Terrific game, amazing level design, beautiful graphics, stellar gameplay. The only bug I hit all the time was due to my obsessive use of Quick Save and Quick load when I screwed up. After a few (~10-15) QuickLoads, the screen would turn black. I could hear the audio, but that was it. The only way to fix it was to Alt-Tab, kill the process and start it again. The game however was more than worth the trouble and annoyance of this bug.

Definitely buy it -- this little, unadvertised gem stole my heart and gave me hours upon hours of joy, whereas the much costlier and heavily advertised Deus Ex: Humanity Divided could not hold my attention for more than a couple of hours.

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I bought the GOG version. Audio doesn't work for me. The output when starting the game from console just says:

$ ./start.sh
Running Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
Set current directory to /home/ivan/GOG Games/Shadow Tactics Blades of the Shogun/game
Found path: /home/ivan/GOG Games/Shadow Tactics Blades of the Shogun/game/Shadow Tactics
Mono path[0] = '/home/ivan/GOG Games/Shadow Tactics Blades of the Shogun/game/Shadow Tactics_Data/Managed'
Mono path[1] = '/home/ivan/GOG Games/Shadow Tactics Blades of the Shogun/game/Shadow Tactics_Data/Mono'
Mono config path = '/home/ivan/GOG Games/Shadow Tactics Blades of the Shogun/game/Shadow Tactics_Data/Mono/etc'
displaymanager : xrandr version warning. 1.5
client has 4 screens
displaymanager screen (0)(DP-4): 3840 x 2160
Using libudev for joystick management

Importing game controller configs

I really dislike mono games. Sure, mono makes the devs' job easier for porting, but mono is so unreliable in my experience. 50% of the mono games I bought, either through steam or gog, are various problems, most often with missing audio. While other mono games work just fine (The Dwarves).

I'm deeply concerned with the number of new games coming out recently that rely on mono.

And it crashed...

Right after the first mission, when the shogun summons you and the cutscene ends, the game crashed:

./start.sh: line 16: 27212 Segmentation fault (core dumped) ./"Shadow Tactics"

UPDATE:

Turns out I was missing one of the 32bit pulseaudio libraries. Since I installed it, all has been fine. Looks like my beef is with 32bit games more than it is with mono games.

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GTA 6! Oh yeah!!! Or at the very least, GTA 5.

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In my humble opinion, Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag should be the yardstick against which all future pirating/sailing games should be measured. It's got terrific sailing mechanics, intuitive naval warfare, amazing boarding, and the graphics are still very good. It's realistic enough, yet not too realistic to the point of sailing becoming a tedious exercise of matching wind direction. And it has no fantasy/monster elements.

It irks me a lot when three years later there is still not a single game that comes close to AC4BF in terms of visual quality, good immersive story, and just plain fun sailing. I understand it takes a big studio and lots of money to make a game of that caliber, but with newer graphics engines, visuals should not be an issue. All you need is a good writer (or a team actually) to pen a good story. Voice acting is, I imagine, the costliest aspect for a small studio to achieve.

I really wanted to like this Manowar game, but come on, it's 3 years since the release of AC4BF and I feel Manowar is a huge regression from AC4BF.

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