Styx: Shards of Darkness
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6About Styx: Shards of Darkness
Styx returns in a new stealth adventure! Explore and master huge open environments, sneak past or assassinate new enemies and bosses, and experiment with the new array of lethal abilities and weapons in our goblin assassin's arsenal. Sneak your way alone, or with a friend in coop mode! Climb the dizzying Elven city, traverse the perilous territory of the Dwarfs, and survive vast unexplored lands filled with lethal dangers to fulfill your mission… failure to succeed could have huge consequences for your kin. Climb, swing, and hang through multi-layered sandbox environments brought to life with Unreal Engine 4. Creep and hide in the darkest corners, or reach heights to avoid detection. Spend experience points in assassination, infiltration, magic, etc. to learn new skills and abilities. Explore the world to recover valuable artifacts, find ingredients to craft deadly traps and useful items, and create clones of yourself to distract and deceive the many types of enemies on your way - the choice is yours!
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Overall, a very solid sequel to a good stealth game
Overall, a very solid sequel to a good stealth game. Shards of Darkness feels like more of the same, which isn't bad. I was originally expecting a little more after Cyanide hyped this new game up so much, but I had a lot of fun playing through it. It's still the same oldschool stealth experience as the first game from 2014, and it still plays on its strenghts, most notably the incredibly open level design, giving you multiple approaches to each situation. The skill system got a little refined, but overall I didn't really care so much for it. It caters to different playstyles, and if you happen to just use one for the entire game, 80% of the skilltree becomes obsolete after you have filled out the one you want after like Mission 2. So if you really want all of the skills value you realistically have to mix up your playstyle constantly, which could be very jarring. The biggest change besides the very pretty Unreal 4 Engine is the change in the protagonists character. They kind of turned him into a goblin version of Deadpool, with lots of Fourth Wall breaking and constant references to popculture and videogames in general. It didn't grab me and made me cringe more than once, I guess it's up to if you're into this sort of humor. I personally would have rather had the pure sarcastic personality he had in the first game. Very minor quirk, but I thought it was worth noting as they make a big deal out of it (even gameoverscreens where Styx mocks you for dying)! Just like Master of Shadows, I can recommend this game wholeheartedly to fans of oldschool 3d stealth games like Thief or early Splinter Cell games. It's a cool little budget title and I hope the "Styx"-Series isn't over yet.
- Graphics4.5
- Gameplay4.0
- Story4.0
- Value3.5
Easy recommendation
dishonored's tight controls, phantom's pain mechanical responsiveness, thief's level design and blacklist's co-op all mixed and put together in a fantasy setting. shards of darkness takes everything good there is an a stealth genre and sprinkles it with some edgy characters and quippy dialogue. it's great.
- Graphics4.5
- Gameplay4.0
- Story4.0
- Value4.5
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