Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun Reviews
Shadow Tactics is a gorgeous, isometric stealth game with a fun and varied cast of characters
What happens when you mix stealth action, tactical decisions, and beautiful art? You get Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun.
There is a certain charm in attempting stealth in Shadow Tactics and with its focus on tactical aspects of combat, the story unforuately takes a backseat to the gameplay.
Despite its minor camera and screen tearing issues though, Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is great for those looking for a challenge. Its mix of stealth, strategy and action is a highly enjoyable one, and with its wealth of missions and bonus objectives there's plenty to go at.
With a taste for the minute detail and a remarkable sense for level design, the obscure german developer put together 13 lovely, bloody tableau vivant with a japanese setting, whose shadows house a cabal of five well assorted blades.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Based Loosely on Japan's Edo period, Shadow Tactics is a great Stealth-Tactical Real Time Strategy game that reminds you of the good old Commandos series.
Review in Persian | Read full review
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun brings a particularly brutal challenge, but at no point does it ever feel unfair. With some of the best stealth gameplay I have seen in a game for some time, and unusually large maps to utilise as a playground, there are many hours of fun to be had with this refreshing tactical showing.
Mimimi aus München haben die Echtzeit-Taktik würdig wiederbelebt und bis auf ein paar Kleinigkeiten prima an moderne Standards angepasst. Bitte mehr davon!
Review in German | Read full review
We are in front of a genre that seemed to have disappeared, even though it had strongly marked the 2000s, the kind of tactics in real time; thanks to Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, the Mimimi Production team really succeeds in bringing back strength and strength to this type of game.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Shadow Tactics is going to soothe the soul of many strategy game fans, even of those that haven't played the old classics. Its gripping story makes it easy to recommend.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
Shadow Tactics brings back the atmosphere of some classics, like Commandos and Desperados, with a hard and fun tactical gameplay.
Review in Italian | Read full review
I think the concept concocted by Mimimi Productions alone was what made Shadow Tactics a worthwhile game to make, and even more worthwhile to play.
A game with loads of challenges, hours of playtime and a a solid use of console controls which help to overcome lots of the usual frustrations with PC ports.
Shadow Tactics is a unique exploration of the stealth genre with a great amount of polish, but if you’re going to dive in, be prepared for just how deep the water is.
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is a game hardcore puzzle types will enjoy, despite what any screenshot looks like, but any fan of RTS or even stealth games will be annoyed by the very narrow path of figuring out the current "stealth puzzle" facing them. If it is any indication of the slog that will be faced, a warning appears if you have not saved in over a minute. For the very narrow niche of puzzle gamers, they will enjoy figuring it out, but for everyone else, it is simply far too much guess-and-check, and the pure repetition grinds the player down.
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is a great game, one that has a ton of replay value and allows you to experiment with various ways to achieve your mission objectives. If you're a fan of Commandos from the old days, then this game will bring that back with a modern gameplay twist.
A winning premise of cleverly combined genres let down by a series of irritating design issues.
As stealth games go, Shadow Tactics is one of the best I have ever played - and certainly the purest