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Seriously, the dice roll system employed in the first game makes spells miss often enough that a Storm Trooper would roll his eyes in disgust. That's still true here, with the added benefit that Blackguards 2 allows substantially more freedom as to where you can place your heroes (such as they are) at the start of a fight.īut the one thing that makes Blackguards 2 significantly more enjoyable than its predecessor is the improved hit-and-miss ratio. A turn-based game, Blackguards 2's action unfolds on a hexagonally gridded playing field, but with interactive elements such as doors and chests and impractically stacked crates that you can topple over to smoosh the bad guys. Even then, the plot’s not as strong or as original as it probably could be, as it seems Daedalic spent most of its efforts on improving the combat.
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Hardly surprising, though, as this is a game with loading screens that sometimes feature a man getting disemboweled while another runs a sword across his neck.īut the first game was full of all this Conan-meets-Game of Thrones gloom: Blackguards 2 distinguishes itself by letting the tale of Cassia's madness add a degree of uncertainty over the whole affair. For example, Cassia occasionally has to resort to her own methods of gaining intel by interrogating the prisoners the team brings back to camp. Elsewhere there's Zurbaran the mage, his date-rapey days behind him as he sulks in his bonds, and Takate the glory-obsessed headhunter, who's laughably predictable but always good for an amusing retort.Ĭassia's already a mess, so this is hardly the best crew for giving her advice in her quest for revenge, and it sometimes shows in the decisions she must make as her tale advances. Naurim the dwarf's my favorite - he’s a visual Gimli clone who makes no secret of his greed and his disdain for others. That's also true for the various companions she meets along the way, although they're somewhat more locked into their roles. The talent trees for melee, magic, and ranged skills are simplified here without losing much of their depth, for instance, and assigning ability points gained from winning battles is much more intuitive than before. It helps that Daedaelic makes deciding on such progression easier than before by interpreting the Dark Eye ruleset on which Blackguard is based more liberally.
Blackguards 2 doesn't push you toward three token classes like its predecessor instead, you can build her, Skyrim-style, into whatever type of poison-riddled mad conqueror you wish to make. Other than that, though, Cassia's a blank slate.
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