![]() Much like the music, you quickly find yourself wanting to turn off the sound when characters speak. The voice acting is decent, but not exceptional, and there’s some discrepancies between what’s said and what the subtitles (which cannot be turned off) display. There’s little variation in terms of battle or exploration themes, and it quickly reaches a point where you just want to turn off the music, which probably would do more to give a sense of creeping horror to the environment a la George Romero with Night Of The Living Dead. The music and sound effects in Black Legend are really nothing to write home about. A level of gore found in Peckinpah or Tarantino movies isn’t required per se, but a little arterial spray wouldn’t be out of place. There’s also a very odd bloodlessness to combat, a lack of physical results which you would expect from people having partisans and crossbow bolts driven into them. Other visual effects are equally on the subdued side, with one or two exceptions. Certain status effects like immolation and poison do have distinctive halos around the character model, but they’re unusually muted, enough to suggest but not quite deliver a sense of urgency. However, there’s a far greater sense of restraint when it comes to the fighting element. ![]() The armor and weapons are period appropriate, the environments look very much what you would expect to have inspired a painting of a seaport town (ignoring the occasional cultist banner or hanging corpse), and the NPCs could easily serve as part of a scene. If you’re an admirer of artwork from Dutch masters like Rembrandt, Pieter Brueghel (The Elder and The Younger), or Rubens, then Black Legend will certainly have a sense of verite to it. Pockets of resistance exist, but you’re going to have to find them and recruit them. Now, a miasma hangs in the streets of Grant, warping the mind and sometimes the body of those who still walk the thoroughfares. The alchemist saved Grant from invasion, but used a chemical weapon which has trapped residents in their homes and driven cultists completely mad before he abandoned the city to its fate. The purpose is simple: you’ve been given a royal pardon for unnamed crimes, but you have to clean out an army of crazed cultists who sprang up as devotees of an alchemist known as Mephisto. A book as much about the power of stories in political culture as the deep and shadowed racial past of Argentina, Black Legend is a stunning achievement.Set in an alternate version of the Low Countries, Black Legend has you start by creating your particular avatar, then entering into the cursed city of Grant. 'Poignant and penetrating, Black Legend is a sensitive biography of one complex man and a multilayered history of a community, city, and country all vying to script Blackness in the turbulent twentieth century. Keila Grinberg - author of A Black Jurist in a Slave Society Offering a counter narrative of Grigera's life, Alberto reminds us that a story well told can play as powerful a role in dismantling racism.' Through meticulous research, Paulina Alberto tells the life and afterlives of Black celebrity Raúl Grigera, providing a deep analysis of the long-lasting effects of racial storytelling in Argentina's self-definition as a nation. 'Black Legend is an extremely innovative book that brings together the best kind of historical work, weaving together life story and national myth with the writing of history itself. A fascinating, beautiful work of history.' 'Alberto uses the skills of a sleuth to recover the life of Buenos Aires’s famed 'negro Raúl' and those of a truly gifted historian to help us think not just about Blackness in Argentina but also about the very real power of stories in the lives of individuals, communities, and nations. Beautifully written, meticulously researched, it reaches across the borders of our hemisphere to help us think in complex and humane ways about race, the power of storytelling, and nocturnal life in Buenos Aires.'
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