Around an hour into Blackguards 2, the main character finds the lecherous mage from the first game bound in the chains of slavery and buys him for a pittance. Is it to free him? Hardly. She keeps him in slavery to do her bidding, and it's but one of many ways in which the selfish, dishonorable characters live up to the title of Blackguards. This is a sequel that successfully ousts some of the more humdrum elements of its dark fantasy tactical RPG.
Blackguards 2 strips the series of a tad of its past freedom by not letting you create your own character, but the story's the better for it. The spotlight here falls on Cassia of Tenos, who's spent years in a dungeon crawling with giant spiders who bite her and fill her mind with literal and figurative poison. Blackguards 2 uses this period effectively (if a tad too slowly) to elicit sympathies for her growing madness and to explain the basics of leveling and combat. Ably voiced and mad for revenge, Cassia embarks on a fascinating if slightly predictable story.
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