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  Witchcraft

  1.9 of 5 stars Verified purchase

  Great game despite the controversies. Better than Yotei.

  100 Hours to beat the main story while doing exploring half the time. I give this games story line a 7.5/10. Graphics 9/10, open world/ bonus content 7/10. And NPCs/Immersion 6/10

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  pin8 gold – Review (4/10) The game looks amazing visually, with impressive graphics and beautiful detail. Unfortunately, that’s where the praise ends. The game feels badly optimized and needs serious tuning from the developers. The open world doesn’t feel truly open, and the story is a complete mess — this is not how you write a coherent game narrative. Gameplay mechanics feel heavy and sluggish. Naoe is by far the most fun and fluid character to play, while Yasuke feels completely out of place in the setting. Overall, pin8 gold is a beautiful disappointment — great visuals, but poor execution. Rating: 4/10
  
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  Dant

  2.7 of 5 stars Verified purchase

  Naoe is a great kunoichi to me

  Rating – 5.5/10 This is such a weird product, and an even weirder Assassin’s Creed game. It does so many things right, yet some other aspects are absolutely horrendous. Visuals – The most beautiful open world I’ve ever seen. The vegetation is unlike anything I’ve seen before, even compared to UE5 titles. But then you look at the faces, both in terms of details and animation, and it feels like a Skibidi Toilet Garry’s Mod movie maker project. Story – Incredibly awful. Not just the worst story in the AC series, but maybe in gaming as a whole. The narrative structure is abysmal, it’s actually offensive. It could’ve just been a basic revenge tale, a C-tier story with nothing special behind it. But Ubisoft somehow managed to butcher even that, turning it into a masterclass in how to ruin the simplest plot imaginable. Honestly, it’s impressive how badly they screwed this up. Gameplay – Probably the best gameplay AC has ever had. Parkour is still less deep than in older titles, but this time it’s not worse, just different, and I’m fine with that. It looks good and feels good, unlike Origins or Odyssey. Naoe’s combat is actually great, it reminds me a lot of Unity, which I think had the best combat style in the series. Stealth as Naoe on hard mode is incredible, genuinely challenging, with the best enemy AI AC has ever seen. Yasuke’s gameplay, on the other hand, is just… meh. Pretty much just a brainless button-mash. And that’s the paradox here. Naoe’s gameplay is good, like really good for AC. But her story? The worst thing to ever happen to this series. Even killing the main villain off in a comic book wasn’t as insulting as this. Meanwhile, Yasuke’s story (especially the flashbacks) had some genuinely good moments and an interesting concept for AC… but his gameplay is painfully boring. It feels like two different studios made this game. The opening and the flashbacks (which feel more like an actual intro) seem like Ubi Montreal’s work. You can see the potential, even a slight flirt with a Tarantino vibe. But then Ubi Quebec comes in, chops the story into pieces, sprinkles them around as “flashbacks,” and slaps on their classic “funny” tone that kills any seriousness. I almost wanted to recommend this game despite the atrocious story… until one moment completely broke me. To recruit a side character, you’re forced to trek across Japan while they keep saying things like, “Let’s not talk here, I know a better place.” Disgusting design. Imagine going on a date in London, and at the end she says, “Next time, let’s meet at my favorite spot.” Then the next day she sends you a Snap from some random Siberian village saying, “Waiting for you, XO.” That’s the level of nonsense Ubisoft pulled here. Get it on the sale if you want a beautiful Japan vibe and a gorgeous game from the tech perspective.

  beri noice

  Great rendering of people and places - with a complex story line to keep things interesting. This game is beautiful, IMO.
  
