All hail Styx. Or actually, don't: I loathe Styx, but I quite like the games he features in. Styx is a sneering, diminutive goblin with a toxic personality, and while he lacks charm he's very good at sneaking unseen through giant stealth sandboxes. A real run-of-the-mill asshole, then.
After two decent stealth outings, Styx is getting another airing in Styx: Blades of Greed. Like its predecessors, it's a third-person stealth game with sprawling maps and zero accommodation for people who think they can just fight their way through it. The goblin has a couple of new tricks up his sleeve, like mind control and time shifting. The announcement also emphasises a new vertical focus, which is interesting, because the previous two Styx games were already pretty good at making you look up.
