![]() ![]() There is just something really satisfying about being able to pull off an impressive plan to either sneak past or kill multiple enemies without being spotted. ![]() You can survive being detected, but the odds are not in your favor. You need to remain stealthy but you also need to think carefully and plan out your next moves to succeed without being detected. The game feels like a mixture of a stealth game mixed with a strategy game. ![]() The genre is not going to be for everyone, but I really enjoy it. Mimimi Games is just so good at the real time tactics genre. I probably didn’t get as much out of the story and there was a bit of a learning curve, but the expansion works because the gameplay is just so satisfying. While I haven’t played the original Shadow Tactics yet, I have to say that I still loved Aiko’s Choice. The game does have a number of scrolls scattered around that slowly teach you the game’s mechanics when you need them which should help people who never played the original game or kind of forgot how to play it. The gameplay took a little while to adjust to, but wasn’t overly difficult due to having experience with Desperados III and other games from the genre. At least at first I found the story a little hard to follow mostly because I knew nothing about what happened in the original game. I would probably say it would be better to play the original game first for a couple reasons. The game is a standalone expansion so you don’t even have to own the original game. I wanted to bring up that I never played the original game to show that while it is an expansion, you could easily play Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun – Aiko’s Choice without having played the original game. I was mostly intrigued by the game because I really enjoyed Desperados III which was made by the same developer. Heading into Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun – Aiko’s Choice I am actually going to have a different outlook than a lot of players as I actually haven’t played the original game yet. The ultimate goal of each level is to complete a number of objectives and then get all of the characters to a designated area. In many situations you need to coordinate several characters’ actions at the same time to kill/knock out multiple enemies at the same time or to have one cause a distraction to create a path for another character not to be spotted. To accomplish this each character has a number of ways to kill/knock out enemies as well as distract them. Instead you are better off trying to avoid enemies’ detection by sneaking past them or knocking out/killing them before moving on. Being spotted doesn’t lead to a game over, but it will summon a lot of enemies to your current position which will be hard to deal with as you don’t have an easy way of dealing with a bunch of enemies at the same time. In fact the game basically feels like more missions for the original game as you have access to all of the characters and their abilities from the start of the game.įor those of you who never played the original game or it has been a long time, you basically play as a group of characters who all have their own special abilities to help you evade or eliminate enemies that stand in the way of your objective. If you played the original Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun there isn’t much to say about the gameplay of the expansion as it is exactly the same. The group must work together to uncover Lady Chiyo’s evil plot and stop it before it puts many people in danger. ![]() Aiko’s former sensei, Lady Chiyo, appears and threatens Aiko and the rest of her companions. The expansion delves more into Aiko’s past. It takes place towards the end of the story of the original game. Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun – Aiko’s Choice is a sort of side story to the events of original game. Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun – Aiko’s Choice is a great example of what an expansion should be as it gives fans more of what was good about the original game even if they might wish it was a little longer. While I never played the original game I was excited to try out the expansion as I was a big fan of their other game and generally like the real time tactics genre. Releasing next Monday on the fifth anniversary of the original game, the developers have decided to return to the world of Shadow Tactics with the standalone expansion Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun – Aiko’s Choice. While I never played the original game, I really enjoyed the developers follow up Desperados III which took the gameplay and applied it to a wild west theme. The game combined stealth and strategy elements as you controlled a group of warriors whose goal was to deal with threats from the shadows without arousing suspicion. Released almost five years ago Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun became a huge hit for the real time tactics genre. ![]()
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