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[KyoZz]

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.

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun - Aiko's Choice 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, a new enemy deeply connected to Aiko's past reappears from the shadows to challenge her. Together with her friends of deadly assassins she sets out to hunt down the ghosts of her past...

 

[IbizaPocholo]

Check out the first gameplay trailer for the Aiko's Choice standalone expansion for Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun.

 

[Graciaus]

This didn't even get one reply? Shadow Tactics was an amazing game. Looking forward to this.

 

[ihavezippers]

This didn't even get one reply? Shadow Tactics was an amazing game. Looking forward to this.

count me in day one

 

[IbizaPocholo]

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun - Aiko's Choice is basically a love letter to fans of the base game, just as it is an extra level of challenge. While it could flippantly be said that “if you liked the original, you’ll love this”, and that is technically true about most standalone expansions, it’s particularly true here.

Where the original game narrowly focused on a particular subgenre with its diehard focus on stealth and strategy, Aiko’s Choice, narrows the focus even more, on the hardcore of the hardcore. Despite not putting as much effort into evolving the experience as it probably should’ve - especially considering how long it’s been since Blades of the Shogun was released - it’s hard to not appreciate an expansion so clearly made for fans of the original game.