We are sorry for that! The least we can do is to communicate this fact to you, our community, and explain the reasons behind it: We are aware that the console and Mac players among you will be disappointed with this news. This is why the decision to release Aiko’s Choice only for PC was not an easy one. We are also planning to add Linux (32-bit, like the original release) support.īack in 2016/17 we were happy to release Shadow Tactics on Windows, Mac, Linux and consoles so that players of all platforms can experience genuine real-time tactics galore. This means that Aiko’s Choice will be playable on Windows. However, it’s with a heavy heart for the team that we have to announce that Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun – Aiko’s Choice will be a PC exclusive release! If this is your first experience with Shadow Tactics or real time tactics games, I highly recommend playing the base game Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun first.Aiko’s Choice is a brand-new standalone expansion to our beloved stealth tactics game Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun – and set to release in late 2021! Once you finally do work out the solution, it’s an awesome feeling giving you some great gaming memories. I love the Japanese setting and music in this isometric view which helped keep me calm while spending hours on the same mission. Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun – Aiko’s Choice is one of the better real time tactics games I’ve played despite it being frustratingly hard at times. Overall, I give this standalone expansion an 8/10. It’s likely because they took me 20+ saves and reloads to get through them, but the point is I retained and concentrated on the story with lasting memories. I remember so many of the mini battles that took place across several of the missions in Shadow Tactics. In other games like first-person shooters, sure they have some awesome cinematics that give you a briefing and completion of that mission, but I go back to that game the next day and I barely remember what happened, other than shooting a lot of bad guys in the face. It was an arduous mission and I was just glad to have finished it, but to speed run it in 20 minutes? Far bloody out, and some of those other badges I could have done hardcore would be too involved for my patience.Īnother great aspect of these games is that, despite spending hours getting through some tough missions, they are memorable experiences and the story content of the missions stayed with me long after finishing play for that day. The mission summary shows the in-game completion time of 3:11:02 with so many saves and reloads. The first mission for Aiko’s Choice is much larger than any I played in the base game, taking me over 4 real hours to finally complete. I was shocked to see the speed run badge for that mission is to complete it in under 11 minutes! No doubt, once you complete a mission for the first time, you would save a heap of time knowing the path you took to get through it, so there’s definitely an appeal for speed runners. In fact, I looked back over my playthrough of the base game’s first mission and my completion time was 47:57, however in reality, that was played out over an hour of actual gameplay. Missions in the base game usually took me anywhere from 45 minutes up to 1.5 hours, depending on the density of foes. Some characters from the base game make a return like Hayato, Yuki and Tanaka, with Aiko being the centre of this story over three full main missions and three shorter interlude missions. Having spent many hours in both the base game and this expansion, these real-time tactics games can be super frustrating when your best thought out plans get foiled by a nosy guard, but the sense of accomplishment is super high when you complete a mission. This also means that we cannot update Shadow Tactics to a Mac 64-bit version.” Mimimi Games explains their reasoning in full here: “The technical effort that it would take to develop this standalone expansion for all platforms is more complex than you might initially think. In order to support non-PC platforms we would have to update the engine. This would require an immense amount of additional work for the team as they would have to edit the code and partly switch to other engine features. Unfortunately Mac and console fans miss out this time around after having been able to play the base game. Developed by Mimimi Games and published by Daedalic Entertainment, this expansion is set for release on the game’s 5 th anniversary, Decemon Steam. Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun – Aiko’s Choice is a standalone expansion to the 2016 original game.
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