Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun - Aiko's Choice, the new standalone addon to the very popular stealth tactics game Shadow Tactics is out now.
Focusing on one of the main game's protagonists: the kunoichi adept Aiko. She is a master of camouflage and distracts enemies disguised as a geisha. While Aiko was certain that she left her old life behind, her former sensei, the cunning spymaster Lady Chiyo, reappears from the shadows to challenge her. Together with her friends—a group of deadly assassins—she sets out to hunt down the ghosts of her past.
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Features:
- Return to the beautiful world of Shadow Tactics set in Japan in the early Edo period.
- Rejoin your favorite characters for another 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 must face a vicious enemy connected to her past.
- Explore three full-fledged main missions, setin brand-new environments, and three shorter interlude missions.
The expansion includes all the features of the main game:
- Play a team of five different characters with their own 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.
Available to buy from Steam. Looks like GOG does not yet have the Linux build.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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18 comments
hardpenguin Dec 6, 2021
I'm very tempted to buy this. I just need to know how long it is. Desperados III and Shadow Tactics are just superb games.
"Instead of a revolutionary sequel, you get a few extra levels similar to the larger maps from the main game. It's more of the same, but that's a good thing. Overall the expansion takes about six to eight hours to complete and is a nice slice of what Shadow Tactics is known for."
Source: https://www.nme.com/reviews/game-reviews/shadow-tactics-blades-of-the-shogun-aikos-choice-review-3110513
Last edited by hardpenguin on 6 December 2021 at 7:06 pm UTC
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Nice, don't know yet when to find the time (fortunately it's not that long), but already in the library :)
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Bought it and played the first mission :)
It's great so far, pretty much what I expected!
It's great so far, pretty much what I expected!
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Arehandoro Dec 6, 2021
Will be my Christmas present :D
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Desperados III was a really good game, but Shadow Tactics had better atmosphere and story imo. I’ll be getting this one!
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The dev has a blog post mentioning that the expansion will be PC exclusive. Then goes on to explain that this includes Windows and Linux. Should make a few people happy. 
Less good is that it apparently is still 32 bit.
Less good is that it apparently is still 32 bit.
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Philadelphus Dec 7, 2021
Just picked it up, though I'll have to wait until I have something other than a (work-provided) Macbook to play it on... 
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Having played yesterday for a few minutes, very nice to hear the characters speaking again. (English for me, though the Japanese voices are probably even better.) The voice-over itself is worth the game.
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When will designers finally leave this "sword on the back" stupidity? :D
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When will designers finally leave this "sword on the back" stupidity? :DStupidity in the sense that it's ahistorical, or according to the notion that it wouldn't work? Because (much like the Hollywood quickdraw pistol rig) it's certainly ahistorical, but it turns out it does work.
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It works fine so far with Wine. So even the gog fans can play it already :)
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It's a pity they never managed to make the game 64-bit.How much of a difference does it make?
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It's a pity they never managed to make the game 64-bit.How much of a difference does it make?
It shouldn't make a lot except for possible filesystem related problems, if it wasn't complied with large file flags. In the past a lot of 32-bit games had this issue because developers had no clue it even exists and it only manifested on some filesystems like XFS, not on ext4 for example.
https://users.suse.com/~aj/linux_lfs.html
And many 32-bit Unity games were bitten by it.
Note: it's not simply about actually large files. It's about 32-bit program being able to work with files on large partitions on 64-bit system. On XFS the bug starts showing up on partitions around above 1 TB if application wasn't built with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64.
Last edited by Shmerl on 9 December 2021 at 5:28 pm UTC
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Plintslîcho Dec 9, 2021
It works fine so far with Wine. So even the gog fans can play it already :)
I can't help it, having the original game as Linux native from gog.com but the DLC as Windows game feels odd to me.
But let's wait and see.
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I can't help it, having the original game as Linux native from gog.com but the DLC as Windows game feels odd to me.
But let's wait and see.
I wonder if expansion is just some resource file that even the Linux version can seamlessly pick up, or it also needs the executable update?
I.e. did anyone try using the Windows release of the expansion with the Linux base game?
Last edited by Shmerl on 9 December 2021 at 6:06 pm UTC
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Plintslîcho Dec 9, 2021
I'm not 100% sure but I thought that the graphics and some of the game mechanics have been tweaked, similar to Desperados III. So the DLC may not be compatible with the base game anymore.
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