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Styx, Stealth, and the Western B-Game

Published on Mon, May 13th 2024 Gaming Rectangular HD

The INSANE History Behind the Most MISUNDERSTOOD Stealth Series

Getting old is great, actually - it means you can appreciate stealth games after years of "just not getting it, really." I love Thief, I love Dishonored, but with Styx, I started to understand the proper appeal of the genre. I think it's at least worth highlighting. And hey - the industry's still being itself, so why not hop on old games? They're still there!! All of them!!

This video essay, or whatever you wanna call it, digs into the history of Cyanide Studio, Spiders, the progenitor to the Styx games in Orcs and Men, and eventually the Styx duology. I'm sure I'll have to change the thumbnail and title to really hit the algo with this one, but I promise the meat's good. Maybe "Styx, Cyanide, and the Western B Game" ... ... Lol jk this is youtube, I ain't sending my work out to die for free T_T

*also dropping an apology here for conflating OCD and perfectionism. I'll make sure I don't do that going forward.

COME CHILL:
https://www.patreon.com/kbash
https://twitter.com/KBashShow

Tracks Used:
Orcs and Men's OST, both the Styx OSTs, some of Fable & Fable II, like 1 track from Napple Tale...

Sources:
https://www.archaic.fr/interviews/interview-of-orcs-and-men-sylvain-sechi/2/
https://rpgwatch.com/show/newsbit?newsbit=29261 (host link is dead)

Chapters:
0:00 did you know gaming?
3:35 Cyanide, Orcs and Men
22:48 Styx and Stealth
43:24 funny goblin game