3 Easter Eggs and Secrets You Missed in the Mafia The Old Country Trailer

The trailer for Mafia The Old Country is pretty cool, right? Sure, it doesn’t show much of the game itself, but it promises a criminal story set in Sicily in the early 1900s with Sicilian dubbing, which is pretty cool! As if that wasn’t enough, it’s also packed with secrets and easter eggs.

The announcement trailer for Mafia: The Old Country, or better Mafia: Terra Madre (as it will be marketed in Italy) is quite short, but besides being suggestive, it also hides some very interesting details. This is what we noticed when we analyzed it in detail.

Religious references

Decades of film and television production have taught us that criminals, especially those with ties to the mafia, are very religious. This is also evident in the trailer for Mafia: The Old Country, which is full of such references. In addition to the painting of Jesus Christ, which cannot escape even the most distracted eye, there are two other notable images.

At minute 0:13, a painting of Cain and Abel, the two sons of Adam and Eve, appears on the screen. Biblical stories speak of Cain as the first traitor in history, who murdered his brother after God rejected the fruits of his harvest in favor of the lambs sacrificed by Abel.This painting is not there by chance, it is a real warning: in the trailer, the voice-over welcomes the main character to the “family” and warns him that betrayal and deceit will not be considered.

At minute 0:26 there is another religious reference, in this case a holy card of Santa Rosalia, whose cult is deeply felt in Sicily, especially in Palermo, where she represents the patron saint. Every year the feast of Santa Rosalia, celebrated in the capital on July 15, attracts thousands and thousands of Sicilians from all over the island. Given the setting of Mafia: Terra Madre, the mention of the saint does not surprise us all that much.

Mother Earth

2K Games and Hangar 13 have made it clear from the start that Mafia: The Old Country takes place in Terra Madre, aka Sicily in the early 20th century. The first shot of the trailer is enough to understand where and when we are: the typical Sicilian ceramic heads, the bunch of grapes and the wine bottled in 1903 leave no room for doubt.

But where exactly in Sicily is it set? Mafia veterans, especially the most observant ones, probably figured it out in the last shot of the trailer, when you see a church with two bell towers standing out from the window against a dense maze of houses. It is clearly the fictional town of San Celeste, which we have already visited in Vito Scaletta’s flashbacks in Mafia 2. Seeing is believing:In Mafia 2 we visited the sunny village in 1943, more precisely in the middle of the Allied landing in Sicily, while in Mafia: The Old Country we will see it at the beginning of the twentieth century. San Celeste is also the birthplace of Tommy Angelo, protagonist of the first Mafia.

A connection to the lost heaven

Speaking of the first Mafia, there’s a reference in the trailer for Mafia: The Old Country that almost goes unnoticed. Thanks to a Reddit user’s reconstruction, we discovered that on the newspaper page next to the Santa Rosalia holy map, there’s a news article about Lost Heaven, the setting for Mafia 1.More precisely, in a report “from America” we read that a certain Saverio Ghillotti has been elected as a representative in the council of the City of Lost Heaven. It is a small detail, but it contributes to giving shape and coherence to the universe of the Mafia series. For our part, we can only appreciate it.

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