guy, Giuseppe,
00:17:55 --> 00:17:58 to get the discharge papers. And he also has
00:17:58 --> 00:18:01 lockpicks, which they're going to buy so that
00:18:01 --> 00:18:03 Vito can steal a car for himself because we've
00:18:03 --> 00:18:07 learned nothing. Why is Vito just so gung -ho
00:18:07 --> 00:18:11 about committing crimes? He just listens to everything
00:18:11 --> 00:18:14 Joe says, which... irritates everything out of
00:18:14 --> 00:18:19 me. Are you stupid? Seems like it. When Joe's
00:18:19 --> 00:18:21 like, oh, you can get lockpicks, he's like, it's
00:18:21 --> 00:18:23 easy. I do it all the time when I lock my keys
00:18:23 --> 00:18:26 in the car. How often is he locking his keys
00:18:26 --> 00:18:28 in his car? To where you need to buy a set of
00:18:28 --> 00:18:32 lockpicks. Or maybe just have a second set of
00:18:32 --> 00:18:35 keys. That might help things out. I don't know.
00:18:35 --> 00:18:38 I'm just putting ideas out there. Just another
00:18:38 --> 00:18:42 thing to hate about Joe. Okay, but Giuseppe's
00:18:42 --> 00:18:45 hands. His hands are not hands, they're claws.
00:18:46 --> 00:18:48 They could have fixed that when they were making
00:18:48 --> 00:18:51 this edition. And then I have noticed it a few
00:18:51 --> 00:18:54 times while walking out of Giuseppe's is when
00:18:54 --> 00:18:57 I see the footprints. They're like this far apart
00:18:57 --> 00:19:00 from each other. He waddles. That's what he does.
00:19:01 --> 00:19:04 Anyway, I'm suspicious. I need to know who's
00:19:04 --> 00:19:07 leaving those footprints. So they pick up the
00:19:07 --> 00:19:10 discharge papers. They steal a car. Joe says
00:19:10 --> 00:19:12 that they should then head to Mike Bruschi, who
00:19:12 --> 00:19:15 might have some work for Vito. During the car
00:19:15 --> 00:19:18 ride, Joe has these disgusting pickup lines,
00:19:18 --> 00:19:21 and they just have to stop. I mean, they obviously
00:19:21 --> 00:19:24 don't work, because when Vito asks if they work,
00:19:24 --> 00:19:28 he just doesn't answer. Silence. They're not
00:19:28 --> 00:19:30 even clever. Like, there's nothing about them.
00:19:30 --> 00:19:35 These earn a kick to the balls. This is that
00:19:35 --> 00:19:41 kind of pickup line. But Kathy, Joe is so disgusting.
00:19:41 --> 00:19:44 At the end of this pickup line conversation,
00:19:44 --> 00:19:47 he's like, Well, when you measure seven soft,
00:19:47 --> 00:19:49 it doesn't take a lot of convincing if you catch
00:19:49 --> 00:19:52 my drift. There is no drift to catch. You said
00:19:52 --> 00:19:55 everything. Like, we get it. You disgusting pig.
00:19:56 --> 00:19:59 It's an insult to pigs. I think someone needs
00:19:59 --> 00:20:05 to just chop his dick off. That was aggressive.
