SearchThisVideo: Styx Shards of Darkness – Back at It – Part 1 Let's Play Styx Shards of Darkness Gameplay

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what's up guys and gals and welcome back

to the nerd cast first episode in our

coverage of six shards of darkness you

might remember a while back that we

checked out the first game in this

series and I found sticks to actually be

like a tremendously likeable character I

really really liked him and it might

just be my obsession with goblins and

orcs I really like goblins and orcs in

every setting goblins and orcs are

badass but I found him to be a character

that you really really wanted to like

you wanted to be on his side you wanted

to ally yourself with him when I was

playing the first game and so when the

second one came out I thought to myself

you know it'd be awesome let's do a

short series and see if this would be

the kind of thing that anybody else in

the nerd castle would be into because

that's what I like to do here at the

nerd castle I like to play games

leave them unedited so that you can

figure out if the gameplay experience is

what you want before you purchase the

game that's the kind of content I used

to consume so that's the kind of content

I like to produce so without further ado

let's get ourselves of balls-deep up in

some stealth gameplay see if we can ice

some fools and be super scary and

gangster for a little bit with sticks

shards of darkness I figure we'll just

go with initiate it looks like we got

four difficulty settings all the way up

to master and in fact the higher

difficulties they get rid of melee

combat so you can't even fight back yeah

melee attacks kill you in one hit Wow

gnarly I will probably just go with

iniciated I played the first game I'm

not a stealth master though I'm not a

master of the shadows I wish I was

that's a pretty cool title Master the

shadows but it's one that I've never

gotten

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not many gods in one price must be a

whorehouse

even better it's the guards monthly

payroll delivery a delivery westrom or I

and I'll let the pro do the hard work

easy pickins Russ ah what I think one

article children gummi Rao

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what your ass what you push me

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thanks thanks krazee along I see Cody

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hi there I'm the new accountant

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twice come on

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well what the hell is that

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let the pro do the hard work

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smoking battery employs real so as you

can tell sticks is kind of a badass as I

understand it in this world I think that

goblins are like secondhand citizens or

something like that as I recall like

they're either fresh out of slavery or

there's still trade like slaves I can't

really recall it's been a long long time

so the last game came out like seriously

it's probably been a good four years now

that I'm thinking about it so for

several decades the people of the Empire

have been fighting to stem the invasion

of goblins the green plague to contain

the scores humans have created squads

specialized in the extermination of

goblins the carnage but it takes more

than that to worry sticks who now lives

in the shadow of the human village

Dobin a slum populated by crooks of all

kind and stuck in the middle of the

swamps his talents have earned him some

renown and an old scoundrel named Efrain

has recently contacted him for a

tailor-made job stealing the caskets

containing the guards hey I don't know

if this is a prequel to the first game

or if it's a sequel but evil way the

first game that sticks was in was called

of Orson men where he was kind of a

small guy layer and there was a big dude

- there was a big muscular guy keep one

of they're going to bring him back the

first game though you did like some

legendary thieving so I'm assuming that

this is before that maybe because you

stole like the World Tree or something I

was like a grizzled that you were

looking for in the first game been a

while dysfunctional

nothing left standing will shit'll proud

of your work

no wonder the greenskins II welcome

around here non-beta Drac ash can't

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stand staring your stupid face any

