Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice
Mimimi Games · 2021 · Real Time Tactics, Strategy, Isometric, Stealth, Action
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About Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice
✦ AI summary
Lead a team of five deadly assassins through beautifully crafted Edo Japan in this stealth strategy game centered on the kunoichi Aiko as she confronts her shadowy past. Plan your approach carefully, synchronize your team's unique abilities, and execute your tactics flawlessly to outwit enemies through poison, traps, distractions, or silent elimination.
Return to the beautiful world of Edo Japan
Set in Japan around the early Edo period, Aiko's Choice is a stealth strategy game that takes place within the story of Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun. The expansion focuses 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.
Although Aiko was certain that she left her old life behind her, Aiko's former sensei, the cunning spymaster Lady Chiyo, reappears from the shadows to challenge her. Together with her deadly companions she sets out to hunt down the ghosts of her past...
Play a team of five unique assassins
In the style of the main game, you take control of five skillful assassins, including Aiko, to sneak in the shadows between dozens of enemies. Aiko's companions are just as deadly as her:
Hayato is an agile ninja, who clears the way silently with his sword and shuriken. The mighty samurai Mugen prefers a more powerful approach and can defeat multiple foes at once. Yuki is a young thief, who places traps and decoys enemies towards their deadly fate. The wise marksman Takuma, however, relies on his sniper rifle and distracts enemies with his loyal pet companion Kuma.
Define your playstyle
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, utilize your characters' unique skills and execute your own ingenious tactics to outwit your enemies on the challenging missions that lie ahead!
- Return to the beautiful world of Shadow Tactics set in Japan, 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 fully fledged main missions, set in 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 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.
Disclaimer: You don't require a copy of Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun to play Aiko's Choice. Even though you can enjoy this standalone expansion on its own, we recommend playing at least the first few missions of the main game to get a feeling of the game's mechanics as well as the characters and story!
We are very happy to finally return to Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun after all these years, and we hope that we were able to convert that joy into this standalone expansion. Join us on another visit… to Japan, early Edo period.
What Steam players say
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I finished this game last year, but only thought of writing a review today because it was such an incredible experience that it earned a special place in my heart. It's sad to see that Mimimi Games is no longer around, but their games will continue to live on through the memories of their fans. Their passion, creativity, and attention to detail made every adventure unforgettable. Now it's time for me to dive into Desperados III and Shadow Gambit. Thank you to the amazing developers and the entire creative team for giving us such wonderful games. Your work will not be forgotten.2 found this helpful
In a category of their own [b]Among the best[/b] <- Very good Good Fun Average Didn't like
Super short but very good.
"Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice" is a short DLC for Shadow Tactics that was released as if it was a full game instead of being a DLC. Shadow Tactics (and this "DLC" for it) is a stealth action game with RPG elements designed for XBox and Playstation and ported to PC. Gameplay consists of stealthing around, avoiding combat, using special abilties of your multiple characters to distract/stealth kill your enemies and hide the bodies. Kinda like Hitman but with a vague and unrealistic Japanese historical theme and a top down view styled basically off the ancient 1990's WW2 stealth action game series, Commandos. Which is not to say this is completely terrible, it's got AAA production values, but also, for a 5 year old DLC masquerading as a full AAA game, it's carrying the same kind of pricing which is where the key problem lies. The plot follows one of the characters from Shadow Tactics, a lady ninja, Aiko, who performs her ninja assassin work, blending seamlessly into the urban environment by wearing a hot pink anime girl outfit. I told you it was inauthentic... I guess we can be kind and suggest the game is "Japanese adjacent". And I think that's pretty typical of the plot here…
One of my favourite games, as good as the first one. Wish there were more missions.
A good continuation of the main game, it does exactly the same things right and plays well too.
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