Posted on: May 28, 2020
Sonlirain
Spiele: 265 Rezensionen: 17
Not a masterpiece but still good.
It's a good (very good even) game as long as you stick to one rule. Play goblin difficulty. Really it's almost a must as the games combat is abysmal and possibly even worse than combat in Thief 2014. This is not a big problem however as Styx is a pure example of a stealth game. Styx is not like (the new) Sam Fisher who upon being discovered just flips a table and clears the map with machine gun fire. Far from that! He's a puny goblin who will get his butt kicked and head caved in if you don't play the game to his strengths. The maps are all very well designed... with one glaring issue however. You are going to see them all at least twice as you start playing all the maps in reverse from chapter 4 and onwards. On the upside the maps are well designed and still work well even played in reverse. The good: Expansive levels with a lot of verticality that rarely make you feel like you're being forcibly shoehorned into a predetermined path and if there is one you can easily break out of it by creative use of your clone or invisibility. Chatty (and funny) main character. Minimal handholding. Even silent kills cause some noise so there are no scenes common in many stealth games where entire formations of densely packed troops are silently murdered without them even realizing as long as no one looks directly at the Grave Walker. The bad: The guards occasionally stop patrolling upon loading a saved state and just stand in place. The maps are all played twice... and one even thrice. The map is useless not only not showing the main characters position but also showing a pretty small fragment of the actual map due to all the verticality and the map being drawn from a top down perspective. On some maps that's almost like not showing over half of the level. This might be intentional however, as the game takes after Thief titles where the maps made or received by Garret were often not particularly, accurate or complete. The combat is laughable and best completely avoided.
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