“MUCH OF THIEF’S AMBIENCE WAS MADE UP OF FOUR-SECOND, LOOPING DRONES”
The term ‘looking glass’ readily brings to mind warped fantasy worlds: Alice in Wonderland, twisted smiles and a sense of not quite knowing what you’re getting into. As a company splash screen, it felt a fitting intro to Thief- with its Tweedledum guards and servants of the Trickster, minions of chaos and nature who communicated in a kind of rhyming babyspeak (“Call the dark! Call the black! Bringsie forth I call it back!”). Thief’ first level certainly takes you down a rabbit hole of sorts: first into the sewers, to surface within
