Focus Home Interactive has released a new set of screenshots for Styx: Master of Shadows; an infiltration game with RPG elements developed by Cyanide Studio for PC. Styx: Master of Shadows will feature open levels and will sport numerous missions with various objectives as players climb up the Tower of Akenash – murder, information recovery, theft of precious artifacts, etc – and gradually reconstruct the puzzle that provides the key to the mystery of their origins. Enjoy!
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I wonder if their animations are unfinished. What other reason would they have not to show video footage yet? The graphics look shippable, the levels look huge and detailed, seems like they could put together a 2 minute gameplay teaser easily.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLkI7komXWk
Thanks! I had assumed DSOG would post about it if there was gameplay so I didn’t look.
So I was half-right, it’s not the animations, it’s the shadows that are unfinished. You can see light going through a wall right at the start and the main character’s shadow flips back and forth between different angles making it very obvious that it’s a canned “fake” shadow.
Gameplay: It’s nice to hear them acknowledge “ghosting” in the commentary but it would be nicer to actually see it. I’m still waiting for a stealth game that actually forces you to leave no trace instead of allowing you to kill almost everyone by pressing one button when standing behind them. Or what about a middle ground? What about a resource that depletes as you kill enemies, for instance if Styx needed to use poison to kill. The idea of someone sneaking through a vast complex filled with his enemies and murdering every second person he meets is just ridiculous to me. It worked in Riddick because that was about a physically superior hero who can see in the dark in a place that is mostly dark. Here the whole gimmick seems to be that the MC is small and agile while everyone else is big and slow.
Yeah,game is not finished so they can’t show a proper playthrough just yet but footage is from January so they will probably upload some gameplay soon.
Game looks promising no doubt but a “pure” stealth game would not sell well these days.
This games looks very good and promising….
I freaking love the aesthetics of European games. Looks nice.