Styx: Shards of Darkness, Styx: Master of Shadows sequel

Goddamn you are stupid. Read before you post.

 

no one posted the screen?

 

Hey it's good enough for Bethesda.

 

What? Dishonored has one "master skill" which basically puts the game into easy mode when you max it out: Blink. The game becomes ridiculously easy once you can blink / glitch through most of the content undetected. It's so glitch-ridden it's not funny anymore. And i like Dishonored a lot. Styx is in that regard, much better than Dishonored. The only really good stealth game in recent years was Mark of the Ninja.

That said: I liked Styx and i am happy to have a sequel to a really solid game. Not stellar, but absolutely solid.

 

What the hell does that have to do with the levels?

 

Well you could either argue that the skill is overpowered, or that the level design was not executed with this skill in mind. Blink really heavily depends on the surroundings. Styx really won't win any prize for level design, but Dishonored is definetly not better in this aspect.

 

I think it was executed with that skill in mind considering the amount of vertical space you have access to. All dishonored special abilities are overpowered as fuck anyway, blink just happens to be the only one that is still useful for someone trying to play a stealth game.

 

What are you even talking about? Dishonored was fully designed with Blink in mind. How could you miss that? You weren't breaking the game or anything by getting two ranks in Blink, devs accounted for that. It's just easy mode.

 

Dishonored was mediocre at best. They dumbed it down way too much after playtesting it with some retarded monkeys.

Human Revolution has awful level design. Your typical shitty covershooter levels with some vents to crawl through. How excellent. A pure shit game that one.

The fact that those two popamole games are actually looked at positively says a lot about the state stealth games are in these days.

 

The state of stealth games in general.

 

Personally, stealth gameplay-wise I'd rank it like this: Styx > Dishonored (which had better atmosphere and setting, though) >>>>>>>> DX:HR (which was crap).

 

I didn't play Dishonored because of that creepy heart thing.

Styx is nice, but one thing I miss is a non-lethal takedown as a "mid tier" difficulty approach.

 

All the recent stealth games I've played have been fantastic.

 

Maybe ur standards are p. low. 3rd person camera alone effectively kills stealth games.

 

Much like Josh Sawyer, I prefer the 3rd person perspective with a rotatable camera.

I also thought both Thiefs had a lot of junk content that brought them down.

 

alien world in Thief and the fucking obstacle course finale of 2 come to mind, for me at least.

 

"oozing with verticality"

 

Cult classic ? lol

 

If those are not industry-standard bullshots the sequel looks really damn good so far.

 

From what I played of the first, this my opinion. The art (the stetic of the level) and the level design are this game star's. They are excellent and it's awesome to explore those levels. The atmosphere is also nice. But everything else... The gameplay is mediocre, and that fucking AI (it gave me cancer).

 

Fool me once ...

 

despite the flaws, i like styx: masters of shadows. level design was pretty great and so is the core mechanics. if they really have bigger budget this around, shards of darkness might be amazing.