Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew

I loved Shadow Tactics, it's basically the only NON-MMO were I was invested in the characters. I actually was upset at some events in Shadow Tactics and Aiko's choice was amazing, I got a bit choked up. Shadow Tactics for me is one of the all time best games and that sets up for a lot of potential disappoint moving forward because it was an instant classic. For all the love for Desperados III is was basically a reskinned Shadow Tactics, all the same mechanics in a different setting. Not that I didn't love it, but I was no-where near invested in the characters. Aside from Shadow Tactics I rarely get that involved in the story, I prefer the strategy part, so Desperados was 5 star, but mainly because I got to run around doing the same thing as Shadow Tactics. Shadow Gambit, in my opinion is better story-wise than Desperados. The characters are interesting and while the side quests while on the ship can feel a bit tedious (skeleton talking is just painstakingly slow), I find myself paying more attention to the ship's crew story than I did to character arcs in Desperados III. If you're here for the 'tactics' it definitely won't disappoint, they've taken the good from previous and built upon them (Toya's teleport is awesome). They also made some things more difficult (e.g you can't converse with a guard forever like you could with Aiko, it's now on a countdown). The challenges were challenging, but as some people have mentioned, there's no requirement to use a particular set of people, as the missions can be completed with any combo of crew, but there are times I've regretted not taking another crew member for their skillset. TLDR: Great mechanics, better story than Desperados III IMO, but not the instant classic that Shadow Tactics will forever be. Well worth a play through at full cost. I'm disappointed that Mimimi is shutting down, but happy they made one more, I'm positive that Shadow Gambit will be as replayable for me as their previous entries.

Maybe the gameplay could be fun. But it is so tiresome to get pushed time and again by the woke agenda nonsense, that any game that got sweet baby inc or the likes consultants under the belt deserves all the negative backlash. We want to play video games. We just want to play video games like the old times. You know. Without all the DEI woke BS. I do not care about the sexuality of a character if it's serving the lore. Companies can still do games without a woke consultant and really sold them. But they don't want to realize that DEI are killing the industry.

Shadow Tactics and Desperados III are better. This game tries to offer more freedom to the player. The missions take place on an island with several landing points. There is no fixed route. You can land anywhere and approach your targets from any direction. This is a noble goal, unfortunately this severely limits the ability of the level designers to create intricate puzzles for the player to solve. Thus it dumbs down the gameplay and it quickly becomes stale and repetitive. Moreover the game is woke. The main character originally looked very different. Thanks to collaboration with sensitivity consulting firm 'Sweet Baby Inc.' she got their final appearance.

I love seeing games like this. Well made gerne games that take what works and add to it.

... then you might like the setting of this game. I'm okay with it, although I like the more serious one of Shadow Tactics a little better. I've played 10 hours so far and I like the characters with their small mini-quests, although I doubt they'll become deeper than John or Mugen. It's kinda like watching an epic drama (Shadow Tactics) or something like PotC (Gambit) - I like both, and so I've enjoyed each Mimimi game, but I can see why someone may prefer a more serious story or characters. The mechanics work well, if there's anything that I'd currently critizise it's that I personally find the game a little easier than the predecessors due to the far-reaching magical skills of the characters, but that may be subjective (as said, I've only played 10 hours yet and I usually reload until I get an unseen perfect kill). Overall, it's what I wanted from Mimimi, I'm satisfied. And if we get an equivalent to the Baron challenges from Desperados 3 then I'll spend a VERY long time in this game too.