I do have to give credit where credit is due:  This is one of the better games UbiSlop has released in the last years. Bear in mind, that doesn't mean it's a good game... Gameplay: For 40h I've been running around from one place to another where everything looks the same. You do like 3 quests on a new location, kill one of the bad guys, then run to another location for 15min to do the same thing again. The repetitiveness is crazy. The map is huge and can be pretty, but that prettiness lasts for like 10h, after that every place looks pretty much the same.  Story and pacing: I'll try to make it spoiler free. The game shows you Naoe that is fun to play, is agile, does flips and cool stuff, and the world feels that it's been build around Naoe. The paths, the climbing, opportunities to assassinate characters all feel stealth/Naoe oriented. I feel that Naoe was supposed to be the only playable character but they still added Yasuke at the last moment and decided that they're gonna start and finish his story in the base game, yet the one character with a really interesting story that you can enjoy, has an ending in a DLC that was released 6 months after the release of the base game...here I'm speechless... Story revolts around the same killing system that was used in the last 4 games and I'm fine with that, but the feeling of killing every target is so underwhelming.  Bonus: Yasuke was supposed to be a side character with a cool additional story, Naoe was supposed to have the wholy storyline oriented around her (that way they could have added more interesting stuff to the game and not waste that much time on Yasuke's character and mechanics, just added him as a side character with a few interesting quests or even add him and his quests as a DLC where you team up with him). This is not a AAA game, it cannot compete even with many of UbiSlops older games. I appriciate the effort to make a game set in a feudal Japan, the location is great, but the map is just way too big for an AC game.  Please just give us more linear game, with less RPG mechanics like looking for loot and equipment, give us equipment through story quests, give us more meaningful and more refined quests, storytelling with soul, with an effect that will stay in our heads for years like you used to do with AC2, BH, AC4BF, even Origins had a really good story. Please gives us games that we can enjoy and experience the feeling of the characters. We all know I'm talking about characters like Ezio, Bayek, Edward or even Desmond...
                                                                
                                                            
                                                            
                                                                
                                                                    
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                    
                                                                
                                                                
                                                                    
                                                                        
                                                                            
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