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  (SVSB) Hans

  1.2 of 5 stars Verified purchase

  People seem to dog on Ubisoft for making their games the way they do. Sure, I can see some of the problems—like in-app purchases in a full-price game—but mostly, the things that are lame are entirely optional and don't get in the way. This game is extremely well-made. I like the systems that all work together to make a product that I would say is no less than the sum of its parts. Everything has its imperfections, but it's pretty close to ideal. Beautiful, beautiful game, infinite choices to make, never gets tOo easy or too hard, and it does feel like there's a sense of progression throughout the game, despite being a little grindy for materials sometimes (but that's what gold is for, and you can come across it occasionally in-game!). I also still wish that there was a jump button. Most of the time, parkour is what I'm going for, but sometimes I just want to have a little more freedom with the movement. This is something that has been the case in every AC game I have played, though, so I have come to expect it. Overall, I would rate this pretty high on the scale. It falls short of some of the legends in my book like the Horizon series, Cyberpunk, and the Spider-Man games, but it's very well done.

  good

  Lots of content. Fun!

  Mostly soul-less I liked the old AC games and I enjoyed Odyssey but Shadows falls in the same camp as Valhalla for me - Just ok. Passable. It's fine. Letter grade: C. I love Japanese culture and history and the very beginning of Shadows is pretty good. It reminds me a lot of Shogun. But after both tutorials when you get to the open world it all falls apart. It slows to a crawl and boils down to a circle of templars with 3 or so prerequisite side missions attached to each. The Stealth is great, the combat is good. Side activities are tedious and there are too many. Locations are too close together and very similar which ruins exploration. Buy Ghost of Tsushima instead. If you already own it play it again instead of this. 6/10
  
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  godmuzan24

  2.4 of 5 stars Verified purchase

  This game is very buggy and keeps freezing. I have good specs in my pc, but it still is hard to play

  the story is damm good. I have tryed an assassins creed game and i loved it! the graphics is decent, gameplay mechanics are best ❤️

  First time [i]Assasins Creed[/i] player, but pleasantly surprised, although everything is [i]pretty[/i] familiar for any [i]Far Cry[/i] fans. Anyway: gorgeous game (although not as vibrant as, ehm, [i]other[/i] recent AAA entries in the "open-world feudal Japan" category), with an actually-engaging story (unlike, well, those other games). Some novel mechanics, like meditation (a soothing rhythm-based activity with bonus flashback scenes), scouts (although I never really got the hang of that), as well as a bunch of mumbo-jumbo about (de-)synchronization, "Memories" and "the Guide" that I don't quite get either (and had to quit out of several of these missions as the objective was entirely elusive), but, hey... Bonus is that the game is [i]actually[/i] educational: geography, shrine etiquette, tea ceremonies, tons of history, provided you care to read all the codex entries. You get to play two distinct personas: a nimble ninja (never realized that the flowing lines of Japanese architecture are so amenable to parcouring up!) as well as a tanky samurai (but, don't worry, he can climb up to viewpoints too and the conviently-placed hay heaps break his fall just, ehhh, enough, which is good, as he [i]is[/i] a bit more unsteady). It makes for a nice change and allows you to alternately (even rather seamlessly) explore various playstyles, which is a good thing, because although the map is [i]huge[/i], the activities to be found there are not very varied, and once the initial novelty wears off, things get tedious very quickly. Like when you discover that most castles and such are straight off the very same IKEA catalog page... Not quite boring enough to abandon the main story entirely, which fortunately does not require too much progression outside of it, but the mid-game slog is by far the biggest weakness of this title (and, judging by the steep drop-off in players that achieve the end of part 1 vs part 2, that's a game-problem, not a me-problem...). The game is [i]very[/i] open-ended (a.k.a. vague, but, hey, there's a whole Internet these days containing all the guides you need, oh, and a game mode), which is OK up to a point, but the virtual world is not always up to the ambitious goals of its designers. Like, I need to get some silk, and I'm on a pirate ship that [i]cleary[/i] has some of that on deck -- I mean, I'm looking right at it! However, I can't [i]get[/i] it, because the game insists I should be on the [i]other[/i] nearby ship, where the developers have placed the requisite chest to actually give me the loot. And, yeah, I [i]understand[/i] why this is, but still... Also, there is just [i]way too much[/i] stuff to collect: it just leads to FOMO (just one more legendary chest to loot!), but, wait, do I [i]actually[/i] need 20 katana, each with [i]slightly[/i] different stats? No, in fact, I do [i]not[/i], and cutting down on all those diversions, while introducing more stuff that actually [i]matters[/i] would greatly improve the situation. Finally: the forced Ubisoft account nonsense has always made it annoying to [i]start[/i] their games, but this time around actually [i]actively spoils[/i] the experience since it places 'community photos' on the map by default. So, yeah, you're searching for someone. Where could they be? Maybe at the spot where several other players-that-you-don't-know-and-don't-[i]want[/i]-to-know left their graffiti? Nah, surely not... And then you get several kinds of pointless points that you can spend in some kind of superfluous 'store' for some unnecessary reasons, in addition to all the complexity that is already in the game. Please! Just. Stop. It! If I want to be on Facetube or Youbook, I'll just go there!

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  Melanie

  3.3 of 5 stars Verified purchase

  great game!!!

  I am surprised. I played Assassin Creed Valhalla religiously and so the comments I was hearing about this game was disheartening. I am never listening to someone else again. This game is awesome. Great addition to the Assassin Creed franchise.

  It's mid. Combat is fun. But the world story, characters, presentation are all boring. The quests are fine - story is meh. If if they removed the yasuke nonsense Naoe as a char is just meh. This could have been done so much better- thats the real disappointment. Why can't we have a cool open world ninja game? O wait- ghost of tsushima exists

  I've played all of the games in the AC franchise except Mirage. The only game that I've hated has been Valhalla which was very repetitive, Shadows is probably a step in the right direction which Ubisoft has been advertising with the introduction of MIrage and now Shadows. The story looks compelling, parkour has got an update, more tools to navigate around the map, more weapon types, the world is beautiful like any other AC game, Naoe feels good to play with and if you just want to kill, Yasuke also feels good. The one thing I hate about this game is how less interactive the world is, like in any GTA or Witcher 3, the world felt very alive. NPCs would make comments if you did something that affects them in some way in those games. In AC, the NPCs just are bots with no dialogues, no interactions, no activities or routines. This has somewhat changed in AC Shadows, to be honest.. but still the game world feels voided at it's core. Similar to Ghost of Tsushima though. Talking about Ghost of Tsushima, the game had some mini games and we also have them in this game, but it doesn't really make sense to have them.. at least not in the way they are played. Overall, I'll recommend this game, but only if it is available at a discounted price.