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  Lucca D'Avila

  1.8 of 5 stars Verified purchase

  I really want to be able to enjoy the game, and the game play is challenging and fun. My issue with the game is that after only a few hours of game play its becomes unplayable. load times become forever long, starting conversations with vendors or characters initiates a load but nothing happens afterwards. When you try to close the game and load back a save it sits in the loading screen and nothing else. I haven't been able to find a fix that works, and unfortunately I cannot give a positive review until that is solved.

  Wow this uhm is a whole lot of nothing... The positives first. The game looks amazing, sound design is great and it runs super smooth with all the nice NVIDIA features but thats about it. Naoe and Yasuke are so bland its really a shame. The story of a young shinobi and the first black samurai could be so interesting, but instead they decided to go with the most generic revenge plot you could imagine and without the templars and assassins. Yasuke is just there for the ride and doesnt get anything to do, but in the absolute last minute he gets something to do and kills some templars they just squeezed in there and it really is laughable how they did it. Naoe on the other hand gets her dad killed and kills a bunch of randos who arent connected to the templars, oh sure the templars helped them build someting, wow really interesting... You never get to know whats in the box, which got stolen from you and the assassins in this, are basically just an origins story. At some point youre on youre way to find out something about the Kakushiba alliance and once Naoe finds out she says something like ,,Ah yes, the Kakushiba names themselfs the assassins...'' BRO WHAT?! This is like the 20th game in the series and they wanna explain the assassins to us and how they got to Japan?! Bro who cares how they got there, just show us the assassins and let us kill templars, but no lets just give Naoe just a generic revenge plot and an origin story. Gameplaywise you just run around and kill a bunch of guys with the same weapon for skill points and materials. Thats it, that is everything. But what the biggest problem is, that they completely missunderstood the criticsm of their worlds. Everyone said that their worlds are to big and filled with filler content, so what did they do? They just keep the size but ereased all the bases and other stuff you had to loot in the previous game. So now you just have to kill a bunch of samurais in the base and loot a chest. And you can do some handsigns with Naoe, wtf is this supposed to be? Shoot arrows with Yasuke from a horse, cool... and learn some Kata or whatever they are called with Yasuke, but never get a move or anything from it, just knowledge point, wow super exciting. Thats all there is to it, yes you can hunt some random NPCs from a assassin board for some xp but these are just random NPCs with some context, but who cares. And thats about all there is. We now have a huge open world with filler content so trimed back that it feels like a backdrop. Nothing wrong with backdrops, the Mafia games did this very well, but then dont make it insanely big and make it smaller and make your filler content more frequent and maybe meaningful and dont let me run 10 minutes to the next one with nothing in between. Traversel is also super boring. You cant deviate from the path, if you want to make some miles, stay on the path or you wont get anywhere. Moving with Naoe is fun however and if you really REALLY want you can make some shinobi roleplay, but you seriously have to try it. Most of the time you get in, throw some kunai against some heads and thats it. With Yasuke however it is atrocious! He is such a tank, he cant climb or really slowly and its fine that both of them feels very diffirently but with Yasuke begin so slow, he basically gets useless for exploration. He is slower, cant climb and so on, so you just use Naoe all the time. I'll say that its pretty funny doing a leap of faith with Yasuke tho. I dont know what to say anymore, i am super dissapointed with this game. The setting could be so cool with cool characters but its just a whole lot of nothing like always with Quebec games, no story and boring gameplay loop. Ubisoft Quebec proves yet again, that they dont understand what Assassins Creed is about. They failed with Odyssee and Syndicate and they keep on failing Funniest thing about all of this is, the longer the game is, the longer the review gets and after writing all this, i feel like i wasted my time, hey sorta like playing this game.

  overall, this is the type of game I enjoy most; a large, beautiful open world with contracts to tick off the box as you gradually unlock sick outfits and beautiful weapons that incrementally increase your damage numbers. that being said, this game struggles in a number of ways. here are my overall thoughts after getting about halfway through the story. POSITIVES: the world and environment are ridiculously beautiful. i physically cannot stop taking photos of the landscape in the photo mode. the swaying of the trees, grass, the leaves, the beautiful shadows, early-morning fog, the blue of the ocean, it all hits so hard. the only other game i've ever felt so absorbed in the simple act of traversing the world by horse is red dead redemption 2. riding in the rain along the coast as the lightning flashes across the screen is such a peak experience. in addition, the gear and customization is soo good. god the outfits in this game look amazing, not to mention the beautiful weapons. as a character-customization-head, i am immensely satisfied. the stealth is also clearly a massive upgrade over all previous titles, and i enjoy the armor system, though I wish there was a greater variety of weapons or stances (which i hear is partly addressed with the Bo staff). NEGATIVES: i have trouble getting invested in the story because of its lack of linearity, lack of engaging villains, and uninteresting protagonists. i feel that the cutscenes and story dialogue particularly suffer in this game compared to Origins and Odyssey, with many cutscenes lacking weight because of weak voice acting, corny lines, and the awkward facial animation system (which never really bothered me in Origins and Odyssey, since the voice acting and writing were much more compelling and i could mostly ignore it). i'm also very disappointed in the lack of japanese mythology. i felt that origins and odyssey both do a great job shining a light on the religious beliefs and culture of each country, and i was able to learn a lot more about their mythologies, which i don't feel like i'm really getting from japan right now. being able to pray at shrines and learn about high-class customs is nice, but i am missing the mythological aspect. japanese mythological isu would have been so good... overall, i'm really enjoying the gameplay loop of this game, and the world is so beautiful i could probably play it as much as i've played odyssey. even if the story is so weak i can barely stand to watch cutscenes.

  i had a lot of bug. screen froze when entering an area, crash when doing some mission. so bad!!!
  
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  Carlos Marques

  2.5 of 5 stars Verified purchase

  Very Rad Edition! One of the tops

  Yasuke makes me tingle

  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.

  Great game, maybe wait until it goes on sale again. Not necessary though as there is a lot of content. 9.5/10 imo.
  
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  Kessley

  3.5 of 5 stars Verified purchase

  one of the better ac games in recent years.

  one of the best assassin's creed

  分數：8 / 10，傳奇的戰國日本，風雲地，英雄地。絕美的大和風光，美輪美奐。

  meh