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Okay I wanna give everyone a taste of the sense of humor in Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
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It's a stealth/strategy game about a cursed pirate crew trying to solve an ancient riddle while avoiding the notice of the Inquisition
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with magic and shit
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Inbetween levels, you can wander around on your cursed pirate ship
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and do like little side quests for the characters
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I've started exactly one of them so far
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Which is about the ship's cook/ninja
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(literally he is from Japan)
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So I start the side quest and it switches POV to Towa (the cook)
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Towa's like "I'm gonna check on that fish I caught. It should have absorbed enough curse energy now that even skeletons can eat it."
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He goes up to the fish, which is hanging from a hook on the deck
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and the fish is like "MASTER"
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"I HAVE FOUND YOU"
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Towa: "W-what?"
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Fish: "I LONG TO BE THE STUDENT OF THE FAMOUS ASSASSIN TOWA OF THE IGA CLAN AND TO LEARN THE WAYS OF THE NINJA"
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Towa isn't wild about eating something that can talk
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So he's like "Um. Okay, uh."
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"If you can...steal a pistol from the captain's quarters, I will teach you to be a ninja"
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Keep in mind, he's talking to a dead fish hanging from a hook
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The fish is like "I WILL NOT DISAPPOINT YOU MASTER"
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And that's the end of that for now
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I go out to do a level
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I come back
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Towa checks on the fish
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"How'd it go? Don't worry if you can't do it I under-"
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Fish: "I HAVE OBTAINED THE PISTOL"
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Towa: "holy shit"
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Fish: "THAT MEANS I AM YOUR STUDENT NOW RIGHT?"
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Towa: "I...guess I gave my word..."
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So now Towa is teaching the fish to be a ninja
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I still have not seen the fish move
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I think this game might be incredible
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"So is this game a comedy then?"
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Shadow Gambit ALSO has the Isle of Penance
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which is where the Inquisition takes the souls of those who died in prison before their sentence was finished
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So that they can FINISH THEIR PRISON SENTENCE AFTER DEATH
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Some of the souls have been there for over a century
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not seeing the fish move elevates this
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right???
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I like how they handled the sniper character
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She has a magic crossbow bolt that can instantly kill anyone she has line of sight with
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but
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she only has one
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So every time you use it she has to physically get to whoever she shot to get it back
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So you can't just have her hang back and pick guys off she actually has to risk getting into the middle of things
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The character design is S rank 
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I guess the fish is really good at being a ninja.
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Apparently!
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oh man the sniper is a really cool concept
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can other people handle her crossbow bolt?
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I don't think so
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no
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it's like made out of her soul so only she can pick it up
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By the way she's blind
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a blind sniper
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damn I gotta get this game. shit
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Her eyes were burned out by the maiden's fire but the pearl in her chest lets her see into the future
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it sounds like it's a refinement of a lot of the concepts introduced in Shadow Tactics
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and like, that was already fucking stellar
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All the cursed are sustained by a Black Pearl in their heart
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It's not even pretending to not be inspired by POTC
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You start out with just Afia (the black lady in the screen shot above) but as you collect pearls and soul power you can ressurrect the rest of the crew one by one so you gotta choose who you get
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OKAY I'm gonna use this plurk to think out loud
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blue = my guys, in hiding
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red = inquisitors, bad guys
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! = my goal
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orange = The prognosticar, in command of the inquisitors
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the two on the right are ordinary goons and can be distracted easily, but the other four are more disciplined and can't be lured away from their stations
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they're basically constantly looking at each other like so:
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So I have to kill them in pairs, or they'll sound an alarm
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The prognosticar will counter any attempt to kill him by psychically grabbing the guy who tried to kill him
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Then I have a short window to have someone ELSE kill the prognosticar or he'll finish off the guy he caught
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he is patrolling around the inside of this room
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oh wait
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they're watching each other like this
they're watching each other like this
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So the lower right guy isn't as closely watched!
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Okay this weakness in their defense has led to a cascade of murder and TL;DR half of them are dead
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Toya*
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not Towa
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oh my god
oh my god