What better way to tie a series together - a series based on the cutthroat Mafiosi lifestyle, where loyalty is king and loyalists are ever-shifting pawns - than to insert Vito into the demise of Tommy? The developers even managed to recreate the scene faithfully to the direction and blocking of the original, aside from adding Vito and Joe and altering their clothes a bit. It’s a tragic, if not fitting, end to his rise and fall as a Mafioso. Eventually, the past catches up to Tommy in the form of two random goons who show up to scatter his guts all over his perfectly manicured lawn. In the original Mafia, after Tommy spills his guts to Detective Norman, kills his longtime-partner-and-sort-of-friend Sam, and does a stint behind bars, he gets out and grows old as a typical suburban family man. Needless to say, there will be some major spoilers if you continue reading this article, so proceed with caution if you have yet to finish Mafia: Definitive Edition. The biggest surprise, and perhaps the most bittersweet alteration of the Definitive Edition, is that the new version retcons the final moments before the credits roll. Although I was looking forward to the release of the 2020 remaster, after the less-than-stellar Mafia II: Definitive Edition, which (oddly) preceded it, I was sort of up in the air on whether or not the original’s remaster would be worth the effort. I enjoyed the original Mafia well enough back in 2002. It is, in fact, - wait, let me double-check this - yes, it is, in fact, the only game I finished this year.
Much to my surprise, Mafia: Definitive Edition ended up being one of the better games I played in 2020, the year of COVID-19.
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