Shadow Tactics Blades of the Shogun Review

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Published on April 25, 2017 4:35:54 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2gi7XGbYxg

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Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun (2016)

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Review of a great and challanging stealth game with lots of replay value.
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Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is a hardcore tactical stealth game set in Japan around the Edo period. You work for a new Shogun as a team of ninjas with varying skills to battle against rebels and upcoming factions who challenge the mighty Shogun’s power.
There are 5 stealth specialists you play with in over 13 missions. Each character is unique having their own deadly abilities. You can control only one of these assassins at a time as you weave around enemies or carefully pluck them off one by one.
A few unique features of this game is the vision system on how patrols or guards see you. This helps you create a plan around these challenging mid to late game maps that often seem to have an overwealming amount of hostiles. Most of the time you have to crouch to avoid their 2nd field of vision but if you start dragging bodies or kill guards from their grey zone, you can be immediately spotted. Being spotted means that you can be shot at, and more guards can be called in to kill you or investigate.
This is pretty much the game, but beyond just a stealth game this has an interesting story, and three-dimensional characters with interesting personalities. There is the ninja, of course, but there is also a young Japanese girl Yuki who is aspiring to be a ninja herself, as well as an old man who used to serve as an expert marksmen in the army before he joined your deadly squad who uses his peg leg as a detachable gun.
This game really captures the period of that time, the settings feel real, and it seems the developers took a lot of history into account, as it seems the story is also based on true events. The settings, uniforms, well mix of weapons of the time feel authentic, and as you are banging your head for hours trying to get past a patrol, you can feel immersed. The music and soundtrack are unique, and of Japanese, and play little off beats when you do an action or something meaningful in the game.
There is roughly 20 or so hours of content, but there is a lot of replay value here, and if you like stealth games you could spend easily 60 hours or so in this game trying to reply the missions using different characters, and trying to hit the challenging points (like not stepping on water, or killing anyone). Some of these mission goals are very challenging, which is what steam users in general like since they are masochistic by nature, and thus explains the high score.
But the end result is the high score is well deserved. I personally am playing a ton of games, and bought this on sale, which was well worth it the price, since it plays like a mediocre game, but once I started, the story pulled me in, and it became very addictive, and I enjoyed being immersed into the Edo time period. But I could easily see this being a full price game if you enjoy this genre, or even a slight steam sale I would recommend picking up this game.
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Shadow Tactics Blades of the Shogun Review

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Game Name: Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
Price: $39.99
Buy Link: http://store.steampowered.com/app/418240/Genre: PvP
Azbolg’s Rating: 4 Axes out of 5

Shadow Tactics is a hardcore tactical stealth game set in Japan around the Edo period. A new Shogun seizes power over Japan and enforces nationwide peace. In his battle against conspiracy and rebellion, he recruits five specialists with extraordinary skills for assassination, sabotage and espionage.

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