| 📰 Title: | Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun | 🕹️ / 🛠️ Type: | Game |
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| 🗃️ Genre: | Strategy | 👁️ Visual: | Free-roaming camera |
| 🏷️ Category: | Strategy ➤ Top-Down Fight of Units ➤ Stealth, Escape, Hiding | 🏝️ Perspective: | Bird's-eye view |
| 🔖 Tags: | Stealth; Action; Strategy; Tactical; Ninja; Historical; Controller | ⏱️ Pacing: | Real Time |
| 🐣️ Approx. start: | 2016-12-06 | 👫️ Played: | Single |
| 🐓️ Latest: | 2018-06-06 | 🚦 Status: | 04. Released (status) |
| 📍️ Version: | Latest: Patch 2.2 | ❤️ Like it: | 9. ⏳️ |
| 🏛️ License type: | 💰 Commercial | 🎀️ Quality: | 7. ⏳️ |
| 🏛️ License: | Commercial | ✨️ (temporary): | |
| 🐛️ Created: | 2016-12-03 | 🐜️ Updated: | 2024-10-10 |
| 📰 What's new?: | 👻️ Temporary: | ||
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| 💡 Lights on: | 🎨️ Significant improvement: | ||
| 👔️ Already shown: | 💭️ New version published (to be updated): | ||
| 🎖️ This work: |  |
🚧️ Some work remains to be done: | |
| 👫️ Contrib.: | goupildb & Louis | 🦺️ Work in progress: | |
| 🎰️ ID: | 15152 |
| 📜️[en]: | A tactical / stealth game (inspired by the Commando series of games) taking place in Japan during the Edo period. The player leads a team of 5 specialists in assassination, sabotage and espionage and is entrusted with different missions in various locations (castles, monasteries located on snowy mountains, hidden camps in the forest, ...) in a war against conspiracy and rebellion. Each member of the team has his own personality, dynamics and personal demons and must compose and trust the others. A good coordination is essential | 📜️[fr]: | Un jeu tactique / d'infiltration (inspiré de la série de jeux Commando) prenant place au Japon dans la période Edo. Le joueur dirige une équipe de 5 spécialistes en assassinat, sabotage et espionnage et se voit confier différentes missions en des lieux variés (châteaux, monastères situés sur des montagnes enneigées, camps dissimulés en forêt, ...) dans une guerre contre la conspiration et la rébellion. Chaque membre de son équipe a sa propre personnalité, dynamique et démons personnels et doit composer et accorder sa confiance aux autres. Une bonne coordination est indispensable |
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🕹️ Title: Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
🦊️ What's: A tactical / stealth game taking place in Japan during the Edo period
🏡️ https://www.shadow-tactics.com
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🥁️ Update: Patch 2.2
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📚️ Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is a tactical / stealth game (inspired by the Commando series of games) taking place in Japan during the Edo period. The player leads a team of 5 specialists in assassination, sabotage and espionage and is entrusted with different missions in various locations (castles, monasteries located on snowy mountains, hidden camps in the forest, ...) in a war against conspiracy and rebellion. Each member of the team has his own personality, dynamics and personal demons and must compose and trust the others. A good coordination is essential
📜️ "A tactical / stealth game taking place in Japan during the Edo period" 📜️
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.
The group is composed of very different personalities. Working together as a team seems impossible at first. Yet over the course of many missions, trust is won and friendships are made. The characters develop their own dynamic and each member will have to face their own personal demons.
🌍️ Wikipedia:
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is a stealth-oriented real-time tactics video game developed by Mimimi Productions and published by Daedalic Entertainment. The gameplay is similar to that of the Commandos and Desperados series. It was released on December 6, 2016 for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux, and in July 2017 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The game received three German Developer Awards (best German game, best PC/console game, best game design).
Plot
The game is set at the beginning of Japan's Edo period. An unnamed shogun has unified Japan after years of war. However, a mysterious warlord known only as "Kage-sama" has emerged, jeopardizing the country's stability. The Shogun turns to Oshiro Mugen, a samurai in his service, and assigns him to uncover Kage-sama's true identity and bring him to justice. Mugen subsequently recruits four other allies to assist him: Hayato, a cynical ninja; Yuki, a clever, inquisitive young outcast and thief; Aiko, a female ninja and Mugen's paramour; and Takuma, a sharpshooter and explosives expert.
