Three Moves Ahead 407: Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

Video Games, Games, War, War Games, Strategy, Games & Hobbies, Strategy Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2017

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Tarou was awake and alert despite the chill and the early hour. Normally, drawing last watch was one of the worst tasks imaginable: a tortuous eight hours of mind-numbing circuits and bitter cold. Tonight was more tolerable, however, for Tarou knew that it was his last night as a guard for the malicious warlord. No more would he risk his life by showing small kindnesses to the prisoners, no more would he have to lay awake at night and wonder how many had died by his master's hand. He would leave and start his life again. His plans were set to meet a hay cart near the edge of the compound at dawn, and he would be free from this hellish existence forever. He would - wait - was that the call of a white-cheeked starling? Normally they had all migrated south by this point of the season. Perhaps the starling was a good omen for the beginning of his new life. Tarou whistled a jaunty tune back as he turned the corner. Rob, Fraser, Rowan, and guest Nick Capozzoli talk about how this and many other stories end in Shadow Tactics, a strategy game about being quiet and killing things.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney.
0:03.1	Join me today. We have our friend, PC Gaming, uh, tie show for Games Beat, Rowan Kaiser.
0:11.0	Grand Vizier.
0:13.1	All right. I'm making note of that. I'm going to nail it next week. Don't worry about it.
0:16.3	All right. We also welcome back our friend freelance writer, Fraser Brown.
0:20.6	Hello. And finally, we have joining for the our friend, freelance writer, Fraser Brown. Hello.
0:22.1	And finally, we have joining for the first time, freelance writer and noted subterfuge troll, Nick Capizoli.
0:30.6	We are in subterfuge right now.
0:32.3	I hope you know that.
0:33.7	So I used to think subterfuge ended, but the two nicks of my subterfuge experience have disabused me of that notion.
0:42.5	Subterfuge is a way of life without any boundaries.
0:45.4	The magic circle is the globe.
0:47.7	Oh, yeah.
0:48.3	Nix is listening to this.
0:49.9	So he's, you know, he can decide whether or not this represents an alliance or if I'm playing you or, you know, wherefore from there.
0:58.0	So, yeah.
0:59.3	So this week we're going to be talking about shadow tactics.
1:03.4	And let's pause for a moment here while I take this description on.
1:08.2	A plausible real-time tactical stealth game from Mimi
1:12.2	Productions and published by Datalik. So Nick, I think what will lead off with you since
1:19.7	you're the guest and you were visibly enjoying the game on Twitter and sort of posting pictures
1:27.0	of your exploits and various murders,
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