I decided to first attempt this on the main mission with the targets instead of a contract. Case in point: The "Taste of Your Own Medicine" challenge, which requires that you assassinate two targets with a lethal syringe while disguised as the Scarecrow, that each assassination must be seen, that your disguise must be compromised each time, and that you return to an uncompromised state after each assassination without changing your disguise. I have to admit it was a bit cathartic to just sprint around this entire level burning everyone, because getting around the level normally is such a pain in the ass. Almost as good is the Wicker Man challenge, which basically has anyone who comes close to 47 getting lit on fire. I won't spoil it for those of you who want to go do that one themselves, but for those who just want to see it, here's my spoiler video of my favorite exit to a level of all-time, even though it cost me my SA. The "Rep Tires" challenge/Easter egg is probably the funniest thing in the entire game. There are some great Easter eggs in Colorado, but the bugs here are truly infuriating. Some slight frustrations with Bangkok don't hold a candle to Colorado, though. Some men just want to watch the world burn. You have to go get a propane tank for the kill, and it didn't even register the first time I actually pulled it off because Sister Yulduz half-clipped through the canopy. Also, the fire extinguishers now being a KO instead of a kill makes this extra silly, because the HITMAN 2 version of this level still has fire extinguishers there through which you cannot complete this challenge. It's not difficult to send a body flying in a general direction, but it's very difficult to catapult one upwards at a very specific arc and length as needed for this challenge. The explosions in HITMAN are tough to control. The Source mission, which was part of the Patient Zero DLC, is a mostly good mission with the exception of one challenge called Slam Dunk that requires you to blow up Sister Yulduz and have her land on the canopy above her. I actually was able to SA most of the Himmapan Horror challenges, which I probably wasted more time than I needed to doing, but I had a good time here.
I set up scenarios where a lone NPC would discover a body and then get immediately murdered, to later be discovered by someone else for a rinse and repeat. It's not particularly easy to have bodies found without getting yourself compromised and/or creating all kinds of chaos, so I found it to be an entertaining set of challenges in which I basically chained kills.
Himmapan Horror was also a fairly interesting challenge pack, because it added the wrinkle of needing to have the bodies be found. The Somsak Equation Escalation was a decent one, and I went ahead and SA'd the final level of it just for funsies.
HITMAN 2 CHALLENGES FULL
I didn't have much left to do here to get full completion on the main mission. Even the Escalations on Marrakesh are somewhere between mediocre and bad. I was happy to move on from Marrakesh the moment I did. The "5 targets in 5 different accidents" one was especially a pain in the ass, but I did it and unlocked the damn crystal ball.
Often it isn't clear how someone's custom contract did some of the more complex challenges or at what point you're supposed to take the target out, so you end up tailing the target around their entire paths and it's just a waste of time. As an aside, I don't love challenges that require custom contracts. Complicating matters further, this pushy salesman by the lampstore will follow you around to no end if he sees you, which renders your attempts to take out the fortune teller when he gets there a no-go unless you deal with him. The only way to take out the fortune teller without raising all kinds of hell is to throw five coins at him and wait for him to path around a large portion of the level. Marrakesh's House Built on Sand night mission is just so forgettable that it's barely worth mentioning, and I'd forgotten how annoying the standard map's Master Fortune Teller challenges were. This has been mostly straightforward and fun, with a few frustrating exceptions. Where we last departed, my HITMAN chronicles had me knocking out the last few challenges on several HITMAN 2016 levels within HITMAN 2.