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  Saar

  1.8 of 5 stars Verified purchase

  This game was a lot of fun, and the overall mechanics were incredibly well done. The storyline actually kept me engaged the whole way through, I ended up grinding pretty hard because I was so into it. I really appreciated how flexible the game is when it comes to playstyle; I was constantly swapping builds to keep things fresh and avoid getting bored. Now that that's out of the way, there are a few things I want to mention. I understand the Bo staff is part of the DLC, but it would’ve been so much better if there were a way to unlock it earlier in the game, rather than having to finish the entire epilogue. It’s such a great weapon, versatile posture stances and a solid variety of abilities made it one of my favorites. The pathfinding system was also a bit frustrating at times. It would send me on wild goose chases when the objective was literally just across a river or a short climb away. Also, I think the “pathfinder on” feature should default to guiding you to the nearest road or usable route when stranded instead of just saying “no path found.” I often found myself stuck in mountains or forests at night, having to scramble through trees or up steep terrain. And before you say “just fast travel”—these were unexplored areas on the map. Another issue I ran into was with the Teppo, Bow, and Kunai. They often felt buggy. I’d have my cursor directly on a target, but it wouldn’t turn red to indicate it was being recognized, which made aiming unreliable. Eventually, I gave up on using ranged weapons altogether and stuck with the Long Katana and Bo Staff. Lastly, I wish there were more interactions with allies. Once you unlock them, they basically become just another ability on cooldown. It would've been amazing to storm castles or complete major missions alongside them, similar to how it worked in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. This was my overall critique on the game, this isn't me bashing it I still had a lot of fun.

  My First AC and a Solid Experience (7.5/10) This was my first Assassin’s Creed game, and I have to say, I loved it!!! The combat feels fast, fluid, and incredibly satisfying. The kill and assassination animations are brutal in the best way, and overall, it never felt grindy at all (I come from an MMO background so take this with a grain of salt), which I really appreciated, I think the grind was okay. Visually, the game looks stunning. The graphics are beautiful, and the world design is top-notch. I never got bored doing side quests or exploring. Now, about the two main characters... Naoe’s Story & Gameplay Naoe's story had a strong start. Act 1 was engaging and full of potential, and Act 2 was still decent. But Act 3? Honestly, it completely falls apart. I'd go as far as to say it's straight-up trash. On the gameplay side, though, Naoe is phenomenal stealthy, smooth, and really fun to play. Her playstyle fits this kind of game perfectly, and I found myself using her most of the time. It even feels like the game subtly encourages you to play as Naoe more than Yasuke. Yasuke’s Story & Gameplay With Yasuke, it's kind of the opposite. His story in Acts 1 and 2 is boring and forgettable. I didn’t enjoy it at all. But surprisingly, Act 3 is excellent. It gives him real depth and emotional weight, and for the first time, I truly connected with his character. Gameplay-wise, however, I didn’t enjoy him much. While his assassination animations are cool, his overall combat is slow and clunky. I only used him when I had no choice. Map, UI & Mechanics The map is great, and the UI/HUD design is clean and user-friendly. Everything just works, and I never felt overwhelmed or confused. That said, some mechanics feel completely pointless. For example, the "Hideout" system adds absolutely nothing to the experience, it’s just there for no reason. I have no idea why they even included it. (I'm currently playing Valhalla and now I see that this is a legacy feature in the franchise....still stupid imo) Dialogue Choices & Ending One major letdown for me was the illusion of choice. Dialogue options exist, but they barely affect the story. The only meaningful impact is whether or not you recruit allies, and beyond that, the plot always follows a fixed path no matter what you choose. And then there's the ending… if you can even call it that. It’s terrible. It gives you a "choice" that changes nothing, and then abruptly cuts off with a blatant cliffhanger for the DLC. Totally unsatisfying. Final Thoughts Despite all that, I 100% recommend the game. I genuinely had a great time with it and would give it a solid 7.5 out of 10. Definitely worth playing but maybe wait for a sale :)

  This one is between Yes and No actually. Shadows is a gorgeous game with fluid parkour animation without clipping, but it is fundamentally confused about its own mythology from the very start. Our supposed new Assassin, Naoe, jas the Hidden Blade just like that but acting in the story as if she's never heard of the Brotherhood or its tenets. It's an utterly baffling narrative decision; she's building some rogue league detached from centuries of established lore and driven purely by personal vengeance. Worse, after slogging through eighty hours of Animus data, there is virtually zero connection to the Order/Templars, the Hidden Ones/Assassins, or the precursor Isu civilization. The narrative itself takes an absolute age to get moving. It took me thirty hours before I've met Diego ( a second PC). Thank goodness the mandatory dual-protagonist setup clearly favors Naoe, offering the true stealth the series demands. Her fluid shinobi approach to infiltration and refined kills is the superior, most satisfying gameplay loop. The other bloke's mandated "trainwreck everything" style is tiresome and repetitive, making him feel like an obligatory distraction. Ultimately, this title is more 16th-century Japan simulator than global historical conflict. The core struggle is absent, but if you can tolerate the narrative vacuum, Naoe provides a top-tier assassination experience.

  So many reviews, but no one mentioned that this piece of ***(Ubisoft game) doesn't actually work. It runs at 10–21 FPS, and no YouTube tutorial or settings tweaking (I tried all of them in different combinations) helped. Other modern games run smoothly, so it's not my PC’s problem. No driver updates, no Windows adjustments, no tutorials, no ChatGPT help — nothing will make this game run at even 30–60 FPS. So forget about it. Refund.
  
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  Jozuel Antonio Pereira

  2.3 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.

  You know know how, when you go back to replay Black Flag for the 98th time because it's one of the greatest games ever made and, you realize the controls are a little clunky? But it's ok because the game is so old and the next thing you do is wonder: why on Earth would a giant, corporate game dev not only remaster and rework this masterpiece but also create a sequel? AC Shadows controls are clunkier than Black Flag. In this day and age how is that even possible? You know that 8-direction instead of ANY fluid direction movement? It's like this was made for a Commodore 64. Survival games created by 1-person devs have better, more fluid motion than this horrifying pile of steaming, lifeless garbage. Shadows is 3rd person but you can't see your character in tight situations or even some camera angles? My head hurts. My eyeballs are on fire. But alas, I can rest my eyeballs during the 3,000 hrs of cinematic cut-scene hoo haw. Leave the cinema to Hollywood. We watch MOVIES. We PLAY video games. In between cut scenes I... press R1 a lot? The Japanese speak English but the Portuguese speak... Portuguese? I hold L2 to put a little triangle above a couple of NPC heads but I can hold R3 to see NPCs through solid objects?

  game is shit cause of ubisoft connect catch a clue nerds

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  AtI4FuN

  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.

  This is the best generation of Assassin's Creed!

  One of the best

  I've been playing AC since the very first one. This game deserves none of the hate it got. Sure Yasuke may or may not have existed. Who cares? IT'S A VIDEO GAME. They're meant to suspend disbelief and live vicariously in a world that isn't real. Im currently level 36 and enjoying the shit out of it. I held off on buying it just to see if it was gonna be the preported train wreck they were forecasting because UBISOFT doesn't really have the best track record these past years but finally caved and bought it. I'm glad I did because I can't stop playing it. The environmenta are beautiful and if you turn on the immersion mode it forces you to pay attention to every conversation. Solid 9/10 for me but my favorites will always be origins and AC3.