With focusing ever more on open combat and still MIA, there’s a gap in Cissy Jones) can avoid the searchlights of her mechanised pursuers by turning into black smoke, although she can only remain in this form by sticking to the shadows. That sometimes means snaking along the ground before popping up behind your targets and jamming your blade into their skulls. But you’ll also hare along walls, dodging wandering beams and following the silhouettes of moving objects to stay hidden. Some things, though, must be brought into the light: namely Ayana’s past, which provides the narrative incentive to ‘avoid or kill’ your way through this dystopia.
