What do you think about AC Shadows?

[Harmony]

I've been playing Assassin's Creed games for years, and I'm a follower of the series. The last one I played was Valhalla, and it left me with a big disappointment and boredom. On the contrary, Odyssey is one of my favorite games. My question to you is this: How did you find this game? I haven't experienced it yet, and the hate on the internet seems way too much. I just want to know if playing the game is enjoyable or not. I'm looking for honest answers, not hate comments. should i buy it ?

[Resalius...]

For me it was the same
Odyssey was fun to play for a long time
Valhalla was sooo boring after 10-20 hours (never finished it)

Right now im 20hours in Shadows and i like it.
It runs smooth (for me without problems/bugs), it looks amazing and i like the story and chas.
Gameplay is very good

If you are not sure:
I tested it with Ubi+ for 17,99€ 1 month.
And now i buy it 100% after 4 weeks

[Ansgar Odinson]

I am really enjoying it in spite of the few gripes I have. I think the game would really have benefit from focusing on a single protagonist. The split protagonist thing for me is cumbersome, irritating, and in the end sucks away a lot of potential. As an example, with more dev energy focused on the shinobi, we could have had some deeper skill trees and far more armor and weapon varieties, both in the stats and cosmetics.

While Yauske is an interesting character, I really have no interest in playing a clumsy tank in an AC game. And I never enjoyed having to switch back and forth between characters. I didn't like it in Syndicate, and I dont enjoy it here.

Edit: Odyssey is one of my favorites. I really disliked Valhalla. This game I am really liking. If you like Odyssey, you will likely enjoy this one too.

[Spectrum Fox]

It's your typical Ubi open world grind affair, for better or worse, but the environments and weather/season changes are beautiful, and it's samurais and shinobis and you get to sneak around and slice people up, so I'm having a blast.

I'm 37 hours in and not even close to being bored yet. So much to do.

[Heraclius Caesar]

This game would have been incredible if they made different choices regarding the main characters. I am also a long time Assassins Creed fan but I won't be buying this 1.

If you can get beyond the poor choice in protagonists then the gameplay itself looks awesome. But I can't get beyond that. I have no desire in playing as Yasuke nor as the ninja girl. The main character should have been a Japanese man with some connection to the politics of the time. It's a shame but oh well.

[kanezback4]

got to ignore the hate about game there just butt hurt its amazing game ive been playing every ac since the first one and this turning into my favorite

[Dume]

A I'm 50 hours into the game, and I feel like I'm just starting out. I love the game. It's much better than the previous ones in every way.

[Weltall8000]

I have never been head over heels about AC, but I have moderately enjoyed the series overall (of the like half of the games that I played of the series). I am more favorable of the "JRPG" direction than the OG one (most of the ones I did not play, were from that side of things), and in line with that, I think this one I like most of all.

I liked a variety of things about Valhalla, particularly the open combat and gear system. And I liked Odyssey's ship and exploration better. But Shadows does a great job at bringing it all together (and is the best stealth of the bunch) and I enjoy it a lot. This won't go down as my favorite game of all time or anything, but itnis a good time, well worth the time and $70.

[MadKatBebop]

It’s fine so far. I’m not a fan of 3rd person open world action games, but this title at least has decent stealth options. Horizon, Ghost of Tsushima etc. stealth is far too boring for me so I appreciate that stealth has some meaning in this game. It’s a bit samey in ways other open world games are, but the map is beautiful. All said and done I’d probably give it a 6 or 7/10

[Buck Nakkidd]

I got it on Ubi Plus and still think I wasted money.
Everything after the first 45 minutes are just copy paste.
To be fair it looks pretty but pretty doesnt make up for the bland story, the same generals, the same towers with the same bosses and the chest in the same place.
There is no doubt they made the leveling scrolls so tedious so that you would buy a map hack from the shop.
It is such a far departure from the first 4 or 5 AC games that were so beloved when they came out.
This will be the last AC I play.

[superlloyd]

Game is great. It has a lot of strong feature and a few minor weakness.

Day/Night cycle (not a new thing, but it's great), changing weather is awesome, in fact weather is awesome, you can see the blade of grass moving in the win. Suddenly a rainstorm comes, nobody can't see anything (very good for sneaking!), Season are great.
Stealth has been improved! You can crawl now!
Combat is as fun as Odyssey I reckon. So is loot.

