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Styx might wisecrack a lot (including some which I’ll admit are genuinely funny), but it almost comes off as a defense mechanism in this cruel world with duplicitous shapeshifters and bloody elven rituals meant to appease giant millipedes worshiped as gods.

The broad strokes – a world filled with elves, dwarves, and humans – resemble classic J.R.R.Tolkien, but the fantasy universe developer Cyanide Studios presents here is a dark one suited to a game so drenched in shadows. The whole of Styx: Shards of Darkness is a little like that: an eye roll one moment, and welcome suspense and stealthy action the next.įor such an ugly little squatter, Styx lives in an attractive world. That, and he's an amazing thief and assassin whose shadowy neck-breaking skills more than make up for its occasional bad pun.

After all, he's the only member of his race who's intelligent enough to speak and make stale Assassin's Creed and Terminator references, and he thus really has no one else to tell him how corny he sounds. Styx the goblin tells some utterly awful jokes, with one of the tamest (and lamest) sounding off straight after an accidental death where he pops up on the loading screen and asks, 'Is that a controller in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?' I can forgive it, though.

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