00:20:07 --> 00:20:14 Moving on. Turns out Brewski's work is just car
00:20:14 --> 00:20:17 theft. But before we leave, Joe gives us a gun
00:20:17 --> 00:20:18 and we're going to do some target practice. And
00:20:18 --> 00:20:23 I'm sorry, am I not hitting the tires? You're
00:20:23 --> 00:20:25 so mad about that. Apparently I just needed to
00:20:25 --> 00:20:29 walk up closer. I don't know. But also, again,
00:20:29 --> 00:20:33 why is Vito so easily accepting weapons? Like,
00:20:33 --> 00:20:36 he doesn't know if the gun is legal or not. His
00:20:36 --> 00:20:40 reaction is just, nice. Oh my god, Vito, you're
00:20:40 --> 00:20:44 pissing me off already. So he leaves to go steal
00:20:44 --> 00:20:47 this car. Things get a bit hairy. He's able to
00:20:47 --> 00:20:50 succeed and brings the car back to Brewski where
00:20:50 --> 00:20:52 he makes his 400 bucks, 100 of which Joe keeps
00:20:52 --> 00:20:55 for being the middleman. But real quick, so earlier
00:20:55 --> 00:20:59 Brewski got a greasy handprint on Joe's coat,
00:20:59 --> 00:21:02 right? And then when Vito comes back with the
00:21:02 --> 00:21:08 car, it cuts to Brewski. cleaning in quote unquote
00:21:08 --> 00:21:12 Joe's coat and I swear he's purposefully cleaning
00:21:12 --> 00:21:14 around the grease stain and avoiding it just
00:21:14 --> 00:21:17 to be a dick and I need to show you look at this
00:21:17 --> 00:21:22 guy he's not on the grease spot that's kind of
00:21:22 --> 00:21:25 like the coolant of putting sunblock on someone's
00:21:25 --> 00:21:29 back and making a dick shape and then they head
00:21:29 --> 00:21:32 back to Joe's and Vito sleeps on his kitchen
00:21:32 --> 00:21:36 couch which is a Piece of furniture that I wouldn't
00:21:36 --> 00:21:41 have in my kitchen. To summarize our third scene,
00:21:41 --> 00:21:43 Vito tries honest work for all of about three
00:21:43 --> 00:21:47 minutes before doubling down on less savory but
00:21:47 --> 00:21:50 higher paying jobs. So chapter three, Enemy of
00:21:50 --> 00:21:53 the State. We're at Joe's apartment, February
00:21:53 --> 00:21:59 10th, 1945. Kathy. Is this about how he answers
00:21:59 --> 00:22:04 the phone? Yeah. Why? He picks up the phone without
00:22:04 --> 00:22:07 knowing who's on the other end and goes Joe's
00:22:07 --> 00:22:11 pleasure place to his mom. His mom's on the other
00:22:11 --> 00:22:17 side of the phone. Why is this? Why did they
00:22:17 --> 00:22:19 write the story like that? Like what prompted
00:22:19 --> 00:22:22 the game writers to write? Be like, you know
00:22:22 --> 00:22:25 what we should do? Say Joe's pleasure place and
00:22:25 --> 00:22:30 then make it be his mom. Why? Who would you even
00:22:30 --> 00:22:32 be saying that to where it lands, though, is
00:22:32 --> 00:22:36 my question. But second of all, she had no idea
00:22:36 --> 00:22:39 where Vito was, and she was worried about him.
00:22:39 --> 00:22:45 Vito, come on. She asks him again to please talk
00:22:45 --> 00:22:48 to Papa Lardo at the docks. So Vito drives to
00:22:48 --> 00:22:51 the port and meets him. He goes by Derek. His
00:22:51 --> 00:22:55 associate, Steve, shows Vito around. The job
00:22:55 --> 00:22:58 for the day is loading a truck. I don't like
00:22:58 --> 00:23:01 the way Steve is just looking at things. At things?
00:23:01 --> 00:23:04 You mean the Playboy magazine? Well, no, no,
00:23:04 --> 00:23:07 no. Like, I just don't like Steve. One, he's
00:23:07 --> 00:23:10 looking at Playboy magazines, but two, he's just,
00:23:10 --> 00:23:13 he's like making eye contact with Derek, which,
00:23:13 --> 00:23:16 where did the name Derek come from? Also, does
00:23:16 --> 00:23:19 Derek not have teeth? Because I know he's not
00:23:19 --> 00:23:24 actually chewing that steak with the, like, he's
00:23:24 --> 00:23:27 just doing that. Even like a child. It's no wonder
00:23:27 --> 00:23:32 it takes him all day to finish it. I wanted to
00:23:32 --> 00:23:34 finish the job and get my 10 honest dollars.
00:23:34 --> 00:23:36 I wanted to load all these crates into this truck.
00:23:37 --> 00:23:40 And it takes a long time. Each one takes like
00:23:40 --> 00:23:44 30, 45 seconds. It takes a long time. But Vito's
00:23:44 --> 00:23:48 like, no, I'm done with this shit. And so then
00:23:48 --> 00:23:51 he just like storms out of the warehouse. And
00:23:51 --> 00:23:54 his pissy attitude rubs Steve the wrong way.
