What I love most is when a genre is revived by people who really truly understand it. The developers of Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun clearly understood why the classic tactics stealth games like Commandos worked. It has always been a very niche small genre, seemingly influenced by both real time tactics classics like Myth series and by the stealth titles like Metal Gear, and it hasn’t seen any truly worthy successors for years. Even later Commandos games and the similar Desperados games usually never got the same love and praise the original titles did and some (citation needed) might even claim those games to “not get it” as well. But Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun? Now this game gets it. And I suck at it pretty badly, as expected.
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