It's gonna keep good company to the Mafia 3s collector's edition

Thanks for the remake, now this game can be calssy, how it should. Glad it exist, can't take enough of the 60s.

He has no actual relevance in the story other than the 5 minutes that he appears in the beginning. The only relevance he actually has to this story, was just the fact that his death is what caused Enzo to call out Il Merlo but I am pretty such Enzo would have done that anyways when he saw the chaos and aftermath around him.

Even post-prologue, Enzo completely forgets that he existed until the final chapter. Like the damn "Empire Bay" post-card has more plot relevance than Gaetano. Enzo never brings Gaetano up anywhere, he never mentions him to Isabella or Cesare which would make completely sense. When Enzo talks about his family,h e could easily have talked about Gaetano, but no lets not do that.

Based on what we see with Gaetano, he was meant to be Enzo Favara's "brother" at the mines. His best friend, the only one he could talk to, the one he saw as a brother. But then Enzo just views Cesare the same way and completely forgets Gaetano

Even Il merlo in Chapter 9 references Gaetano. Mind you Il Merlo didnt even know who Gaetano was other than being a random carusu who hanged out with Enzo. The only other time in the game when Gaetano is actually referenced, it's just in Chapter 1 where Enzo says "good people" died at the mines when him and Luca are riding to Torrisi Villa.

And the only time Enzo mentions Gaetano after this? Thats in the finale chapter where he just says the lines of "I remember this route, me and Gaetano was here" while he is navigating the mines... You could not even include Gaetano's name in that dialogue or even have him say that dialogue and it would make no reference

So yeah. Gaetano is a useless character that the writers completely wasted, they could have used his death to help give Enzo more depth and actually have his name brought up. But he felt like a quick character the writers wrote just so Enzo had someone to talk to for the most part in the mines. You could remove Gaetano from the story and nothing would change