I’ll add here that the enemy AI has serious problems with many of the maps, getting snagged up on features, man after man running over the exact same traps without any sort of learning, and it can get a lot worse if your mage casts spectral walls blocking certain routes. There are barrels that explode and levels to pull and wild animals that can be released and all sorts of mischief that can go on. You can attack the chain holding a chandelier and drop it on your enemies (or your friends if you don’t plan too well). These maps are like little set pieces with plenty of things you can interact with. Combat transitions you to an isometric map of the location. At those locations you frequently find yourself in combat, and that’s where the bulk of the game is spent. The world map consists of a number of spots you can visit – cities, towns, dungeons, caves, shrines.
#Blackguards and blackguards 2 upgrade#
You have characters in your party, spend experience to upgrade them, and gather quests and intelligence by speaking with other characters using a menu-driven dialog system. How about I start by describing it all and go from there?īlackguards (1 & 2) is a tactical RPG. Better? Worse? That’s difficult to decide. Then around hour three, a whole new portion of the game opened up and it became something very different. In a way this was not particularly surprising to me – Blackguards 1 came out less than a year ago, so how much change could they have really worked into the new game? In another way, it was curious to me that the game I was playing was being released as a whole new game and not just DLC to the original. Sure, there was a new plotline, but within half an hour I had assembled the old adventuring crew of Naurim the dwarf, Takate the spear-wielding savage and Zurbaran the mage, and it was like I had never stopped playing Blackguards 1. Blackguards 2 seemed in those first couple of hours to be, not just a similar game to Blackguards 1, but the same game. The Ugly: Enemy AI has problems with some maps.Īfter playing Blackguards 2 for a couple of hours, I was all but ready to just turn in my review of Blackguard 1, append the number 2 everywhere and call it done. The Bad: Cost/benefit of many upgrades is a little out of whack. The Good: Lots and lots of character upgrades.
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