#but they pretty much ruined the whole point of m2 by giving him those crap endings !!!

[swiftcola]

saw in your tags how you don't like how mafia 3 handled vito's character and i would love if you could expand your thoughts on that! i feel like you have such amazing insight on the mafia 2 characters

:o thank u !! honestly i’m not rly that good at like doing a deep dive into characters, i actually just go off the vibes they give me HHHH but yeah ! i made a post abt it before but it was quite a while ago SO

vito, to me, just feels like a character who has been doomed from the start. like he’s been dealt a bad hand, nothing can change that. nothing he does can get him out of the position he’s in. he’s not the most worse off person but he can never improve his life either. every time he takes a step forward, fate intervenes and pushes him back. he comes back from war! he goes to prison. he buys his dream house! it burns down. good news, leo can save his life! but he gets exiled from the city. he makes a name for himself in new bordeaux! sal fucks him over, cheats him out of his cut, and he’s right back to where he was all those years ago. something abt it fascinates me, i just love it. it may be tempting to be like “but he deserves a good ending after all he’s been through!!” but it doesn’t feel right to me. none of his endings feel right to me. lincoln betraying and killing him comes the closest but i feel it’s very anticlimactic and boring. vito having an even share of the city along with cassandra and burke just bores me too. it’s literally just the fairest/“good” ending to the game, it doesn’t rly carry any emotional weight for me. and vito getting control of the city and living happily and successfully until he’s super old because lincoln did it all himself and handed it over to him is just so undeserved... like idk what to say, or what to suggest they should’ve done instead. but the position we find vito in at the start of mafia 3 is just perfect. here’s a man trying to make the best of a bad situation but from the moment we’re first reintroduced to him you can just immediately tell he’s miserable and pathetic and stuck in the same shitty situation he’s always been in... like they almost had it !!