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  oxig3nis

  3.2 of 5 stars Verified purchase

  I love this game. I can't recommend it. Here is why; (minor spoilers ahead) [h3]The Story is Trash.[/h3] It just is. It's told in an annoyingly messy way that Ubisoft is known for. It's fractured and told through flashbacks. God forbid we just experience a story as it happens. The two protagonists have ZERO reason to work together. They try to equate Naoe striking back at a genocidal warlord to Yasuke carrying out said genocide. In cultural context Oda Nobunaga is really just the more efficient warlord. Feudal Japan was a terribly bloody time for Japan. Innocents were murdered all the time by the "honorable" samurai. However, Naoe is given a much more modern sense of honor and justice as it mainly refers to her family. It makes no sense that she would agree that she is just as murderous as Yasuke. I don’t care if some kid gives her a lecture. The kid is wrong and childish as he should be… but Naoe is a full grown woman. It’s so bad. The antagonists vary in interest. Some of them are pretty fun quests, some of them are boring and drawn out unnecessarily long. The small amount of good in this game's story cannot make up for the mountain of bad. If you play this, do so with the canon option because your choices do not matter in this game. I recommend immersive settings for audio because I do not think the english voice acting is very good. The Japanese and Portuguese voice acting is excellent and impactful. [h3]Exploration is Trash.[/h3] It’s the Ubisoft curse of having a handful of things to do (clear out outposts, pray at shrines, find scrolls, do meditation quicktimes) over and over and over again. They aren’t done in an interesting way. There are no parkour puzzles, it’s just climbing onto a roof, grabbing an item and that’s it. The world is beautiful and feels like a real feudal Japan which is to its benefit and detriment. Everything is way too samey. There are a few villages that look different enough to sort of stand out, but I struggle to remember the majority of the villages. There could have been so much more done to make these locations interesting. There is a severe lack of interaction with the locations. There are safe houses and vendors. That is it if it isn’t tied to a quest. I do like the safe house system though. [h3]The Stealth is Amazing[/h3] The reason I love this game is Naoe’s gameplay. Playing on the highest difficulties and taking time on infiltrating locations is addictive. I know this is not going to be a good selling point, but as a huge Tenchu and general stealth game fan, I love doing it over and over again. It’s so rare we get a technical stealth game anymore. We have light detection, sound detection, memorizing guard patterns, using tools of distraction, and being able to hide bodies. It’s all there. It is done well and I will continue to replay this game because of it. But this is like taking a starving person to a nice restaurant and saying they can order everything. I want it so bad and there are no other options so I stuff myself here. God I wish there was a good story and interesting world surrounding it. [h3]Combat is Okay[/h3] Again, another Ubisoft curse is making some pretty decent combat but making enemies damage sponges that just become a chore to fight. The combat is not deep or interesting enough to make the long and arduous combat encounters worth it. Unless you play as Yasuke who is basically the opposite problem. He just melts his way through everything and is boring to play. It’s obvious Naoe’s playstyle is way more supported here. It feels like Yasuke was a last minute add in after the game had been created around stealth gameplay and to make up for it they just made the enemies take more hits. Bad game design overall. [h3]Final Thoughts[/h3] Ubisoft has some very talented devs they do not properly utilize. I can feel the brilliance seep through while playing stealth, but the second I'm back to anything else I lose interest. If this game was more like a Tenchu game and it was level to level play, it would be an instant classic, but there is so much Ubisoft bloat and redundancy that it makes this game a chore to play. Not near as bad as Valhalla, but it’s still a serious problem. I wish I could recommend this game, and if you are like me and enjoy the stealth so much that it’s worth slogging through the Ubislop, then I could. However, for the average player that deserves an overall good game, this just ain’t it.

  The game gets boring and repetative really fast, just like every other Assassins Creed Game since Origins. If you have played Origins, Odyssey or Valhalla, you know what you're up for. The game starts of relatively interesting (especially compared to the earlier RPG installments) but once the "act 2" part of the game starts it turns into a boring slog with a ton of missions, each one more bland than the other. After 60 hours in and still not done with the main story I lost interest, deinstalled, and will not be bothered to finish it at all. If you want to play a game set in Japan, there are better alternatives.

  i honestly did not enjoy ac shadows at all the story start already felt weird like they just throw some hiphop music and i felt like i was in some modern japan universe even though its suppose to be old period. the gameplay is really bland same combo over and over and the dialogues feel so lifeless i couldn't even get into the characters. for this much price it is not worth it maybe if it goes down to like 20 bucks then i can say ok but other than that its just waste of money. i would even prefer playing ac 1 again because at least that has better atmosphere and feeling except the leap of faith. the only thing i can say is fine is the scenery it looks decent. the funny part for me was when the vram budget screen said 7 gb but in game i checked my performance metrics and it was almost 14 gb maxed out and i was just thinking what is this xd

  I have been a long time player of the AC franchise and this is one of my favorites