Story isn't central here, but what we've seen thus far is interesting enough. The story is one of vengeance, with the deformed Cassia leading a band of characters on a mission to take the throne for herself. After matches you earn points to spend on unlocking passive and active skills, which acts as the RPG element of the game. These areas are entirely static, and thus feel more akin to a point and click adventure. Between matches your taken to "towns", areas populated by characters that can either sell you gear, or give you background information on the wider world and so on. The characters themselves are well-rounded, and some of the dialogue options are pretty funny. Each character has a certain amount of action points that can be spent on movement and attacks, and as you progress you develop more tactics to help your through some of the sticky situations you'll find yourself in. Enemies will appear from various entrances, and there's loot, multiple routes through, and cover for units to hide behind. That's not to say that they're not interesting. Shifting your team around the hexagonal maps takes time, and battles can sometimes feel overly long. It's not long after taking control of our fully-formed team that it becomes clear that the pacing has remained relatively intact. On her travels she meets some of the characters that will be familiar to veterans of the first adventure, and in the process our party size starts to swell.Īs the party grows, so to does the options one has on the battlefield. Eventually, once this early section is played out and the basic mechanics have been taught, she makes her escape, and fuelled by her ambition to destroy those that imprisoned her, she sets off on a journey of conquest. These arachnids bite Cassia until she starts to lose her mind and her face becomes grotesquely deformed.Ĭassia ventures out into the underground labyrinth she now calls home, saying farewell to the gaoler who keeps her company.
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The scene is set, a new character called Cassia is cast into an underground jail, a labyrinth full of spiders. While it feels like a radio play in many respects, and some of the performances feel a little over-cooked, there's some nice lines in there. Our first impression of the game was the surprisingly interesting performances of the voice actors. Blackguards 2 is not a huge departure, but given the relatively quick turnaround, that's not really a huge surprise. However, what we did get to see was the first few battles, some of the new mechanics, and a cast of original and returning characters.
The preview build we were handed was big, and we didn't get to the end. There's some new ideas in there, but it's also fair to say that if you played and enjoyed the original, there's going to be plenty here for you that's reassuringly familiar. It's a lightning-fast turnaround for Daedalic, and you get the feeling that - narrative aside - they had a clear idea of where they wanted to go in order to progress their game. This is a quick-fire sequel that follows on from the 2014 original, and like last year's game, it's a hex-based strategy RPG based on The Dark Eye pen and paper role-playing ruleset.
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