But I also a few minor nitpick (list seems longer because I goes into detail, I am very globally satisfied though ;) 0

Compared to Odyssey underwater environment are meh.
Sometimes (only sometimes, don't worry) enemy AI is bugged and they don't attack or have a stupid pathing (though most times I found the AI better, so there is that! ;) )
There is too many padding times, like 8 seconds to switch between Yasuke and Naoe, 15 second mini movie when season change. When you do horse race and fail an objective you have to finish it and go through a bunch of slow dialog to restart the race.
Compared to Cyberpunk 2077, dialog / NPC interaction feel lacklustre or it's a cutscene.
Finally, and it might just old me, but I am somewhat confused by the fine details of the big story "that lord do that but that other lord do that", uh?

Finally no Isu story or fantastical element to this story so far. I am sad.
(but no useless modern bit either, yeah!)

[JKDos]

The people who designed the map/world needs a raise, and probably a job at a larger game studio. They were doing some serious cooking.

The game developers though, they should probably look for a job elsewhere. How did they fail to keep up with Origins and Odyssey? It's the same studio... I don't get it.

[RakataEpsilon]

Odyssey and Origins were great because of the mythical aspect of overlaying a story on top of a loosely based canvas of history. Shadows does not do any of this. Its a snoozefest

[JKDos]

Originally posted by RakataEpsilon:

Odyssey and Origins were great because of the mythical aspect of overlaying a story on top of a loosely based canvas of history. Shadows does not do any of this. Its a snoozefest

Aside from having the freedom of a loosely based convas, Oddysey and Origins also had improved gameplay. Torches, Eagles, killable wild animals, and aggressive wild animals.

"Snoozefest" is what you get when you explore the Japanese wilds without the threat of wild animals like Wolves and Bears... It's also pathetic that you can't kill any other animals like Deer....

Killing deer? How dare you!
Destroying Shrines and climbing on Tori Gates? Have fun.

[googleman81]

Played ll and Brotherhood a while ago, skipped a bunch, heard about the Unity disaster, tried Origins and loved it, played some Odyssey but couldn't get around how packed with stuff it was and not in a good way, plus the UI was overwhelming and I couldn't reduce it, may have been due to playing a "free 30 hour" version of it.

Shadows is a bit of a mixed bag, coming from oldschool games like Tenchu or Splinter Cell Chaos theory, I had pretty high expectations.
Naoes moveset is brilliant and there's a lot of thought put into her getting around the map, let's not talk about Yasuke here, he should have his own game, he has trouble getting over a fence.
The problem with the ninja fantasy execution to me is that the parkour stuff still is janky at times, even after nearly 20 years of AC games and you sometimes mess up not by your own fault, but due to systems and when you do most of the time it's super easy to just murder half a dozen guys, as long as nobody runs off and rings a bell, nobody else further than 20 meters/~yards will notice all the yelling, gurgling and clanking, which is a bit of a bummer.

The visuals are great if you run everything on ultra, but once you develop an eye for detail you'll notice a heck ton of copy pasted assets through the ray traced light in the forests or towns.
Some of the story missions are really good in terms of emotional connection or explaining the characters motivations, those aren't the norm though, base building is functional and provides a fun little social hub by the end, with a bunch of NPC's to trigger short audio snippets with and little magic piglets to put on the grass.
Then there's a heck ton of "murder this group of thugs" quests, which I guess is what we all signed up for, it's just kinda lame when you meet an old guy in a town, he tells you to kill a bunch of his former soldiers, you scan the map with a scout, find the person of interest, often situated randomly on a hill or whatever, stabby stab, next, repeat until a circle of random folks is dead and you got a bunch of random gear you probably don't need, then you go back to old dude from town, turns out he isn't super nice, done. Rinse and repeat.

So mechanically it's sometimes good, technically it's above average, visuals are great until you realize there's only one copy pasted Shinto shrine to pray at 150 times throughout the map, audio is solid, better when you play in immersive mode, that's Japanese and Portuguese audio with subs. I turned the music off because it distracts from all the ambient environmental sounds and got 90+ hours out of it without 100%ing it, but got the Suture Self achievement, which is about Vaseline, I think...

There's about 45 minutes of credits and they list a marketing trainee, no idea what that guy did but he sure as heck did not increase the game size by 5mb by doodling up a slightly different tree in photoshop.

7.3 out of 10 for me. Wukong was way more fun, even though it too has a slight bit of jank here and there.

[Ernimus Prime]

I got 11 hours in the game so far. And I'm enjoying it. Only thing I have a problem. And not sure if anyone has it. But using the Xbox one controller. Does anyone find your character doesn't stop right away? I checked for stick drift and all checks out.