#Blackguards 2 pc review free#

Likewise her companions are a seedy bunch all ably voice acted, if slightly too over the top at times. That’s not to say you can turn her into a Disney Princess, but you can pick just how cruel and evil she acts, opting to hang people rather than just let them go, for example. On her path to vengeance she’s going to spill a lot of blood, and along the way you’ll be given chances to prod her personality in slightly different directions. Cassia is bonkers, there’s no way around that, and in camp you even have the option to have her speak to herself, the resulting conversations usually falling into either the amusing box or the downright creepy box, or both at the same time.

#Blackguards 2 pc review free#

It’s not often we get to play as the bad guy, so Blackguards 2 immediately earns itself some free kudos for taking the more interesting approach. For this task she’ll naturally need some help, which she gets in the form of a group of morally questionable comrades and plenty of mercenaries looking for work.

More than a little angry she does what any sensible person would do and declares war, intending on not only getting revenge on her husband but also claiming the throne in the process. The mere existence of the exit sets the stage for a story that’s enjoyable, but a bit rough around the edges. Presumably thanks to an idiotic architect who didn’t understand the concept of a prison properly she wanders through the labyrinth she was hurled into beneath an arena and eventually stumbles upon the exit a mere 5-years after her imprisonment.

It’s good to be bad, as the saying goes, something which you’ll discover playing as Cassia, a woman dumped into a dungeon by her malicious husband Marwen and then driven mad by the venom of huge spiders. Luckily for me while this sequel does have ties to its predecessor, namely in a few returning characters, knowledge of the previous Blackguards isn’t required here. Confession time: despite it sitting in my library for nigh on a year I never played the original Blackguards, leaving me to head into this sequel with no expectations and a mild case of trepidation.