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  finrodess

  1.5 of 5 stars Verified purchase

  Do I like the game? Kind of. I've spent a lot of time playing it so giving it a thumbs down would be strange. Also the settings is easily my favorite historic time period (yeah I like samurais, I'm original like that) and that makes me more lenient towards the game. And there is a lot to like. The game looks stunning. The combat is crisp. The enemies are not hp-spongey. The ninja and samurai playstyles couldn't be more distinct and both feel good to play. Completing castles feels good too - either storming in and killing everyone as a samurai, or stealthing around and picking the targets as a ninja. The target lists / assassin boards are ok. There is quite a bit of them and they are accompanied with a light story bits. It can get a bit tedious the more you do it, but it's fine for the most parts. But there is also quite a bit to be dissapointed in. The open world activites are simply not fun. There are two QTE activities that are as boring as it can get. Then there is pick x scrolls / pray at x shrines and again it's just boring. The horse archery is the least bad, but it's still nothing to be excited about. Just a note here, all of these activities have an unskippable animation at some point and it will eventually make your blood boil, I'm sure of it. The world is big, but there is nothing outside of the roads. I remember the first time I climbed a hill, because why not, it's an open world game, right? And there was absolutely nothing there. Not on any of the hills, unless there was a road leading there. To be honest, the game fights quite hard against such stupid ideas as exploring of the beaten paths. There is this long slide-down animation that almost discouraged me from doing it. But there is also a skyrim horse that gets up almost any slope no matter how steep. And so I climbed and found the same nothing every time. I'm not a big on base building, on arranging and decorating in such a detail Shadows allow. Luckily the end result looked satisfactory enough most of the time, so I largely just slapped the buildings together and was done with it. But the game's whole economy revolves about the base building and it just made it pointless to engage with it. Well, not the whole economy, but a good chunk of it. The second half of the economy is about upgrading gear and honestly that felt just as pointless. The story was structured kind of like Valhalla, which a lot of people didn't like, but it's even worse in Shadows. In Valhalla some of the characters get more spotlight and it made all the difference. In Shadows the story is shattered into such a small loosely connected pieces you don't have enough time to start to care about anyone. The villains are plain, because they don't have enough time to shine. The supporting cast gets the same treatment. The allies have absolutely no substance and they somehow feel even worse than the villains / supporting cast. It feels like they were just glued to the game somehow. The historical figures are here just for a blink of an eye. All the three Japan unifiers appear so briefly it feels almost insulting. Yes, Oda gets more screen time than the other two and he is quite charismatic, but it's not much. I don't dislike the protagonist duo, but I can't say I love them either. Maybe splitting the main character in two serves the gameplay well, but it hurts the narrative I'd say. Or maybe have a protagonist duo, but don't pretend the game is an RPG and make it an action adventure. I would recommend the game only if you like ninjas/samurais and action games with solid combat. But it definitely feels like the worst of the open world Assassin's Creeds. Early this year I played Rise of the Ronin and the games easily blows Shadows out of the water in everything but the visuals and time period.

  at this point i really like and hate the game at the same time. i really enjoy the story and the landscape. i spent some time with the story and some side quest and enjoyed my time. However yesterday the game started to have a bug. The bug turns off the HUD of the game so i cant the quests, my hp and that stuff which was really annoying because it uses to happen in fighting situations. it will also disconnect my controller. The only solution for this bug is to alt+ f4 (end) the game. in some situations like Kuji Kiri u cant save ur game so it can be that u lose like an hour of what u played..... this makes me really upset. yesterday and today it happened 3 times and i really lose my interest for this game. i started the game in september 2025 and i googled this bug and it isnt even a new bug, it exists since the game was released and is still not patched half a year later. at this point i am not sure if i want to keep playing it or just abandon it

  Pre release one YouTuber said this game started off slow and weak (paraphrasing), but honestly, this game takes a nosedive after about 40-50% in. It feels like doing contracts without really caring about the who or why. It just feels like checkboxes over and over again, and the gameplay is already too familliar to be truly enjoyable, at least for me. I'm not going to play the DLC even though I paid for it, Ubisoft really needs to hire better writers (or just least give their writers more creative freedom) and craft a story to go along with their decent worldbuilding.

  Don't fu**ing buy even on sale(or must be really cheap if I gonna recommend to try this), it's a waste of money af and I speak from gameplay and flow of story not from woke sh*t or color samurai. I'm not gonna use more of my time to write sh** in this review cuz it not worth my time and if you really want to know what I think just DM me or just go look for online review. In short, go buy AC brotherhood or black flag or syndicate
  
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  Luan F.

  2.7 of 5 stars Verified purchase

  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.

  If you like stealth game play in AC then playing Shadows as Naoe is great fun. I'm 50 hrs into it, taking my time and enjoying the game. Graphics are great too.

  i love it .

  Suprised by how good it is. Emotional scenes, plot twists, cool animations, beautiful map, great visuals, great optimization, fun activities and much more. Only wish you leveled up slower, its like every 20 miniutes i have to swap equipment because its underleveled.
  
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  BAR DO CAUIM

  3.4 of 5 stars Verified purchase

  an amazing game.

  i wish i could refund this now and get Ghost of Tsushima

  great game

  Claims the game is running on a HDD instead of realizing its on an M.2 NVMe drive, then just crashes after confirming that popup. Haven't gotten further than the intro animation yet. Switching between different Proton branches and versions didn't help either. Running on Linux Mint 22.2. Looking at ProtonDB, this is a known issue