Review Vakil 5/5 · Apr 27, 2024
So long Mimimi, and thanks for all the games
Shadow Tactics and Desperados 3 are both games that easily go in my top 5 all time best games ever. I was so excited to play Shadow Gambit and so sad to hear that its Mimimi’s last game. When I first started playing The Cursed Crew, however, I didn’t like it as much as its predecessors. Maybe I’m an old …
Shadow Tactics and Desperados 3 are both games that easily go in my top 5 all time best games ever. I was so excited to play Shadow Gambit and so sad to hear that its Mimimi’s last game. When I first started playing The Cursed Crew, however, I didn’t like it as much as its predecessors. Maybe I’m an old curmudgeon yelling that things were better in my day but I just didn’t vibe with the UI at first. And I don’t really enjoy the undead pirate theme, as popular as it is.
The more I played, however, the more I grew to love this game. It has a lot that is different from the previous games. You select characters rather than having specific ones chosen for you. The undead thing allows for magic which added a lot more variety to the powers the characters can use. No longer are you limited to throwing shuriken or knives or setting traps and dressing in disguise. Now you can teleport, possess your enemies, disappear into an alternate dimension until its time to reappear, or make bushes to hide in grow anywhere you want. I still don’t care much for undead pirates but I enjoyed the way it opened up gameplay.
It does result in some imbalance. Some characters, like Gaelle and Zagan, were helpful but almost always just along for the ride. Others, like Afia, John and most of all Suleidy could almost take out an entire island by themselves. Suleidy routinely accounted for 60-80% of kills and a plurality of play time in a mission.
The final mission in this game isn’t as difficult as Desperados though it’s unique within the game in the same way. The difficulty I experienced in it was mostly just in understanding what I needed to do to overcome the main boss. Once I knew that, it was over pretty quickly.
Overall, a 5 star game and a definite recommend. Due to the theme, I probably wouldn’t put it on the medal stand with ST and D3 but it’s a very good game and a great swan song from favorite developer.