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Original-Styx apart. As the World Tree dies, the magic that keeps Akenash aloft fails and the tower crashes to the ground. The feral clones of Styx emerge from the ruins and disperse into the wilderness. This is the birth of the goblin race. All these goblins are stupid except for one, who has an intact intellect but with no memories other than that his name is Styx. It is not certain whether this is Original-Styx or Clone-Styx, or a new goblin altogether, but either way this goblin is now the only living Styx.
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fortress, but he doesn't know why he wants to do these things: he suffers from confused memories and a voice in his head that prods him on. When he finally liberates his "friend", he discovers that it is a creature identical to himself. The creature that the player has been controlling since the beginning of the game has in fact been a clone of the real Styx, who has been held in an interrogation chamber all this time.
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With the help of an elf, Clone-Styx breaks the telepathic control that
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complained that the combat "feels stiff and unwieldy, making battle a painful experience whether you win or lose." However, some publications praised the system for disincentivizing confrontation. Geoff Thew of
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delivers "a satisfying tension that few games can match", and praised its levels for having "much more depth than the flat environments typical of the genre," concluding that
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gave the Xbox One version 69/100 based on 8 reviews, the
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