Alright, finished up all 4 special assignments and all their challenges. They're essentially just 4 elusives that are replayable with challenges encouraging figuring out how to kill them in all the different ways. Which is great. I'd love for them to re-release all the elusives at some point as replayable missions with a handful of challenges each.
Anyhow,
Miami water guy - Was ok, pretty short/simple area but took some figuring out for some of the kills
Whittleton creek water guy - good, simple but fun house to mess around with. That map needed more content so another house to stealth around was fun.
Santa Fortuna snake hunter - ugh, this mission was TERRIBLE, I probably spent the most hours here and was the most frustrating. Shitty visibility, glitchy foilage, full hostile area. The SOSA was pretty rough here and had to use the same cheese as all the videos with a car battery in a puddle because didn't see any other way. Santa Fortuna was the weakest map and this is the weakest elusive/special assignment
Mumbai magician - great, the Mumbai map is so well designed that making an elusive entirely using the apartment complex at the start works really well. Lot of fun figuring this out and I got SOSA on my first run and all the challenges outside electricity figured out on my own
So now, ~124 hours in, all the targets in Hitman 2018 are done. Will spend a session or two next going through all these escalations they added to the maps. Will do the fun ones, and youtube the annoying ones and then call it a wrap on 2018.
I remember being a little disappointed in 2018 when it released because it felt barebones compared to 2016 by the end. If Hitman 2018 had released at this state I would have been 100% satisfied. Now that it's content complete, it's just as great of a game as the first reboot Hitman in 2016. Together the two games are easily some of the best games of all time to me.
Also the NPC dialogues are so good. Always finding funny exchanges.