The first thing that became quickly obvious was that, while it's certainly a tower, in that it's an incredibly tall vertical collection of rooms, the Tower of Akenash feels anything but cramped. Instead, we got to sit back and watch as Styx went through with one of the game's many missions - breaking some friends out of prison.
During a recent demonstration, the game's lead level designer, Julien Desourteaux, walked us through a demo stage of the game - which was probably for the best, seeing as we're normally useless at anything that involves being stealthy.
After all - at half the height of your enemies, you wouldn't last all that long in an straight up fight, but you can quickly duck under a table, scoot through a duct, or otherwise slot yourself in where normal people can't go. Looking to find out which really did come first - the goblin egg or the goblin, along with maybe pocketing a few treasures along the way, Styx sets off to scale the miles-high tower, searching for the truth, assassinating anyone that gets in his way and generally being a creepy little goblin guy lurking in the shadows.Ī stealth game through and through, Styx is a game that's all about staying undetected, and using your height to your advantage. Of course, as is often the way, it turns out this tree is somehow essential not only to the story of the game, but also to our hero himself, as it might hold a clue to how Styx, the "first of the goblins", came to being. An origin story of sorts, the game follows the little green assassin as he sets out on a quest to conquer a tower known as the Tower of Akenash - a massive, heavily defended structure that's home to hundreds of humans and elves, and houses a giant, magical tree at it's centre.
Hailing from Focus Home Interactive's somewhat overlooked fantasy role-playing game, Of Orcs and Men, Master of Shadows marks Styx's first time in the driving seat, for a game that seems to be taking the character in a markedly different direction.
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