

Lay waste to hordes of Raknos bugs, collect orbs and use them at terminals to upgrade the fatality capability of your mech. The mix of combat is paired nicely with RPG-esque elements. Within a matter of minutes, you will become a walking harbinger of Raknos genocide. Linking together violent combos topped off with a brutal execution quickly becomes effortless. But does it play well? For the majority of the time…YES! Hopefully, I have established just how wonderful Blackwind looks. They are genuinely so visceral they have to be experienced to be truly appreciated. The execution animations are brutal and fantastic. packed to the hilt with numerous ways of racing down death on your adversaries and looking amazing while doing so.Īlso, I think it is worth pointing out how effortlessly Blackwind goes from light, airy open spaces to claustrophobic, atmospheric interiors. Honestly, it wouldn’t look out of place in Gundam or something. The perfect mixture of intimidating kill machine and cool as fuck mech suit. The mech suit itself is both menacing and beautiful.

Whether you are running through a sun-flooded canyon in the desert or traversing the shadowy corridors of a research facility you can’t help but be in awe of the lighting employed by the Drakkar Dev. A mix of clear crisp graphics and sublime lighting really make Blackwind pop out of the screen. The first thing you notice with Blackwind is how beautiful it looks. A powerful advanced AI that has been given one task… keep James Hawkins alive! Graphics James is now stranded, surrounded by a swarm of alien bugs with zero military experience! Luckily for him as professor Hawkins ejected James from the ship he also activated the Blackwind protocol. Not only is James stranded half a planet away from his father but the peaceful mining colony has been overtaken by the alien race known as the Raknos. James Hawkins lands safely on the surface of the planet as his father’s ship crashes on the other side of Medusa -42.

Would you believe it just has Professor Hawkins is describing this bells and whistle prototype to young James their ship comes under attack from the surface! The quick-thinking professor bundles James into the new paradigm of military badassery and ejects him from their spaceship. As well as building a new mech for the military James father also built a shiny new prototype mech suit! A smooth looking, fast action genre mash-up with plenty of potential but can it deliver? Storyīlackwind begins with young James Hawkins accompanying his father to the planet Medusa-42 to deliver his latest mech suit to the military. Blackwind is the brand new sci-fi action platformer with hack and slash combat from Drakkar Dev and Publisher Blowfish Studios.
