A criminal offense
Thief is a hot mess.
On the one hand, I want to applaud Square Enix for having such enormous balls. It’s rare in this day and age that we see a heavily anticipated, aggressively advertised triple-A game shoved out the door in such a sorry state. There’s a spectacle in a failure of this scope, something to be admired in being unashamed to do something so wildly different—even when different means bad.
On the other hand, there’s no part of me that can recommend you go out and buy Thief—not even if you’ve got a fetish for watching train wrecks unfold. I’ve played my fair share of terrible games in this line of work, but few have proven so thoroughly unenjoyable from moment to moment.