Styx: Blades of Greed

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Buen gameplay y buena historia, fiel a los anteriores 8/10

Great game, even if there are some small bugs

While styx games are my favourite stealth games, the newer iteration is tragically uunderwhelming. I have some things that if you're planning on buying this game you should consider: 1. The gameplay. While you have many more tools than you had, the gameplay shifts. you run way more, climb way more, and use your tools all the time. To compensate the tools the game have bs ai for the npcs. I kid you not they start using mustard gas on the vents you are in for no reason. While the previous iterations made sense on damage, and stealth detection, here they just have sixth sense for some reason, and attack you knowing where you are no matter where you go. For example i stealth killed a regular bowman and the guard who found me (6 times btw) immediately knew by some reason to where to find me, he used gas on vents, checked corners he never checked before, and saw me through a wall. Oh yes, the wall. while in master of shadows and shards of darkness styx were attacked with projectiles he could dodge them by getting behind structures. Here they throw daggers through concrete wall if they are actively chase you. While punishing not sneaking, this game gives you all the movement tools, basically having styx feel like a goblin on crack, which with this being a stealth game sucks immensely. Heck the ai straitght up ignores invisibility just because they can. 2. The aesthetic (SPOILERS) : The zones are good. Both aesthetic and puzzles. But the lore became a joke. I mean the first thing the dwarf who sees styx (who is also called green plague btw) is she badmouths the inquisition, and just talk to styx as a buddy. Like huh? He is literalry known for killing the amber tree, a quartz golem, a literal deified worm, and yet npcs treat him as an edgy child, like whaaattt? He is literalry treated as a regular guy. THIS MF IS LITERALRY KILLED HUNDREDS IF NOT THOUSANDS and they are like, oh to show you how much i respect you, i made you an effin grapling hook. Like what? Styx is a literal bad omen, his rivalry between Jarak is literalry cut down short for no reason, and the cliffhanger was oh he actually saved you and the tall b was the driver.... HUH? Styx would've killed both of them at that point, considering that they had no intention on saving him, THEY LITERALRY GASLIGHT styx into believing they were making an escape for him. This is just lazy writing, while the zones make a lot of sense, and look incredibly good, the friendship message doesn't work if the protagonist basically commited drug induced genocide 3. bugs: The game have lots of bugs, from terrain not being grabbable even though they can be reached, to going to the backrooms because the floor decided that they dont actually exist on a rock this game has a lot of bugs, heck styx sometimes cant pass a certain point without jumping, because if you were to walk you would just run in place. Tldr: ♥♥♥♥♥♥ ai with wallhacks and a protagonist done so dirty that it should be punishable by sentencing the writers to be styx himself in the game. And the bugs are so notorious they bite you through your monitor

Pensa num joguinho ruim, agora multiplica por 10x pronto, ta ai a nota para esse jogo Nostalgico que merecia uma gameplay muito melhor. Unreal Engine 5 precisa acabar urgente.

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