The group investigates the corrupt daimyo Lord Yabu, suspecting him of being Kage-sama due to his involvement in the production and smuggling of illegal weapons, but when Mugen decides to have him assassinated without the Shogun's permission, it triggers a rebellion of soldiers loyal to the Shogun's former ally, General Okkoto. The Shogun reprimands Mugen for acting rashly, but allows him nonetheless to deal with Okkoto. Defeated, the general commits seppuku with Mugen's help after providing the group with a map that leads to a secret encampment in the marshlands where Kage-sama is hiding.
The group goes to apprehend Kage-sama, but quickly learn that their target is a decoy and the "encampment" is a trap: the true Kage-sama is none other than Lord Noboru, the Shogun's younger brother and right-hand man. Noboru reveals that he opposes his brother's peaceful rule, fearing that it will make warriors like him obsolete. He intends to seize power and plunge Japan back into endless war. Holding Mugen's companions hostage, Noboru forces the samurai to lead him to the secret refuge of Ryunosuke, the Shogun's heir, and Noboru's son Masaru stabs Ryunosuke dead. Mugen's companions escape captivity, but a guilt-ridden and dishonored Mugen commits suicide, though not before Aiko tells him that she is bearing his child.
After learning that Mugen's companions have survived, Noboru convinces the Shogun that they killed his son; to clear their names, the group abducts Masaru from a bathhouse in Kyoto and sneak their way past the Shogun's men to deliver him personally to their superior. Masaru tries to lie, but the Shogun, noting that only he and Mugen knew about his son's hiding place, forces him to tell the truth. Leaving Masaru to be put to death for his crimes, the group infiltrates Noboru's castle. When they corner Noboru, he attempts suicide. The player can choose to let him do it, or execute him themselves.
Having avenged Mugen, the four comrades are released from their service to the Shogun and go their separate ways. Aiko later gives birth to Mugen's son, whom the Shogun adopts as his heir, allowing his legacy to endure.
Aiko's Choice (DLC)
The events in Aiko's Choice take place just before the group departs to apprehend Kage-sama at his hideout in the marshlands (mission 9).
While the shogun's agents are in their hideout plotting their attack on Kage-sama's hideout, they are raided by soldiers led by one Lady Chiyo. Lady Chiyo is Aiko's old mentor, and she is now working for Kage-sama. Chiyo takes Takuma and Yuki away with her, and orders her men to execute Aiko, Mugen, and Hayato. The three manage to escape and rescue Yuki, but Takuma has been taken away on a Portuguese ship.
Aiko and her friends track down the Portuguese ship to a smuggler's island hideout. They destroy a number of gunpowder crates destined for Kage-sama, and rescue Takuma. Aiko remarks at how curiously lax security at the hideout is, considering how familiar Lady Chiyo is with Aiko's abilities. Aiko discovers that Lady Chiyo has restarted her school for female ninjas at the old compound of the Sakura clan where Aiko was trained. Aiko and her friends infiltrate the school and assassinate Lady Chiyo.
In the epilogue, Lady Chiyo meets with Aiko out in the wilderness. Lady Chiyo expected Aiko to come after her and feigned her own death, which was in fact her objective all along. Lady Chiyo doesn't want to work for Kage-sama, so she manipulated Aiko into coming after her, and by faking her death, she can disappear into peaceful retirement. Lady Chiyo apologizes for the pain she caused for Aiko and her friends. At this point, Aiko can choose to kill Lady Chiyo or let her go in peace.