longer

all right so we can move the camera

around WASD is going to the movement

feels more fluid in the first game

that's for sure

I notice that straight off the bat is

that the movement feels quite a bit but

in the first game with a walk mode right

there so we've got to reach the back of

the building can I climb that right

there so we can crouch underneath here

cool every single level should have a

bunch of collectibles and things you can

find - yeah I remember turning out

torches it's time to switch out the lag

kitties but little things will come and

eat you and then I do remember looking

through people's and trying to figure

out where stuff was that yeah so I

remember that mechanic go ahead and open

this thing on up get low I'm glad that

they didn't like find anything to

control because frankly I've been

playing a Ghost Recon

like screw up these are squishy on the

rocks those dents by draft but I screwed

up tight that is true sticks is a he's

the consummate professional when it

comes to thieving as if there's one

thing you got from the first game it's

that he's really really good at what he

does and actually the game holds you up

to that standard which is one of the

things I liked about the first game -

let's see we got oh yeah amber vision I

forgot about that oh cool iron ore yeah

I forgot about amber vision you've got

this thing that you can do where you can

like see valuable stuff that's not a

treasure chest it's actually a hiding

spot that you can get inside of and so

interactive elements can be highlighted

like that one right there that allow you

to climb up although the mechanics

pretty much feel the same am i

constrained to this can I call off of it

okay I wanted to make sure it wasn't

using like the Assassin's Creed mechanic

where you're basically stuck to a

surface unless you press the spacebar

and until you press the spacebar nothing

bad can happen we can right click to

fall off a ledge

okay I'm gonna shimmy off underneath

here I was trying to get a feel for how

that works too because I'm a big ledge

hanger

I like ledges a lot I tend to hang off

of them pretty aggressively in stealth

games all right so we got to reach the

back of the building go ahead and give

ourselves a little leaf right here with

everything down inside of there that

looked interesting just a torch and

nothing else well if there's not a down

there I'm just not going to care about

it

can we monkey swing over this thing yeah

there we go monkey bars monkey bars

going far work it out my pectorals for

some climbing now for some climbing yeah

I always like his voice do I think

that's the other part of it is the voice

actor did a really good job with sticks

say what you will about the rest of the

voice acting cast and if I remember the

way this works you actually hold down

the direction on WASD that you want to

go so for example that next handhold

it would be kind of like a diagonal so

you hold down a and W at the same time

whereas oh I can go up right here okay

good I didn't see that part good old

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climbing puzzles I do kind of feel like

I'm going away from my stick about

making this my new hideout nice quiet

neighborhood good shopping and the

viewing

hell man you got to check those

real-estate prices get yourself our

reality or that's the only thing that

bugs me about that show Santa Clarita

diet is the way they say realtor

they're like Rialto if you've ever

watched the show you know what I mean

they say realtor weird they say it oddly

they're like it's a real tour hahaha

all right I met however you want to I

assume we're going to be able to craft

in this game because we're picking up

things that look like crafting items to

me I mean what else would iron ore be

used for you know aside from crafting oh

yeah we got ourselves a little hidey oh

I can craft yeah what's up with the

crafting table so with the iron ore that

I have I can make myself either bolts or

I can make what are those vials of life

life is so vile and we've got four bolts

all right oh we get times four maybe oh

well the game's got crafting it's

brought in modern gaming you can't have

a modern game that doesn't have crafting

in it it's just the way this works with

these grace and grills right here later

on you get the ability to like turn into

fart gas or something like that

if I remember right and the fart gas

will allow you to sneak through those

wait can I get in that hole up there is

that possible

the question I frequently asked myself

in life I probably can but

I don't know if I want to spend a bunch

of time shaking around with it we got

over to here we could swing down this

way I probably would have chosen to what

is that right there

what is this used for yeah pockets and

man if it gets the job done it gets the

job done so we can hold down that to

open an items menu yeah pockets and all

right get them with the Gribble

offensive that's how you do it man

if it worked for Dale it works for us oh

I wanted to see if that would work I

wasn't 100% that I was gonna be able to

do that just trying to get creative with

the movement right now like moving ways

that the game doesn't want me to because

every now and again you can make a level

a lot simpler by doing something a

little bit janky it was like that in the

first title to like there would

obviously be like the expected route and

then every now and again you could just

do something hella gnarly like jumping

around a corner and get it to do

something you didn't really do anything

down there is that not even matter sorry

I'm a packrat so I kind of want all this

stuff I thought it was going to make me

assassinate him but that doesn't seem

like a very kind thing to do to your

kinsmen so we have a what is that an

insect egg and we've also got an

unstable spore as a spore that flies off

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the handle real real easy just never got

