Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
The player assassinates human guards and soldiers with swords, shuriken, traps and firearms; kills draw visible blood but no dismemberment or gore is shown.
Sake appears as a game item — one character carries a bottle of it to lure guards away from their posts.
Assassination, feudal war and a warlord conspiracy form the backdrop of the plot and are referenced in the story rather than dwelt on graphically.
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What it is
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is a single-player tactical stealth game set in Edo-period Japan, where you command a small team of specialists to infiltrate guarded compounds and complete missions of espionage, sabotage and assassination. Play centers on studying guards' vision cones and methodically removing obstacles between you and the objective, either by knocking enemies out or killing them with blades, thrown shuriken, a sniper rifle or staged traps; lethal takedowns show blood but no dismemberment or gore. Bodies can be hidden in bushes, wells and barrels to avoid raising the alarm. A bottle of sake is used as an item to distract guards. There is no sexual content, nudity, strong language, purchasable content, or online interaction.
How it's framed
The game frames its killing as sanctioned stealth operations against a rebellion threatening the realm, and it offers non-lethal routes for most objectives, even rewarding players with badges for completing missions without harming enemies; violence is a tactical choice rather than a spectacle, and the overall tone leans on likeable characters and puzzle-like problem-solving.
Details
- Developer
- Mimimi Games
- Publisher
- Daedalic Entertainment
- Released
- Dec 6, 2016
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