YES! I was hoping he'd do Mafia II this week because I personally loved it and wanted to be told why I'm stupid.
I don't think he was wrong about anything in the game, but if you approach the game as a linear one with some very broad boundaries rather than a true sandbox, it makes a lot more sense while playing it. I felt like this review focused a little bit too much on the non-sandboxyness and less on the other elements, but in all fairness I suppose there wasn't that much else to discuss.
I never did connect emotionally with Vito apart from the common understanding in games that his success is tied with my own. I play the game right, Vito is showered with wet money and big bags of vagina. I play the game wrong and I have to sit through another loading screen.
The ending was nevertheless still a blow, largely I suppose because despite responding eagerly to every tug of the puppet strings, ultimately riches and glory was taken away from me... no less than three fucking times if we're really honest about it. First I get sent to prison, though to be honest my accumulated wealth was barely noteworthy.
Then my house burns down and I lose everything - because apparently Vito stuffed all his money into a mattress instead of the slightly more traditional option of say, a secure building specialising in holding onto money for people in some sort of locked and guarded room. Somehow my pornography survived.
Ultimately the part where your best friend who just saved your life is taken away to (probably) be fitted for some new cement cross-trainers was the final of several brutal kicks to the metaphorical groin and by the time it rolled around I had secured enough emotional padding in my pants to protect me from the worst of it.
I did observe the striking similarities between Vito/Niko and Joe/Roman, but when I too went back and watched the end cutscene from Mafia 1 I... well you know there was no real need for the crossover, so no, I won't forgive that.
At least in this game we actually got to see some BEEG AMERICAN TEETEES.