Shadow Tactics: Aiko’s Choice is not a bad game, despite my criticism-far from it, in fact. If you haven’t played the brilliant Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, I definitely recommend jumping into that first. I actually had to restart my campaign on easy to remember how to get past the first level. Aiko’s Choice does give you a story refresher and information boxes along the way to get you up to speed, but it feels more like a refresher than a full-fledged tutorial, and as someone who played the original, it took me a while to get caught back up. While I appreciate Aiko’s choice being standalone, it’s only just, as it almost feels like it’s necessary to play the original game for a proper introduction to the mechanics and more familiarity with the story. While Shadow Tactics: Aiko’s Choice is meant to be a standalone game, if you haven’t played Blades of the Shogun, you might feel a little lost. If you’re really good at Shadow Tactics, Aiko’s Choice might feel like a small morsel. The campaign also manages to feel very short-it took me about eight hours to complete, but others are saying they finished it in five or less. But I feel like most of Aiko’s Choice consists of small levels, many of them missing some of the environmental interactions of Blades of the Shogun. Shadow Tactics: Aiko’s ChoiceĪiko’s Choice lets you approach situations as you see fit, like Blades of the Shogun and even Desperados III before it. This returns in Aiko’s Choice, and means taking out various types of Samurai-from the lowly foot soldier and the determined straw hat, to the deadly armored Samurai. One of the things that made Blades of the Shogun so compelling was the ability to synchronize moves-allowing your characters to perform complicated takedowns, with each character taking their own actions. In it, you play as up to five assassins, each equipped with various ways to sneak, fool, and kill their way through their enemies in the Edo period of Japan. Shadow Tactics: Aiko’s Choice is a stealth isometric strategy game and a standalone DLC for Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun. But what we do get is more Shadow Tactics, and I was all here for that. When Shadow Tactics: Aiko’s Choice was announced, I was excited for more Shadow Tactics-but I quickly realized that while it is indeed more Shadow Tactics, it doesn’t have all the refinement found in Desperados III, despite its incredibly similar gameplay. Since then, developer Minimi refined their Shadow Tactics formula, and released Desperados III. The player has to carefully evaluate his options in order to master the challenging missions: how will the characters behave as a team? Which one is best equipped for each task? How can they best master the given missions? Come up with your own ingenious tactics to vanquish enemies and complete missions.Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun was a big hit when it released back in 2016. The mysterious marksman Takuma however, relies on his sniper rifle and takes care of the enemies from a distance. And the street child Yuki places traps and decoys enemies towards their deadly fate. Aiko is a master of camouflage when she distracts enemies disguised as a Geisha. Samurai Mugen prefers a more powerful approach and can defeat more fiends at one time, but thus also forfeiting flexibility. One of the leaders of this team is Hayato, an agile ninja, who clears the way through his enemies silently, with his sword and shuriken. The characters develop their own dynamic and each member will have to face their own personal demons. Yet over the course of many missions, trust is won and friendships are made. Working together as a team seems impossible at first. The group is composed of very different personalities. Set traps, poison your opponents or completely avoid enemy contact. Choose your approach when infiltrating mighty castles, snowy mountain monasteries or hidden forest camps. Take control of a team of deadly specialists and sneak in the shadows between dozens of enemies. Shadow Tactics is a hardcore tactical stealth game set in Japan around the Edo period.
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