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Dishonored 2: Mission 9, "Death to the Empress"

Dishonored 2's final level's central message is not subtle. At the beginning of the game you descended from a great height, perhaps as a whirlwind of vengeful bloodshed, perhaps as a shadow flitting from doorway to doorway. Now you'll climb back to where you started, and again the choice of violence or evasion is yours. You might find your playstyle causes you to consider how your approach has changed. Did you take care to avoid casualties when leaving Dunwall, only to have found by your return that the most straightforward route to victory really does lie along a blade? Did you leave bodies in your wake before, but come to shun collateral damage after seeing how much misery had already been allowed to build up throughout the Empire of the Isles during the Kaldwins' reign? Death to the Empress actually contains a version of the map for A Long Day in Dunwall as well as a new rendering of the Return to the Tower map from the original game. On this visit the tower and su...