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  Daniel Silva Moura

  1.9 of 5 stars Verified purchase

  all the missions are copied and paste

  Bought the game on discount (paid less than US$38). Graphics are great (at least when they are loaded correctly). The game is buggy (HUD disappears from time to time, error loading textures ...) and optimisation is bad. Still, given the price, I can live with it. Buy on discount only!!

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  Wanderyen

  2.5 of 5 stars Verified purchase

  Didn't listen to the hate this game was getting back before its reveal. Bought it on my own accord, all i got to say is this game is so boringggg! And what is with the souls like combat? the story is boring, the gameplay is clunky and so out of date. the combat is so bland it puts me to sleep. I'm done with ubisoft, they make enough money to produce triple A titles yet make the cheapest thing they can spit out.

  Much of the gameplay follows a familiar loop of clearing fortresses, assassinating targets and collecting chests. If you liked that in the previous (newer) Assassin’s Creed games, you will probably enjoy this one as well. In addition to the main quest targets, there are plenty of side targets, so much of the game is spent hunting them down. I thought it was fun honestly, so it gets a positive review from me. Compared to Valhalla, there’s way less random filler content. The graphics are beautiful, it runs smoothly, and the combat is fun. Unfortunately the story and the side characters are forgettable. I absolutely disliked that you HAVE to play both characters. I played Naoe as much as I could because she plays like an assassin and it’s fun, you know? But in order to continue some parts of the story and to get the ending, I had to play Yasuke and I really hated playing him. Playing him felt clunky and frustrating. Naoe’s English voice acting made the game unplayable for me, so I highly recommend switching to Japanese.

  I gave the game a chance despite the backlash on the internet... AND I DO NOT REGRET... in my opinion this is one of the best AC games since they started with this open world format. The devs and artists did an amazing job at portraying Sengoku Jidai Japan and the amount of small details is just astounding. I mostly played as Naoe so far and the stealth gameplay and mechanics feel really good. Much better than in Valhalla or even the previous eras. If you love this era of Japan, if you love samurai and shinobi, if you are interested in learning more about Japan, their culture and want to see how it could have looked like back then... Assassins Creed Shadows is a game which wont disappoint if you give it a chance ! Personally I am glad I bought it, taking it slow and enjoying Naoes story a lot. Update: 70 hours in, I am still enjoying the game a lot.. and in addition to Naoes story, I got to experience Yasukes story as well and Its actually quite good. Anyone still doubting whether its worth to buy this game, just the storylines of both protagonists are definitely worth it and the huge, beautiful open world is just amazing. Many people compare this to Ghost of Tsushima or Ghost of Youtei, but this is a different game.. its a large scale RPG game in medieval Japan set in the years leading to Hideyoshis rise to power *not sure whether Tokugawa will play a part as well in the story*... this is a must for every samurai fanboy and fangirl.

  As a fan of RPG games, I decided to give AC Shadows a chance. I've played Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla, and I can say that this game is improved in terms of graphics, gameplay and especially combat, but it failed to deliver a consistent and satisfying story. I feel that the game lacks soul; it tries so hard to connect the woke tropes of diversity, equity and inclusion with the Buddhist tropes of suffering, compassion and enlightenment, that it ends up feeling more like a lecture than a lived experience. Instead of letting the Japanese themes emerge naturally through the characters and world, the narrative constantly reminds you of its woke western moral intentions. This breaks immersion and weakens what could have been a deeply personal journey. The problem is made worse by the cutscenes, which are stiff and awkward, with poor motion capture and lifeless facial expressions that strip away any emotional weight. Even in immersion mode, the voice acting feels flat and disconnected. The characters often act as mouthpieces for ideas rather than as believable people shaped by their circumstances. Beneath all of this, you can sense the potential for something, but it gets buried under a plainly bad storytelling; maybe if the narrative was linear it could be slightly better. It’s a real pity, because the artists and environment designers have done a phenomenal job crafting an immersive, living Japan that begs to be explored, yet the narrative fails to make that world feel alive. It’s as if the writers completely let down the incredible work of the visual and design teams, leaving players with a breathtaking setting that deserves a far better story to match its beauty.
  
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  M

  3.7 of 5 stars Verified purchase

  good game

  Graphics 9.5/10 Gameplay 8/10 story 7/10 Side quests better than main quests Assassination also good comparing with other AC Series

  Busywork, the video game. I have a lot of hours in AC titles in the past, and have loved them, but I am having the hardest time getting through this one. It's just open map, select marker, run to marker, do repetitive boring activity. There's barely any game in my video game. Not to mention I spend most my time waiting for the UI to load after the map opens, or in dialogue/shop UI, because the game is so poorly optimised. No other AC has been this bad with such issues. Audio desyncing in cutscenes, character animations being so poor they're on par with early 2000s games, the camera getting stuck on every little object in combat (with no occlusion?). It has some positives. A gorgeous world, lots to learn about the era/region, a decent combat system. But after a while, you see the same copy-pasted assets, the same copy-pasted enemies, the same copy-pasted gameplay. It's just so uninspired and sloppy. The game 100+ gigabytes, yet it feels so hollow. Ubisoft does not do well with characters and story, and that would be OK, if they didn't feel like they had to include it in every aspect of their games. Stop trying to make the characters likeable when the story shoves them to the side to focus on these mysterious organisations you know nothing about. I will say, I really enjoyed Yasuke's flashback scenes, the only time I found myself actually paying attention to what people were saying/doing in the game. But then they write dialogue as if you know these characters and are their best friends. Why am I calling Tomiko family after having two sentences worth of dialogue with her? It's bizarre. There was no creative direction, or goal in mind for the development. It was just "the same stuff we've done before, but Japanese flavoured!". Not to mention the whole 'two characters' system, which is so badly handled. The UI for managing them both is slow and unwieldy. The world is designed for them both to explore it, yet switching between them has a loading screen??? When the rift sections let you switch between them seamlessly??? It makes no sense. I'm a (very) simple person, I buy games because I want to play games, but Ubisoft seem to have forgotten the game part of the development process, and just want your money. But this will be the last game I buy from them unless thing change. Especially when there are more and more alternatives coming out that are just better.

  Awesome game!