The cut-scenes are primarily told through drawings in the style of a novel, which happily keeps with the theme. The portraits are still stylised like the original, and the three returning characters all have the exact same faces. Considering your point of view is distanced throughout the game they aren’t noticeable enough to take away from the gorgeous scenery overall. While the character models aren’t the best we’ve seen, they’re still certainly good. The game has a gritty, dark aesthetic which is shaded and lit well. The environments and character models can be quite stunning. Right down to the text boxes and spell effects. Graphically the game remains unchanged from the original Blackguards. Having been broken from her experience, and out for revenge, Cassia sets off to conquer back Mengbilla, with the aid of the three heroes from the first Blackguards.Īlso the new protagonist Cassia is seriously awesome. Years later, after finally finding a way out of her prison, Cassia finds the whole nation now under Marwen’s rule. As time passes, the bites from the spiders disfigure her body and poison her mind, plunging Cassia into a state of madness. With no remorse, he casts out Cassia, making her disappear for many years in order to gain influence and power over her friends and family. Imprisoned deep below the Mengbilla Arena, Cassia is left to wander helplessly throughout the dangerous, spider infested tunnels. In his infinite wisdom Marwen decides that all the money, power, and fame that comes with owning the medieval equivalent of a mafia cartel, isn’t quite enough for him and he hatches a plan. As an oddity in the Blackguards universe in that she’s a kind and decent human being, naturally tragedy befalls her and kicks off the events of the game.Īrena master, slave trader, and all-around jerk Marwan, has married protagonist Cassia as a symbol of his growing status within the city. We instead follow the tale of Cassia, a beautiful noble’s daughter from a good, ruling family in Mengbilla a few years from the events of the last game. Meaning the character creation has been thrown out. This time around the story isn’t about you. The guys at Daedalic have lovingly designed a whole bunch of new and revised features, as well as shape their Dark Eye storyline into something more befitting of the gameplay style they’ve created. Blackguards returns to us in the form of an evolved sequel. Following the success of the first dark, gritty, turn-based strategy RPG from Daedalic Entertainment. Welcome back to the world of Blackguards – Where the bad guys are scumbags and the heroes are bigger scumbags.
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