Overall Shadow Tactics Blades of the Shogun and Shadow Tactics: Aiko’s Choice are extremely well done ports of the 2016 and 2021 originals with plenty of content and smooth gameplay this is one game that has ported very well to the Nintendo Switch 2.
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
Mimimi Productions · Dec 6, 2016
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Shadow Tactics is a hardcore tactical stealth game set in Japan around the Edo period. Take control of a team of deadly specialists and sneak in the shadows between dozens of enemies. Choose your approach when infiltrating mighty castles, snowy mountain monasteries or hidden forest camps. Set traps, poison your opponents or completely avoid enemy contact.
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- Filled with very interesting characters and unique, addictive gameplay mechanics, if you love stealth-based games that give you a hard but never unfair challenge, I highly recommend you check out Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun on the Nintendo Switch 2
- 8.5 Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is available now on Switch 2. Previously available on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
- Seemingly every year at this time I play a game that makes me wonder if it's too early to declare my GOTY. Is Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun that game this year?
- 9.5While I still believe the game would be best controlled with a keyboard and mouse, I still wholeheartedly recommend this for anyone who appreciates smart, stealth gameplay. It's one of the best examples of the stealth genre with a ton of replayability.
- 8.2Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is a solid stealth experience with a lot of variety both in hero use and level design. It’s a beautiful game that should please any strategy buff, particularly those who enjoy the whole ninja/samurai aesthetic. Currently priced around twenty dollars less than the average AAA title, you will absolutely get your value out of finishing the main campaign.
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A hard game you'll want to master
A Stealth game where you control 5 character: a Shinobi, a Kunoichi, a Kunoichi in Training, a Samurai & an old Gunman. Each character comes with their own unique set of skills. Either use your skills or the environment to take out your targets or the guards. You can take out enemies lethally or non-lethal but your targets always have to be killed. Extremely challenging to remain unseen even on easy mode. You have to think a few steps ahead because of the change in enemy movements when you take out certain guards. Artwork and story is amazing as well as the soundtrack.
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