![]() ![]() Mana runs out quickly so your casters can't just spew magic missles all day long. The heroine seems to just trip into success at every step, everyone she meets weirdly eager to take the masked hobo up on her promises of future glory and declare her a prophecied conqueror - all in the worst tradition of cheesy RPG plot devices.īy mid-game I find myself enjoying both the stratetic map campaign (along with pumping NPCs for relevant factoids to use during your missions) and the basic tactical gameplay. On the other other hand, the main plot's not very engaging. Annoyingly repetitive music but surprisingly good voice acting in the English version. On the other hand, the setting and the characters' personalities strike the right tone, grim and merciless yet not too cartoonishly evil, each with their own distinct backstories which occasionally become relevant to your campaign. and I've yet to figure out what it is I'm trying to conquer. Here I'm several missions in, having recruited three champions of who-knows-what and a mercenary company worshipping. Other cRPGs like Tyranny or The Age of Decadence can drop you into a new world and by the end of the first mission make clear the current and historic conflict, the moral milieu in which you must operate and your standing within that world. Apparently they expect all their customers to have played both The Dark Eye tabletop setting and the original Blackguards, and even within its native Germany I'm guessing that would be a stretch of the imagination. Let's give it its fair shake.Īll through the early game I struggle to figure out whether I should already know all these characters and political factions from having played the first installment or whether the writers are just so enamored of dumping the player "in medias res" that they can't see all their obtuse references pile into a jumbled mess. However, I do love a good gothic ambience and am always on the lookout for turn-based RPGs, so it's high time I tried Blackguards 2 (on a hefty sale.) Conveniently, it's rumored to be a short campaign and I need something to tide me over until Wasteland 3 launches in a few days. ![]() Most of their stuff looks like simpleminded tablet fodder, and the few more promising titles' customer reviews amount to a "meh" chorus. I don't believe I've ever before played a game from Daedalic Entertainment except for Valhalla Hills, which was crap.
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