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From rolling boulders and spiked walls to spring boards, iron maidens, human cannons, falling bathtubs and banana peels, the player can choose from a multitude of dramatic, sadistic, and comical traps in order to finish off an enemy.\n\nHowever, simply setting traps is not enough, as they need to be activated in turn. Timing also plays an important role, as an untimely activation could result in Laegrinna falling into her own trap or allowing her rivals to catch her. Depending on the manner in which an enemy is killed or captured, the Devil's three servants - Veruza, Caelea and Lilia (each representing a different aspect of cruelty: Sadistic Torment, Elaborate Death and Humiliating Demise) - reward points and upgraded traps.","184426\u002Fdeception-iv-blood-ties-cover.jpg","184426\u002Fdeception-iv-blood-ties-header.jpg","https:\u002F\u002Fyoutu.be\u002FaKdk0UFcow4","2014-02-27",65.8,5651,"deception-iv-blood-ties",null,[19],{"company":20,"developed":22,"published":22},{"name":21},"Koei Tecmo Games",true,[24,25,26,27],"Puzzle","Real Time Strategy (RTS)","Role-playing (RPG)","Strategy",[29],"PlayStation 3",[31,47,63,75,89],{"id":32,"author":33,"outlet":36,"summary":42,"review_url":43,"review_date":44,"original_score":45,"normalized_score":46},37211,{"id":34,"name":35},3673,"Royce Dean",{"id":37,"logo":38,"name":39,"website_url":40,"score_format":41},7,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002Fcog-connected-logo.png","COGConnected","https:\u002F\u002Fcogconnected.com","100","Bleu Cheese has always eluded me. I want to like it, I see the appeal, and people everywhere tell me it’s amazing. I have even tried it a hundred different ways, but every time I go back to it I always ask myself “Why am I eating this, it tastes like a sweaty feet?” Some games are kind of like that too…minus the sweaty foot part.  I was assigned review duties for Deception IV: Blood Ties and the absolute truth of it is that I tried my hardest to like this game, perhaps the hardest I’ve ever tried to like a game. Over the course of several days and several play sessions I would approach it again with fresh eyes, a fresh mind, and a renewed sense of purpose, but in the end, I had to admit defeat. I simply could not like it as much as I hoped. My tenacity wouldn’t allow for it and it’s a damned shame, because the idea for the game is bloody cool.","https:\u002F\u002Fcogconnected.com\u002Freview\u002Fdeception-iv-blood-ties-ps3-review\u002F","2014-04-04","64",64,{"id":48,"author":49,"outlet":52,"summary":58,"review_url":59,"review_date":60,"original_score":61,"normalized_score":62},45857,{"id":50,"name":51},3944,"Benjamin Shillabeer-Hall",{"id":53,"logo":54,"name":55,"website_url":56,"score_format":57},62,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FPlaystation-Universe-Logo.jpg","Playstation Universe","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.psu.com\u002F","10","Fun in small doses, Deception IV: Blood Ties ultimately suffers from a bad case of repetition and is unlikely to keep you hooked for long.","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.psu.com\u002Freviews\u002Fdeception-iv-blood-ties-review\u002F","2014-03-25","6",60,{"id":64,"author":65,"outlet":68,"summary":73,"review_url":74,"review_date":60,"original_score":61,"normalized_score":62},47989,{"id":66,"name":67},4119,"Mat Growcott",{"id":69,"logo":70,"name":71,"website_url":72,"score_format":57},63,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FPush-Square-Logo.jpg","Push Square","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.pushsquare.com\u002F","Did you ever watch Home Alone and ask yourself whether it’d be more entertaining with giant, bloody traps and massive buildings? Deception IV: Blood Ties is just like that, only instead of the main character being a lucky little albino kid whose parents hate him, you play as Satan’s daughter, a young woman who has a horrible allergy to clothes. You’ll defend yourself from knights, sorcerers, and Nuns with Guns across a variety of deadly locations.","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.pushsquare.com\u002Freviews\u002Fpsvita\u002Fdeception_iv_blood_ties",{"id":76,"author":77,"outlet":80,"summary":85,"review_url":86,"review_date":87,"original_score":88,"normalized_score":62},77258,{"id":78,"name":79},5582,"Jim Hargreaves",{"id":81,"logo":82,"name":83,"website_url":84,"score_format":57},56,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FTheSixthAxis-Logo.jpg","TheSixthAxis","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.thesixthaxis.com\u002F","However, for new players, Blood Ties may come across as both demanding and frustrating due to its reliance on trial and error gameplay. It’s certainly not a bad game though Tecmo KOEI could have repackaged the series’ core formula in a different, more appealing way. Though we’ve seen an abundance of them during the past few years, Deception could make a really good tower defence game with its focus on trap combos.","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.thesixthaxis.com\u002F2014\u002F04\u002F02\u002Fdeception-iv-blood-ties-review\u002F","2014-04-02","6.0",{"id":90,"author":91,"outlet":94,"summary":99,"review_url":100,"review_date":101,"original_score":102,"normalized_score":103},134655,{"id":92,"name":93},11087,"Travis Bruno",{"id":95,"logo":96,"name":97,"website_url":98,"score_format":57},143,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002Fcapsule-computers-logo.jpg","Capsule Computers","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.capsulecomputers.com.au\u002F","","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.capsulecomputers.com.au\u002F2014\u002F04\u002Fdeception-iv-blood-ties-review\u002F","2014-04-01","8.5",85,5,0,[21],[21],[],false]