Styx: Master of Shadows

The start really good and after you unlock some skills it gets even better,but, unfortunately its very repetitious, the ai is psych,the second half of the game is slog and lot bugs like: guard hearing muffeld kills,seeing you in the dark,being alert by a body tha you hid,etc, plaque this game making a very frustrating stealth game that you have to reload often.

The idea and concept of Styx and the games world itself is actually very interesting and appears to be well thoght out. However this only rises my disappointment, since the devs absolutely butchered this good concept with bad-to-mediocre game mechanics which suffer from clunky implementations and common bugs. I got to a point where i basically had no motivation to play this game any further. In comparison to other games based around stealth (Dishonored, AC, etc.), Styx: Master of Shadows absolutely tanks in several categories: Combat: The games approach on combat is an absolute disaster. It is poorly implemented and solely consists of Quicktime-Events, which mostly fail because of bugs. I get that this game revolves around stealth, but thats not an excuse to make the combat an absolute mechanical nightmare, which essentially makes getting spotted a death-sentence. Even fleeing from fights isn't possible! Levels/maps: The levels are beautifully designed, but get repetetive pretty quickly. There's also alot of recycling during the later stages of the game. Parkour/Movement: The controls and movement can be quite clunky and buggy. Sometimes Styx climbs up ledges without the player actually pressing a button, sometimes he somehow doesn't grab a ledge which results in his death and the game does a poor job at explaining the mechanics. For example Styx wont climb ledges automatically if you press spacebar a little bit longer. Also Styx will automaticly hold onto ledges if you walk off of them while pressing shift. All mechanics that are not explained well enough by the game. Stealth: The stealth mechanic seems to be working just fine mostly. Sometimes dark areas don't trigger Styxs tattoo's, while some bright areas sometimes do. Also sometimes enemies seem to have eagle eyes. Conclusion: Great concept, but frustrating to play due to serious gameplay-issues.

The bane of many a stealth game, is bizzare stealth detection. I stealth kill a guard, but the one on the far side of the room AND facing away sees me and runs right at me. Another time I stealth kill and immediately hide under a desk *buzzer* NOPE guard knows exactly where I am and kills me. Since Styx isn't great at melee, the whole point is to be sneaky. Kinda hard to BE sneaky if guards have super-heearing and x-ray vision. I will say the game did look fairly good, though the opening cut scene was very grainy like a 2000ish game would be. Refunded.

It's a simple, run of the mill stealth game. Not a lot sucks in it and it has little to no jank. It's not a 5 star game but it loses a star because it just didn't have enough variety in moving about or killing something. Worth a lot more than what I paid for it.

idk what to say brother its got all you need try it