Styx: Master of Shadows

i love it i just suck at stealth

Playing on the hardest setting is no joke. Lots of trial and death and restarts.

Looks and runs better than expected and I like the stealth gameplay.

Very fun to ghost through the game with the special abilities. Levels are big and have a lot of ways to go about navigating them. Styx can be annoying when trying to drop off ledges or how he auto climbs up them, but thats my only issue!

They really stepped up the overall polish, compared to Of Orcs and Men. Sure it is a completely different game, even in its mechanics, but you can definitely see that Cyanide's skill grew in the time between OOAM and this first Styx game. But of course it still has some flaws. For example the movement is not as slick as you would wish for a stealth game and cost me my "unseen streak"quite a lot of times. But that leads into a positive: The immergent gameplay. It is so much fun to either flee and regroup after being caught by guards, or even fight them out in the open, though it is quite hard to fight more than one or two people and in that regard it could be called similar to Thief. The Stealth itself is solid and I never felt that I have been detected because of a poorly impemented system. If you look for good stealth, even though in third person (I only like this fact, because of me playing a GOBLIN!). The sound quality is a lot better than in OOAM and kudos to the team to get the same voice actor for Styx as in OOAM. One thing I did not like about this game was the skill system. It felt tacked on and not really that impactful. The story I liked and even though smarter peole will see the twists, I got utterly surprised, which does not happen that often in games anymore for me. But it get pretty long in the tooth towards the end. Another very negative for me was the same as with OOAM -> The achevements do not work properly. Basically every achievement that serves a counter does not function, like pickpocket 20 guards. I don't know what it is about Cyanide games, but nearly all of them have this flaw it seems. A very positive aspect to me was the atmosphere and the sound track. Both reminded me a lot of Dishonored, which I utterly love I can really recommend this to stealth game fans in an unusual setting. Avoid as an achievement hunter.