00:23:54 --> 00:23:56 He says, don't show your face around here again.
00:23:57 --> 00:24:00 Roves me the wrong way, too. This is where I
00:24:00 --> 00:24:03 wrote, Vito's kind of a bitch. I would disagree.
00:24:04 --> 00:24:07 In his heated state, he mentions Joe, who Steve
00:24:07 --> 00:24:10 has heard of, and he asks Vito to come follow
00:24:10 --> 00:24:15 him back to Derek's office. When they walk in,
00:24:15 --> 00:24:17 Derek's like, what's going on? And Steve's like,
00:24:17 --> 00:24:21 this one don't like manual labor. And then Derek's
00:24:21 --> 00:24:25 like, what the fuck? Why are they making them
00:24:25 --> 00:24:29 talk so slow? Like, it's not slow, but it's not
00:24:29 --> 00:24:33 natural. They remind me of the SDWDOs from Outlast.
00:24:34 --> 00:24:39 They kind of talk in that slow, just, yeah. It
00:24:39 --> 00:24:41 creeps me out a little bit. I don't like it.
00:24:42 --> 00:24:47 Derek needs to verify that Vito does in fact
00:24:47 --> 00:24:51 know Joe. So he's gonna call him and then takes
00:24:51 --> 00:24:55 out a gun and... Places it on his desk facing
00:24:55 --> 00:24:59 Vito in a pretty obvious threat. And he's like,
00:24:59 --> 00:25:01 he might not be home. That wouldn't be good.
00:25:02 --> 00:25:06 So, what, is he just going to kill Vito if Joe
00:25:06 --> 00:25:08 doesn't answer his phone? Like, what's the point
00:25:08 --> 00:25:11 of pretending? So, what, you're going to just
00:25:11 --> 00:25:14 outright murder a man knowing that he has family
00:25:14 --> 00:25:16 and they're going to come look for him? But after
00:25:16 --> 00:25:19 vetting Vito, thankfully Joe does answer, Derek
00:25:19 --> 00:25:22 sends him out to do some light extortion. Vito
00:25:22 --> 00:25:26 collects the money, beats up a guy, and then
00:25:26 --> 00:25:31 Derek informs him that Joe called and asked Vito
00:25:31 --> 00:25:34 to meet him at Freddy's. I do have a question.
00:25:34 --> 00:25:37 So the whole reason why he's here is because
00:25:37 --> 00:25:40 of Vito's mom saying that, oh, it's a good way.
00:25:40 --> 00:25:45 And it's because of what his dad did before he
00:25:45 --> 00:25:48 died, right? Does that mean his dad was either
00:25:48 --> 00:25:51 doing some sketchy stuff too, like some illegal
00:25:51 --> 00:25:54 things? Or do you think his dad was just doing
00:25:54 --> 00:26:01 the boring $10 an hour hard labor? This second
00:26:01 --> 00:26:03 job that he gets the extortion thing is out of
00:26:03 --> 00:26:06 his connection to Joe. Oh, okay. So it's not
00:26:06 --> 00:26:10 because he would get offered. Not as far as we
00:26:10 --> 00:26:14 know. Okay, that makes sense. Are we ready for
00:26:14 --> 00:26:19 scene four? Final scene. Alright, so Joe introduces
00:26:19 --> 00:26:23 Vito to a wise guy who gives Vito a job that
00:26:23 --> 00:26:27 skyrockets in terms of riskiness. So Vito heads
00:26:27 --> 00:26:31 to Freddy's to meet Joe as requested. Joe says,
00:26:31 --> 00:26:33 Remember the wise guys we used to see as kids?
