![]() Your characters have a few options, they can specialise in with melee, ranged and spell caster being the main. A few maps with lots of enemies become a chore to sit through and watch. I wished there was the option to speed up the gameplay by either increasing enemy movement or skipping their turns using a key. Blackguards 2 speeds up the combat a lot from the initial game however it still feels very slow. The radial menu for the combat is Blackguards 2’s best feature, it allows quick selection of various skills and power attacks. ![]() ![]() Either increasing weapons expertise or increased health or endurance (works similar to stamina) regeneration. These experience points can be used to customise your characters as you want. Your characters gain experience at the end of each battle and collecting chest on some levels where they are available also yields additional loot at the end of the battle. You are not allowed to lose any match and it game over if you do, thoughtfully they have included a try again option in the main menu when in the battle for you to try again a losing battle. The main objective and fail scenario remains the same most of the matches through. Sometimes rushing you to pull levers to close games before you get overrun or taking priority in killing of faster human handlers to win rather than the more powerful monsters they command. The maps themselves are overall good and varied enough. The combat starts of slow, introducing mechanics and various gameplay elements gradually increasing in difficulty as you encounter bosses and enemies with special abilities, slow moving slugs with massive damage or an entire row of archers behind wooden boxes. starting combat throws you in the fore mentioned hex-based map where each unit takes turn till the queue finishes and restarts. Using a map overlay you start off at you base came where you equip and upgrade your companions before finally deciding on which city or town to take over. Most of the time, you will be in combat on a hex-based grid with a turn based combat system governed by starts to see who gets to move first and how many times in the current round. The sound effects are also solid and music is also just interesting enough. The said voice work is mostly great especially by the main characters while the much smaller once generally not have more than 10 lines. There is a lot of voice work in the game and a narration of context before each battle is a great touch. There are some interesting areas, most notably boss fights that may take you through a portal to a completely different environment or introduce encounter special mechanics or items. However, they are ascetically well suited to the game as a whole seem to compliment the game fine, considering this is a budget title. They also lack in a visual appeal as the art assets and animations look dated. This feels limiting epically when trying to position your troops to the best location next to a large enemy. ![]() The presentation is what I feel like the game lacks in the most, the camera rotation is fixed although you can change the perspective to be more from the side or top down. The story intrigued me because it is not a classic good vs evil scenario, in fact you can be even more morally depraved and ruthless that the current ruler if you choose to. they provide some extra troops you can take with you on most missions or to defend when an already conquered town is attacked. you are also joined by the silent legion with their own motivation and agenda. These stories add a lot of character and are fun to listen, mostly owing to their small bytes after battle. Even the recruits you obtain, Naurim, Takate and Zurbaran, are same as from the last game, have their own mini-stories that you can expand upon by talking to them after each battle in your central camp. The tale is full of jealousy, anger, revenge and betrayal, where characters are motivated by more selfish gains than a greater purpose. Finally managing to escape you seek revenge and seek to conquer the known realm because this conquest is all you wished during your captive. You role-play as Cassia, the now imprisoned queen of the realm, by her husband. The game is based on the dark eye’s fantasy universe ( ). Using a realm map overlay, you start off in one corner and aim to rule the entire map after a lengthy tutorial by the end of which you are joined by your companions. There is much freedom in developing the main character but after a few levels the updates feel very passive and generic and the story and missions get boring towards the middle. You level up and update skills on their characters, equipping new armour and weapons. Blackguards 2 improves upon the original game in many aspects, and despite a funny and dark story with excellent combat mechanics never feels special in any way.īlackguards 2 is a hex based tactical combat game, where you along with a few companions try to fight to take over a kingdom.
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