BLACKTAIL
Forge the legend of Baba Yaga, a girl accused of witchcraft and expelled from her home. Live out the origins of the Slavic myth in this one-of-a-kind blend of intense archery combat and dark storytelling set in a vibrant fairy tale world.
BLACKTAIL is a story rich, archery and action-adventure game
developed by THE PARASIGHT
and published by Focus Entertainment.
Released on December 15th 2022 is available only on Windows
in 13 languages: English, Polish, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Czech, Korean and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 1,990 reviews of which 1,632 were positive and 358 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.9 out of 10. š
The game is currently priced at 8.99ā¬ on Steam and has a 70% discount.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 (64bit only)
- Processor: Intel Core i5-3570K / AMD FX-4300
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: 4 GB VRAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 / Radeon RX 470
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 20 GB available space
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I enjoyed every minute of this game (unfortunately being quite short). The plot is awesome, sidequest are not repetitive, they are funny and enjoyable, the graphics is great. This game is a real piece of art.
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Probably one of my favorite games. The map is very vast and if you go in with a sense of wonder you'll be entertained for hours. If you're just looking to do main story you aren't going to have much to do, however. A lot of this game has to do with side quests and searching for chests.. I feel like this is a very underrated game.
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Really enjoying this game so far on PC and Steamdeck. There is a visual issue with Steamdeck, you MUST disable half rate shading to resolve an odd blackening of the screen when looking at a specific direction, which can prevent progression. This is a setting outside of the game, not within it. Tried a lot of settings and rendering choices trying to resolve. Disable the half rate shading and will immediately resolve this darkness issue.
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Initially I just grabbed this, because I saw archery and an atmosphere that looked interesting. It turned out to be a lot more. Blacktail's atmosphere that gripped me turns out to be both a vibrant and gloomy fairy tale land. Your character Yaga, is a girl that appears rather conflicted, scared and looking for answers. For you however, in the start all that seems extremely confusing as you've been put right into it. A lot you meet on your journey is based on various child fairy tales and you meet rather odd characters like talking dead fish, mushrooms who are shadowy or knightly in "origin" and really creepy rocks. The story is great as how it's told and shown. Yaga's journey to "find herself" and her answers to her past are both the main quest through normal gameplay and various little odd minigames on how you patch together the answers. The game doesn't throw a lot of side quests at you. Instead there are only a few to each "season", but they are fairly memorable this way. One quest sends you into a quarry to defend it in a tower defence style, where you have to shoot anything that moves with your bow. Another quest sends you across a battlefield where stones are fighting each other, except stones show no movement when looked upon, so the entire battlefield fighting only happens behind you as you look away. Yaga sports only a small arsenal being her bow, a bit of magic and a few utility items. You have 3 different arrows, but overall encounters and enemies require you to switch between these and it feels neither too annoying nor too simple. The boss battles can feel a bit easy, but as some require awareness of the field, then it could prove to be a challenge. A really great take on the old fairy tales :)
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You know a game is great when the first time you stream it to your friends their only response is āwhat the fuck are you playing?ā I adore this game to pieces and I canāt believe this is the second time Iāve purchased an outstanding exploration game only to wait and play it a year later cough cough Outer Wilds cough . If I had a nickelā¦ Anyway, I was going to split this review between good and bad, but thereās so little I dislike or had problems with so this is going to be a very lopsided review. If any of the positives tickle your fancy then I would recommend scooping this game up. Positives: ++++++ Atmosphere : Extremely vibrant and colorful world where youād be hard pressed to find any muddy colors without a purpose. Itās full of uniquely designed characters and creatures. The skybox being crafted of symbols rather than a realistic sun, moon, and stars is probably one of my favorite bits to sell the fairy tale themes. +++++ Characters / Voice Acting / Dialogue : All connected and all great. Probably some of my favorite performances from the last year and considering half of the cast is voiced by one guy (bless you Beau Marie), well thatās quite the feat. Spy is the best character overall. ++++ Side Quests : Not just filler! Each one feels lovingly crafted and they arenāt just ācollect x to give to y.ā +++ Exploration : I enjoy walking around the bright forest and the unique modes of transport you unlock as you progress are mostly useful in their own rights. Nothing too exciting though and you are quite limited in your own abilities to get around the map without totems. ++ Combat : Enjoyable, but a little limiting (you can jump and dodge separately, but you canāt jump then dodge mid-air for example). Depending on the encounter, you burn through arrows really quickly. Youāre likely going to have to pull up the crafting menu at least once every other fight. + Morality : I really like that it's not all black and white mortality. Sure some of it is, but thereās other instances where, for example, letting someone die is the āmoralā choice. Different upgrades are tied to different moral compasses and you interact with two different mushrooms depending on if youāre good or evil so a second playthrough is slightly varied. Negatives: --- Platforming : There are a couple of sections in the game where platforming becomes necessary for some exploration. Some of them can be done with just normal jumps, but some problems arrive when the gap is just a little too big. You don't have much, if any, aerial control of your character, so once you hit jump, your trajectory is locked in. Better hope you didnāt screw up, otherwise itās back to whatever save point you hit last. -- āSpirit Scenes:ā There are a couple of scenes where you see the main antagonist attack various spirits. You do a puzzle before the scene plays out and as soon as you finish the puzzle you are bombarded with tons of images of the short scene before it plays in full. It can be interpreted as Time and Space syncing up, but it still feels unnecessary and prevents me from recommending the game to my epileptic friend. - āAnimal Minigames:ā - Great for story, not so much in the gameplay department. They arenāt all that interesting the first time around and I was downright dreading them for a second playthrough because they take so long to get through. At least I had a friend to keep me company. There are other things I didnāt get to touch on, like the fact this game has one of my favorite side quests ever and the use of āquantum mechanicsā to add to the fairy tale feel, but I think itās best for you to discover these things. I really hope you give this game a chance! Oh... and uh...Stepping Stone.
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Online players
35
Developer
THE PARASIGHT
Publisher
Focus Entertainment
Release
15 Dec 2022
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