However, while Shadow Tactics was difficult at times and I was left questioning my prowess in the stealth genre a lot, at no time did I feel like the game seemed unfair. In my time with Shadow Tactics I did experience bugs on one or two occasions where enemies somehow spotted me from literally the other side of the map for seemingly no reason.

This throws in a whole new level of challenge many times I would get spotted and have reinforcements arrive, deciding to reload my last save only to realise I’d been set back much further than I anticipated. A timer will appear at the top and go from green, to yellow and finally to red to let you know how long it’s been since your last save. By touching the save button the game will save that moment for you, should something happen you can reload back to this, however you can only ever have three active saves. Gone are autosaves and instead welcome manual instant save. This obviously becomes more and more important as your team must work as one unit to remove obstacles in one swoop. You aren’t required to do this for all characters at the same time so after setting one character to create a distraction you can take control of the second character, execute the shadow plan and manoeuvre the character you’re controlling once the distraction is made. By selecting this for a character you are able to allocate a single action for them it can be to use an item, move to a location or eliminate an enemy. “This throws in a whole new level of challenge many times I would get spotted and have reinforcements arrive, deciding to reload my last save only to realise I’d been set back much further than I anticipated.”

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