Daedalic entertainment billed Blackguards as a violent, nasty dark-fantasy game, and the sequel supports this claim better than the original. It feels terrifically unique to play as a woman that isn’t a stereotypically gorgeous, benevolent and slightly rebellious twentysomething. Alyx Vance, BioShock Infinite’s Elizabeth, Jade and Commander Shepard would probably all get along pretty well. She isn’t any particular stock class and can instead be nurtured, like an Elder Scrolls character, into a warmongering dictator with whatever combination of combat, magical and utility skills the player might be interested in using.Įven amongst female game characters that are heaped with praise there is little diversity. Fortunately Cassia is a blank slate, from a statistical perspective. Some players are certain to be upset about not being able to create their own character from scratch, especially in context of the rich, and near-prohibitively complicated Dark Eye roleplaying rules.
It poisons her mind too, and she becomes fanatical about taking the kingdom for herself. Gradually, the venom invades the tissues of her body and her face grows swollen and grossly deformed. Over the many years of in-game time that serve as a quick tutorial for the combat and levelling systems Cassia is attacked and bitten, over and over by pale terrier-sized spiders. Cassia of Tenos, a beautiful aristocratic heir enjoying the best years of her life petting kittens and taking leisurely strolls in the city, is imprisoned for political reasons in a perilous, tortuous labyrinth. Instead of creating your own hero from scratch, as in the first game, you play as a pre-baked character with goals of her own. Blackguards 2 is a much more gripping take on this slightly tired fantasy trope. The protagonist is wrongfully imprisoned in a dungeon and is desperate to claw back to the surface and the warm sunshine. The sequel is only an iteration, but it’s rife with small, important improvements.īoth Blackguards games began with their central characters in the same sort of strife. A little under a year ago the German developer released the first title in the series. Normally it would be concerning to see an independent developer approach their release schedule with the yearly-iterative-sequel attitude of a juggernaut business like Ubisoft, but Daedalic Entertainment defies expectation in Blackguards 2.
0 kommentar(er)
