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Blackwind

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Blackwind
Description
Blackwind is a top-down sci-fi action game that puts you in the shoes of a teenager trapped inside a prototype battle armor suit during an alien invasion. Face off against enemies, cut through their ranks, and fight back in a last-ditch attempt to stop a planetary invasion. When the starship Pand...
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( 12 Reviews )

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2022, Drakkar Dev, ...
System requirements
Windows 7, AMD FX-8320 (3.5 GHz) / Intel i5-4690K (3.5 GHz) or better, 4 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX...
Time to beat
5.5 hMain
5.5 h Main + Sides
7 h Completionist
6.5 h All Styles
Description
Blackwind is a top-down sci-fi action game that puts you in the shoes of a teenager trapped inside a prototype battle armor suit during an alien invasion. Face off against enemies, cut through their ranks, and fight back in a last-ditch attempt to stop a planetary invasion.

When the starship Pandora is shot down, James Hawkins finds himself trapped inside a military prototype Battle Frame armor as he hurtles towards Medusa-42. As the Raknos hordes ravage the planet and leave every human mining colony in ruins, James doesn’t have long to discover how to operate the Battle Frame if he wants to survive his dangerous surroundings and find his missing father.

But James isn’t alone on his quest – an unexpected ally hides inside his Battle Frame…

  • Choose your playstyle: Engage in melee combat, shoot at will, launch missiles at enemies, or use special Battle Suit powers to survive showdowns.

  • Fiercely terminate your opponents with brutal moves.

  • Evolve your Battle Frame with new powers and expand your skill tree.

  • Use the Battle Frame Drone to expand your fighting and exploring capabilities in the single-player campaign.

  • Local Coop Mode: the Battle Frame and its Drone can be controlled by two players.

Copyright © 2021 Drakkar Societa' Cooperativa

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Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
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Time to beat
5.5 hMain
5.5 h Main + Sides
7 h Completionist
6.5 h All Styles
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Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11), Mac OS X (10.11+)
Release date:
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Size:
2.4 GB

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Critics reviews
55
Top Critic Average
24 %
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Posted on: January 20, 2022

MischiefMaker

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Surprisingly good action-adventure indie

Blackwind is a 3rd person platformer action-adventure indie game by a 2-person development crew. You play a teenage kid who takes refuge from a crashing spaceship in an experimental AI-driven battlesuit and ends up having to take on an entire alien invasion by himself. As most teens in mecha anime do. Gameplay is equal parts combat, exploration, and puzzle-platforming. The combat portion of the game is solid. You have a peashooter that can upgrade to multi-shot, energy blades with normal and heavy attacks in a 4-hit combo, multi-target missile swarms, a double-jump that can do an area-effect ground-pound, dashing, parries, and more. Certain enemies require certain moves be used to make them vulnerable. Get their HP low enough and you can do glory kills ala. nu-DOOM for a quick burst of health. Dead enemies drop orbs that can be used to unlock and upgrade new moves at upgrade centers. Exploration parts have you inside maze-like facilities battling aliens in tight hallways and small rooms as you search for consoles and passkeys to open doors and get out. Pay close attention to the minimap, it'll indicate important things like possible key locations with a white dot. You can also explore narrow vents and other small openings with a tiny detachable laser drone at points, giving the game a kind of Blaster Master feel. Exploration is probably the weakest portion of the game because all the reused assets make it easy to get lost. Finally there are 3rd-person platforming challenges, often with zelda-style timed button platforms. Not much to say about this except learn what grab-able ledges look like and you'll save yourself a world of frustration. As for negatives, while the graphics are bright and the music is pleasant, but the cheesy voice acting for your teenage protagonist can grate. The camera is out of the player's control and its tracking and panning can be weird sometimes. While keyboard-mouse controls are supported, this game's made for a pad.


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Posted on: July 12, 2022

ast486

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Games: 1522 Reviews: 89

Mostly a good game!

The combat is quite fluid and fun, the music and voices are good. The environments, units and mechs all look very nice. The main thing wrong is that the controls are unresponsive when trying to do the jumping puzzles. This hardly matters in the normal flow of combat, but when you need to land a precision jump, it becomes EXTREMELY frustrating! Thankfully the number of times you need to use the super jump ability are very few and far between. I'd not pay full price for this, but it's definitely worth a buy on sale.


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Posted on: January 20, 2022

DesGames123

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Games: 526 Reviews: 3

Rough But Fun

Combat is fun and punchy with some nice environmental destruction but the camera can get pretty bad sometimes especially in outdoor environments and platforming feels really janky


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Posted on: January 20, 2022

sever29

Games: 31 Reviews: 15

The worst camera system

Voice acting and story line (so far) - poor Graphics and game play - fair Customisation and content - fair Camera Angle - UNFORGIVABLE - pleeeeeeeease just pull the camera back. Overall 1/5 - There is love and effort put into this game by the devs, but it really needs some tuning before we can overlook the flaws.


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Posted on: January 26, 2022

supernet2ec

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Games: 1377 Reviews: 26

Hit a point thats impassable

At the point where you need to get past the hybrids, and in the snow terrain, i cannot proceed forward. I need a pass code key. But there is no pass code key, i wasted 2hrs running around back, and i cannot teleport to past locations to find it. Kinda a major game breaking issue. I CANNOT recomend anyone buy this game until that portion of the game is corrected as i literally am stuck and am deadlocked doing anything. That said, game is "okay" up to that point, but the camera can be very very big hassle at the points when your in the forest environment. Kinda headache enducing really.


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