00:26:33 --> 00:26:36 The guy we're meeting here is one of them. His
00:26:36 --> 00:26:38 name's Henry Tomasino. I think he's got something
00:26:38 --> 00:26:43 big for us. Reactions to this? It's not good
00:26:43 --> 00:26:47 news. Did Vito agree? To being, like, involved
00:26:47 --> 00:26:50 in this? I feel like we're missing something,
00:26:50 --> 00:26:55 but I'm sure Vito, by showing up, is equivalent
00:26:55 --> 00:27:00 to, I'm all in. We meet Henry, and his job is
00:27:00 --> 00:27:03 breaking into a federal building, and then breaking
00:27:03 --> 00:27:06 into a safe inside the federal building, to steal
00:27:06 --> 00:27:10 gas stamps, which are in very high demand. And
00:27:10 --> 00:27:11 apparently it's all on Vito, because Henry has
00:27:11 --> 00:27:16 got another job for Joe. I'm worried that Joe
00:27:16 --> 00:27:19 and Henry are setting up Vito. Coming from Henry's
00:27:19 --> 00:27:21 perspective, this is the first time you're working
00:27:21 --> 00:27:24 with Vito, someone completely new, even though
00:27:24 --> 00:27:26 Joe is bashing for him. So why would you put
00:27:26 --> 00:27:31 that much trust into Vito? Yeah. To send him
00:27:31 --> 00:27:36 alone is kind of odd. He does say he wants this
00:27:36 --> 00:27:38 to be a clean job. If you kill anybody, your
00:27:38 --> 00:27:42 cut drops by a third. He says that one of their
00:27:42 --> 00:27:45 men has a sister who works in the building and
00:27:45 --> 00:27:47 sends Vito to go get some information out of
00:27:47 --> 00:27:52 her. Reactions to Marie. Why does she agree so
00:27:52 --> 00:27:56 easily? Marie doesn't care at all. She just wants
00:27:56 --> 00:28:01 a ride to the hospital with her sister. That's
00:28:01 --> 00:28:04 all she could leverage out of this deal. He does
00:28:04 --> 00:28:07 drive her to the hospital. She fills him in on
00:28:07 --> 00:28:11 the ins and outs. Okay, taking a step back. It's
00:28:11 --> 00:28:14 pretty evident that I've been crashing in that
00:28:14 --> 00:28:18 car a lot, right? It looks a little worse for
00:28:18 --> 00:28:21 wear. And if I were Marie, no way in hell I'm
00:28:21 --> 00:28:25 getting in a car that looks like that. No. So
00:28:25 --> 00:28:28 after dropping her off, he runs across to the
00:28:28 --> 00:28:31 federal building and sneaks his way on inside.
00:28:31 --> 00:28:35 Vito uses his newly learned pickpocketing skills
00:28:35 --> 00:28:38 to, not pickpocketing skills, but picklocking?
00:28:38 --> 00:28:43 Lockpicking skills. We got there. Lockpicking
00:28:43 --> 00:28:46 skills to open the safety box, but in doing so,
00:28:46 --> 00:28:49 he does not realize there's a freaking red blinking
00:28:49 --> 00:28:54 light above the box. Vito, are you so stupid?
00:28:54 --> 00:28:58 He's blind. Oh my gosh. I feel like he does deserve
00:28:58 --> 00:29:00 to get shot the first time, even though it was
00:29:00 --> 00:29:03 unfair for the police to literally be on you
00:29:03 --> 00:29:07 the moment you open the door. They teleport.
00:29:07 --> 00:29:09 I was doing so good sneaking around this building
00:29:09 --> 00:29:11 and then all of a sudden there's a cop right
00:29:11 --> 00:29:14 behind me after .5 seconds of the alarm going
00:29:14 --> 00:29:18 off. I don't buy it. That's a glitch. He eventually
00:29:18 --> 00:29:21 gets out with the stamps and heads back to Freddy's.
