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  Fernando Gil

  1.5 of 5 stars Verified purchase

  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.

  I would just play ghost instead. Combat in this one is really bland, feels like star wars outlaws. Story was not that good, incredibly boring parkour. If you want a game like this but good play ghost, if you want an assassins creed game that is actually good then go play ac odyssey.

  scan map run around for 10 minutes fight repeat so fucking boring, the story is ass if you would like to run round japan for minute then this game is for you

  good game. finding resources for hideout building is boring and the building mechanisms could use some work to make it better.
  
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  oroche

  2.8 of 5 stars Verified purchase

  This isn't a bad game, but it's probably the worst executed AC game that I've ever played. Bad controller integration, audio drop outs requiring PC restart. Many, many areas where half of the enemies can be found inexplicably asleep face-down on the ground outside in the middle of the day. 'Recommended' gameplay settings with no obvious purpose other than to increase play time by padding out your experience wandering around looking for something stupid for no good reason. Don't bother replaying an entire castle twice because one of the two PCs isn't strong enough to push a single box three feet and find a hand fan. Historical nitpick - the main plot covers a historical period of two weeks but the game stretches it out into years and years for no reason other than to cram in bloat. Very apt, actually. I changed my mind, it is bad.

  A very good game that Is definitely my favourite in the "new" Assassins Creed games since Origins. The world of 16th Century Japan is by far the most impressive, expansive and immersive worlds that Ubisoft has ever made. The sheer scale of each province, the diversity of biomes from the grand pine forests of Kii to the war torn wastlelands of Harima, the quality of the world made here is excellent. Gameplay is fun and improved from previous games, Yasuke is a tank that excels in combat, while Naoe is perfect for stealth and assassination. There is a good variety of weapons for each character which gives alot of options for different playstyles. The weakest link BY FAR, is the story telling, and it is an absolute shame. I feel that Assassins Creed Shadows has everything it to make it a strong, emotional and captivating tale. Yasuke and Naoe are good characters, with compelling stories, that are mishandled with pacing and confusing revelations in the final act. The story throughout it's entirety, pin-balls from the present to the past, removing any natural flow from one event to the next. This juggling of different story beats, back and forth, for the majority of the game does a disservice to alot of the emotional core of these characters. This only exacerbated by the baffling decision to write it so that characters do not find reveal CRUCIAL INFO they have known since the beginning, in flashbacks, during the final missions. This ridiculous story telling damages the plot, the characters, their reasoning, and our attachment to them. Overall it's a excellent historical experience with good gameplay and fun mechanics mired by a terribly written story with otherwise strong characters.

  all the missions are copied and paste

  this is the biggest joke of a game i have ever played ubisoft somehow managed to make a story game that needs constant internet connection and forces you to install their useless application the performance is a comedy show full of frame drops even on a beast gpu like rtx4080 and they still could not bother adding dlss support the game feels like a cheap unfinished project but sold at full price i honestly think this is not a game it is a scam with a fancy cover do yourself a favor and stay away from this garbage and let ubisoft play it themselves this is the worst way you could ever waste your money
  
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  icaro

  3.3 of 5 stars Verified purchase

  It's fine, pick it up on sale. I got about 80 hours in when I realized that all that's left to do is play the story or side missions, and since the story and side missions are pretty boring I gave up. While I like both Naoe and Yasuke, I think the choice to give you 2 playable characters was a mistake - you essentially end up with 2 characters that are half as competent as any other AC protagonist. Naoe takes ages to get through the health sponges in combat, and Yasuke is completely useless in stealth / navigation. This means that if you get caught as Naoe you may as well just reload to save yourself time, and the only times you play as Yasuke is if you know you don't need to stealth / move fast.

  Fuedal Japan, honestly one of the best concepts. It's beautiful in all different ways, but it just ain't Altair or Ezio being elite grade badass, Assassins Creed. Thats a AC veterans opinion from the first game all the way to today.

  Runs like a hot piece of garbage. Raytracing, yay! And our indoor lights still look terrible and you get tons of temporal artifacts. Go away.

  I had to revise my first review and I have decided to not recommend the game, not because of gameplay, it's actually not bad per se. It's a Ubisoft game and what you see is what you get. No doubt about that. I was very curious to see how Ubisoft would handle this era and don't get me wrong I was enjoying it but the only reason why I can't recommend is because of the forced performance settings it forces us to run. Look I have a pretty decent PC no doubt but that doesn't mean anything I want to be able to control how I want to run the game. I can imagine playing this game on the Steam Deck or any other PC handheld which is why I bought it, wanted to play on the go but after the forced raytracing is pathetic. Sorry this might be an unpopular opinion but I do not care. Games that force players to have forced raytracing and is pathetic. I had to turn on DLSS to run the game. I hate having to turn that on. Overall I'm disappointed in Ubisoft for forcing the gamers to not fully take control of the games performance. Look I recommend it, I truly do, I really liked the aspect of the game but right now I can't recommend the game and have requested a refund and will get the game again on a deeper sale.