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  MurihX^

  1.5 of 5 stars Verified purchase

  i say 1-10 i say a 5 maybe i just got to bored way to fast kinda wish i can get my money back for the game i still have it and finding my self to force my self to play i think i find my self playing AC 3 or black flag way more or other games that i have i mean the graphics are nice but the play through kinda bad and long and boring fr i say if you don't want to play just wait until its on sale so if you don't like it you didn't pay as much or ask for your money back

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

  I’ve put 55 hours into Assassin’s Creed: Shadows at the time of writing this review. I was originally planning to go for a 100% completion run as I do with most AC titles, but I couldn’t bring myself to finish the story or side quests... I simply got too bored. Which is saying a LOT since I've completed every AC game and have 100% almost all of them. At first, the game shows promise. The dual-character campaign is an interesting idea, and I enjoyed switching between Naoe’s stealth-focused style and Yasuke’s brute-force approach. Early missions and gear upgrades kept me engaged, and the Japan setting is visually stunning. Ubisoft clearly poured effort into the world design and atmosphere, and for a while, it’s easy to be drawn in. Truly, the visuals and soundtrack for AC: Shadows are gorgeous. But the problems become impossible to ignore. The biggest issue is the level scaling system. No matter how much time you spend grinding, collecting legendary gear, or over-preparing for upcoming bosses, it doesn’t matter. Enemies and bosses automatically scale to your level, so the satisfaction of becoming stronger or mastering an area is stripped away. Progress feels pointless, and after 20 hours, the loop of grinding, gearing, and moving to the next region completely loses meaning, especially since a lot of the side quests and missions feel the same. COMBAT ------------------ Combat is another letdown. On paper, the contrast between Yasuke’s heavy combat and Naoe’s nimble assassinations should feel dynamic. In practice, both grow repetitive fast. Enemies all share predictable patterns, bosses are nothing more than giant health bars, and increasing difficulty doesn’t make encounters more strategic or challenging, it just turns fights into tedious slogs by inflating enemy HP and slightly increasing their damage. Additionally, while I get what they were trying to go for by creating this contract of Yasuke being an unstoppable force in combat but bad at stealth and Naoe being great at stealth but bad in combat, I found it super frustrating to do any sort of combat with Naoe. At a certain point, no matter what gear, weapons or level you are with Naoe, combat with her just feels like it takes forever because you do no damage and he abilities don't feel like they do anything. While all of Naoe's attacks are flashy and look cool, I found myself just spamming her heavy attack at a certain point just to end combat quickly because of how un-fun it is to do combat with her and how little damage her attacks do. (I ended my playthrough at Lvl. 55 btw, and I STILL felt like she was doing no damage even with fully upgraded gear.) STORY ------------------ The story suffers from pacing issues as well. The opening drags on and on with tutorials and flashbacks, the dual narratives never mesh as smoothly as promised, and the ending (from what I've seen) lacks payoff. I never felt any sense of mystery or satisfaction tracking down the main story bad guys, and since the story is so long (not in content, it just takes a long time to level up enough to be able to progress), I found myself completely forgetting what I was supposed to be doing or who I was supposed to be mad at in the story. Additionally, the side quests, which should add flavor and be enjoyable, are formulaic and repetitive. Even travel becomes a chore because horse riding is slow, sometimes it's confusing what you are and aren't allowed to climb on, and the world, while beautiful, loses it's mystery and thrill to travel through after the 5th shinobi or ronin encounter. CONCLUSION ------------------ There are glimpses of what Shadows could have been: gorgeous visuals, a strong setting, and occasional chemistry between the protagonists. But all of that gets buried under bloated systems, repetitive combat, meaningless progression, and narrative drag. In the end, Assassin’s Creed: Shadows feels like busywork disguised as an epic, and I found myself realizing that playing the game was almost like a chore at times. If you’re an AC completionist, you may find a few hours of enjoyment in the stealth mechanics or exploration, but for most players, this is one you should skip. Ubisoft’s ambition is there, but the execution makes it hard to recommend.

  good game
  
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  Dissssssociação 🐍

  2.7 of 5 stars Verified purchase

  One of the best

  awesome storyline, kept me interested the whole way through

  A strange copy of Ghost of Tsushima’s ideas, delivered in an incomplete way that I really didn’t like. The game was a bit fun when playing as Naoe, but there’s always something that breaks the Assassin’s Creed atmosphere — almost like the game doesn’t even want to be Assassin’s Creed. As for Yasuke, his character felt boring and heavy. I couldn’t climb anything without him struggling, and his weight made me not want to continue playing. Overall, I’d give the game a 5/10. Some things really ruined the experience for me. At first, I thought about completing it 100%, but I’ve already changed my mind.

  I kinda felt like a lot of this game was just decent at best so long as you're playing exactly as intended; may god help you if you spurn the beaten path. This is the first game I've ever player where I had to fight the atrocious topology, exploring is such a pain because so much of the open world is dense foliage and steep hills, I really feel like you're just supposed to let your horse auto-navigate everywhere and at that point why bother having an open world? I kinda like that your primary abilities are divided between two separate characters with opposite play-styles, even if switching between them is a pain. The skill trees felt motivating enough but I don't think that anything could convince me that AC needed a level system, and I've hated it since Syndicate. I don't think any of the characters really appealed to me in any particular way and the English voice acting was really spotty on several supporting characters, which is something I don't usually notice but it stuck out this time. I generally hate rolled loot and this game was no exception, I'm not even sure as to why it is in the game in the first place since legendary gear is so abundant but I did enjoy the modular weapon cosmetics customization. I only played the base-game and I found it to be surprisingly barren of cool supernatural stuff aside from a single ghost in one quest-line and an underwhelming DBD crossover. Why pick old japan if you're afraid to even touch yõkai? Like at least give me a woman in the mountains with several suspicious statues or a beaked turtle with a receding hairline. This game suffers from stability issues and at times makes performing simple actions difficult or impossible, for instance I couldn't sprint for the first 20 hours of my playthrough because I rebound the controls but still had ability 2 on r1+r2 and I guess the game didn't like there being too many buttons bound to r1. I fixed the issue by binding ability 2 to X+r2, which it should have been by default IMO, 4/10 just play AC Valhalla, it goes on sale for way cheaper
  
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  yuru ☠

  3.4 of 5 stars Verified purchase

  is it worth 60$ and another 25$ to unlock the rest of the story and map....no

  mixed feelings about this one: Great graphics. Some parts even fun to explore and play. However, at some points (Way, way too many for an AAA game) the gameplay is just clunky and untested. Timings feel way off. Then there are some boss fights designed so poorly that I am sure no testing was allowed. No critisism of the designer tolerated. The result: An unplayable mess. Just stay away from this one.

  I give this game a solid 7/10. Stealth with Naoe was great, and the power fantasy with Yasuke was great. I really liked Yasuke's personal story (wish it was expanded upon more), but the overall story isn't good. Gameplay, and stealth are pretty great, story more or less bad, Yasuke is a fun character (fo racists). I think my main problem with the story is the disjointed structure and pacing, you can still make linear narratives Ubisoft, because some moments in the story were great, but the number of lows in the narrative were too many to count. There is also no point in exploring the world, but it is definitely a beautiful game. Ubisoft have always been great in environmental design and visuals.

  Everything :)