
"You think there must be like 1000 pirate movies and 1000 pirate games and then you look it up and you're like, 'Oh, there aren't that many,'" he laughs.
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Abé is keen to cite pirate games such as Monkey Island being bigger inspirations here than, say, the blockbuster film series Pirates Of The Caribbean, but he also says he was surprised by just how few pirate games there actually are these days. How to unlock the Doubletime achievement in Desperados III: Kill 200 guards using Coopers double shot. During its conception stage, the ideas for Shadow Gambit came thick and fast, Abé says, and it was their lead writer who eventually struck upon the idea of pirates. Each crew member comes with their own set of unique abilities, and combining them to create ingenious, perfectly executed takedowns is all part of the fun.

It had to be something fantasy, or sci-fi or something non-realistic." Shadow Gambit is a strategic stealth game in which you'll be captaining a band of pirates around the Lost Caribbean, sneaking into enemy encampments, stabbing unsuspecting guards in the back, and making off with your treasure undetected.

We were restricted by realism, so that was a core pillar. "That was a requirement for all the pitches we did internally, and that's because we wanted to improve on the gameplay. "One thing we wanted for sure was that we had something that's not grounded in a realistic setting," Abé tells me.

This shift into the supernatural is quite the change for Mimimi, which creative director Dominik Abé tells me was partly to challenge themselves as designers, but also so players could have a bit more fun with how they approached its plentiful stealth encounters. While Mimimi's previous games took place in mostly grounded historical settings, Shadow Gambit is about magical undead pirates hunting for mysterious booty and fighting a persecutive Inquisition. Ever since the makers of Desperados 3 and Shadow Tactics announced their brand new squad tactics game, I've been dying to get my hands on Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew.
