![]() ![]() Some hostile troops are stationed at specific places to keep watch, while others have predetermined patrol routes. ![]() The player will be ultimately in charge of a team of five warriors, each with a predefined personality and skill set. Each level in the game is a massive, sprawling affair set in feudal Japan and filled with houses, towers, castles, and, of course, plenty of enemies. ![]() Shadow Tactics is a real-time strategy seen from an overhead isometric perspective. In a year full of good games, this is a great one. Every problem that might have been an issue has been predicted and prevented (or caught and fixed) by the developers, resulting in a finely-polished, finely-tuned standout experience. Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is one of the rare ones. Games tripped up by ifs are common, but titles that honestly and thoroughly address all their ifs are exceedingly rare. If the difficulty curve had been smoothed out… The list goes on and on. If the story had made a few changes, it would’ve been engaging. If this had a better same system, it would’ve been more playable. WTF YOU GUYS, THERE’S ANOTHER CHOICE HERE!!!Īs someone who spends a lot of time thinking about games in a critical sense, I’ve lost count of how many ‘if’s have held something back from its full potential. LOW Getting hung up on small objects on the ground. “And for that we already had to found a small company.” After setting up that company to release the app, Abé and his team spent the next few years doing contract work and gradually hiring up everyone from their university days, until eventually the time came for Mimimi to make its first full game –, a mascot platformer that resolutely failed to set the world alight.HIGH Finally killing that annoying cluster of three patrolling soldiers. “That was the first huge boost we got,” creative director says. If it had all ended that night, it would have at least, an app they made at university – Munich’s Mediadesign Hochschule, a short walk from where the studio is now based – that won them the student prize at Apple’s 2012 Design Awards. So, while the rest of the team celebrated, studio founder and CEO Johannes Roth was working the room, trying desperately to find the next contract. Mimimi had blown through its financial reserves finishing this game and didn’t have another project lined up. ![]() “People had in the back of their minds that basically everybody was terminated, except for a couple of us.” “All that, having this game launch, checking Steam and being number one in global topsellers, being able to drink for free… it was a perfect night.” At least, it was as long as they could ignore the fact that the studio might not make it into 2017. “We were nominated in lots of categories, and we won almost all of them – four or five trophies,” lead designer Moritz Wagner says. The Mimimi team travelled from their native Munich to Cologne and that night, Shadow Tactics swept the board. It also happened to be the date of the German Game Developer Awards. When Shadow Tactics: Blades Of The Shogun released on December 6, 2016, it was the culmination not only of two years’ development, but also of a near-lifelong dream for one of its creators, and a project they’d begun joking about almost a decade earlier. ![]()
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