Mildly surprised to see another installment in this series after all these years, but I’m pretty excited.
For those who don’t know, Styx is a AA stealth game where you play as a goblin assassin (the titular Styx). It spawned as a spin off of another fantasy game (Of orcs and men) where you played as both the goblin and an orc warrior, which was unfortunately a bit too janky for my tastes.
The focus on stealth of the following installments really benefitted the series, imo. While they still carry a bit of janky-ness (as many AA titles do), they are nevertheless a lot of fun! The story in the first one was very good as well. I still haven’t finished the second one, so I can’t comment much on it.
The first two games are also currently discounted on Steam and GoG ($2 for the first one and $3 for the second), and I think they are very much worth that much.
Didn’t watch but pulled this from a comment under the video:
<span style="color:#323232;">1) Hollow Knight
</span><span style="color:#323232;">2) Cuphead
</span><span style="color:#323232;">3) Deep Rock Galactic
</span><span style="color:#323232;">4) Ori and the Blind Forest / Will of the Wisps
</span><span style="color:#323232;">5) Dead Cells
</span><span style="color:#323232;">6) Tunic
</span><span style="color:#323232;">7) Fez
</span><span style="color:#323232;">8) Ender Lilies
</span><span style="color:#323232;">9) Animal Well
</span><span style="color:#323232;">10) Bendy and the Ink Machine / Dark Revival
</span><span style="color:#323232;">11) Celeste
</span><span style="color:#323232;">12) Hyper Light Drifter
</span><span style="color:#323232;">13) A Hat in Time
</span><span style="color:#323232;">14) Little Nightmares (both games)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">15) Cocoon
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Edit: Not the actual list, it’s someone else’s top 15 apparently.
I do not agree that the second is better than the first after playing one after another, but that might be because the way the store evolved made the bosses less interesting to me on the second game.
Yeah, that’s why I like it. It is a well-informed list that still communicates good information. Presumably a lot of people who would find themselves watching this video already would know that Celeste is good.
This is a better list than the actual list probably 😅 Not having hollow knight or cuphead on the actual list is pretty insane and it is much more of a “non-mainstream best indie games” list
Thanks to AAA companies (also AAAA one) being shit, we live in the golden age of indies. So many great and niche games out there. I would definitely put Obra Dinn in this list.
The main idea is that Styx is smaller than humans, so direct combat is never an option. Stealth takedowns, traps and such are the tools here. The enemies are delightfully stupid: sure, once you’ve been spotted they give you a chase and smack you about, but they also go back to their patrols if you manage to escape and hide for a bit. The usual “huh, must have been the wind” thing.
Gameplay can be a bit quicksave/quickload if that’s how you want to play it. Levels are generally huge, but end up somewhat being obstacle courses with few routes which zigzag around the direct path through them.
The games are a bit “eurojank”, sure, but imo, very enjoyable. But I am the kind of gamer who takes hours per level just so they can knock out EVERYBODY in the level, without raising alarms, just because that’s fun to me, so I might be a bit biased. :P
All in all, since you already got them, give them a whirl? The first levels tell you pretty fast if you like the gameplay or not.
Whoa. I had given up on ever getting a third Styx. Great news. I just hope they learned the lesson from the second game not to shove in a bunch of irreverent meta-humor that just didn’t fit.
$50 for the base game, $70 for digital deluxe with two bonus skins from Doom and some unknown number of additional songs, as well as 3 days advance access.
I know most people want this for 3 (don't blame you at all), but I actually really enjoyed 4 when I played it on Gamecube as a kid. The missions were silly and fun, and the NPCs and voice acting were over-the-top in often hilarious ways. I wonder if they've nerfed the Snake Run Slalom at all, I remember it being crazy hard.
Time to ask the burning question though... When are we getting a remake of THUG 1 + 2?
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