Do you know the name Baba Yaga? When I ask you this question, I mean not the nickname of John Wick, but the witch character in Slavic literature and fairy tales. This is a character that often appears to kidnap children, but have you ever wondered why she has such a hobby? If yes, then Blacktail game will be the answer for you.
Blacktail will bring back the origin story of the name Baba Yaga
The main plot of Blacktail tells about the background of the character Baba Yaga. It all started when the young girl Yaga turned 16 years old and was kicked out of the village because the locals thought she was a witch. At this time, she has to both explore a supernatural world and face her past to find out the answers to the mysteries surrounding her identity. Accompanying her is a mysterious voice that often appears to assist her, guiding her when she is lost. The plot of Blacktail was so well built that at times I thought I was watching a horror film by director Guillermo del Toro. Throughout the story, we will see the dark sides of the fairy tale world, learn to be self-sufficient without relying on a prince so that there are times when we ourselves have to become monsters. object. The entire plot of the game is divided into 4 parts, each part representing a season of the year. This also leads to many interesting changes to the landscape in the game. What I value as a strength, everything in the game from the jungle to the swamps to the castles is carefully crafted and detailed to make you feel like you’re really in an old story. accumulate. Regardless of whether you are in the middle of a green field in spring or in the snowy night sky in winter. The sound also completes its task quite well when bringing a feeling of full of life from spring to summer, while winter is extremely cold. Especially the voice acting of the mysterious female voice is very well done and feels very emotional. However, the other supporting characters are not so well cared for, sometimes the characters bring a feeling of being quite out of place.
Blacktail’s graphics are very well done
The plot, images, and sound are invested, but the gameplay is sometimes out of breath. Especially in the combat part, everything in this part just stops at an acceptable level, not too excellent. You will mainly have to fight enemies with a bow (you can also craft different types of arrows, potions to make fighting easier) and some skills often found in action games is different. Blacktail also gives you the Dash ability, but it is quite useless when used in combat, sometimes leaving you open. The enemies in the game are not so diverse, which leads to something worse that the game has a bad balance of difficulty. Towards the end, the game simply throws at us a bunch of enemies without any balance, leading to many situations where the game is unreasonably difficult. To complement the unremarkable combat mode, the game studio has tried to add various mechanics from the game play areas that work like 2D platforming games, puzzles, even a good evil system. These additions don’t look too special at first, but Blacktail has skillfully blended them together to create an indescribable feeling when playing. In particular, the good and evil system somewhat helps the combat mechanism when based on your choices, the strength of Yaga’s skills will change, in addition, the way NPC characters treat her in the game. Journeys. This partly makes the game more replayable to explore the entire fairy tale world in the game.
Overall, Blacktail is not a great product, but with what the game shows, I still think this is a game worth playing, especially during the upcoming long holiday.
