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  antediguimon

  1.7 of 5 stars Verified purchase

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  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.

  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.

  nice game...
  
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  Víctor

  2.7 of 5 stars Verified purchase

  nice game...

  i dont like playing as yaskue but naoe is fun, and the story at least in the opening is super engaging i havent got too far because im playing on nightmare but ive been loving the challenge and it makes every victory feel pretty canon imo.

  So good probably best AC game

  This game is heat
  
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  Ernan Miguel

  3.8 of 5 stars Verified purchase

  Boring. Just like usual the developers put no heat or soul into this game. I have 10 hours into it and I cant force myself to play it anymore. Do not buy this game

  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

  Don't listen to the people hating just because of ubisoft. Play the game and make your own opinion please. Pros: Graphics are insane, the map is well done and doesn't fell empty at all, sound design is top level, mechanics are well done and fresh (like the sidekick one), side activities are cool and castle are pretty good although some of them feels the same as others, seasons are a nice addition with winter being beautiful and impacted gameplay (you can hide easily, your step are slowed, lake are frozen (so no hiding in them), etc..) and Naoe (assassin) and Yasuke (samurai) feel completely different and impose new playstyles. Mids: Combat is good but is a bit repetitive (mainly because there's not many enemy types), skills are nice and useful for the most part but once you find 2 or 3 that you like you will stick with those, same for weapons. If you play to find everything exploration feels a bit repetitive when it comes to temples and side activities, dialogues are a bit meh and choices dont really matter except when it comes to sidekicks. Performances were bad on launch (pc) but within a month they fixed it (you still need a pretty good computer to run the game at ultra 1080p). Cons: Story is way to complicated for nothing; they introduce so many side characters and try interlinking them but at the end only like 4 characters are really important. It's the same problem as the other one before: '' Oh no they killed someone I care about'' or '' Oh no they want to take over the territory''. It's basic and the story is only driven by vengeance for both Naoe and Yasuke. On a another note; Yasuke's side of the story is REALLY interesting compare to Naoe, which is a shame. It doesn't feel like they gave the same amount of love to the 2 characters (maybe because they knew Naoe was gonna be more popular so they wanted to emphasise more on Yasuke idk). Personal note: this game felt amazing to play and captured the ambience of japan incredibly. I probably spent at least 5 hours total in photo mode. This is the type of game that wins me over, disabling the HUD and walking slowly with your horse through fields or forest while your sound is at 100%; nothing gave me this feeling since Got or Rdr2 beside this game. Note: 8/10. My favourite modern day ac game and top 2 overall behind ac3. Still it doesn't feel like a amazing assassin's creed game but it is a really good rpg game.

  100% Worth the $40 on sale. Overall, a 7.6 for me. The man-baby crying hate mob is going to clown-emoji the hell out of me for this take, but this game is one of the prime examples of why you cant always listen to modern outrage. Its a trend to just bandwagon on hate. Is it perfect? No. Is it repetitive at times? Yes. Its an assassin's creed game. No one complained about the old games where ALL fights could be won by holding the counter button. And even THEN, i enjoyed it. This games fight loop is about patterns and reactions. Missing them or becoming too cocky will result in a humbling ass kicking. I enjoy it a lot WHEN IT WORKS. A few times, the camera would become incooperative. The counter attacks rely on a glowing spark that only appears when the enemy is in your vision. If you get stuck against a wall, the camera may make that impossible. Additionally, not all functions always work when they should. I've found myself trying to escape after an assassination, end ended up dying because my character chose to press herself against the wall instead of climb it. A bit of jank to this game. Ive always wanted a Japanese assassin's creed and so far, im really enjoying it. My main complaint is the traveling. But other than that, Its the most fun I've had since origins. I recommend playing the JP dub. Hilarious the number of people bxtching about authenticity and playing the English dub in the first place. It's no Ghost Of Tsushima, the better samurai game... but if I wanted to play Ghost of Tsushima, I'd just go play Ghost of Tsushima.