Commandos-Like Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun - Commandos clone with ninjutsu theme

[MuscleSpark]

Mugen can carry 2 bodies and throw them to a short distance.

And I believe Yuki's dragging counts as a crouch, so you can drag bodies around the long distance sight ranges.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Mugen can carry 2 bodies and throw them to a short distance.

And I believe Yuki's dragging counts as a crouch, so you can drag bodies around the long distance sight ranges.

Geisha lady does the same, I actually use these two a lot and get used to their body dragging range. Then forget that Mugen and Hayato gets up to carry a body...

Takuma is OP btw, his tanuki + gas grenades combo is a freaking weapon of silent mass destruction.

 

[ᚱᚨᚷᛖᚠᚢᛈ]

You can punch and stun them, they'll think it was an animal attack or accident unless you get caught doing it. And you can lure guards from posts(except strawhats) with foot prints on the snow. Hide with Mugen and lure them away with Yuko.

Well, I know the mechanics but the level is packed...

What is better, north or south gate? Should the Samurai travel by cart?

English VO: Cringeworthy IMO. I think it works in Shadow Warrior because it's a comedy, you're not really meant to take it seriously, but this fu manchu accent stuff is really out of place in a Serious Game.

I for one, dont think this is a serious game. Its an action adventure type of thing. I mean, Yuki, a cute minor slits throats like a champ and enjoys it.
Shit, they have the Shogun's evil brother in the second cutscene...
And the other thing is, how do authentic japs sound like if they speak engrish? Because whats the alternative? American accent? French? Ze german one, like the devs?

 

[Cyberarmy]

What is better, north or south gate? Should the Samurai travel by cart?

North is better and he can travel by cart for easier time. South gate has a nasty guard trio including a samurai.

 

[ᚱᚨᚷᛖᚠᚢᛈ]

Throwing enemies up the roof is cheating.

Yeah, I dont know how to do eet, Imai that is, without a knockout factory... Entered the north gate by holding 3 enemies in hands, dropping them where the cart drives, quickly baiting 2 left at the gate and knocking them out and then entering teh gate for meeting point A. From there it got even worse. Spent 60 minutes trying shit out to get to the tower before again resorting to knockout factory tactix... Yuki bashes 3 downed enemies behind the shed, lol dem APS, while Mugen knocks out the 4th and then the tower.

What pisses me off is that they dont show the 3 main badges before teh fuckn level starts. Imai supposedly can be done without destroying the tower and killing anyone inside the compound.. It least thats 2 badges that do exist.

Game has another slight "exploit" with the doors, maybe its intended this way. While the enemy enters, you exit and knock him out.

Also, you seem to make almost zero noise while crawling so you can crawl behind enemies point blanc and they dont notice, feels cheaty...

 

[lukaszek]

deterministic system > RNG

 

[Darth Roxor]

nop, there are missions where you hafta shank gits dead

although i guess you can have (((tragic accidents))) happen to them

 

[Excidium II]

Does it have sword fightan like robin hood?

 

[Zombra]

Does it have sword fightan like robin hood?

I don't remember what you're talking about, but there is no combat engine, just moves like in Desperados that either kill a guy or don't.

can you ghost every single mission?

Murder is definitely required, but there are badges for "don't kill anybody except your target", so it's possible to do that.

 

[agris]

Hey Pyke get your ass over here! You're a Commandos fan I assume? You'll probably like this game.

 

[Pyke]

I saw a sneak peek with the dudes ad Daedelic earlier this year - it looks completely amazing! Im gonna buy it now - thanks for reminding me!

 

[agris]

I saw a sneak peek with the dudes ad Daedelic earlier this year - it looks completely amazing! Im gonna buy it now - thanks for reminding me!

they've got the commandos-like mechanics implemented in Unity, you've got amazing 2D art and experience with Unity... just saying...

 

[VonVentrue]

Bought it on GOG yesterday, encouraged by all the positive feedback. Far surpassing my expectations so far, GOTY, "Commandos is back!" and all that. Like, seriously.

I saw a sneak peek with the dudes ad Daedelic earlier this year - it looks completely amazing! Im gonna buy it now - thanks for reminding me!

I can't help but applaud your impeccable taste.
You do remember posting a very interesting picture, don't you, Pyke? Just winking and nudging...

