![]() ![]() 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. Lay waste to your enemies with powerful spells and abilities.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.Interact with your environment and let walls collapse or even discover new routes on your journey through Aventuria.Give priority to offensive or tactic in challenging battles Choose your spells talents and skills wisely since they dictate your strategy on the battlefield.Make decisions influencing your squad and the ending of the game.Master and finish the game on many different non-linear paths.Command up to 20 characters in your party and lead them to death or glory.A story with many twists and turns fateful decisions and more than 20 challenging hours of playtime awaits you.Find the Vanquishers of the Nine Hordes and see what has become of Takate Naurim and Zurbaran.Recruit mercenaries find upgrades and build an indomitable army.Sounds like a solid plan doesn’t it? But then again how cunning must one be to escape the dungeon’s walls and how reckless must one be to gather and command the worst scum of the realms? She needs to recruit an army of Sellswords and rally the Vanquishers of the Nine Hordes around her. She intends to break out of prison and overthrow Marwan to claim the throne herself. She is neither fond nor proficient in matters of diplomacy or politics so she chooses a more… practical approach. First of all she spends her days incarcerated in a dungeon and secondly there is already a man on her throne: Marwan. Unfortunately there are two problems that potentially foil her plans. Cassia a young woman of noble descent has only one goal: She wants to claim the Shark Throne no matter the price and be it only for one day. The Vanquishers of the Nine Hordes long parted ways but life in Aventuria went on. Three years have passed since Count Uria´s plots. Every action has consequences so make your decisions wisely. Blackguards 2 is a turn-based strategy-RPG and will deliver challenging hexfield battles and a gritty story filled with violence and crime.Ĭhoose your playstyle: no matter if front line combat monster mage or ranged fighter it’s in your hands how you want to develop your character. ![]()
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