![]() ![]() With the click of button you can see enemy sightlines, outlining exactly where you can and can’t go. Occasionally you also get some curve balls thrown your way such as snow levels, where all your characters’ footprints are visible to patrolling soldiers, forcing a tactical rethink. Neat level design means it never feels like you’re doing the same thing twice, while your party of characters is constantly chopping and changing, giving you different tools to work with and ensuring you can rely on the same set of tricks in perpetuity. Using these abilities the aim is to pull enemies out of their routines and stealthily kill them before they can alert their buddies. Each of your characters has unique skills, such as one which can perform a spinning blade attack to kill a large group of enemies, while another can drop a bottle of Sake which can be used as a distraction. Enemies are on predictable patrol patterns, so Shadow Tactics quickly becomes a game about learning when and where the enemy is going to be, devising tactics to take them down. To do this you must outwit each of the AI opponents in order to complete your objectives. The core gameplay can be boiled down to a strategy game where you only have a maximum of five units, and they must survive. Each is viewed top-down like a real-time strategy game and filled with a number of enemies and interactable items such as pulleys, ladders, and explosives. Just making it down a single road unscathed can be a hugely difficult task, only matched by the satisfaction when you finally get it right.įor those unfamiliar with real time stealth tactics games such as Commandos, Shadow Tactics features 13 unique maps. It sounds frustrating but it’s anything but.Įach bite-sized section of the map is a puzzle which must be opened up and tinkered with, seeing what moves what and how everything in it works. It’s both free form in its approach and yet so punishing that it feels as if there can be only one possible, workable solution. You’ll have to poke through every unique item and skill in some cases, attempting to find the perfect tools and tactics which can get you through an encounter unscathed. Before long with Blades of Shogun you’ll be settling into the flow of thinking up ideas, testing them out, reloading, tweaking them, and trying again. It’s because everything in Shadow Tactics comes down to exquisite timing and one tiny cock up can land you in a world of hurt. I was jabbing F5 like it was going out of business. In fact, a handy timer even pops up at the top of the screen constantly reminding of you of how long it’s been since you quick saved. In true real time tactics fashion, the quick save and quick load buttons will swiftly become your best friends. You are tasked with executing a mission across sprawling maps using a tight knit crew of soldiers, each with unique skills and abilities that must all be utilised in order to succeed. Revamped for a new decade, Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun sheds the usual pre-rendered backgrounds for proper 3D environments, but the fundamentals remain very much the same. So it was no small amount of glee I spotted Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun lurking on the Steam store. For an all-too-brief while they were the new hotness, and then they faded into obscurity. ![]() The sort pioneered by Commandos and jacked by Desperados and Robin Hood.
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