Filled with switches and pulleys that transform the construction around you, it's home to unhinged inventor Kirin Jindosh. Even if you haven't played developer Arkane's immersive sim, you'll probably be familiar with the Clockwork Mansion level. Still, one of my favourite secrets in Dishonored 2 has gone unnoticed by so many players. But we didn't do it for Dishonored 2, probably because we assumed that, nowadays, climbing and verticality were more common, with the Deus Ex, Assassin's Creed or Batman series being very popular." In the first, some players were not climbing at all because they assumed that, if it was climbable, there would have been a UI prompt, so we had to add a prompt every time the system was detecting a possible climb. "I think it has to do with some sort of unconscious conditioning. "Players new to our games are not used to being able to climb everywhere on everything," explains Carrier. In an age of complex 3D environments, though, it's now all about looking up. Dishonored 2's trick is no more than a modern variant on old school side-scrolling platformers would reward you for moving left along the screen at the beginning of a level before venturing right. The resulting freedom can be discombobulating today, players are hardwired to seek out alternate routes solely for collectibles, rather than to move through a level in an unexpected way. "When they find that these windows can be opened, they often react like 'Of course, how didn't I think of it before? For them, it became some kind of unconscious guideline for the entire game that is: 'I should try things that I assumed were not possible'." "Most struggle for a while," says level design director Christophe Carrier. Open it up and slip outside, and that promise of freedom is fulfilled. You head back inside, and it's only then that you realise there's another window, closed, just across the room.
You can taste freedom, but a huge pipe blocks your path. There, you are teased with a vista of smokestacks and gothic spires. An open window across the room teases the possibility of escape, so - once you're done rifling through the room, reading discarded notes and idly spinning a globe - you climb onto the ledge outside. Dishonored 2 begins by throwing you in a locked office against your will, trapped and unarmed.
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