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You shall perish!

Blade of Darkness (also known as Severance), a brutal and unforgiving TPP action slasher set in a dark and gritty heroic fantasy realm where chaos reigns and evil rises its ugly head to threaten all that is just and good, is available 60% off on GOG.com. That's only $2.39 for the next 24 hours!

The corrupted forces of evil cast a morbid shadow over the land and it seems that all hope is lost. Savage minions of darkness flood the realm and put the races of light towards the edge of extinction. There's but one way to push the invasion back: to answer the aggressors with even more cruelty, anger, and hate-driven passion. Tainted blood of the beasts should flow like rivers, washing the imminent doom away to oblivion. Only four warriors in the entire world have the ruthlessness, bravery, and skill to perform such acts and wage the war against chaos single handed. Tukaram the brutish barbarian strong like an ox, Naglfar the dwarf, known for his sturdiness and iron will, Sargon the knight, who will take any chance to escape infamy, and Zoe the Amazon, the most agile and quickest on her feet--whichever of them chooses to undertake this task, it will be you guiding their hand. Before you succeed, you will perish many times, but death is but an obstacle in this quest.

Blade of Darkness is an arcade fantasy slasher presented in third-person perspective, delivering a substantial challenge even to the most battle-hardned gamers. Known for gory and satisfying combat it boasts four different characters, each with their very own fighting style, specific weapons, and varied unlockable special attacks and combos. The game was praised for atmospheric level and enemy design, great graphics quality (wait till you see the shadows!), and gratifying combat. Exploring the game's many diverse locations and facing one formidable enemy after another, with death always breathing down your neck, makes the game feel quite on par with the recent super-hard fantasy fighting games.

Give the monsters no quarters and become the hero the land needs in Blade of Darkness, for only $2.39 on GOG.com. The offer lasts until Tuesday, July 30, at 9:59AM GMT.
Unintuitive controls for the modern gamer, and mastery of controls are necessary for this game. But once you do so, boy oh boy, beautiful!
Anyone else notice all the screenshots on the game page are distorted? They're widescreen, but the game obviously doesn't cope with widescreen resolutions very well and just stretches things.
I won! I bought the game before the promo! Suck that, GOG!

*suddenly stops to think with a confused face*
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mydnight: Unintuitive controls for the modern gamer, and mastery of controls are necessary for this game. But once you do so, boy oh boy, beautiful!
Just how unintuitive are the controls? From YouTube videos Blade of Darkness looks monotonious fighting similar enemies across similar environments, am I just watching the wrong gameplay videos or is that accurate? Tentatively Blade of Darkness looks like a pass, but I typically enjoy hack 'n slash games so I want it to be worthy. When a major selling point is the ability to hit enemies with their own body parts, while that is cool, I'm feeling pessimistic about things. Am I missing something?
Post edited July 29, 2013 by undeadcow
Awesome, Ive been waiting for this game to go on sale.
NOOOOOOOO, my favorite game ever, and I have no credit card

godddddddddddddd
A good promo. But I really, really have to play some games from my backlog before I buy even more games.
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mydnight: Unintuitive controls for the modern gamer, and mastery of controls are necessary for this game. But once you do so, boy oh boy, beautiful!
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undeadcow: Just how unintuitive are the controls? From YouTube videos Blade of Darkness looks monotonious fighting similar enemies across similar environments, am I just watching the wrong gameplay videos or is that accurate? Tentatively Blade of Darkness looks like a pass, but I typically enjoy hack 'n slash games so I want it to be worthy. When a major selling point is the ability to hit enemies with their own body parts, while that is cool, I'm feeling pessimistic about things. Am I missing something?
I felt the same way but I LOVE this game. There is a combo system which can admittedly take some practice (when using the Barbarian A LOT of practice) but once you get the hang of it it's fun and the controls move super smooth.

My only gripe, and it's kind of minor, is that sometimes the hacking and slashing can get to be a bit much, not in terms of difficulty, but in terms of monotony. This tends to be remedied by the fact that the enemies are noticeably smarter and tougher than your average hack&slash which helps keep it fresh.
Everyone on the fence about this game that enjoys the genre should buy it at this price point, no question. The only warning i'll give is that it's not an easy game, the easily frustrated should probably stand clear. Once you get things figured out it's a very enjoyable and satisfying game.
I've never played this game but somehow I remember its box art. Funny, isn't it?

But now I'm considering buying it although it's not on my wishlist. I don't know that buying it is a good decision because I don't know what to expect and it's a hard game as I read.

Tough decision...
Post edited July 29, 2013 by anx
Great promo, I haven't play this game back then, but I'm out of cash. :(
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anx: I've never played this game but somehow I remember its box art. Funny, isn't it?

But now I'm considering buying it although it's not on my wishlist. I don't know that buying it is a good decision because I don't know what to expect and it's a hard game as I read.

Tough decision...
The controls take a while to get used to, kinda like with Gothic, but after that it's not really hard. And,as someone who got it at full price, I can assure you it's worth every penny ;)
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anx: I've never played this game but somehow I remember its box art. Funny, isn't it?

But now I'm considering buying it although it's not on my wishlist. I don't know that buying it is a good decision because I don't know what to expect and it's a hard game as I read.

Tough decision...
At today's price, it's a easy decision.

I've had the game for years and love it.
Awesome game. Slash and smash.
This game doesn't seem to run at the appropriate speed on the Windows 7 & 8 operating systems, but GOG is advertising it as being compatible with them. They should perhaps look into a fix to make the game permanently play at the regular speed and not on the mushroom-addict speed that we seem to have trouble with. I'm disappointed that I never got to play it properly, but there were times when it did work... for a brief period.
Post edited July 29, 2013 by UnknownMember