Hello Hive Gaming Community, Today, I come to talk about a game called "Disonored" but also about a genre that seems to be more and more forgotten, I'm talking about the Linear Adventure video games.
I don't know about you but I'm a little tired of so many Sandbox and Battle Royale, the linear adventure genre for me still has a lot to give, because in the development of the narrative story, they put you in the skin of a character, letting you accompany him in his development, yes I know that there are also Sandbox that have these features! but what makes these games special, is that the message that the adventure wants to give is not dispersed.
I mean, in a Sandbox game the normal thing is that you decide where to go and when to do things, in a linear game, the zones are made to make you feel an evolution in your character, without detracting from the fact that you believe that you can do your best to get a good outcome or end.
It's like watching a movie where you are the protagonist, it is to make you feel what the character feels, his fears, anger, happiness and victories.
Now to the point.
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Dishonored, comprising the genres of Linear Action Adventure and First Person Stealth, was developed by Arkane Studios and distributed by Bethesda, first released October 12, 2012, as multiplatform on both PlayStation 3, xbox360 and Windows in fact during its first year of release it did very well receiving, the award for game of the year at the Games Awards in 2013.
Beginning of my adventure.
Chapter 1 tutorial.
Spoiler warning.
The first thing I did when starting the game is to adjust the resolution so that the game does not drop me from 30fps and choose the Difficult difficulty to make it an adventure that is not easy.
When starting the adventure, we realize that it is a game that takes place in the 1800s, during the plague of rats that led to the black plague, the town of Dunwall suffers from this endemic, our character "Corvo Attano" has the task of bringing news from other kingdoms to find out if anyone has dealt with this terrible disease.
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Upon arrival, a girl comes very happy to see us, and asks us to play hide and seek with her, if we accept we can have our first tutorial, which has to do with stealth after waiting a while if the girl does not find us she will give up, she will ask us and to see her mother, the queen of Dunwall, we must give her the letter, with the information another reindeer about the problem of rats.
Upon receiving the letter from us, the queen tells us that it is bad news, nobody knows anything about the plague, that they will avoid contact in Dunwall to avoid getting sick, (remind you of something?).
Suddenly, the queen realizes that the guards that are guarding her are not in their positions...
From some holes that appear, some masked and hooded men emerge and attack us, here we have to know how to defend ourselves against an enemy.
We carry two weapons, a sword and a firearm simultaneously, we proceed to kill the enemies and protect the queen, but there are too many and they manage to take the queen's daughter, they also kill the queen, who lies in our arms asking us to rescue her daughter.
The guards and two of the high military commanders of Dunwall arrive, who immediately accuse our character of killing the queen and kidnapping her daughter.
After being knocked out we wake up in prison, where we are tortured to confess to the murder of the queen, of course it is not so. Two characters from the queen's military high command approach us and begin to tell "Corvo" that it was all a trap, they say that we were in the wrong place at the wrong time, well it did not matter to tell him the truth, because he would be executed.
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While in prison, a soldier appears and leaves us food and a key to escape, he says that we have friends who want to help us.
Once outside, we will arm ourselves with a sword and a weapon the first thing we do is crouch, because it is not convenient to be discovered, immediately, a sign comes out to warn us that we can make lethal attacks from behind the enemy, Stealth is important, there are two ways to execute we can kill them or leave them innocent.
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I decide to assassinate them all in stealth, A little later they discover me and I kill the guard with the firearm, I realized that despite the difficulty level, the enemies are not difficult to kill, because the difficulty only increases the field of vision of the enemy and makes us to heal less with the objects.
Speaking of objects! we do not have an inventory, only a toolbar, where the objects that we use during the adventure will be saved, it goes from 1 to 9 on our keyboard, You can also change it with the mouse wheel, Objects such as healing in the form of food and ammunition, will be on some shelves, places scattered around the area.
There are also objects that we can throw to distract the enemy.
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When we kill or leave an enemy innocent, this will remain on the ground and can alert other guards who see it, so you can pick up the bodies with the letter "F" and take them to another place so they do not see them.
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After advancing a little, we will look for a bomb to blow up a security door.
Further on in the sewers, we learn another mechanic of execution death in fall, we can throw ourselves on top of an enemy and press the attack button, to perform an execution from above.
place so they do not see them.
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We go up to a platform, where we have a panoramic view from above, we see two guards talking, and we can see how they are completely devoured by rats, we already know that rats are a dangerous enemy.
So later in the game, we put a landfill, where the guards throw bodies of dead prisoners, we must throw those bodies to the rats, to distract them while we escape, because some doors and mechanisms take some time to open.
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Checking on the second floor you find a crossbow, as a secondary firearm but also a safe, with a note that says "IF you do not remember the answer is in the whiskey whiskey" I could not open it continue and I head for the exit, but not before realizing that the place has booby traps and give me a good scare.
At the end, a person is waiting for us in a boat to take us to a person who will help us with our journey of redemption.
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The adventure looks good so far, I hope you like this first post of Dishonored thanks for reading me.
My stats from the first Mission.
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