Gameplay
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is a stealth-oriented real-time tactics game, inspired by the Commandos and Desperados game series. The player commands a small team and performs various acts of espionage, sabotage and assassination, such as infiltrating heavily guarded fortresses and eliminating enemies from within, killing/capturing special targets, stealing important documents, overhearing conversations to collect information, or rescuing other characters. Enemy guards have a visible cone of vision which the heroes must evade to remain undetected. Missions generally require the player to methodically eliminate enemies between them and the objective without raising the alarm; players can lure guards into ambushes, kill them with traps or staged accidents, or simply knock them out for a small amount of time. The heroes can move the bodies of slain or unconscious guards to hide them in bushes, empty rooms, barrels and wells so that they won't be found. If a hero is spotted or a dead body is discovered by the enemy, the alarm will be raised and additional patrols will be deployed to secure the area. In addition to guards, heroes must also watch out for hostile civilians, who can't attack but will alert any nearby guards of their presence, as well as birds and standing water, which make noise that guards can hear. Some missions incorporate environmental elements such as snow and darkness, which alter normal enemy behavior.
Each mission also includes a set of "badges" for the player to earn. Two are for finishing the mission under a set period of time and for completing it on "Hardcore", the most difficult mode. Other badges are awarded for feats such as performing unique kills, not harming enemies, or not using certain skills.
Heroes
Each hero has a set of skills to utilize: a "healing" skill that restores health but can only be used once, a matchlock pistol with limited ammunition (Mugen has a more powerful "hand cannon" that can kill samurai), and two unique abilities:
Hayato has a shuriken with which he can kill enemies (except samurai) at a distance with little noise. He can also throw rocks to distract enemies. Like Yuki and Aiko, he can climb vines, jump from rooftops, and use a grappling hook wherever a hook-ring is present.
Mugen has a "Storm Wind" area attack that can kill multiple enemies (except samurai) if they are clustered together. He can also lure guards (except Straw Hats and samurai) from their posts with a bottle of sake. Mugen is the only character who can efficiently kill enemy samurai in a head-on confrontation, either with his sword or his especially powerful pistol.
Yuki can lay a trap that kills anyone who steps on it, except for samurai, who walks into it. She also has a flute with which she can lure nearby guards to her position.
Aiko can steal clothes and disguise herself as a priestess or a geisha, allowing her to walk freely around the map (although samurai can see through her disguises). She can distract enemy guards with casual banter while disguised, and also throw sneezing powder that temporarily limits guards' cones of vision.
Takuma has a rifle with which he can kill enemies at great distances and with no noise, but his ammunition is very limited. He also has a pet tanuki which he can send to distract enemy guards by growling, and carries special grenades that can stun or kill enemies. Like Mugen, he cannot swim or climb walls, and his cane makes noise unless he crouches.
Un jeu d'infiltration dans le Japon médiéval, avec une équipe de spécialistes en assassinat, sabotage et espionnage, par le studio Mimimi Productions, publié par le studio Daedalic Entertainment.
Il utilise le moteur Unity.
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun est un jeu tactique / d'infiltration (inspiré de la série de jeux Commando) prenant place au Japon dans la période Edo. Le joueur dirige une équipe de 5 spécialistes en assassinat, sabotage et espionnage et se voit confier différentes missions en des lieux variés (châteaux, monastères situés sur des montagnes enneigées, camps dissimulés en forêt, ...) dans une guerre contre la conspiration et la rébellion. Chaque membre de son équipe a sa propre personnalité, dynamique et démons personnels et doit composer et accorder sa confiance aux autres. Une bonne coordination est indispensable.
Shadow Tactics est un jeu de tactique tactique hardcore prenant place au Japon autour de la période Edo.
Prenez le contrôle d'une équipe de spécialistes en assassinat et faufilez-vous dans l'ombre de dizaines d'ennemis. Choisissez votre approche lors de l'infiltration de puissants châteaux, de monastères situés sur des montagnes enneigées ou de camps dissimulés en forêt. Installez des pièges, empoisonnez vos adversaires ou évitez complètement le contact ennemi.
Le groupe est composé de personnalités très différentes. Travaillez ensemble en équipe semble impossible en première approche. Pourtant, au cours de nombreuses missions, la confiance est gagnée et les amitiés sont faites. Les personnages développent leur propre dynamique et chaque membre devra faire face à ses propres démons personnels.
🌍️ Wikipedia:
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun est un jeu vidéo de tactique en temps réel développé par Mimimi Productions et édité par Daedalic Entertainment, sorti en 2016 sur Windows, Mac, Linux, PlayStation 4 et Xbox One.