Blackguards 2

The original had a lot of promise, but then suffered such massive design flaws it was litterally unplayable. The sequel strips out making a character, now you're just THE character, so some replay is gone if only in feel. The game is playable, but only barely. Balance is still woefully broken. Tactics still make no sense (archers and mages are often useless because of nonsense line of sight issues, AoE spells can never be cast on the spot you want, always one spot off for some reason, and what is with the stacks of boxes that if you try to push over always fall on you instead?). AI is clunky at best, suicidal at worst. your troops will always take the worst path to the destination going through hazards so you have to micromanage their movements. Troops will refuse to move some times. Managing gear is an exercise in madness because the stat changes are wrong half the time. Really the gear UI is the most flawed aspect and was not fixed from the original, absolutely the worst I've ever seen. The story and dialogue are passable, but often feel like there are gaps and everyone is just insane. Dialogue choices have an unclear impact, if any. It can manage to hold interest for a few hours but then it just starts to wear you down and feels more like a chore than a hobby.

I haven't tried Blackguard 1. It started right away with Blackguard 2. So I unfortunately lost the connection of the story. This game is a strategy game that conveys the feeling of RPG. The overall storyline is described like an RPG, but in order to achieve the results, it is possible to proceed to the next step only when it is solved with a strategy game and won. If you wanted classic RPG, this game is different. If you wanted to play games like "Baldur's Gate" or "Icewind Dale," this choice would not be right. If you wanted to play a game where you can expand your ground and focus on battle, such as "M&M Heroes" and "King's Bounty," you could have fun playing this game. Graphics are not good, but gameability is good enough. Personally, I think this kind of revenge story is also good. If you like enough time and strategic battles, I recommend you to play this game.

Wow I almost wouldn’t know where to begin… this is truly a sweet game: To my judgement the story was even more interesting than Blackguards 1. Although simple and relatively short I really liked it. The dialogues were fun, and the characters well developed for a relatively short game. The upgrade system was simplified, and a couple of the objects of complain from the last title were fixed (or degraded, depending on your taste): now there is unlimited equipment and better chances of hitting the enemies. Is like the game was designed with the whole and only purpose of having fun and strategizing during the battles but without having to worry too much about restrictions such as lack of arrows or not having enough AP. Still have to be careful how to spend it though, and although equipment was unlimited the money you could earn was not. All this didn’t make it any easier some times, some fights were light, most you couldn't let your guard down, others I had to repeat a couple of times, some of them force you stop and think and plan ahead, and many others taught me not to give up and fight to the end, as it seemed that I was losing horribly just to pull out miraculously at the end. True that there are no guides in the internet (that I could find), but for me this only became a real problem with a certain map that seems a bit buggy and is a very hard fight, but in the end this was ok too, as it forced me to think harder…. and realize how spoiled we are with guides when things start to go difficult. Initially I was disappointed that the game was a bit short, but in the end the lenght felt about perfect, and the end gave me a tear. Only thing I would request the development team if there was a next time, is to allow us to make the time go faster during the fights, this is for when we have eternal strings of enemy turns, the wait was a bit despairing some times. Still, it wasn't too often. Really excellent game!

The user experiance and story everything is very compelling im still in early game but I see people rate negitive when they are in early game. i especially like the main charicter, her style and the voice actress. I see complaint that its hard, its easy if im on easy mode. not alot of hand holding to the point that the game feels unfinished as I am clueless what to do sometimes in battles. It is also sometimes hard not showing up prepared with the right weapons and spells to make it an easy fight.

On first looks you will start thinking this game is too similar to the first game, but after some time you will see they added many new elements to game mechanics. Created better story, balanced more skills and add optionally missions, only lack more cities and consequences of choices, about 20h good, demanding game...