![]() You have got to ask yourself right now if this is what you want from an RPG. There’s no exploring, very little choice, no talking things out, if you click somewhere on the map 99% of the time you’ll get a combat encounter. The turn-based combat, as mentioned, is the entire thrust of the game. Couldn’t I ask her massive retinue of guards to help us save her? Instead of putting us in an impossible battle where I could only save her if I died? After about twenty restarts I just let her die, and it didn’t cost me anything. There’s also just some plain odd writing, like the nutty Bailiff hunting you proclaiming “keeping company with murderers makes you a murderer too!” Er, no it doesn’t, and I don’t think his ploy about kidnapping a baroness (who a moment ago was surrounded by heavily-armed bodyguards) and hanging her to draw us in to a trap would make him very popular in that area. The story isn’t bad, with one or two points of treachery and some neat characters (particularly the leads), but it’s nowhere near as intriguing as Memoria. After escaping from the prison alongside a mysterious lothario mage called Zurbaran (who may or may not be a spy) and an angry dwarf called Naurim, you and your little band of fugitives must not only escape the bounty hunters and strange men in black on your trail but also eventually become the unlikely hope of the land of Aventuria. The most sorry bunch of heroes in a fantasy RPG you’ll ever seeīlackguards puts your player-created character in the role of a prisoner, convicted for the brutal murder of the Princess Elenor who was supposed to be your friend. What I didn’t expect was for Blackguards to be all combat. After two enjoyable adventures set in Germany’s answer to D&D I was looking forward to seeing what Daedalic could do with the more naturally-fitting genre for a fantasy role-playing tabletop set. I was attracted to the game by the description of it as an RPG with turn-based combat based on The Dark Eye universe. ![]() There aren’t many games that I struggle to review because I personally didn’t get on with it and yet I know that it’s built for a very specific sub-set of player, but Blackguards was definitely one. Blackguards is a game that either has been built for you or it hasn’t. Both were very good, but if you’re making games based on an RPG surely there should actually be an RPG among them? Finally Daedalic have done just that, and it’s called Blackguards. The Dark Eye is an extremely popular tabletop fantasy role-playing game in Germany, in the style of Dungeons & Dragons and their ilk, so it’s odd that the only games which have been made out of it are Daedalic’s adventures Chains of Satinav and Memoria. ![]()
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