Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun was one of the best games from 2016 easily, it helped to revive a classic style of tactical stealth games and it's coming back with Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun - Aiko's Choice.
This is a standalone expansion from the same developer, Mimimi Games. Now they're finished with Desperados III they've come back to their first proper hit. Set in Japan around the Edo period, you take control of kunoichi adept Aiko and her deadly assassin friends to hunt down the ghosts of her past. Check out the teaser below:
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Mimimi said in an email that "It has always been the team's dream to revisit our real-time tactics baby Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun at some point in the future. Since we had a bit of time between the Desperados III launch and the Codename Süßkartoffel kick off, we thought: It's now or never!".
Features:
- Return to the beautiful world of Shadow Tactics set in Japan, early Edo period.
- Rejoin your favorite characters for one final adventure set within the story of the main game Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun.
- Experience a previously untold tale centered around the kunoichi adept Aiko, who has to face a vicious enemy connected to her past.
- Explore three fully fledged main missions, located in brand-new environments, and three shorter interlude missions.
The expansion includes all the features of the main game:
- Play a team of completely different characters with their unique skill sets.
- Synchronize your team's actions to strike down your enemies at once with the "Shadow Mode" feature.
- Choose between non-lethal or deadly stealth attacks.
- Find dozens of ways to take out or sneak past your opponents the way you want.
- Choose from three difficulty levels to match your skill.
This time around it's going to be "PC exclusive" initially supported on Windows and they confirmed they are "also planning to add Linux (32-bit, like the original release)". So that's good news for us that they still plan to continue their Linux support. You can read more on why no macOS or console release here.
It has a Steam page up to follow along for release later this year.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Avehicle7887 Mar 26, 2021
Quoting: Avehicle7887Looks like it will be a nice addition, however I refuse to touch anything made by these devs after the lack of Linux version Desperados 3 on GOG.
But remember it was the Publisher's fault though.
Last edited by Cyril on 26 March 2021 at 8:35 pm UTC
Philadelphus Mar 27, 2021
Quoting: sigzActually the linux build of shadow tactics has some issues, the guards sight cone is graphically broken, it displays fully white where it should be a translucent green.Are you speaking for your own experience and/or something broken?
Because when i played it all was perfectly fine.
Quoting: rea987Quoting: SuppenAlthough I do not understand why they insist on just 32 bit for Linux. 64 bit has been around for ages
That is the reason why the standalone expansion is not going to be released on Mac and consoles; they demand 64 bit builds whereas Linux and Windows are just fine with 32 bit. So, they won't need to invest the game engine upgrade for 64 bit, instead focus on game development with existing 32 bit engine.
I just tried running ST on my Macbook Pro and sure enough it wouldn't since it's a 32-bit app. I get its devs don't want to upgrade their engine, but making 32-bit programs in 2010s is rather silly.
Philadelphus Mar 28, 2021
Quoting: sigzActually the linux build of shadow tactics has some issues, the guards sight cone is graphically broken, it displays fully white where it should be a translucent green.Just fired it up to check and it's working fine for me on Debian 10 stable.
But sounds like a bug to report.
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