Alas, the seemingly simple job goes awry, and Styx becomes embroiled in a larger scheme that threatens theвЂ¦ well, thatвЂ™s more than enough straight-faced blurb, I think. The game opens with him heartily partaking in all five-IвЂ™m not sure if it establishes a reason, but I suppose everyone needs a hobby-when heвЂ™s confronted by a mortal enemy, who has a job that nobody else can do and who persuades him to cooperate with vast amounts of material goods. Styx is a goblin who was transformed into the living personification of the bottom of the comments section via a magical substance called Amber, granting him the ability to speak, swear, sneak, stab and steal.

Why belittle someone elseвЂ™s work like that? Are you another Ty, a tough talker trying to hide glaring confidence issues? Or have you some transformative ace up your sleeve?ДЄlas, history has repeated itself, and Shards of Darkness fits the profile perfectly: a decent mid-tier game that sabotages itself by being far cockier than it has any right to be.ДЇor those of you who donвЂ™t remember the first Styx game-donвЂ™t worry, I finished it, and itвЂ™s a miasma to me too-letвЂ™s catch up. Initially I chalked it up to the lingering spectre of nineties attitude and left it at that, assuming that the industry had long since moved past such petty squabbles, but colour me surprised if the trailer for Styx: Shards of Darkness didnвЂ™t cheekily snipe at AssassinвЂ™s Creed right then and there. It was a bizarre piece of schoolboyish aggression directed at games that were-not to be too unkind to Ty here-generally accepted to be better experiences, and in hindsight it just makes what was probably a pretty okay platformer look like it was puffing up its chest far too much. While it does occasionally get brought up Down Under-usually as part of somebodyвЂ™s desperate grasping-at-straws attempts to prove we totally have a functioning games industry over here, honest-I know it mostly for a somewhat ill-advised television advert that heavily implied Ty had beaten the living daylights out of Crash Bandicoot, Sonic and Spyro, leaving them in unnerving full-body casts in a hospital ward. Does anyone remember Ty the Tasmanian Tiger? It was an Australian-made early-2000s game that sailed in on the last big wave of 3D mascot platformers, the sort that was basically alright but largely forgotten by the time the next console generation rolled around.

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