Hitman 2

Yes the story missions when enabled are too hand holdy. I suggest turning them off and seeing if you can discover them naturally by yourself during your first couple of runs through a mission.

I have gone through all 6 missions now, but I didn't move onto the next mission until I reached max mastery of each mission.
The episodic nature of the first mission forced you to replay the missions while in Hitman 2 you have to exercise self restraint.

I really get the game, like Hitman 2016 they really have nailed what Hitman is about, its essentially a puzzle game where you have multiple targets on a large map and your given free agency to take them out however you want. I like going back and finding new ways of completing the missions and exploring every nook and cranny as well as engaging in some of the more difficult challenges. Currently going do all the classic kill challenges on each map on Professional difficult and then going to repeat it on master difficulty. But I bet a lot of people won't be like that, they will just go through the missions once and be done with the game and probably feeling really short changed for what they got out of it.

From what I read so far online, the game isn't performing great commercially. But the design of the game means it will never have mass market appeal. I'm fine with people not getting the game and not buying it, just sad there probably won't be more games in the series like it and the developers may decide to take the game down a more mainstream avenue in the future like they did with say Absolution, that's to say if the developers survive in the long run.