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Set in the Edo period in Japan, a deadly team is assembled to stealthily take out enemies be they fortified in a castle, confined to a remote monastery or hidden deep within a forest. Each member of your team has a different strategy and personality: leader Hayato is an agile ninja using sword and shuriken; samurai Mugen is the muscle, taking a direct approach; Aiko uses camouflage and subterfuge; Yuki is a street-wise child good with traps and decoys; Takuma is a mysterious marksman, sniping from a distance. Control your team, learn their stories and take down your enemies in this tactical hardcore stealth game.

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"Shadow Tactics: Blades Of The Shogun"

Amalgam of The Lost Vikings and Assassin's Creed that sees you switch between five interchangeable assassins with different skill sets on a Edo-period battlefield. It's one of those games that's very nearly great, but falls short because of a couple of niggles that could - and should - have been easily fixable. The problem lies in its difficulty which is not a problem in itself, but deaths are more often than not caused by your detection by enemies off-screen that you had no idea were there. This is because their view cones are only visible when you highlight the enemy concerned, which combined with the fact that the screen does not track your character's movements leads to a lot of unfair deaths and even more frustration. If a sequel appears that corrects either of these problems I think...

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