Styx: Master of Shadows is a video game set in the same universe as Of Orcs and Men. This stealth game is a prequel to "Of Orcs and Men" with Styx being the main character. Styx: Master of Shadows was developed by Cyanide Studio. The game was released October 7th, 2014.
Plot
Styx plans to steal the Heart of the World Tree, housed inside the human built, floating Tower of Akenash. In order to do this, he has to prepare well: secure a hideout, find maps of Akenash, steal the access key from Governor Barimen and get out of there. Things are not quite so straight forward, however, and Styx finds himself in prison. He soon learns that this is far from being his biggest problem and that, in fact, nothing went according to plan.
List of Missions
- Reminiscences (Areas 1, 2, 3)
- Akenash's Atrium (Areas 1, 2, 3, 4)
- Master Key (Areas 1, 2, 3, 4)
- Deliverance (Areas 1, 2, 3, 4)
- The Creator (Areas 1, 2, 3)
- The Architect (Areas 1, 2, 3, 4)
- Conflagration (Areas 1, 2, 3, 4)
- Renaissance (Areas 1, 2, 3, Boss Fight)
A detailed timeline of events is described here.
Gameplay
Players can achieve a total of 34 achievements and work Styx up through a skill tree of 28 skills divided in 7 branches.
Trivia
- With a bit of effort one can read the titles on the many books scattered throughout the game[1]. Among them are:
- L'origine de la couleur des orcs (Eng: The origins of the colours of orcs.
- La gauche est là où ton pouce est à droite (Eng: Left is where your thumb is at your right)
- Réutilisation ma vie <br> mon œuvre (Eng: Reuse my life, my work)
- Comment décortiquer une crevette Tome IX (Eng: How to shell a shrimp Volume IX)
- La pomme du nain Tome XIII (Eng: The Apple of the dwarf Volume XIII)
- Un hareng à toute ma famille | Hasta la Vista (Eng: A herring to all my family | Hasta la Vista)
- La ratatouille de Phoenix <br> et comment l'ancien attrape la balle comme un renard (Eng: Ratatouille of Phoenix, and how the old one catch the ball like a fox)
- La furtivité next gen, et le comment le Papillion grimpe aux arbres (Eng: Next gen Stealth, and the how the butterfly climb on trees)
- Un jour je serais le meilleur breton je me battrai sans répit (Eng: One day I will be the best Breton, I will fight relentlessly) - This is from the French Pokemon opening song, however the word dressor has been replaced with Breton, an inhabitants of west France.
- Contrefaçon Morph le maudit (Eng: Counterfeit Morph the cursed) - Could be a reference to the movie "M le Maudit" ("M" in English and "M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder" in German).
- La gloire de Nanterre (Eng: Nanterre's glory) - Reference to a French book "La gloire de mon père" ("My Father's Glory" in English). Mon père and Nanterre are pronounced similarly and Cyanide is based in Nanterre.
- Le sorcier de Rahen-Sul Tome XVI (Eng: The wizard of Rahen-Sul Volume XVI)
- Le monde de la guerre artisanale (Eng: The world of home-made war)
- Of orcs and men
- Quand le lapin vole le chasseur tire - Edition pas tres limite (Eng: When the rabbit fly the hunter shoot - Not very limited edition) There's a pun here, with "vole" who can be translate either by "fly" or "steal", and "tire" who can mean "shoot" or in slang "steal".
- The music used in the trailers is by Dawaun Parker and called Grape Street, found on the album Luxury Rap Beats II. The title is available on Amazon and Spotify.
- The soundtrack of the game was composed by H-Pi and can be bought (and listened to) for example on Bandcamp and iTunes.
Promo Screenshots
Logo
Other Promo Material
Videos
References
- ↑ Thanks to Archiviste d'Apocrypha for pointing this out.
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