'Missing' and that free dodge a round are near things of the past. Take the once quasi-confusing mechanics of Blackguards, make them more coherent, and you got yourself the Blackguards 2 combat model.

While gameplay feels and looks nearly identical to the original Blackguards, there have been several lovely tweaks and advancements. Torture is yet another tool that helps shape Cassia’s personality and ruling doctrine. In war, intel is everything and the perfect blend of classic good cop and bad cop can take you places in this bleak environment. Based on how hard the prisoner is to break or how frightened they are, you can use different options to extract intelligence from them. With an attempt to not sound as sadistic as humanly possible, the torture options are done cleverly. Does she really care about the people and land or is this little soirée purely about bloodshed and revenge your call.īetween battles you have the option to visit your camp, chum around with your champions (basically the living cast from the other game), organize you mercenaries, level your characters up, and decide your torture methods of your captured prisoners of war. You’re going to be sculpting Cassia’s personality. Now that he’s ‘seen’ your camp, do you let him off scotch free, cut is tongue out to keep him blind and mute, or just let him go free? This is a real example. Well, he’s blind now and has a suspicious message for you. Hey, remember that guy that once scalped a statue in your honor when you were nobility? Yea him. The player will be confronted with some difficult decisions where sweet, sweet Cassia will have to decide her level of benevolence and/or tyranny. This one way trip on the madness express is a powerful reccurring theme and one of the drives in the protagonist’s character development. How she is built though, is completely up to you. Due to the fact that you do play as Cassia means that you don’t get to generate your own personal character. As her once renown beautiful face starts getting deranged with more and more venom, Cassie delves deeper and deeper into the realm of crazy town. Cassia, wife of South Aventuria’s ruler Marwan, was sent to exile where she ‘changed.’ Over four years of ‘friendship’ with an apathetic jailer and a spider I ingeniously named Eightlegs (you’ll never guess how I came up with that one), good ole noble Cassia starts to go a bit bonkers.

So here we are, a few years after the events of the original Blackguards. Blackguards focused on this concept while Blackguards 2 advanced the concept even further. The Disney prince on the white stallion has been driven into the cold, dank, turf – let’s gravitate towards scoundrels with murky and less than valiant histories. From a storytelling standpoint, the anti-hero standpoint throws out the iconic hero tropes and allows for, well, anything.

If there is one thing that that the Dark Eye and more specifically the Blackguards franchise does absolutely right, it's nailing the archetype of the anti-hero.

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