a temper under control he was never able

to do it

I don't remember barrels were in the

first game I remember the boxes being in

the first game I remember snuffing out

lanterns in the first game but I don't

recall you I almost fell to my death

right there and you're damn right I'm

just going to move for without

mentioning it I remember the first game

I don't recall barrels in the first game

I remember the boxes and I remember

using amber vision and stuff like that I

definitely remember that but such a

complicated door mechanism like it just

have like a normal door you know the

chandelier sabotage and

buddy if they come on look at just the

right moment they can create cut it's a

trap yeah you could do a lot of fun

stuff with chandeliers in this game

there were a couple kills in the first

game where I was able to kill like three

and four guys at the same time just by

making a chandelier drop and nobody is

suspicious about it they just accept it

there's like oh yeah I shared a little

fell and everybody's dead now you're

like really that's not no investigation

huh you're not even going to look around

a tiny bit not even for a second that's

good

what do I get paid like nothing what

does a guard salary and medieval times

it could have been that good right

because you're basically a paid Luke to

get stabbed you're just a body to get

stabbed with [ __ ] goes down so like your

lord and whoever else doesn't get

stabbed yeah it probably wanted me to

climb out through there but I'm going to

go ahead and have another look around

just to make sure we ain't left nothing

behind yeah there's lots of ways through

the levels in this game so if you like

stuff like Dave's ex and trying to think

of other games like Dave's ex that

allows you like multiple paths through I

guess the new Metal Gear kind of did

that if you like stuff like that sticks

will probably be right up your alley

it's the sort of game where there's a

lot of path to the destination you're

trying to get to and you can really just

kind of pick and choose between them

what is that an acid solution so I've

got an acid solution oh yeah I can

dissolve bodies cool remember if that

was in the first game either why does he

fondle the doorknob and what it like he

fondled the locking mechanism in order

to get the door open maybe that was

locked from the inside now it's open so

I want to worry about it anymore can I

pick up whatever that is what is that a

vial of life yeah okay all right buzz I

got you somebody who's a buzz lightyear

found the development staff we can tell

I sincerely doubt that I want to go down

that way I don't think anything's going

to oh cool you can swing on ropes now

like Tarzan style yeah I get about it

cool now we've also got raw amber which

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I think amber is like a currency or

something like that in this game I don't

remember can I tear this oh there's a

wanted poster over there is there like

another way around

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underneath doesn't look like it has

anything going on

I'm quite up the rope - okay cool

without too much trouble I've got him up

and swinging through a cottage is the

gun training recruits this is going to

be short and sweet well two against one

take them so I'll probably want to take

them down it looks like we could take

cover against the wall by holding down

right click that's going to be like our

contextual thing I was just trying to

make sure nobody's seen me I don't want

to get in trouble let's tear down this

wanted poster in here because we've got

to look out for our people we got to got

to represent man we are a proud goblin

with proud ins for attacking reaping

neutralizing and annihilating all

goblins to be eradicated see a R and a G

crafting and must have been paying the

guy eroded by the letter I really

scraping the barrel and we're recruiting

here in [ __ ] bill phobic given the scum

little around here let it tear down

these posters otherwise this little

toilet of paradise will turn

thinking pal no no

you've been slain you're now dead what

has happened to you oh they wanted me to

move quicker

I'm not a big merciful guy when I play

games like this so if there's going to

be like a bonus we're not killing

anybody after it gives me the ability to

kill anybody I'm just not going to get

that bonus I just watch these dudes

murder my goblin homies simply based on

the fact that they were born goblins

it's time to go gnarly in here it's time

to get it's time to get something we got

to get some and get back see what we

found doing in-laws right yeah nice one

if I was sure to disappear some to

follow beckon us me too

we'll make a ton of money out of it I

hope you special somewhere safe of

course what do you take me for I hid it

in the old secret room huh one ball in

the bookcase

Shh why not just shout it from the

rooftop a high place behind a book talk

about originality all right let's go

have a little look out for that too

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yeah they got a bunch of guards over