00:29:21 --> 00:29:24 However, the stamps expire tomorrow. Henry's
00:29:24 --> 00:29:27 not too happy about it, but he tells Vita that
00:29:27 --> 00:29:29 he has to get them all sold at gas stations before
00:29:29 --> 00:29:33 midnight. Otherwise, they're out of luck. So
00:29:33 --> 00:29:35 he sells them all, then heads back to Joe's kitchen
00:29:35 --> 00:29:40 couch for the night. I don't understand how,
00:29:40 --> 00:29:44 one, the stamps are expiring the following day,
00:29:44 --> 00:29:46 yet they're kept in the safe. Vito is just being
00:29:46 --> 00:29:49 so stupid with not seeing the light, doing what
00:29:49 --> 00:29:52 someone says immediately, takes a legal weapon,
00:29:52 --> 00:29:54 and isn't even aware that he's taking something
00:29:54 --> 00:29:57 that can easily trace back to him. He hasn't
00:29:57 --> 00:30:01 got a thought in that head. Thoughts on part
00:30:01 --> 00:30:05 one? I think I have to do some quick comparison
00:30:05 --> 00:30:08 to Mafia 1 because that's why I was kind of worried
00:30:08 --> 00:30:11 about this game was if they're going to ruin
00:30:11 --> 00:30:14 the first game, if it's a continuation of it,
00:30:14 --> 00:30:16 which at this point, I don't know if Ito is related
00:30:16 --> 00:30:20 to Tommy in any way. In terms of the plot, though,
00:30:20 --> 00:30:24 I don't really... And it's a character thing,
00:30:24 --> 00:30:27 too. I don't like how easily Vito agrees into
00:30:27 --> 00:30:31 the life of crime. It's not even just him being
00:30:31 --> 00:30:34 naive, but he's so... I don't know if stupid's
00:30:34 --> 00:30:37 the right word. No sense of morality and ethics.
00:30:37 --> 00:30:41 He doesn't question, like, oh, I shouldn't do
00:30:41 --> 00:30:45 some more crime -related activities because I
00:30:45 --> 00:30:48 could go to jail and learn my lesson, or I need
00:30:48 --> 00:30:51 to be there for my mom and my sister. I mean,
00:30:51 --> 00:30:54 that alone is enough reason. Tommy at least had,
00:30:54 --> 00:30:56 like, he really didn't want to go, but he fought
00:30:56 --> 00:30:59 it, but then ultimately he had to do it. Vito
00:30:59 --> 00:31:02 here is just being like, let me join you guys.
00:31:02 --> 00:31:04 Let me start committing as many crimes as I want,
00:31:04 --> 00:31:07 even though I probably don't need to. He's not
00:31:07 --> 00:31:10 going to have much of a redemption arc. You know
00:31:10 --> 00:31:12 what I mean? I don't know. I'm worried about
00:31:12 --> 00:31:13 how this game's going to go. I'm worried about
00:31:13 --> 00:31:16 the plot because I want to see some more push
00:31:16 --> 00:31:19 and pull, but we don't see that. And I get it,
00:31:19 --> 00:31:22 and I kind of like it that he's just young and
00:31:22 --> 00:31:25 caught up in stuff. Like, he's a bad boy, right?
00:31:25 --> 00:31:28 And he's not really thinking. And I kind of like
00:31:28 --> 00:31:31 that take in a main character, because usually
00:31:31 --> 00:31:34 it is someone a little bit more like Tommy who
00:31:34 --> 00:31:38 has, you know, some conflicting morals. But so
00:31:38 --> 00:31:40 far, we're really not seeing that with Vito.
00:31:40 --> 00:31:42 And it seems like he's just not thinking, and
00:31:42 --> 00:31:45 he's just charging ahead, maybe out of desperation.
00:31:47 --> 00:31:52 It's a lot harder to find things that are likable
00:31:52 --> 00:31:55 about him. But we'll see as the game goes on
00:31:55 --> 00:31:59 if his morality enters into the equation a bit
00:31:59 --> 00:32:02 more or if he starts maturing a bit more and
00:32:02 --> 00:32:05 understanding the gravity of what he's doing.
00:32:05 --> 00:32:08 But very different character from Tommy, for
00:32:08 --> 00:32:11 sure. Yeah. And I know this is part one, so I
00:32:11 --> 00:32:15 might be judging him pretty harshly. But we'll
00:32:15 --> 00:32:20 give him a chance next part. Yeah, and I didn't
00:32:20 --> 00:32:22 really enjoy playing this game, to be honest,
00:32:22 --> 00:32:26 but I have enjoyed it a lot more as I watch it,
00:32:26 --> 00:32:29 to edit it and watching it with you. So I enjoy
00:32:29 --> 00:32:31 the story. I enjoy the game. I just think it's
00:32:31 --> 00:32:33 a... This should not be the definitive edition,
00:32:34 --> 00:32:37 is what I will say. Part one, we're a little
00:32:37 --> 00:32:40 unsure, but we're curious to see where things
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