Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun - Aiko’s Choice
Aiko's Choice is a brand-new standalone addon to the beloved stealth tactics game Shadow Tactics. Set in Japan around the Edo period, you take control of kunoichi adept Aiko and her deadly assassin friends to…
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun - Aiko’s Choice is an adventure developed by Mimimi Games, released 6 December 2021 on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun - Aiko’s Choice is
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun - Aiko’s Choice is an adventure game developed by Mimimi Games and released in 2021. It was published by Daedalic Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity. It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Aiko's Choice is a brand-new standalone expansion to the beloved stealth tactics game Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, set in Japan around the Edo period. The expansion features three fully fledged main missions, set in brand-new environments, and three shorter interlude missions. In the style of the main game, you take control of a team of deadly specialists to sneak in the shadows between dozens of enemies. Choose your approach when infiltrating enemy bases in hidden forest camps or lively Edo period towns. Set traps, poison and distract your opponents – or avoid enemy contact completely. Carefully plan your every move and come up with your own ingenious tactics to vanquish enemies…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, stealth and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun - Aiko’s Choice holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 13 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun - Aiko’s Choice launched on 6 December 2021, within three weeks of Halo Infinite, Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, Solar Ash and Battlefield 2042. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Halo Infinite, Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, Solar Ash, Battlefield 2042.
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