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General discussion (archive)Classic Gem Promo: Blade of Darkness (Severance)(39 posts)(39 posts)
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Posted July 29, 2013
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.
Posted July 29, 2013
I never hit anyone with their own body parts so I wouldn't say thats a good selling point of the game. I played it first as the barbarian as was extremely frustrated in many parts. But after completing it, I liked it so much I finished the game with all the other characters.

The main gripe with the controls are that there is no direct sidestep. Instead, you have to 'lock-on' a single opponent, which allows you to walk circles around the opponent. But you can imagine how awkward this becomes when facing multiple opponents or when dodging arrows.

Essentially the game comes down to executing cool looking combo moves at the right time. Since there are many combos attached to different weapons, the game continues to hold interest throughout.

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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?
Posted July 29, 2013
Damn you all, I broke down and bought it. It better not make me cry. One upside is that it's a digital product, so I can't angrily snap in half like I did with the Dark Souls CD. Oh well, at least if this makes me rage, it's only about $3 worth of bloddlust. ;)
Post edited July 29, 2013 by IAmSinistar
Posted July 30, 2013
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UnknownMember: 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.
works perfectly fine on my laptop with W7


Severance is a great game, tough one for sure but not unfair. Feels a bit like a Souls game without the open world and leveling system. But the methodical and impactful combat is there and it's a lot of fun.
Post edited July 30, 2013 by BambamCZ
Posted July 30, 2013
totally worth it, just remember to load game after each save (it clears up the cache), the game tends to crash a lot otherwise
Posted July 30, 2013
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IAmSinistar: Damn you all, I broke down and bought it. It better not make me cry. One upside is that it's a digital product, so I can't angrily snap in half like I did with the Dark Souls CD. Oh well, at least if this makes me rage, it's only about $3 worth of bloddlust. ;)
You can always copy it to a CD and break that in half. :P
Posted July 30, 2013
I played this for a bit recently. All in all it looks promising. Too bad for occasional unpredictable deadly trap as otherwise I would really enjoy playing the game trying not to die.

What I find interesting is that each of the selectable characters begins the game at unique location. I do not know how many character-exclusive areas there are, but I think that's the first time I see it in any game.
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Posted August 26, 2013
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BambamCZ: works perfectly fine on my laptop with W7

Severance is a great game, tough one for sure but not unfair. Feels a bit like a Souls game without the open world and leveling system. But the methodical and impactful combat is there and it's a lot of fun.
Is that so? Then perhaps it would be best if you shared your laptop specifications and Windows 7 OS details. For many gamers, it runs at an extremely fast speed, so you can't play it at all. It may be down to the graphics and driver details you select at the start of the game, but there is no permanent fix for the problem.
Posted August 26, 2013
Very nice promo, thank you GOG!
Posted August 26, 2013
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BambamCZ: works perfectly fine on my laptop with W7

Severance is a great game, tough one for sure but not unfair. Feels a bit like a Souls game without the open world and leveling system. But the methodical and impactful combat is there and it's a lot of fun.
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UnknownMember: Is that so? Then perhaps it would be best if you shared your laptop specifications and Windows 7 OS details. For many gamers, it runs at an extremely fast speed, so you can't play it at all. It may be down to the graphics and driver details you select at the start of the game, but there is no permanent fix for the problem.
it's Lenovo Ideapad, it has i5 and nVidia GT630m\Intel HD GPU. When old games run bad I usually switch to the Intel GPU, solves a lot of problems. W7 is the general portable version, always up to date, just like the drivers.
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