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Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew (2023)

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Setup for the last boss when doing the badge for going through the level without using shadow mode on normal difficulty. Building on my blind playthrough's idea of "just have gaëlle stun 2 to free up some actions", gaëlle can also stun three Ignacias at once, bringing the total number of actions required from 10 to 8, which is rather convenient considering we have 8 characters. It also helps to zoom out a bit more than usual. We're on timer here, after all, and we don't want to waste too much time with the camera.

Set up Gaëlle and a couple of killers downstairs in the middle (honestly, my bush placement could've been better), have Pinkus possess one of the ludex and Teresa takes her spot in the other ludex's tower. Afia goes for the rightmost Ignacia (she's the only one who can blink to the walkways behind her, unless you want to shoot someone there with Gaëlle), and then set up your remaining 2 members behind the leftmost Ignacia.

Wait for the two middle Ignacias to be at the top of their route and for top Ignacia to be pretty close to them, then send in Gaëlle's firecracker so it'll stun all three Ignacias(probably only works if you have her upgrade? you probably have it if you're going for this badge anyway). Once they're stunned, send in your killers (in my case, it was John, Quentin and Pinkus' ludex shot), then take care of whichever other Ignacia's on your screen (in this case, the rightmost, stunned by afia (blink or time freeze, whichever, they're instant) and killed by Teresa) then go to the last Ignacia (either by panning or double-pressing the hotkey for the closest character) and take care of that one. In my case, that entailed selecting both characters spamming a-click on her and it eventually worked.

Other things that I've read about that can help but I didn't use:
- Pressing ESC to pause time, as you might with the shadow mode you can't use, so that you can think about your next step.
- Reordering the characters on the left so 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 are all the ordered steps of what you have to do. Certainly would've saved me a few attempts lost to fumbling around looking for the correct character under pressure. (In this case, I would've reordered them as follows: 1-Gaëlle, 2-John, 3-Quentin, 4-Pinkus, 5-Afia, 6-Teresa, 7-Suleidy, 8-Toya)
- Some people like to use guns here...I personally don't. Using guns will only matter if you have trouble getting to the last Ignacia in time. Gun or melee, it takes the same amount of time to issue the order. In fact, in this video, you can see that I issue Quentin's kill order before any of the Ignacia is stunned (while Gaëlle is walking to throw her firecracker), so I actually manage to get more time to play around with than just the normal 10 seconds due to issuing orders outside of those 10 seconds that only have their effect come in during the 10 seconds.

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