I loved the BBC’s Peaky Blinders a lot that I practically went to its official festival. They do up Digbeth to appear like post-war Birmingham, and recruit bands like Primal Scream. Everyone walks round in tailcoats. I’m a idiot for not going after I had the prospect, however no less than I’ll quickly get to tour fake post-war Birmingham in a videogame. Peaky Blinders: Mastermind has been introduced for this summer time, and it appears like a vaguely Shadow Tactics model sneak ’em up. You choreograph heists by coordinating gangsters on easily-tweaked timelines, getting them to distract guards and slip one another keys by means of fences.
It’s a genuinely fascinating thought, even with out the branding.
It’s set simply earlier than the occasions of the primary season, with Tommy Shelby out to idiot a “sinister plot to put the family out of business”. Here’s that that appears like, then.
And right here’s what that appears like a bit extra.
S’obtained promise. That’s a slick, forgiving manner of puzzling out robberies, the place you’re free to “reset and rewind each character’s path”. There’s a bit close to the top the place a younger ruffian opens up a gate, and whoever’s taking part in tweaks the timeline so Tommy walks by means of it simply because it opens. That’s good. Walking as much as doorways simply as they swing open for you is likely one of the most underrated pleasures in each life and videogames.
I just like the system, however I do fear the puzzles themselves won’t be as much as snuff. With that Shadow Tactics comparability contemporary in my thoughts, the concept of determining a prescribed route reasonably than puzzling out my very own resolution feels lacklustre. It’s value noting that that is being billed as a “puzzle-adventure game” reasonably than the “hardcore tactical stealth game” that’s Shadow Tactics, so they’re attempting to do various things. And hey, I’m basing that suspicion off the early stage above, so it might effectively develop into one thing extra thrilling.
It’s being made by FuturLab, and extra particulars may be discovered over on the Steam page.
