The ENTIRE Mafia Story... So Far...

Few things I forgot to mention: 1) Olivia Marcano was a Marcano by marriage. She was married to Sal's brother Lucio, but Olivia killed him, and became a capo 2) As of 2016, Lincoln Clay is wanted by the FBI

John Donovan is the hardest side character I’ve ever seen in a video game. Bro really pulled out a gun in a senate interview 😂

I love how In the Remake, Tommy accepts his fate when he was about to be killed. It’s more fitting to his character

The betrayal of Sam toward tommy in the first mafia shocked me above everything else in the game.

Man Donovan is a legend, that ending scene was just so good. I hope we get to see more of him in a future installment since Mafia 4 is gonna be in Sicily before the 1st game

I like how Tommy just got offed, almost unceremoniously. In the end he ended up just like everyone he killed himself, a stepping stone for a couple youngers to rise through the ranks.

Salieri thinking Frank was killed by Tommy was the main reason I suspected that there would be betrayal at the end of the game. Apparently, Salieri never talked about Frank, his best friend for almost his entire life ever again after his ‘death’. It just made me think if he can let go of someone he’s known and trusted that long that easily, it would be even easier for him to put 2 through your head

For the part where Henry finds Leo, I swear you can actually beat the mission without being caught. I SWEAR I remember driving Leo to the airport in his car instead of getting the cutscene in the kitchen

I did not realize the mafia story was this compelling Might have to pick up the new one when it comes out

I know that Mafia 3 in the eyes of others wasn’t a true Mafia game, but the writing behind it was pretty great.

You have a fantastic way of concisely, coherently, and enthrallingly, unpack narratives while keeping them as compelling as they were in their original forms.

The final conversation with Sal Marcano is one of my favorite scenes in gaming to be honest. Just love that they're just talking, no glorified last stand with Sal vs Lincoln. Sal knows he's done for and just accepts it. Also love how there's multiple ways to kill Sal in the end.

Im not sure if its intentional or not but i loved it During the Angelo's assassination by Vito and Joe, on the mafia 1 remake the view was much warmer because Angelo has finally accepted his fate and died peacefully And on mafia 2 remastered, it was much colder because Vito and Joe was running on thin ice with everyone trying to kill them

I love the fact that instead of just recaping on the story of all the games, you actually add in some extra lore like with Tommy's backstory, Empire Bay's history or the origins of the Haitian Mob. Much appreciated

A small point: the whiskey deal with the Kentucky suppliers doesn't last because only a few months later Prohibition ends, which kills that business.

I got into the mafia games with mafia 2 with Vito, but when I got to mafia 1 and saw the ending my mind got blown and was like "hold on, wait a God dang second..." 😂

Absolutely love this. The story is incredible and the way the end it with a potential expansion/future dlc speech about Donovan going after the conspiracy ring is 10/10

You also missed out on the 2 other ending as the "Vito Ending" isn't the only one. The reason on the 3 endings is dependent on how many districts you've given to your underbosses and the one with the most would have a alt ending. If you gave Burke most of the ending, Burke would become the defacto leader of the gang that Lincoln left behind and instead of running it well, he turned New Bordeaux into a land of total debauchery. By Nicki's words (Thomas Burke's daughter), after Lincoln left, they found cancer cells on Thomas's liver and was stated that he would be dead by at least six months but he took the money he earned and went to Mexico and switch for a new liver thru the black market and went on to survive for another 15 years. During that period, he went on and expand the criminal empire of New Bordeaux by expanding on booze and finally drugs with him shipping heroin at first before expanding on cocaine which he became the biggest distributor of narcotics in the entire of the US. Burke got soo rich from illicit activities that he became one of the richest fella in the entire of the Southern US and because of that, he was able to buy a seat in the city council and even had the entire state changing it's name from New Bordeaux to "Bourbon City". However, being the biggest narcotics distributor has it's price as every criminal syndicate wants a slice of the pie and during the 1980s, all hell broke loose when the Cuban gang declared war on Burke's operations and during the entire period, acts of terrorism was happening across the city with car bombs, kidnappings, murders, shootout on broad daylight and brothels burnt to the ground. With his operation under threat, the Cubans finally sealed the deal and called Burke out. Not going down without a fight, in 1984, Burke took an M60 machine guns and a few grenades to assault the Cubans alone. He did kill a few of the Cubans but he didn't survive the attack and instead got taken out by the Cubans. Since then, none of the top bosses after Burke had managed to sit down on the seat for more than a year and New Bordeaux till the time of the 2010s was still a lawless paradise. If you gave Cassandra the ending, Cassandra and the Haitian Mob would be the defacto leader of the gang that Lincoln left behind and instead of running it well, she turned New Bordeaux into a hellhole and did ruin the whole economical structure of the city and even to an extent, the entire god damn state. When Lincoln passed on his mantle to Cassandra, almost all major criminal organization known by man that spans from Boston to Miami that respected that order and everyone went for her blood including the Cubans, the Commission, the Columbians and some say even the Triads but none of these organization knew who they were fighting and how much of deep shit had they stepped into. One by one, they lost their leader by murder with Johnny Galante being slit in the throat while watching a porn flick in a porn theater, Manny Moreno being burnt alive during his daughter's 15th birthday party, Severo Garcia being buried in the sand right along the beach and drowned when the waves covered him up and Anton Bagrov being beaten to death with a crowbar. Things got soo bad that more and more mobsters and organizations went after Cassandra time and time again with relentless firepower but each time, they failed and came out worse. Things got soo bad that the governor declared martial law and brought in the National Guard to maintain order but Cassandra has other plans as she ordered the assassination of the governor who was then shot in the head, in broad daylight, right outside the steps of the capitol building and that's when people realized that Cassandra effectively runs New Bordeaux and no one can touch her but they were wrong... VERY wrong. By assassinating the governor in broad daylight, Cassandra has messed with an enemy that she could not even win and that's the government. When the news reached the senate, they decided to pull all government grants and fundings to the entire state of Louisiana in retaliation of what Cassandra did by cutting school funds, maintenance works fess and all kinds of supportive grants in order to force the people to push Cassandra out while bankrupting the state. When the massive hurricane of 2004 hit Louisiana, it was soo devastating and with the state in disrepair even before the hurricane hit, the city couldn't rebuild and is still in a dilapidated state in the 2010s and almost all had nicknamed the hurricane as "Hurricane Cassandra" upon the devastation of how these 2 had brought to the whole state. However, the condition and how Cassandra turned out to be was still a mystery as the game ends as some had said that she was killed and got swept away by the tides during the hurricane whereas some had stated that she had hidden out of sight and had hid in the Bayou to restructure another bounce back from there but as people said, god knows how she is now.

Hey, just noticed you missed an integral point of the Mafia relations in #2. The $5000 that the guy charges joe and the player to "join" his family is actually a slight and once the other families find out that he's trying to charge people to join his family, it's a big part of taking him out. This is my first comment on your channel and it's amazing the way you lay everything out in a concise way that makes it easy to take in the info without getting confused. Great job.

Father James: Lincon don't do it, the city doesn't need this kind of damage Lincon: Actively makes the city a better place.