 

[ᚱᚨᚷᛖᚠᚢᛈ]

Uh, dont like the 4th level, the Mountain Temple. No-killing run.

The beginning is all good but its all basically "shrink cone, run past it" twitch gameplay without much thinking, still ok. But after you walked through the level, you now have to guide Mugen through all of it again which is a trivial timesink with the new cloths... except the samurai at the end at the bottom of the stairs. Thats another twitch section consisting of "shrink cone, run past it" but far less trivial.

And as I mentioned before, moving extremely close to enemies doesnt trigger them fast enough. Geisha managed to squeeze past behind teh samurai, which I'm pretty sure is not supposed to happens since he turns around. Its like tapping someone on the left shoulder from behind and when tehy look you appear from the right...

Game also doesnt react to the prisoner escape even if you dont kill anyone and they see that he is gone. All that happens is ALARM! and 2 extra guards walk out...

There is a convention about anachronistic language in Serious Films

This is not Serious Film. Its not even serious game.
This is not anachronistic language, in context. Cause no one expects ye olde british in movies about Henry IV.
And frankly idgaf about baseless conventions.

The concept is thus: Mugen, the Japan born, pure bred jap Samurai, retells you the story of his Shogun. In English, since you are too dumb for hieroglyphs. Hence the accent. All your arguments are invalid. You just get your panties into a bunch cause you dont like it, for whatever reason.

And what if I told you that the voice actors are japs themselves and dont ham it up even?

 

[Darth Roxor]

"Dunmore" sounds like a typical japanese surname to me. They probably forgot to put the dash above the O.

 

[ᚱᚨᚷᛖᚠᚢᛈ]

Damn, men, is it possible to poison Lord Yabu on the tea island with only the two ninjas, without the old man and Kuba? No killing. Cause I dont see it. Knockout factory doesnt seem to work since they hear it for some reason... I am too lazy to try and get the old man there, since I might as well take the sniper shot instead.

 

[Darth Roxor]

I recommend skipping both the sniper shot and the tea party and just lobbing a nade on Yabu and his entourage instead

 

[ᚱᚨᚷᛖᚠᚢᛈ]

Thats murder and murder is bad. I wont soil Yuki's innocence!
Besides, old man is outside.

 

[Zombra]

Thats murder and murder is bad. I wont soil Yuki's innocence!

Yeah, you're a little late for that. Yuki commits her first murder of the game within 10 seconds of appearing on screen ... with the nonchalance of long practice, I might add.

 

[ᚱᚨᚷᛖᚠᚢᛈ]

SELF DEFENSE! Yuki chan was under threat of being raped!

 

[zool]

Just finished the first level of the demo, started the second level and I must say I'm seriously impressed. Interesting and quite original setting (for a Commandos-like type of game), superb art, very good sound effect and voiceovers, all coming with a great gameplay which kept Commandos' and Desperados' good ideas and improved on them.

I have too many games on my backlog right now to pay 40$ fo a game I won't have time to play before sometime but I'll definitely purchase it next year or so when it's on sale on GoG.

It seems we have finally found a worthy successor to Pyro's and Spellbound's games, rejoice!

 

[Pyke]

Bought it on GOG yesterday, encouraged by all the positive feedback. Far surpassing my expectations so far, GOTY, "Commandos is back!" and all that. Like, seriously.

I saw a sneak peek with the dudes ad Daedelic earlier this year - it looks completely amazing! Im gonna buy it now - thanks for reminding me!

I can't help but applaud your impeccable taste.
You do remember posting a very interesting picture, don't you, Pyke? Just winking and nudging...

I would love to do one, There was a guy who did a full Unity tutorial on how to recreate Commandos - if I ever get the programming itch Ill probably try it out!

 

[Urbanolo]

Fucking hell, bought this game on gram.pl yesterday (which is a normal shop, not a reseller, though it's potatoland, you never know) and they've sent me a duplicate. And now I have to wait till tomorrow or God knows how much longer to get the proper, working key. Hope the game is worth it, cause it's like my second almost D1P this year after Dungeon Rats.

 

[Raghar]

Finished mission 3 on ironman. All these missclicks. The pain...

 

[Darth Roxor]

Did anyone get the all-torch badge in the eavesdropping mission? I put out all the torches on the map and killed all the torchbearers, but it didn't process for me.

Unless "including all enemies" also means torch-bearing redshirts that hide in rax, but that would be seriously gay...