I'm a big fan of stealth games and with few titles to choose from the genre these days, perhaps I'm way more forgiving of ones that are average in quality but I really enjoyed this game. One of the most important things in a stealth game is the level design and it's pretty good here. There's lots of routes through a level if you seek out nooks and crannies and with Styx having a generous jump, there's always a ledge or rope to climb on giving the spaces a nice vertical feel. There might actually be too many routes through the levels that it becomes overly easy as you can always find away around any guard but it does make it fun to explore.

Styx has a few abilities to help his sneaking. He can turn invisible for a short time which is always useful and a few extra kill moves to make murdering easier. I didn't see much use for the cloning ability at first but once I got into doing the level speedruns, having another body to teleport to was very advantageous. There's also a very basic crafting system.

It is unfortunate that Styx as a character is pretty damn insufferable. His constant self aware fourth wall breaking schtick is neither funny nor charming. I'm glad you can turn off the death videos or I would have lost my mind. In the second half of the game, they start recycling the levels which drags the game down. Going through them again does at least show that there are more routing options to find in the levels but I wouldn't have minded if the game was just shorter.