Welcome to MAFIA II! In part one, we analyze our first gameplay video where we meet Vito Scaletta, whose difficult childhood pushes him to make some questionable choices with his Mafia-connected friend, Joe. Notably, we talk about Vito's lack of guilt, his irritating choices and the impact the "twooo thouuusand dollas" worth of family debt has on him. Also discussed are the terrible audio issues, Chef Boyardee, and we wonder why everyone looks like that...
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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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