here there's also a thing I could pick

up right there hell yeah a vial of amber

we got a couple of wanted posters in the

areas we'll get rid of those in addition

I wouldn't feel too bad about trying to

get some of the secondary objectives

taken care of I don't see anything too

rowdy in here although the thing on the

ground right there a poisonous Spore

that was a crafting material probably

use it for some kind of poison dart or

something let's also give ourselves the

advantage of the dark there kind of dump

him in the water

is that possible just in case so nobody

finds him goodbye don't worry your

family will forget about you they'll get

a new dad it's okay you're easily

replaceable damn it all off the edge you

prick all I want to do is hide your

deaths from your family so they never

have closure is that too much to ask

that's all I've ever wanted because I'm

a dark evil person like that all right

so they wanted me to spawn a clone over

here

and then if I swap over to here

to catch a shipment to create a

diversion oh I didn't even know that was

an option okay um go ahead and drop oh

there's a climbing spot over here I was

going to say I don't see the method by

which I'm supposed to be getting up but

there it was right in the corner

diversion create it and there's all

kinds of stuff like this in the sticks

games if you won't notice the first time

through and then you'll just be like

what's a [ __ ] you know like you'll go

through the hard way and then you'll

play the level again later like a little

bit slower trying to look for how you

like messed up the previous time you be

like oh there's a thing right here where

I could have created a diversion damn it

looks kind of cool about the game in my

opinion you on this bench looks usable a

few raw materials I should be able to

put together some nasty surprise that's

cool I like nasty surprises I also like

clean surprises surprises that come

without a stink but you know that's fine

so we can create some bolts we can

create some vials of life right now make

the files of life and then we'll get the

bolts made too

are you sure are you positive there's an

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intruder can I close doors behind me

apparently I'm stealing a document as a

dude right there oh I like how they

added AI lines to the game that's pretty

cool

I don't think there was AI lines in the

first game like I think he just kind of

had to guess where it was all that oh

yeah you can poison food

I forgot you could even do that hey I

put fart gas in your apples how do you

like them apples not much right because

you're going to fall over again July I

mean I could have just stabbed it to

death though it would have been faster

goodbye

ex human used to be a human now you're

just a corpse oh yeah you want to pick

up those coins right there I don't like

how you're judged based on your speed

it's a stealth game like it's my lucky

day that cat get distributions good luck

to the fool who gets to even up the bill

basically I don't like things that put

me on a timer in a game I feel like

there's way too much focus on

speedrunning [ __ ] when way too few

people actually like speedrun stuff like

in real life I work in YouTube I don't

know anybody I work on YouTube and

twitch and I don't know anybody that

does speedruns and it seems like

nowadays every single game has some kind

of speedrun settings weirdly enough I

haven't seen a bookcase or anything oh

yeah there it is yeah buddy

secret room where I get all the stuff I

want I don't remember what vials of

amber do

well I'm going to take this dude I'm

going to take this dude welcome to prom

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yes to your larynx get to it and then I

think I could pick him up and if there's

like a storage crate around here I'm

pretty sure I can just load his dumb ass

into a storage crate so there it is my

name is ladder cat this is the first

episode of sticks shards of darkness if

you liked what you saw so far I always

have a link for you down below this game

is not going to be out for a little

while though so you're gonna have to you

have to use some patience all right I

will see you all in tomorrow's episode

thank you for stopping on in we will

continue to appraise and check out this

game as we move forward kind of pointing

out this debt and the other in future

episodes all right let me know how I can

do better always leave lots of comments

down below I am interested in your

feedback because I want to improve I

want to get better at what it is I do

here on the Internet never a good thing

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to get comfortable with your skill sets

you should always be trying to make them

better and mo bettah and mo bettah oh

[ __ ] there's enemies over there alright

I'll see y'all next time

bye everybody

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